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The Absent House - Sustainable design in the tropics: Puerto Rican architect Fernando Abruna Charneco is a pioneer of locally-suited green buildings.
Anais Goes to War - A young woman's struggle to start her own farm.
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Banking Nature - By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?
Barcelona or Die - Madou, a Senegalese fisherman, risks his life on an illegal boat to Europe.
The Battle for the Arctic - As the polar ice caps shrink, an international contest for control of the Arctic, is escalating.
Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow - Traveling along the cross-Andes route of an oil pipeline in Ecuador, a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World.
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Dreaming of a Tree House - An exploration of the design and philosophy behind a 20 year-old experimental, ecological collective housing project in the center of Berlin.
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Flooding Job's Garden - Behind the scenes of the highly controversial James Bay Hydro-Quebec power plant project.
Future of Mud - This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.
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H2Omx - Can a mega-city mobilize its 22 million citizens to become water-sustainable?
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Lost Rivers - Explore the growing movement and innovative projects around the world to uncover once-buried urban waterways.
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Monobloc - How the best-selling, unsightly plastic chair took the world by storm.
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Post-Carbon Futures - The world will have to survive without fossil fuels - sooner, rather than later. What are the alternatives?
The Price of Aid - An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
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Red Persimmons - A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.
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Saving Mes Aynak - Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site from imminent demolition.
Seed Battles - Deep inside a mountain, the Global Seed Vault preserves the seeds of the world. But to whom do they belong?
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Seeds of Hunger - A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend.
Strait Through The Ice - Climate change is opening the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic for shipping. Examines the ecological and geopolitical ramifications.
Suspension - Deep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly.
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Thank You for the Rain - Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, films his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm occurs, he becomes a community leader and activist on the global stage.
They're Selling the Wind - An exploration of the carbon market's fight against global warming, a speculative, impalpable market, and sometimes irresponsible market.
Tierralismo - An in-depth portrait of a Cuban agricultural collective that has drawn international acclaim for its sustainable practices.
Time Thieves - Forget water, oil and rare minerals - there is a new resource everyone wants: our time.
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What's for Dinner? - Meat consumption in China is skyrocketing; what does it mean for sustainability, public health, food security, climate change, and animal welfare?
When Banana Ruled - The story of a simple fruit... upon which a global empire was built.
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