Nutrition/Malnutrition

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For nearly 20 years, the doctors, hospitals and clinics in Grand Junction, Colorado have been providing low cost health care with excellent results to nearly everyone in Mesa County, according to data in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Correspondent T.R. Reid will analyze the data, and explore the crucial question raised by the current debate over health care reform: how to control health care costs while improving the quality of care and increasing access.

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A documentary interviewing "news celebrities" and local radio news journalists, on the importance of local radio news coverage, the techniques involved for those just getting started, and the economic and social rationale for doing so. 

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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.

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"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.

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Street Babies is a human-rights documentary about a teenage mother raising her newborn on the same streets she herself grew up in. The film follows Sujeylin, a young mother living in a park in Managua Nicaragua, and her baby, Karla, through the first year of the child’s life; their complicated personal journey reveals a universal story and a dire human rights issue which has yet to be told.

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OPEN MINDS OPEN MOUTHS is a one-hour documentary project that presents a multifacted story of a determined community of cooks, educators, parents, health advocates and food purveyors in Berkeley, California who are creating the replicable School Lunch Initiative and changing how our children eat.

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Hammer Simwinga of Zambia, and his American counterparts, Mark and Delia Owens, have devoted their lives to saving the endangered elephant herds in Northern Zambia by converting poachers to respectable trades like sustainable farming, beekeeping, fish farming and cornmilling. This is their story.

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FIRESTORM is a one-hour documentary that reveals the shocking reality of The Los Angeles Fire Department's Station 65—where paramedics run themselves ragged as 911 has become the speed dial for a crumbling health care system. Instead of fighting fires, the LAFD delivers more than 500 patients every day to ERs that are closing their doors at an alarming rate.  Sometimes, the consequences can be deadly.

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Through the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, WHAT'S "ORGANIC" ABOUT ORGANIC? offers the audience a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.  The film provides insight for certification systems taking root across our society, showing the pitfalls that can arise when idealism is formalized into a label.