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There are some refreshing things about the new ecology documentary, Consumed. For one, it avoids hyperbole and deals primarily with just the facts. For another, it doesn’t single out corporations as the sole cause of environmental destruction. Instead, it places the blame squarely on the shoulders of the consumer—you and me. Obviously, if we didn’t demand more and more products, companies wouldn’t make them. Although it blames us as individuals, it does not demonize us. Its thesis is that we are only doing what comes naturally to us and that, as a species, we will grow out of it. Read on...

Cool It is a film about Bjørn Lomborg and his proposition that limiting the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere is not the best way to reduce the threat of global warming. He prefers instead that we rely on geo-engineering. That is, he touts man-made, technological solutions—akin to those that have caused this crisis in the first place. The film is based on his error-riddled book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which has made him the scourge of environmentalists everywhere. Read on...

The documentary film Farmageddon explores the fine line between consumer protection and government intrusion when it comes to food safety. Certainly we all want wholesome food, but what happens when rules written with agribusiness in mind are inflexibly applied to family farms by overzealous regulators? It often means the latter are harassed to the point of being driven out of business, less choice for consumers and ultimately less healthy food. Read on...

Major changes are coming to the way we eat. And I don’t mean the dystopia of irradiated, cloned and genetically engineered food-like substances. Yes, that's where agribusiness super-capitalists want to take us. But the intersecting facts of increasing food-borne disease and decreasing oil supply will mean just the opposite, according to Ingredients, a gently powerful film. Read on...

If you need a crash course on why our civilization is in deep do-do, the ApocaDocs are here to help. They are the authors of Humoring the Horror of the Converging Emergencies, a quick-read, no-nonsense but whacky guide to the key dilemmas ailing our planet and how the Homo genus hasn’t fully lived up to the distinction of sapiens (Latin for “wise”). The ApocaDocs (first say “apocalypse” and you’ll get the hang of this moniker) are Jim and Michael. Their surnames remain a mystery, and since it’s a self-published book, last names are not required. Read on...