YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip

Called to action by a planet in peril, three friends hit the road - traveling with hope, humor and all of their garbage - to explore every state in America (the good, the bad...and the weird) in search of the extraordinary innovators and citizens who are tackling humanity's greatest environmental crises.

Mark Dixon, Ben Evans & Julie Dingman Evans, 30 minute excerpt 

A River Runs Through Us

"Rivers are Life" is the unifying theme motivating activists in the global movement to protect rivers from the ravages of big dams. A River Runs Through Us offers a personal and hopeful introduction to one of the biggest threats facing many rivers today, as told by the people at the forefront of the global dam-fighting movement. The documentary describes how climate change will affect rivers and dams; what happens to communities affected by large dams, and what kinds of solutions exist that preserve our life-giving waterways while meeting our needs for energy and water. 

Carla Pataky & Lori Pottinger, 22 minutes

Marion Stoddart: The Work of 1000

This is the parallel journy of two characters: one a young woman discouraged at her future as a suburban housewife, the other a river - one beautiful and teeming with wildlife - now a hopeless, toxic sludge pit. Chronicling an important episode in U.S. environmental history, this inspirational story examines the human side of acclaimed environmental pioneer Marion Stoddart who proved that with vision and commitment, an "ordinary" person can accomplish extraordinary things.

Susan Edwards & Dorie Clark, 30 minutes

Beaver Creek, Episode Four

The Beaver Creek Episodes are funny stop motion animation shorts featuring Twigs the beaver and Drake the duck. Each episode blends witty cartoon antics of natural beaver activities, which casts a good light on nature's keystone species. In Episode Four Twigs and Drake have fun in the snow, as well as realize the true meaning of friendship.

Ian Timothy, 5 minutes

One Plastic Beach

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debrish off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Eace piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas. 

Tess Thackara & Eric Slatkin, 8 minutes

Deep Down's People Power Series: Mountain Roots

Carol Judy, who lives deep in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, has a very special connection to the mountains. Carol digs ginseng, goldenseal, and other medicinal roots from special spots in the mountains that she knows and loves. Now, due to mountaintop removal coal mining, her ancestral mountains are threatened. 

Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin, 6 minutes

The Craziest Idea

2011 was an historic year for rivers. The two dam removal projects that began as "crazy ideas" 30 years ago kicked off this year on the Elwha and White Salmon Rivers in Washington. These dam removal projects are the largest in history and represent a turning point in the effort to restore freeflowing rivers for salmon, recreation, and culture. The climactic moment of the year was the explosive breach of 125 foot tall Condit Dam on the White Salmon, captured using video and timelapse photography techniques. 

Andy Maser, 7 minutes

Gloop

"Gloop" is a dark fairytale that follows the meteoric rise of plastic from its inception in Leo's gloomy lab 100 years ago. Told like a Brother's Grimm fable, "Gloop" offers a poignant and lasting message about the price we pay for the convenience of plastic.

Gaby Bastyra & Joe Churchman, 4 minutes