Ironweed Film Club.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Daughters of Wisdom:
In this breathtakingly beautiful film, director Bari Pearlman has crafted an intimate profile of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a rare Buddhist monastery for women high in a remote region of northeastern Tibet. Here 300 nuns pursue their rigorous but rewarding life with a joyful dedication, grateful not to be wives and mothers, eager to learn to read, write and develop a spiritual and intellectual life traditionally available only to...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Chemerical explores the life cycle of everyday household cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in a sea of toxicity. The film is at once humorous, as we watch the Goode family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic-free home, and informative, as director Andrew Nisker works with many experts to give audiences the tools and inspiration to live toxic-free. Chemerical tackles the...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tipping Point:
Our warming earth is most dramatically revealed in this modern day journey through the North West Passage. This is a revealing and worrying documentary that explains the effects of global climate change on the polar region and the alarming and rapid increase in the melting ice that might create an ice-free Arctic as soon as 2012 or 2013, by some recently revised predictions. ~ back cover
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The ecological footprint - accounting for a small planet:
Ecological footprint founder (Patsy Northcutt) explores the implications of ecological deficits and provides examples of how governments, communities, and businesses are using the Footprint model to improve their ecological performance.
IDEO Does Sustainability:
IDEO is one of the world's leading Design and Innovation companies. See and hear what IDEO employees are doing to integrate sustainability...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 76
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Children of the Tsunami:: On March 11th 2011 Japan woke up to a new and very frightening world. Through the eyes of the children who managed to survive the terrible disaster we see the pain-tinged environment in which they have to forge their futures. From the child who has become a radiation researcher, it is in turns a touching and horrifying vision of Japan's tsunami generation.
After the Tsunami: Around the world, the Japanese were praised for...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of social movements