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Showing videos filed under: rainforest
Antonia Juhasz & Joe Berlinger: Big Oil's Devastation
June 16, 2010"Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal," says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past. The newest oil mess to be cleaned up is a Chevron spill in Utah that has flooded a Salt Lake City creek with thousands of gallons from a pipeline with what was described as a "quarter-sized hole" in it.Cary Harrison, Big Oil's Destruction, and Palin Meets Thatcher
June 16, 2010Our politics are all about emotion over intellect, says radio host Cary Harrison. From billionaires winning Republican primaries by pretending to be fighting for the common man to Chevron distributing fans at gay pride events, it certainly seems like something is missing. Common sense? Or is it just the money is stacked to one side? And on a completely different note, just what happened with Gen. Petraeus at that Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?Does Your Breakfast Destroy the Rainforest?
January 27, 2010From the Rainforest Action Network, we bring you this video on the destructive processes of harvesting palm oil. General Mills and Cargill destroy forests in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to harvest the oil, which makes it into many of the products and onto your breakfast table.Got Docs? A Quest to Find "The Forest"
October 30, 2009The Forest is the story of filmmaker Jacob Andrén's journey halfway across the world, to Costa Rica, to track down his patch of rainforest and to figure out, along the way, whether one person's small contribution can make a difference.
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