The Age of Aluminum [Die Akte Aluminium]
This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.
This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.
Jeremy Irons leads the viewer around the world as he explores the worst effects of the amount of waste humans produce, and what can be done about it.
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
The interview with Piero Bevilacqua touches on a broad range of subjects: From the use of pesticides to the “Green Revolution”; from GMOs to biodynamic and biological agriculture, and the respect of biodiversity; from modern farming’s wasteful use of water to Common Agricultural Policy with its nonsustainable exploitation of farmland.
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.