Black Gold

‘As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man’s fight for a fair price’. This is a great documentary film, particularly if you want to learn more about the trade of a [...]

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TED – Ideas Worth Sharing > A Greener Future?

What is TED? The blurb from the web site says the following: ‘TED is a small nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design’. Why is TED of potential interest? Well, the themed content of ‘A Greener Future’, brings [...]

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Home!

I have just finished watching the most awe inspiring film about our beautiful world. The film is called ‘Home’ and it was directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. ‘Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, he takes us on a unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it [...] In [...]

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Is the Corporation a Psychopath?

The Corporation’ is a documentary film that brings together an excellent cast of researchers, business leaders, and campaigners to explore the dominant institution of our time; the corporation. Putting the corporation in the psychiatrist’s chair is certainly an interesting way to help us understand more about its actions, which are likened to those of a [...]

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One Planet Podcast

While cycling to work today, I was listening to last week’s ‘ONE PLANET’ podcast in which there was an interesting interview with Dr Patrick Moore. For those of you that don’t know, Dr Moore was a founding activist of Greenpeace and subsequently one of its directors. Since leaving Greenpeace, he has changed some of his views on environmental issues, most [...]

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The Age of the Stupid!

‘The Age of Stupid’ is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future. Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? It is currently on shown around the [...]

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Crude Awakening!

The documentary film ‘A crude awakening’, gives us an insight into how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on course for disaster. Our industrial society has been built on an abundance of cheap energy, notably oil. However, this addiction has to end if we are to avoid a massive economic crash. Why not get the film out of [...]

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