In light of Earth Day yesterday, the environment is on everyone’s minds. Or is it? How prominent are environmental stories the day after Earth Day?
There’s no shortage of docs sounding the environmental crisis alarm. By all accounts we’re half way to Armageddon, with the environmental situation so precarious only the swiftest about-face in energy and environmental policy can hope to save us.
Well there is hope out there. I can think of two envirodocs that serve up some hope along with crisis — at least as a side dish. Leonardo DiCaprio‘s 11th Hour, out last November, tries to find solutions to the environmental crisis as an integral part of its mission, and here on our own blog, Judith Helfand wrote about how she and co-director Dan Gold have been able to leverage the message of their film Everything’s Cool to spur concrete change.
Are there any films you can think of that offer solutions or hope to environmental perils? Any places where envirodocs are used to change habits, locally or globally?
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