Trailer for GASLAND - (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010. This addresses hydraulic fracturing a.k.a. fracking, a highly contentious, high risk energy alternative. 

A criticism of  Gasland is a video by the folks at ANGA - American Natural Gas Alliance - who argue that Gasland is "flawed." 

You are going to have to form your own opinion after listening to a wide range of voices of sustainability, but especially the citizens who are experience fracking first hand in their fields and communities.

EarthSayers.tv Special Collection 1 Water

Originally created around World Water Day, this collection continues to grow with leaders from all walks of life who see the need to recognize the concept of One Water.  This includes Alexandra Cousteau, a globally recognized advocate on water quality and policy, who continues the work of her renowned grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau and her father Philippe Cousteau, Sr.

In 2008, she founded Blue Legacy International, a not-for-profit project of The Ocean Foundation.  This  speech is part of a TEDx series.

Introduced by International Forum on Globalization (IFG) founder JERRY MANDER, Celebrated author and world-class activist. Less products, not greener products, and local rather than global.

MAUDE BARLOW talks about the main points of her new book, BLUE COVENANT: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Interview with Lester R. Brown in Stockholm, May 7th-8th. Part 1/12. In this issue he talks about security in the context of ecology.  Food may be the weak link as we face massive changes in the years ahead...will we be managing the change? He is with the Earth Policy Institute.

Restoring our Waters is the story of how people around the country care about The Chesapeake Bay and are turning this caring into citizen action at the State (Maryland) and Federal level.

Like most of the bodies of water on the planet, it is the engine of a regional economy important and is a National Treasure, worthy of protection and deserving of the iconic status of the Florida Everglades, the Great Lakes, or the Mighty Mississippi. Americans who care about clean water, economic security, and national history are asked to sign  petition, and then contact their legislators to demonstrate how important the Chesapeake is to our nation. To participate visit the Restoring Our Waters Website.

On March 29, 2010, a coalition of environmental and social justice organizations, Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge, led by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, launched a coordinated campaign to prevent Nestle Waters North America from opening a water bottling facility in Cascade Locks Oregon.Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge opposes the deal because a bottled water facility would lead to the commodification of Oregons public water resources, and potentially jeopardize local wildlife, especially native salmon and steel head species. April 2012 update: Will you help Food and Water Watch cover the cost of a legal appeal to defend Oregon's water from Nestlé?
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Grandma Agnes Baker-Pilgrim talks about how people are crying for water and without water we will all die. We are all connected by water, we are all connected to each other.

Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself), completes his thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture from his talk at the Organicology conference in Portland, Oregon. He begins with discussing the "third elephant" in the room- climate change. It's here already around the world in places such as Australia, China, California.

Todd Reeve of the Portland, Oregon based Bonneville Environmental Foundation talks about this small Foundation's three major programs areas.More info on their Website.1. Climate Change, Renewable Energy; (2) Educating  k-12 students on climate change and energy; 3. Watershed (long term) Restoration.

For more leaders, please visit the Portland Sustainability Leadership channel on YouTube sponsored by: