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Showing 1 - 10 of 18 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Plant Biology
Between Earth & Sky
Shorlisted for an Academy Award®, follows world-renowned tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni as she prepares for one last research climb before considering retirement from the field.
Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 26 minutes
Big Spuds, Little Spuds
The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops.
Bullfrog Films | 1999 | 52 minutes
Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappe shows how to practice vegetarianism and address world hunger.
Bullfrog Films | 1974 | 27 minutes
Evolution of Organic
The story of organic agriculture, told by those in California who built the movement.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 87 minutes
Farming the Sky
Winters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are long, and the growing season is short. A head of lettuce travels an average 2,000 miles to get there, often arriving shriveled and tasteless. Architect Nona Yehia knew there had to be a better way to get food to eat. Traditional industrial scale agriculture might never be replaced, but she was sure it could be improved. She designed a new kind of greenhouse: a building that would pack a perfectly controlled growing environment into a space built up vertically on a sliver of town land.
Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 8 minutes
Fixing Food 2, Ep. 4: Seeds of Resilience
Explores the remarkable resilience of indigenous Mayan communities and their enduring connection to a crop the Spanish conquistadors tried to wipe out – amaranth - a tall, leafy grain long derided in the United States as “pigweed.”
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 9 minutes
Insecticides: A License to Kill
The insect apocalypse is here and pesticides are to blame.
Icarus Films | 2022 | 58 minutes
Of Trees and Forests: Australia
In Australia, the giant eucalyptus forest extends over three million hectares.
Cinétévé | 2024 | 51 minutes
Of Trees and Forests: Canada
There is a corner of the world where two universes that seemed to be opposites come together. In the Great Bear Rainforest, on the west coast of Canada, the ocean and the forest respond to each other.
Cinétévé | 2024 | 52 minutes
Of Trees and Forests: Finland
In the far north of the world lies the greatest plant continuity on the planet: the boreal forest.
Cinétévé | 2024 | 52 minutes
