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Reimagining Our Cities
Content Project
Population loss and industrial collapse scar cities around the globe.  People in post-industrial, blighted neighborhoods are taking action to make their communities a better place to live.  While transitioning their cities from polluted wastelands to environmentally sustainable communities, these urban heroes tell an international story we all share.
Food for 9 Billion
Content Project
Food for 9 Billion is an independently produced feature series for public radio and TV that examines the social, environmental, economic, political, and technical dimensions of humankind's struggle to put food on the table. Production partners are Homelands Productions and the Center for Investigative Reporting; primary outlets are Marketplace and PBS NewsHour. 

 

If Trees Could Talk
Content Project
IF TREES COULD TALK is a national, prime time PBS special and educational outreach initiative focusing on the vital importance of trees.  Through the use of stories, interviews, and imagery that evoke wonder, love, and reverence rather than doom, anxiety, and fear, this film will motivate viewers and engage them in environmental preservation and restoration.
 
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Shelf Life
Content Project
For six decades, Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectioneries that, along with candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, helped make Chicago the undisputed Candy Capital of the World. Now, 25 years after Lanzi’s candy was last produced in Chicago, local businessman Jerry Ostermann is determined to bring Lanzi’s Cashew Nut and Rice Crunch back to the city. One problem: he has neither the recipe nor the machinery to make it.
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Sandgrains
Content Project

Sandgrains is a documentary about the local effects of global fisheries on the small Cape Verdean village of Ribeira da Barca. We explore this through José Fortes, a former footballer returning to his birth place to understand why the beach by the village has disappeared.

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America: From The Ground Up!
Content Project

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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Standing on Sacred Ground
Content Project
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
Content Project

"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: Convincing America Of the Global Warming Threat
Content Project

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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COOKED
Content Project

COOKED, a feature documentary film and engagement campaign, starts with one of thedeadliest heat waves in U.S. history and evolves into a serious yet quirkyexploration into the politics of disaster. Along the way, it presents questions and "best-case" scenarios - the kind every U.S.city could (and should) ask, answer and strive for.

What if poverty were treated as if it were an "emergency"? Can we turn the nation's obsessionwith "disaster preparedness" [fast becoming a growth industry] into amovement built on the preemptive power of community resilience?

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