10 Environmental Documentary DVDs You Should Watch


An Inconvenient Truth: 2006
Oscar Winning Documentary 
Former Vice President Al Gore is our first United State politician to come out on the real truth of “Global Warming.” Outlining an iron clad timeline of when and how it started, where we are today and the prediction of a harsh future if we don’t start reducing our carbon footprint. He quickly points out the immediacy to stop using fossil fuel energy and replace it with clean and renewable forms of energy.

Chasing Ice: 2014
News & Documentary Emmy Award
James Balog: environmental photographer
Using time-lapse cameras to document glaciers the size of huge mountains crumble and disappear into the Antarctic Ocean. This is the ultimate testimony proving Global Warming & Climate Change is undeniable.

Carbon Nation: 2010 
USA creates a quarter of the carbon dioxide on earth
Jumping right into the fire, enterprising individuals of pioneers, researchers and innovators share their successful renewable & sustainable technology solutions. Learn simple tips that everyone can use to save money and help reduce our fossil fuel emissions carbon footprint. Learn about: Wind Turbines, Solar Panels, Bio Fuels, Electric Transportation, Geothermal Hot Water, Buildings Insulations, green and white roofs.

Six Degrees: Could Change the World: 
National Geographic
For each warmer degree in temperature change will radically cause devastating consequences throughout our planet earth. Extreme heat waves, rising sea levels, drought and melting glaciers bring on fires, flooding food shortages and super storms around the world. Are we ready to for the challenge? 

Burning the Future: Coal in America, 2008 & The Last Mountain
2-Multiple Award Winning Documentaries: featuring Maria Gunnoe, Bill Raney, Rocky Hackworth, Chrystal Gunnoe.
Our nation’s dependency on coal energy can be summed up as the dirtiest choice of energy ever. It’s the largest source of mercury pollution, releasing over 30% of our CO2 emissions yearly. Burning coal produces a tonnage of poisonous coal ash. Both coal mining and mountaintop removal put miners at great health risks while poisoning water supplies and important ecosystems in forever. I ask you to take part in putting an end to coal-fire power plants. Please writing to your state and national legislators. 

Gasland Part I & 2
Oscar nominated documentaries
Part 1: Director Josh Fox Josh Fox learned his home in the Delaware River Basin was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation containing natural gas that stretches across New York, Pennsylvania. He takes us across America to witness the negative effects of how natural gas drilling can poison our water supply and literally blow up into the face of humans and animals. 

Part 2: Director Josh Fox paints a convincing picture of homeowners at the mercy of the oil and gas industry wait while government agencies. He exposes the controversial method of oil extraction known as “fracking”. The long-term consequences can poison our water supply and cause earthquakes. 

Who Killed the Electric Car? 2006
In 1990, the California Air Resources Board passed Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate based on events of global warming, pollution, environment and the Middle East oil politics. General Motors introduced EV1 electric vehicle, which was made available only for lease in Southern California. General Motors was 1 of 7 auto manufacturers to develop a ZEV in the state of Southern California in order to continue sales of their gasoline auto lines in CA. I will stop here. This film is so damn good...I don’t want to give anything away. Enjoy! 

Revenge of the Electric Car: 2011
It’s here and we’ll have something that’s really moving forward the way it should be! Watch it and have discussion worth talking about with your family and friends! 

'Til the River Runs Clear: 2007
Public Broadcasting Service
Take a ride on Pete Seeger’s environmental floating classroom the Clearwater Sloop. Educators and environmentalists immerse people of all ages with the knowledge bank of keeping the Hudson River clean for future generations to come. Pete Seeger, folksinger kept the pressure on the states & federal government agencies, including EPA. Pete Seeger past away on January 27, 2014, he was 95 years old. He will be remembered by the millions of people he touched, and other activists: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Michael Shellenberger, Jim Capaldi and more...