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Designing Healthy Communities is the latest multimedia project from Media Policy Center.  This multi-hour series for PBS focuses on how by improving the design of our built environment we can address many of the nation’s devastating childhood and adult health concerns.

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The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School. 

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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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A Fierce Green Fire is a documentary which tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. The first overview of the environmental movement, the film spans five decades and brings together all the issues and causes.

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Filmmaker Dakin Henderson, age 24, grew up with two grandmothers who have aged very differently—one is a healthy and active 86-year old, the other died recently after a long and painful decline into dementia. From the perspective of the youngest generation, What Time Is Left is a personal story of how three generations of one family are coping with the process of their loved elders growing old and dying.

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Almost one million people live in the slums of Durban, South Africa. The city has promised to ‘eradicate the slums’ by 2010 in time for the Soccer World Cup and is evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint. DEAR MANDELA is a feature documentary that takes viewers from the chaos in the slums to the highest court in the land as we follow three young shack dwellers who embark on a quest to stop the bulldozers and secure the better life Nelson Mandela promised them.

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Ipuina Kontatu: The Basque Way is a documentary which explores 25 centuries of Basque culture and considers its preservation as a tale about the twin possibilities of tradition and innovation. The dramatic struggle of adoption and adaptation by which Basque culture has flourished while preserving its ancient roots offers a paradigm by which to consider the essential core of cultural identities and their situation in our modern and global society.

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A series of award-winning documentaries from China being prepared for US broadcast on LinkTV, PBS stations etc. Programs are stories of communities, families, arts, sustainability, peacemakers, spirituality - ordinary daily life in locations all over China, as beautifully told by local filmmakers and translated and contextualized by Living Earth Television.

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News You Might Have Missed has published important but overlooked news from around the world every Wednesday since February 2002, and now is expanding to a free daily service and a syndication-based revenue model.

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“Easy Like Water” is a feature documentary that tells the story of how solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning.