The Environment in the Media
There is no shortage of environmental movies, books, websites, and podcasts. How can you know which are based on scientific evidence? Are reliable? HHGTF checks all these recommendations!
Explore Recommended Media
Are you interested in finding good movies, books, and other media about the environment? Explore HHGTF’s recommended media. View the entire list below, or you can sort by choosing just books, just movies & videos, just websites, podcasts & webcasts, or see the entire list below.
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Trailers, Excerpt & Descriptions
The following list contains ALL MEDIA, listed alphabetically. Use these links to see just books, or just movies & videos, or just websites.
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Book: EAARTH
A changing world costs large sums to defend—think of the money that went to repair New Orleans or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we’ve managed to damage and degrade. We can’t rely on old habits any longer.
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Movie: Intelligent Trees
Do trees talk, have family ties and care for their young? Peter Wohlleben and Suzanne Simard have been observing and investigating the communication between trees for decades. Watch the trailer.
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Webinar: Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic Pollution Coalition’s Global Webinar Series brings together our global community to share the latest information, tips, and resources to stop the growing plastic pollution crisis.
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Book: Teeth of the Lion
The Teeth of the Lion tells the story of the common dandelion. This little yellow flowering plant is remarkably widespread, and, for better or worse, known by just about everybody.
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Book: This Changes Everything
In “This Changes Everything”, Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways.
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Animation: The Story of Stuff
Description: Do trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Peter Wohlleben and Suzanne Simard have been observing and investigating the communication between trees for decades.
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Book: The World Without Us
If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures–our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments–survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind’s place on this planet.
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Book: Plastic Purge
Is it possible to use less plastic and be happier and healthier? In Plastic Purge, ecologist, SanClements explains how plastics release toxins into your body and the effect they have on our health.
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Book: Plastic, A Toxic Love Story
From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this eye-opening book, we’re at a crisis point. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. We’re drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices.