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A 25-Year History of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice
This 12-minute video tracks the work of Lois Marie Gibbs. The film begins with footage from the Love Canal Homeowners Association's grassroots struggle, which eventually led to the relocation of over 900 families, and the creation of the federal Superfund program to clean up toxic sites. The video follows Lois' work after relocation in 1979 to the creation of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, formerly known as the Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste. Community organizing footage from Kettleman City highlights the work of CHEJ and the grassroots environmental health movement over the last 25 years. This video is available on DVD or VHS.
Sam Suds and the Case of PVC, the Poison Plastic (Flash Video Animation)
Sam Suds, PI (poisons investigator) is no ordinary detective – his job is to protect the Johnson household from dangerous toxins. He’d been a hero in the past, locking away household villains like lead and DDT. Now, he faces one of the most toxic offenders yet: PVC – the poison plastic. But the trail had gone cold. Word around the bathroom was he was washed up. Until she floated in…
Watch this hilarious animated detective spoof, created by Free Range Graphics, which illustrates the chemical lifecycle and alternatives to PVC plastic. Viewed by over 25,000 people in the first three months of its release, this educational tool has been very effective at educating the public about a relatively unknown, but pervasive, threat to health and the environment. This three-minute animation is available on DVD.
Struggles for Environmental Justice and Health in Chicago – African American and Catholic Perspectives by Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. and the Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary
This highly informative and engaging program presents some major environmental health dangers that exist in Chicago, why people of color and economically marginalized people living in these regions suffer most under these environmental conditions, and what Catholics can do to help create change.
Kilowatt Ours, A Plan to Re-Energize America by Jeff Barrie
This video, which includes both a 56 minute and 38 minute version, follows filmmaker Jeff Barrie from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida as he discovers solutions to America’s energy related problems. Along the way you’ll meet everyday Americans finding ways to harness power from the wind and sun. Find out how Jeff and his wife Heather cut their energy bills in half and use a portion of their savings to buy green power.
Grassroots groups, communities of faith, city councils, and state political leaders have spread the message about energy conservation and stimulated action on the state level, by screening this film to targeted audiences across their states.
The ChildSafe School, Green Cleaning by Grassroots Environmental Education
This 12-minute video, produced by Grassroots Environmental Education, examines the unique vulnerability of children to environmental toxins, and explains why existing adult standards for “green” cleaning products are not sufficient to protect children's health. The video features interviews with a noted pediatrician and two school facilities directors who have developed and implemented child-protective “green” cleaning policies in their school districts.
Our Children at Risk by Grassroots Environmental Education
This 30-minute documentary video, produced by Grassroots Environmental Education, explores the latest scientific research that links environmental toxins to children’s health problems. Based on interviews with leading experts in the field, this program helps parents understand the issues and learn what they can do in their homes, schools and communities.
Blue Vinyl
A Toxic Comedy Look at Vinyl, The World's Second Largest Selling Plastic
With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand’s hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Her parents’ decision to “re-side” their house with this seemingly benign cure-all for many suburban homes turns into a toxic odyssey with twists and turns that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take. The result is a humorous but sobering and uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between consumers and industry in the feature-length documentary BLUE VINYL, which won the cinematography award in the documentary competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcasted on HBO in 2006.
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