ACTION OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

A Sampling of Additional Information and Action Opportunities
(Note:links in bold are directly related to the film’s production team.)

Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden

• Filmmaker’s site
• YouTube version
• Interview with filmmaker
• Adam Purple & the Garden of Eden e-book by Amy Brost (PDF)

Amazon Alive – Part 3: Forest of the Future

• Filmmaker’s site with series synopsis and link to Amazon Alive Project
• International Conservation Organizations and Activist Groups
  • http://rainforests.mongabay.com/1024.htm
• http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/Amazon_Rainforest_Organizations
• “Amazon Conservation: How to Save the Amazon Rainforest”
• “How to Save Tropical Rainforests”
• (For additional resources, see Secret Life of the Rainforest, below.)

America’s Wildest Refuge

• Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
• For links to 8 organizations advocating protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Alaska Coalition

Among Giants

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Earthfirst Humboldt section for Treesit Updates)
• Take action to protect ancient forests in Northern California
• Some additional organizations focusing on old growth forests

Bag It 

• Filmmaker’s site (See Take Action, For Educators and Issues sections)
  

The Big Fix

• Filmmaker's facebook page
• EarthJustice (public interest law firm) oil spill work and take action pages
• Business Ethics Network
• Additional materials on human rights and the Gulf oil spill
• NWF Gulf Oil Disaster
• SkyTruth Oil Spill page

Bird Island

• Filmmaker’s site (See Links for resources)

California Forever

• Filmmaker’s site (See Links section for resources)

Call of Life

• Filmmaker's site (See Links for actions and resources)

Chasing Water

• Take action
• Links to additional resources by film’s writer, Jonathan Waterman
• Book by Peter McBride and Jonathan Waterman: The Colorado River, Flowing through  Conflict

City Dark

• Filmmaker's site
• International Dark-Sky Association

Climate Refugees

• Filmmaker's site (Click on link Take Action for steps individuals can take to reduce carbon footprint)
• Additional Actions
• Lists of organizations working to stop climate change
• http://www.350.org/friends
• http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/resources.html
• http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/about-us/members
• (For related resources, see There Once Was an Island, below.)

Corner Plot

• Filmaker's site

Creatures of the Lagoon 

• Links to some programs about Indian River Lagoon
• “Environmental Resources about the Indian River Lagoon”
• For current actions, google: “take action Indian River Lagoon FL”

Dissolving Destinies

• Ocean Acidification Network links to papers and additional resources
• Letter, with signers, to EPA, requesting further steps to address ocean acidification

Duck!

• Ducks Unlimited
• Article
• Duck stamps

The Garden

• Interview with filmmaker

The Gorilla Whisperer

• Take action
• Primate Info Net
• Western lowland gorillas and Angelique Todd
• Conservation of western lowland gorillas
• http://www.wcs.org/saving-wildlife/great-apes/western-lowland-gorillas.aspx
• http://www.gorillas.org/Project/Detail/Western_Lowland_Gorilla_Conservation
• http://www.zsl.org/conservation/regions/africa/gorilla-mikongo/gorilla-background,958,AR.html

Green Fire

• Filmaker's site
• Aldo Leopold Foundation
• Center for Humans and Nature

Green Tunnel

• Filmmaker's site
• Watch film
• Article

If a Tree Falls

• Filmmaker's site
• Human Rights Watch description of some questions raised in film
• Current status of Daniel McGowan

John Muir in the New World

• Filmmaker's site
• John Muir: information for teachers
• John Muir Exhibit

La Mirada Circular

• Directory of Animal Rights organizations
• Links to “Factory Farming Issues”
• Vegetarian Resource Group

Last Mountain

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Take Action, which also includes additional resources)

Libangbang (Flying Fish)

• Filmmaker's site

Mother: Caring for the 7 Billion

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Take Action, which also includes additional resources

Mother Nature’s Child

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Resources)

Mountain Man

• Joel Robinson’s organization, Naturalist for You

Nature's Matchmakers

• Smithsonian Channel broadcast schedule
• Society for Theriogenology

Peak to Peak

• Watch
• Wildlife Library article about bighorn sheep, including further reading
• Links to “How You Can Help”

The Polar Explorer

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Sponsors and Partners for sources of additional information, including Global Green)
• Global Green’s Take Action page

Rise of the Jelly Fish

• Smithsonian Ocean Portal: The Ocean & You

Secret Life of the Rainforest

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• More information
• (For related resources, see Amazon Alive above.)

Seeing Death Valley

• Death Valley National Park
• Death Valley Natural History Association

Struggle for Existence

• Filmmaker's site (Check for updates to Outreach link)
• San Diego Zoo article
• Take action on Palila birds by clicking on Kokua Alerts

There Once Was an Island

• Filmmaker's site (Click on What You Can Do)
• (For related resources, see Climate Refugees, above.)

Vanishing Act

• Watch on YouTube or on Vimeo
• Tips on reducing, recycling, composting, reusing hazardous waste
• Tips for kids

Warriors of Qiugang

• Filmmaker's site (Click on Info-Links)
• Green Anhui’s website
• Article about organization Green Anhui
• Article
• Article

Waste Land

• Filmmaker's site (Click on the About drop down heading for information on the catadores (recyclers), the landfill (Jardim Gramacho), and Vik Muziz, the photographer.
• Brazil Foundation projects resulting from income generated by the film plus donations from individuals

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