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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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Each episode in the 4 part PBS series explores archaeological sites on the American frontier and uses the clues from the past to tell the secret history of America. From exploring the mystery of the the massive Native American city of Cahokia, scuba diving for clues to Revolutionary War naval battles on the Great Lakes, exploring the Civil War battlefields of Missouri: join series host Dr Monty Dobson for the archaeological adventure of a lifetime.

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The four-part public television series Standing on Sacred Ground tells eight compelling stories of indigenous people around the world resisting the destruction of their culture and sacred lands. 

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"White Water, Black Gold" is an in-depth investigation of the world's thirstiest oil industry- the Tarsands of Northern Alberta, the second largest deposit of oil in the world.  Could the biggest energy project in the world come undone because no one thought about water?

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Hot Topics will bring to light the human impacts of climate change around the world. The project’s products will include a book (both paper and an interactive e-book) and related multimedia materials, such as dispatches for National Geographic News Watch and radio features for Public Radio International's program The World. 

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Song of the Bird King is a 90 min documentary about two musicians who follow the almost extinct Bird King in the sky and find and meet seven disappearing tribes across the Philippine Islands. While it might be too late to reverse the environmental devastation threatening the tribes' existence, the two set up to record their oral traditions, music and dance before their existence becomes definite and irreversible.

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Listen Up! Northwest is a weekly collaborative community radio program focused on environmental, social and economic issues, creative culture and, above all, civic engagement in the Northwest. Currently aired on ten stations, it is the only regional community radio project of its kind.

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The documentary film Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators presents the engaging story of scientists now discovering the great carnivores as revitalizing forces of nature, and a society now learning tolerance for the beasts they had once banished. Green Fire is partnering with conservation organizations to distribute the film to build public and policy-maker support for ecologically effective populations of wildlife.