We have monthly free environmental film and discussion nights. See calendar. This year, TD Friends of the Environment and Ontario Trillium Foundation are supporters. Our partners include, Hibou Boutique, Heritage Gardeners and Transition Town of North Bay.
Interested in hosting a Greening Screening?
The following is a list of movies we have shown and for which are available for loan for those interested in hosting their own Greening Screening. If you would like to host a Greening Screening at your school, workplace, or community group, please contact us to set up your video loan today. View our Greening Screening Film Loan Agreement for details.
Pirate for the Sea A biographical film of the most daring and adventurous marine environmental activist – EVER. Paul Watson, a Greenpeace founder, will do almost anything – so long as it doesn’t injure human beings to protect whales, seals and sharks from industrialized predation.
>Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today. The effects of “nature deficit disorder” are now being noted across the country in epidemics of child obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Mother Nature’s Child asks the questions: Why do children need unstructured time outside? What is the place of risk-taking in healthy child development? How is play a form of learning? Why are teachers resistant to taking students outside? How can city kids connect with nature? What does it mean to educate the ‘whole’ child?
The Garden The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.
But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.
Ryan’s Well is an inspiring and remarkable story that embodies the Power of One. By the time Ryan Hreljac was 9 years old he had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to build wells and provide drilling equipment to the people of Angola, Uganda. 
Mer Rrkwer-akert Traditional owners from Ti Tree, in the Northern Territory, go on a journey to visit Rrkwer (Brooks Soak) to respect their ancestors, to perform ceremony and to see how the country has changed. They haven’t been back for over forty years. This film shows Anmatyerr social responsibility towards caring for the land, animals and plants through their cultural and spiritual relation to water. The traditional owners find the land degraded and their water sources contaminated as a result of the open grazing management practices used by the local pastoralists.
Crude Impact deftly explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet and the discovery and use of oil. It examines the future implications of peak oil – the point in time when the amount of petroleum worldwide begins a steady, inexorable decline. Journeying from the West Africa delta region to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from early man to the unknown future, CRUDE IMPACT chronicles the collision of our insatiable appetite for oil with the rights and livelihoods of indigenous cultures, other species and the planet itself.
The Lorax One of the earliest environmentalists in children’s literature, the Lorax attempts to save the truffula trees from destruction by the Once-ler, who aims to capitalize on their fruit in this adaptation of the popular Dr. Seuss tale. Watch the Lorax fight for his cause in this animated feature, which also includes “Pontoffel Pock and His Magic Piano,” about a piano-playing sprite who travels through space and time in a blink.
Chemerical explores the life cycle of everyday household cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity.The film is at once humorous, as we watch the Goode family try to turn a new leaf by creating and living in a toxic free home, and informative, as director Andrew Nisker works with many experts to give audiences the tools and inspiration to live toxic free.
How to Boil a Frog is an eco-comedy that gives an overview of the Big Mess We’re In – environment, energy, economic – and lays out a set of personal solutions that will make your life better and save civilization as a by-product. HTBAF chronicles Jon Cooksey’s personal, three-year adventure as a filmmaker, activist and, above all, a father driven to make sure his daughter would have a future beyond living on a raft with the last polar bear.
