Environment, Farming, Gardening

This page lists Web sites, documentaries, articles, and experts that cover the Environment, Oceans, Conservation, Farming, Gardening, and Climate Change.

Climate Change / Climate Emergency

Chasing Ice

  • Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
  • With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
  • The Extreme Ice Survey

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  • We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, to avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

  • This movie, backed by Leo DiCaprio, follows intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – animal agriculture.
  • The facts about the impact of animal agriculture on: Climate Change, Water Use, Deforestation, Waste, Species Extinction, Fisheries, Land Use.
  • Watch on NetFlix: Cowspiracy

The End of Meat reveals the hidden impact of meat consumption; explores the opportunities and benefits of a shift to a more compassionate diet; and raises critical questions about the future role of animals in our society.

  • In The End of Meat, filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves. He meets Esther the Wonder Pig, who became an internet phenomenon; talks to pioneers leading the vegan movement in Germany; visits the first fully vegetarian city in India; witnesses rescued farm animals enjoying their newfound freedom; observes the future food innovators making meat and cheese without the animals, even harvesting “bacon” from the ocean, and much more.
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Oceans

Seaspiracy is a 2021 documentary film about the environmental impact of fishing. The film examines various human impacts on marine life and advocates for ending fish consumption.

Mission Blue

  • Mission Blue inspires action to explore and protect the ocean. Led by legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue is uniting a global coalition to inspire an upwelling of public awareness, access and support for a worldwide network of marine protected areas – Hope Spots.

Chasing Coral

  • Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
  • This elusive story may be out of sight and out of mind, but the solutions exist all around us. There’s an impact campaign to ensure the loss of our reefs does not go unnoticed and to support communities in using the film to grow these local solutions.

Planet Ocean is an international documentary directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot.

  • Can we imagine a film that would change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain simply, to everyone, the greatest natural mystery of our planet? And lastly, can we help our children believe in a better and more sustainable world tomorrow?
  • It has won “Best Cinematography Award, Blue Ocean Festival”, “Audience Award, UK Green Film Festival” and “Monterey Bay Film Festival”.

Deforestation

Deforestation, clearance, clear-cutting or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use.

  • I cannot believe that I have to debunk this by Earthling Ed: “I respond to the recent news about soya milk being worse for the environment than cow’s milk, and debunk this outrage misinformation. I also expose how high profile farmers are willing to publicly twist information in order to push their agenda of animal product consumption.”

Farming, Gardening

Organic Food

Local Farmers

Seeds & Plants

Gardening Systems – Vertical Gardening, Hydroponics, Aeroponics

Aquaponics

Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture focuses on rebuilding organic matter and living biodiversity in soil, which produces increasingly nutrient-dense food year after year — while rapidly sequestering excess atmospheric carbon underground to reverse climate change.

The Need to GROW delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.

Composting

Water

Flow: For Love of Water

  • This award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: The world water crisis. Building a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply, the director focuses on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
  • Watch on Amazon Video

Corporate Control of Water

  • Corporations are seeking to control and restrict our increasingly scarce and polluted water supplies. But we must treat water like the priceless resource it is—and as a human right.

Water on the Table

  • Is water a commercial good like Coca-Cola, or a human right like air?
  • Featuring best-selling author, activist and public figure Maude Barlow and her crusade to have water declared a human right, protected from privatization, WATER ON THE TABLE explores Canada’s relationship to its freshwater, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film shadows Barlow over the course of a year as she leads an unrelenting schedule as the U.N. Senior Advisor on Water to Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations.

Water Storage

Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG)

Indoor Air Quality

We spend 80% of our time indoors and often the indoor air is polluted not only from sources outside your home but also from indoor pollutants like off-gassing furniture, cooking and chemicals from cleaning. Additionally houses with insufficient fresh air ventilation can have very high Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels that can cause headaches, tiredness and has a large impact on cognitive performance.

OpenAQ is a nonprofit organization providing universal access to air quality data to empower a global community of change makers to solve air inequality—the unequal access to clean air.

AirNow.gov – Home of the U.S. Air Quality Index

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a condition in which people develop symptoms of illness or become infected with chronic disease from the building in which they work or reside.

Air Quality Monitors

AirGradient ONE is an indoor air quality monitor enabling you to know if the air quality is healthy or not. It measures CO2, PM2.5, TVOCs, NOx, Temperature and Humidity. Fully open-source and customizable.

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Air Filters / Air Purifiers

Nuwave OxyPure ZERO Smart Air Purifier – Zero Filter Replacements. The dual 4-stage filter technology is 100% reusable, meaning you’ll never have to pay for replacement filters throughout the life of the OxyPure Zero. Covers Up to 2002 Sq. Ft. (Model# 47261)

Reference

Recycling

  • Recycling Mystery: Milk and Juice Cartons (Earth911.com)
  • You’re recycling your milk carton all wrong (BusinessInsider.com)
  • Dirty Business: what really happens to your recycling: Thousands of tons of plastic scrap collected for recycling from British households have been transported and dumped on sites across the world. We follow the trail of the UK’s plastic waste through the country and around the world. Can Britain cope as the largest importer of our recycling shuts the door? Search
  • Lower East Side Ecology Center: The LES Ecology Center (Ecology Center) has pioneered community-based models in urban sustainability since 1987. We provide unique e-waste and composting services, environmental stewardship opportunities, and educational programming to all New Yorker’s who want to learn about environmental issues and take responsibility for creating solutions through action.

Plastic

Bio-degradable Plastics

Plastic Recycling

  • ByBlocks – Environmentally friendly process uses steam and compression to convert all types of plastic waste into an advanced, zero-waste building material.
    • No glues or adhesives required means you save time with quicker installation
    • 83% less CO2 emissions than concrete blocks
    • Won’t crack or crumble like standard concrete blocks
    • Zero waste process – 1 ton of plastic makes 1 ton of ByBlock
    • No specialized labor required

Cleaning Products

Zero Waste / Low Waste

  • Zero Waste Cartel ~ Shares knowledge and provides product options that help you cut down waste, enrich your home and provide you with that feeling of fulfillment.
  • Closed Loop Cooking ~ Plant-based, low waste. Closed Loop Cooking is here to break down barriers around living and eating sustainably. This is for anyone who eats. Unnecessary food waste and excessive packaging perpetuates food injustice and is a serious threat to the environment. Plant-based recipes minimize waste and offer so much variety for endless meal combinations and scraps that are easier to compost. Even incorporating one or two plant-based meals per week in your diet makes a significant difference.

Nuwave OxyPure ZERO Smart Air Purifiers

  • The dual 4-stage filter technology is 100% reusable, meaning you’ll never have to pay for replacement filters throughout the life of the OxyPure Zero.
  • The NuWave OxyPure Zero Air Purifier captures airborne particles as small as 0.1 microns in rooms as large as 2,002 sq ft in one hour.
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Renewable Energy

  • Ez Gro Tri-Helix Solar Windmill – The technology incorporates BOTH solar and wind energy into a hybrid technology known as a Solar Windmill. This innovative product consists of solar panels mounted atop three rotating wind turbines. Together, the three turbines are known as the “Tri-Helix;” they resemble twisting DNA strands. This technology allows for the integration of solar and wind energy into a much more efficient sustainable energy system. The compact, low profile design means that the Solar Windmill has the most dense energy-generation capability of any renewable energy product on the market.

News

EMF (Electromagnetic Frequency), Electromagnetic Radiation, Emissions

Over exposure to electrical pollution or modern wireless devices, including cell phones, wireless internet, cordless phones, and baby monitors, which communicate using very high frequency radio waves known as microwaves, can cause radiofrequency sickness.

  • EMF Help Center
  • BioInitiative Report is a compilation of studies by 28 independent scientists and researchers exposing the harm of wireless technologies through rigidly conducted and peer-reviewed published studies, research and experiments. This is what you need when anyone asks you “WHERE’S THE SCIENCE?”
  • Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health – “For over 50 years, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has been studying and treating the effects of the environment on human health. In the last 20 years, our physicians began seeing patients who reported that electric power lines, televisions and other electrical devices caused a wide variety of symptoms. By the mid 1990’s, it became clear that patients were adversely affected by electromagnetic fields and becoming more electrically sensitive. In the last five years with the advent of wireless devices, there has been a massive increase in radiofrequency (RF) exposure from wireless devices as well as reports of hypersensitivity and diseases related to electromagnetic field and RF exposure. Multiple studies correlate RF exposure with diseases such as cancer, neurological disease, reproductive disorders, immune dysfunction, and electromagnetic hypersensitivity.”
  • Electrical Pollution