Climate Change in Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

In southern Bangladesh climate change is now a reality. Local people are having to adapt as fertile land becomes encrusted with salt, killing crops and fouling drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis may need to leave the delta as climate change becomes more severe. Second Place, Social Dimensions of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.

Free Swim

A clip from Free Swim, a one hour documentary about the paradox of coastal people not knowing how to swim. Taking place on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas we follow a group of kids as they overcome their fears, gain confidence and reconnect with their environment by learning to swim in open waters.

Clean Water for Haiti

About filters and health training...

The Merbachelorette - Save the Merpeople

The Merbachelorette swims ashore for a rare exclusive interview. Her boyfriend got finned for soup, and there's no fish left in the sea. Help her save the oceans for the sake of the ocean dating scene! Presented by Oceana.

The Rising Tide: Kiribati Short

This film depicts the current climate crisis in Kiribati, a nation in the Central Pacific.  President Anote Tong and other islanders elucidate the problem in a poignant and provocative way. Winner, Young Voices of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.

Fragile Planet by Sting and Rhythms del Mundo

This video has been produced by the Artist Project Earth had been financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP, World Bank and Global Initiatives. Presented by The World Bank.

World, Hold On

Every day the Earth gives us more. More food, more fuel, more timber... but we are reaching the limit. How do give more to people and take less from the planet? That's the Global Environment Facility's challenge and its mission, as an independent organization that channel resources to steward life's diversity and sustain natural systems, societies and economies. Presented by The World Bank.

Heather and Goliath

Heather is a biologist with the Army Corps of Engineers. When she hears that her organization is planning to quietly remove Clean Water Act protection from the Los Angeles River, she bands with a group of local kayakers, a powerful congressman and several environmental advocacy group to defend the embattled river and change the course of its perilous history.

Plast-ick!

Which plastics are safe? Which should be avoided? Grist advice guru Umbra Fisk broadcasts her quick tips in a special sneak preview of her new video series.

Hummer

A fake hummer ad criticizing the awareness and ignorance of global issues.

Climate Change, Peru: Retreating Glacier

In Pucarumi, a small community in the foothills of the snow-capped Peruvian Andes, Felipe mulls the fate of the life-giving Ausangate glacier. Year after year, the great white glacier of his boyhood has receded and slowly turned black. "We are feeling the effects of climate change," says Felipe, an alpaca herder whose animals graze on pastures irrigated by Ausangate's waters. "This loss of snow means we receive less water. This climatic factor is causing us great danger." Less water has meant less pasture and more difficulty raising livestock. Animals such as alpaca and sheep aren't eating enough, "so their wool doesn't grow as well," forcing people to turn to synthetic wool to weave hats, sweaters, and scarves. Presented by The World Bank.

Melting Point

Espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasing and vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK. Ahead of next month's Climate Camp at Kingsnorth power station, this exclusive and powerful film exposes the extraordinary tactics being used to reframe concerned citizens engaging in their right to protest, as dangerous terrorists.

Hell for Leather

Filmed in Bangladesh over a two week period, the film reveals how leather used in consumer goods, including shoes, handbags, trinkets and luxury car interiors – some of which find their way onto European high streets – is linked to serious health problems amongst tannery workers. It also exposes how the toxic chemicals used in leather tanning lead to environmental degradation via the rampant discharge of untreated effluents from tanneries into water supplies and waterways.

Red Sky

Short film created at University of Hertfordshire, structured around a poem written by Sam Roberts.

Green Plaster

Submitted by: Suparna Gangal, SMS Productions, India

Grocery Store Wars

Not long ago in a supermarket not so far away...

Learn the ways of the farm

Robert Redford on Saving the Arctic Refuge

Don't let oil companies destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the sake of one penny per gallon at the pump. Watch Robert Redford's video about America's greatest birthing ground for wolves, caribou and polar bears. Then, speak out in defense of the Arctic Refuge by going to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org and sending a message to your two U.S. senators.

On Thin Ice: Polar Bears and Global Warming

NRDC's lawsuit forced the Bush administration to start facing facts about global warming. Now you can help turn up the heat in Round Two of this historic fight -- go to www.polarbearSOS.org/takeaction and help save polar bears!

The Dark Side of a Green Fuel

Indigenous people are being affected by the destruction of peat swamp forests by palm oil companies. Cultivation is driven by demand for renewable energy to mitigate climate change. The film illustrates the environmental and societal threats that communities face, through the story of Saoni, a fisherman in Aceh. Third Place, Social Dimensions of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.

Flood Children of Holdibari

Bangladesh is one of the most susceptible countries in the world to climate change. The rising sea levels are contributing to river and coastal erosion while higher atmospheric temperature and intense storms are causing widespread floods. One island that is severely affected by flooding is East Holdibari in North West Bangladesh. However, Holdibari's children are fighting back, and have created an action plan to prepare for future floods. First Place, Social Dimensions of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.

Much A-Poo About Nothing

New parents face an avalanche of uncertainties, and one of the biggest is the diaper question. Is it better for the earth (and your baby's bum) to choose cloth or disposable? With the help of some wee friends, advice maven Umbra Fisk delivers the straight poop on this perplexing topic.

Food Crisis in Liberia

World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick is calling on leaders of the world's richest countries and major oil producers to act now on surging food and oil prices. Zoellick says the world is entering "a danger zone," and about 10 billion US dollars are needed to meet the short term needs of the places and people hit hardest. Liberia is one of those hit... rising food prices have pushed 200 thousand people into poverty there. Presented by The World Bank.

Food Crisis in Kyrgyz Republic

Farmers in the Kyrgyz Republic say that the economic crisis is hitting hard at their livelihood. Drought has added to their problems. The country is now using a new World Bank grant to expand programs it hopes will help farmers hit hard by the food crisis. Presented by The World Bank.

A Sacred Country

The Suquamish people have a message for all of mankind, which is to remind us that by not respecting the Earth, we are not only desecrating what is sacred - without heed to future generations and other species - but also that in our arrogance, we have forgotten our place on Earth. We have an opportunity for a radical shift from the wasteful ways we have adopted and to live in harmony with all life on Earth.

Mating Season

A scientific consensus shows that marine life is in danger worldwide from overfishing and pollution. What would you do if your world was ending? Marine life cavort like there's no tomorrow in a public service announcement from Oceana, the world's largest conservation group dedicated to ocean preservation. Aired on the Sundance Channel. Presented by Oceana.

Reverse the Tide with Martin Stepanek

World champion free diver Martin Stepanek urges you to reverse the tide and protect the oceans with Oceana. Presented by Oceana.

Wildlife Alliance

Direct Protection to Wildlife and Forests...

Telarana de oro

Caguayo

Freaks of Nature: Self Inflating Fish

Is it a water balloon? A fish? A poisonous pill? It's all three actually. Watch this National Geographic video to see why...

Save the Dugongs

Dugongs living on the coast of Japan's Okinawa island are threatened by the proposed expansion of a U.S. military base...

Plant

Plant is an animated short film about the revenge of...  you guessed it....  a plant. Created in only a month, this short takes a humorous look at the consequences of not taking care of our environment.

Existential Kineto-Graph

A film about how quickly we progress. Humanity is always moving forward without considering the consequences. In this ironic, simple film, people are living and developing on the up side of the lifeline. Our speed increases rapidly and we are moved below the lifeline; an alien appears, so similar to a human, with two eyes, two hands and two legs. Our environment has become out of our control.

Submitted by: Peter Skala, Slovakia 

Save Our Planet!

Suicycle

A look at what goes in, what goes out, and how everything we swallow gives the environment a case of indigestion. Suicycle is a lively, multi-textured animated short. With a darkly comic style at odds with the subject matter, Suicycle is intended to play as a never-ending loop. www.curiositygroup.com/suicycle/

Future Spills

An animation commenting on differing environmental issues. Created for Les Yeux Ouverts at Centre Pompidou, Triennale Milan and will appear in 2008 at Sianghai's Museum of Modern Art.

The Meatrix

The Meatrix (www.themeatrix.com) spoofs The Matrix films and highlights the problems with factory farming. Instead of Keanu Reeves, The Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm... he thinks. Leo is approached by a trenchcoat-clad cow, Moopheus, and joins him on a journey to learn more about what goes on behind closed barn doors at factory farms.