Archive - Sep 24, 2009

For residents of the Maldives, climate change is already, literally, a matter of life and death. The Maldives are the proverbial canary in the coal mine: if climate change is not curbed, it could be the first country to disappear off the face of the Earth due to global warming.

By Angela Alston, Outreach Coordinator for A Sea Change, a film about the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans. You can watch A Sea Change on the Planet Green Network, Sept. 26 at 8 pm EST. -- Luis

Imagine a world without fish. Barbara Ettinger was really not in the mood to do that. She and her husband Sven Huseby had just spent three years making a film. They were ready to take a six-month break, after going full out day, and sometimes night to shoot Two Square Miles, their documentary about a proposed coal-fired cement plant in Hudson, NY.