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Before the Flood
[This film] presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
Bikes vs. Cars
Call Number: HE 336 .G47 B55 2016 Video
"Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bicycle and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a growing conflict in city planning between the bicycle, which supports a diverse city with a human scale, and the car, which engenders urban sprawl and reliance on fossil fuels.
Decoding the Driftless
Call Number: QH 540.83 .D75 D43 2018 Video
The Driftless Area is an enchanted land that a mysterious force shielded for more than a million years from powerful, massive continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. Award-winning filmmakers have teamed up to produce a feature-length film on the amazing origins, diversity, and resources of the Driftless Region.
A Fierce Green Fire
Call Number: GE 197 .F54 2012 Video
Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought, and succeeded, against enormous odds.
Gasland: Can You Light Your Water on Fire?
Call Number: TN 881 .A1 G37 2010 Video
In 2009, Delaware River Basin native Josh Fox was presented with an interesting proposal: lease his family lands to a natural gas company for a new method of drilling called hydraulic fracturing, and get a check for $100,000. He wouldn't have to do anything but sit back and collect the money. Curious about the process, Fox embarks on an exploration of other areas where natural gas drilling was already in progress, to observe firsthand any potential downsides
Gasland. Part II.
Call Number: TN 881 .A1 G37 2013 Video pt.II
A sequel to the documentary Gasland, Part II continues the exploration of the dangers of the process of natural gas extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as "fracking", chronicling the spread of the practice further in the U.S. as well as in 32 countries worldwide
An Inconvenient Truth
Call Number: QC 981.8 .G56 I53 2006 Video
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause.
An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth to Power
Former Vice President Al Gore presents evidence that the negative effects of global warming have increased since the release of the film "An inconvenient truth" a decade earlier.
Industrial and Sustainable Farming
Call Number: S 494.5 .S86 I53 2013 Video
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the agricultural industry today is feeding the world's rapidly growing population while also caring for the environment. At the center of the challenge is the tension between sustainable and more mainstream industrial farming practices.
The New Fire
Call Number: GE 196 .S38 N49 2018 Video
The New Fire is an independent documentary that introduces audiences to young nuclear engineers who are developing next-generation reactors which they hope will provide clean and safe solutions to the world's future energy needs.
Pandora's Promise
Call Number: TK 9145 .P36 S76 2013 Video
Five eminent environmentalists and energy experts describe their conversion from an anti-nuclear power to a pro-nuclear power point of view.
Watershed : Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Call Number: HD 1695 .C7 W38 2012 Video
Tells the story of the threats to the Colorado River through heartening character vignettes that reveal a new water ethic and 21st century solutions.
Sinking Cities
As the earth warms, sea levels rise, and super-storms become more frequent and intense; many major coastal cities will soon be under water. Sinking Cities shows New York, London, Tokyo and Miami preparing for the real-time impact of rising seas and devising colossal new construction projects, and groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future.
Troubled Waters : A Mississippi River Story
The American Midwest boasts some of the world's most productive farmland, but this bounty comes with a price. Excess nitrogen and phosphorous, fertilizers essential to the growth of plants, are contaminating the nation's rivers, lakes and aquifers at the same time as precious soils wash away. Troubled Waters tells the story of changes on the land and the initiatives people are taking to ensure a more sustainable food production system.

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Green Fire Film
The first full-length documentary film ever made about legendary conservation thinker Aldo Leopold, Green Fire explores Leopold’s extraordinary career and his enduring influence – tracing how he shaped the modern conservation movement and continues to inspire projects all over the country that connect people and the land.
The Plastic Problem
Over 9 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced since 1950. Where has it all gone? In the documentary "The Plastic Problem", the PBS NewsHour explores the scourge of plastic remnants in our oceans and lakes, their points of origin, and their ultimate impact to the health of both sea life and humans.
Dispatches From The Gulf
The films investigate the environmental health of the Gulf of Mexico in the years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in April 2010, the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Today, a global team of scientists is working together to protect and restore one of our planet's most valuable natural resources. Their ultimate goal is to learn how to cope with the challenges of future oil spills.
"Coloring the Conservation Conversation" with J. Drew Lanham
A native of Edgefield, S.C., J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry.

This lecture from the Viterbo University Reinhart Institute for Ethics is part of the Annual Leopold Day Celebration observed by communities throughout Wisconsin during the first week in March since 2004.

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