6.6

Dirt! The Movie

2009, USA

• Actors: Bill Logan, Paul Stamets, Gary Vaynerchuk, Vandana Shiva, Miguel Altieri, Wangari Maathai, Carlo Petrini, Pierre Rabhi, Andy Lipkis, Fritjof Capra, Jeanette Armstrong, Marisha Farnsworth, Kevin Rowell, James Suntum, Fr. Casimiro Roca, David Orr, Richard Regester, Wes Jackson, Janine Benyus, Jerry Glover, Jeremy Narby, Juan Vicent Sanchez, Sebastião Salgado, Leila Salgado, Majora Carter, Peter Girguis, Helen White, Lottie Manuel, Hilda Krus, James Jiler
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Bill Benenson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. Our species became greedy and careless. We still depend on dirt, but now we abuse and ignore it. We are destroying our last natural resource with our agriculture, our mining, and our paving over the planet for cities. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions. Around the globe, pioneers are coming together to save earth's last natural resource. Tiny villages rise up to battle giant corporations slaughtering their land. Scientists discover connections with soil that can balance global warming. Generation X brands organic farming as trendy and children begin to eat from edible school yards. Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researchers explore dirt's capacity to provide solutions to such devastating health crises as AIDS. Major religions are rediscovering the reverence for the natural world that unites them all. Uses animation, vignettes, personal accounts and story telling.

  6.4

Earth 2100

2008, USA

• Actors: Jameel Ahmad, Janine Benyus, Malcolm Bowman, Reinhard Buetikofer, Brahma Chellaney, Eileen Claussen, Dr. Heidi Cullen, Tom Daschle, Peter de Menocal, Reid Detchon, Jared Diamond, Elizabeth Economy, David Erickson, Dan Esty, Anthony Fauci, Stanley Feder, Thomas Friedman, Dan Gilbert, Peter H. Gleick, Jay Gulledge, Robert Heinberg, Dr. John P. Holdren, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Mitchell Joachim, Van Jones, Michael Klare, Fred Krupp, James Howard Kunstler, Michael A. Levi, Gu Lianhong
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Rudy Bednar
• Available languages:
  • English English.

To change the future, first you must imagine it.