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Guardian Environmental Network
By Bruce Barcott
Stinking Up the Great Outdoors
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March 20, 2013: In one Pacific Northwest town, is the stench of recycling making the local residents sick?
'Chasing Ice' Is 2012's Hottest Climate Change Film
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November 6, 2012: Move over, Al Gore. Your PowerPoint charts have nothing on watching Arctic ice melt away with your own eyes.
Number Cruncher
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March 21, 2012: It's not easy to compare the value of a job on a oil rig and the value of an acre of eelgrass. Mary Ruckelshaus thinks she may have a way of doing just that.
Sundance Diary: The Mad Dane and His Diamonds
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January 30, 2012: My last screening at Sundance turned out to be the most surprising and inspiring one of all. I had The Ambassador on my list all week but could never seem to find the time or the ticket. The festival guide said it was... read more >
Sundance Diary: “Detropia” Crunches Numbers and Breaks Hearts
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January 27, 2012: I’ve seen a lot of movies this week, buckets of triumph and tragedy. But there’s a scene midway through Detropia that tops them all for sheer American heartbreak.The new documentary, about the struggle to save Detroit,... read more >
Sundance Diary: "The Atomic States of America" Turns the Lens on Nuclear Power
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January 26, 2012: “Watching yourself thirty feet high on the big screen is... Well, it’s quite a different experience.” That was author and essayist Kelly McMasters’ reaction to seeing the world premiere of The Atomic States of America, a... read more >
Sundance Diary: "A Fierce Green Fire" Spotlights Ass-Kicking Enviros
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January 25, 2012: For an environmental documentary junkie like me, Monday night at Sundance was a little slice of heaven: After catching the world premiere of Mark Kitchell’s A Fierce Green Fire, I sprinted across town to see The Atomic... read more >
Powerful "Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" Gets Oscar Nod
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January 24, 2012: I’m finding that serendipity plays a big part in the Sundance experience. Yesterday a publicist tossed me a DVD of a documentary short called The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. It’s part of the festival, but in any given... read more >
Sundance Diary: “Chasing Ice” Is 2012’s Hottest Climate Change Film
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January 23, 2012: Move over Al Gore. The PowerPoint charts in An Inconvenient Truth have nothing on watching Arctic ice melt away with your own eyes.
Green Screen: Five Environmental Films Set to Shine at Sundance
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January 20, 2012: Before winning an Oscar, Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" made its first splash at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. This year, five documentaries with green themes look to follow in its footsteps.
Save the Whales -- By Hunting Them?
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January 11, 2012: Biologists float a proposal that would make commercial whaling legal, but also let conservation groups buy up the hunting quotas.
Fierce Green Fire Documentary to Screen at Sundance
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December 5, 2011: A new documentary takes us through 50 years of the environmental movement.
Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in nonfiction, is the author of The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, named one of the best books of 2008 by Library Journal, and The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier. He writes frequently about the outdoors and... More
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