Havre de Grace Green Team |
Green Documentaries:
Learn more about Green issues! Below is a list of documentaries with topics related to sustainability and green issues. Most of these are available via Netflix.
Documentaries with Green Theme: | Description | Year | Length | No Impact Man | A Fifth Ave family goes very green when writer Colin Beavan leads his wife, Michele Conlin, and their baby daughter on a yearlong crusade to make no net impact on the environmemt in this engaging documentary. | 2009 | 1 hr 31 min | Lazy Environmentalist: Season 1 | Josh Dorfman- aka The Lazy Environmentalist - proves being green doesn't have to be hard in this dynamic television series from the Sundance Channel. His down-to-earth advice helps a chef, a courier service, a fraternity and others to go green. 7 episodes. | 2009 | 7 episodes, 25 min each | Fed up! | Nominated for an Environmental Media Award, this eye-opening documentary explores the United States' food production system from the organic farming of the Green Movement to the genetically engineered food of the Biotech. | 2002 | 57 min | Radically Simple | Jim Merkel is a crusading author, engeneer and advocate of sustainable living who's used his knowledge to demonstrate and exemplify a less resource-intensive lifestyle - one that allows people to be happier with less. | 2005 | 35 min | Tapped | The high cost - to both the environment and our health - of bottled water is the subject of this documentary that enlists activists, environmentalists, community leaders and others to expose the dark side of the bottled water industry. | 2009 | 1 hr 15 min | Fuel | With America so dependent on oil, filmmaker Joshua Tickell sets out to prove that biodiesel, made from vegetable oil, is a viable alternative. Although politicians and energy execs have done their best to quell it, the benefits of biodiesel are real. | 2008 | 1 hr 52 min | Food Inc | Drawing on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemna, director Robert Kenner's Oscar-nominated documentary explores the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. | 2008 | 1 hr 32 min |
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