Earth Focus
Earth Focus is an environmental news magazine that puts a human face on environmental issues and legislation. It features under-publicized stories about how environmental changes are affecting everyday people around the world and presents in-depth interviews with leading environmental thinkers.
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New Fracking Frontiers: Gas Exploration Goes Global
Shale gas exploration has gone global. Energy companies are surveying ...
Shale gas exploration has gone global. Energy companies are surveying shale rock formations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia hoping to discover the next big deposit of natural gas. This report, by correspondent Steve Sapienza, features the voices of residents in two regions, Eastern Ohio and Poland, both touted as new frontiers in shale gas exploration.
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Saving the Rivers of the American West
The Willamette River has some big problems, but it's also ...
The Willamette River has some big problems, but it's also the focus of one of the most creative and ambitious watershed restorations efforts ever undertaken. Earth Focus speaks with Jeremy Monroe about his film Willamette Futures, which documents the effort to restore the watersheds of Oregon's largest river system. Satirical writer George Wolfe's controversial act of civil disobedience, leading a kayaking expedition down the cemented Los Angeles River, is the focus of Thea Mercouffer's film Rock the Boat. The expedition sought to have EPA declare the river navigable so that it could gain protection under the Clean Water Act. The boating trip down the LA River became a political movement which led to changes in federal policy and opened up public access to a long-neglected waterway. The Colorado River is the most dammed, and diverted river in the world. It struggles to support thirty million people across the western United States and Mexico and is reaching its limits. James Redford and Mark Decena talk about their film Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West, which looks at how we balance the competing interests of cities, agriculture, recreation, wildlife and indigenous communities with rights to the water. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
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Kayaking the LA: Revitalizing an Urban River
Earth Focus features the film Rock the Boat which follows ...
Earth Focus features the film Rock the Boat which follows a controversial kayaking expedition down the partially cemented Los Angeles River, an act of civil disobedience led by satirical writer George Wolfe, whose goal was to have the Environmental Protection Agency declare the river navigable so that it could gain protection under the Clean Water Act. Boating down the LA River became a political movement which lead to changes in federal policy and opened up public access to a long-neglected waterway. With George Wolfe and Thea Mercouffer, film director. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
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Naked America: Paying for Nuclear Disaster
Going without insurance is described as "going naked" in the ...
Going without insurance is described as "going naked" in the insurance industry. And going without insurance for the worst hazards in the US nuclear power industry is business as usual. The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in March, 2011, caused an estimated $250 billion in damages and cost are still mounting. If a Fukushima-type nuclear accident happened in the United States, you the taxpayer may end up picking up the tab.There are 104 nuclear power plants in the United States spread across 31 states. They produce 20 percent of our electrical power. They all carry insurance against a nuclear accident. But that insurance is limited to $12.6 billion. Experts say that damage from a nuclear accent could run as much as $500 billion or more. So if a disaster would cost hundreds of billions, why the the liability cap for insurance only $12.6 billion? Correspondent Miles Benson investigates.
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A Toxic Legacy: Gold Mining in Peru
Earth Focus profiles the new film Amazon Gold that depicts ...
Earth Focus profiles the new film Amazon Gold that depicts the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in pursuit of illegally mined gold and the health impacts of mercury pollution, a by-product of gold mining. Amazon Gold reaffirms the importance of the rainforest as a repository of biological diversity and the global implications of its destruction.
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Urban Rivers: Restoring the Willamette
The story of an unprecendented effort to restore the rivers ...
The story of an unprecendented effort to restore the rivers and watersheds of Oregon's largest river system with filmmaker Jeremy Monroe with previews of his upcoming film Willamette Futures. Many rivers in the United States are far from clean and healthy. Oregon's Willamette, which runs through the State's major cities and farmlands, has big problems that are far from solved, but the effort to revitalize the watershed here may be among the most creative and ambitious anywhere in the world. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
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Restoring the Earth: Drylands
Bringing degraded land to life. John D. Liu looks examples ...
Bringing degraded land to life. John D. Liu looks examples from China and South Africa.
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Europe: No to GMO
As Europe considers expanding cultivation of genetically modified crops, the ...
As Europe considers expanding cultivation of genetically modified crops, the European movement against GMOs heats up. A campaign film produced by Sourced TV highlights European concerns.
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Hot, Smart and Mobile Technologies
Highlights in from the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, ...
Highlights in from the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. Constantino de Miguel reports.
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Mezimbite: Model Forest Management
Local communities profit when they act as stewards of their ...
Local communities profit when they act as stewards of their forest resources. Forests provide local economic opportunities while sustainable practices ensure that the forests last for many generations to come. Jeffrey Barbee reports from Mozambique.
