Big Boys Gone Bananas!* documents the year-long battle between film director Fredrik Gertten and the crushing public relations and legal force of Dole Food Company. “If you have mighty enemies, then you need many friends,” said Gertten when introduced to the audience. He founded and heads a four-person film production company in Malmö, Sweden. Dole oversees 36,000 full-time employees worldwide […]
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Turning Rio+20 into Kony 2012: Sustainable Development for the Facebook Generation
Michael Davidson, Philip Goo and Yiting Wang of NRDC hosted a lively session called “Accountability in the Age of the Internet” on the second day of the Citizens Summit. This is their message to participants and for everyone interested in making Rio+20 a different kind of Earth Summit: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mdavidson/turning_rio20_into_kony_2012_s.html
Review: The Last Mountain
The Last Mountain, Bill Haney’s piercing new documentary about coal mining in the Appalachians, features enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. In shot after shot, violent plumes of rubble erupt skyward from the side of denuded mountains, leaving malevolent clouds of dark ash lingering behind to coat the inside of West Virginians’ lungs. The explosive montages are brutal and […]
Volume VI
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Review: Eating Alabama
shaggy haired man perches in a little wooden shack, camouflaged head to toe, arms cradling a rifle and eyes watching for deer. Trepidatiously, he loads a shell and while his voiceover announces unassumingly, “I’ve never done this before.” And so begins Eating Alabama, which follows Andrew Beck Grace and his wife, Rashmi, as they return to their childhood locale in […]
OP-ED: Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES
Update: SAGE has published a response to this letter here. im Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, sat comfortably on-stage. He had come to Burke Auditorium to discuss extended producer responsibility initiatives underway at his company. During his talk Mr. Jeffery mentioned that Nestlé Waters is pushing for a national recycling rate for PET bottles of 60 percent by […]
Other Creatures: A Poetic Tribute
Have you ever been asked, “If you could be any animal in the world, which animal would you be?” This is a tribute to all of the animals that never get chosen.
The 2012 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
Reviews, red carpet interviews, news, and more from the world’s largest student-run environmental film festival!
Cultivating Community
Amy Coplen presents stories from our frontline warriors in the battle to grow food and community – giving voice to New Haven’s urban gardeners.
Fading Spots: A Mother’s Story
With only 13,000 cheetahs left in the wild, the future of the world’s fastest land animal is far from secure. Mary Wykstra, Director of Action for Cheetahs in Kenya, tells the story of nearly a decade spent observing the life of a cheetah she calls “Mom.”
Evolutionary War Hero: An Interview with Carl Zimmer
Nearly 40% of Americans don’t believe in evolution, and acknowledgment of anthropogenic climate change is equally spotty. Acclaimed author Carl Zimmer spoke with Sage about how science communicators can begin to reach creationists and climate deniers, why Einstein makes for a great magazine cover, and what to do when your work gets slandered on the Daily Show.
Consumption, Production and the People’s Treaties
March 23rd, 2012 Right now I am writing this during a meeting next door to the United Nations discussing the “Peoples Treaties” for Rio+20. These represent a parallel, civil–society driven process to highlight a range of issues and priorities not necessarily included or being addressed by the government delegates across the street in the negotiations going on now on the […]