Environment
Open to the Public?
This documentary takes a critical look at the history and future of public space--from the Agora to shopping malls to NYC's community gardens. The film unrolls the complicated relationship between public and private control over space. Featuring scholars, activists and community organizers, including Don Mitchell, Sharon Zukin, Galen Kranz, and Rob Robbins. More info...
2011 TRT: 28 minutes #338
Urban Environmentalism: DIY Living Green
Paper Tiger introduces you to New Yorkers who have found ways to live more sustainably through DIY environmentalism. The creative and unique projects of these city dwellers show how living in urban settings allows rather than hinders their ability to live a green lifestyle. This show features segments on worm composting as an alternative to contributing to landfill waste, reusable bags for green markets, food foraging walks with Wildman Steve Brill, and the monthly “Really, Really Free” markets in Manhattan hosted by the In Our Hearts Collective. More info...
2009 TRT: 28 minutes #330
Play For Keeps: The Struggle to Save NYC Community Gardens
Community gardens are an endangered species in New York City (NYC). Esperanza (Hope) Garden, a 23-year old community garden in the Lower East Side of NYC, was bulldozed by the Mayor Giuliani administration in February 2000 to make way for "affordable housing." Play for Keeps asks the question: "affordable to whom?" and exposes the city's attempts to gentrify New York's poorest neighborhoods and destroy thriving communities. Interviews with Loisaida (Latino and especially Puerto Rican pronunciation of "Lower East Side") residents and gardeners and More Gardens! More info...
2000 TRT: 18 minutes #295
Showdown in Seattle: Unwilling Captives (Part 4)
Over 600 arrests and questionable legal processing are discussed in part 4 of this 5-part series, with Larry Hauser (King County council member) and Doug Hoenig (ACLU) and scenes from King County Jail. It includes interviews with Seattle locals and bystanders caught in the Police melee. The segment takes a look at the environmental hostages of WTO economic policy, with segments on the Global Free Logging Agreement and Genetic Engineering. More info...
1999 TRT: 28 minutes #292
Road to Ruin: The Real Dirt on SUV's
Robin Andersen dissects why five of the top ten selling vehicles in the US are now trucks and sport-utility vehicles. 'Road to Ruin: The Real Dirt on Sport-Utility Vehicles' seeks to raise awareness about how sport-utility vehicles have come to dominate the market, in spite of the fact that they are unsafe, enviromentally destructive gas-guzzlers. The tape argues that it is persuasive advertising that has made these vehicles so appealing to consumers. More info...
1998 TRT: 28 minutes #278
NAFTA: A Three Way Tie for Last
Here are the voices that you didn't hear during the so-called debate around the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico. This pro-corporation legislative precedent set the economic tone against workers and the environment. This video presents the concerns of Canadian, American and Mexican workers, native Americans, farmers and environmentalists as they try to inform the American public about this dangerous trade policy. More info...
1993 TRT: 28 minutes #238
Breathless: A Toxic Newsflash
In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators as a way to solve the city's growing waste problem. These toxic incinerators posed a great health threat to people and the environment. In addition, the decision to build the incinerators in only lower income, disenfranchised neighborhoods was in 1992 the newest form of institutional racism. More info...
1992 TRT: 28 minutes #228
War on the Home Front
Part 10 of the 10-part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" series. The billions of dollars spent on mass destruction in the war is paralleled to the decline of the US economy, budget cuts in labor, healthcare, housing and education. It examines the military treatment of pubic lands within the US, the ecological devastation that occurs in the production of weapons and the grassroots movements efforts to change this nation's priorities. An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War. More info...
1991 TRT: 28 minutes #209
Going For the Green
Journalist Bill Weinberg looks at the corporate marketing of Earth Day and the environment. More info...
1990 TRT: 28 minutes #181
Jim Rix Reads: Organic Gardening
Jim Rix is a video engineer and organic gardener. More info...
1983 TRT: 28 minutes #49