Climate Justice Curriculum Institute: Films & Videos

Director: John Chester. 2018
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and…unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm [and] its seasons.

Director/Producer: Eunice Lau. 2022
The film centers on the transformative power of composting and urban agriculture, particularly in marginalized communities.

Directors: Josh and Rebecca Tickell. 2023
“Common Ground" exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better.

Director/Producer: Taggart Siegel. 2016
In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. The film follows passionate seed keepers who are protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight to defend the future of our food. ... and rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.

RAZOR Science Show. 2024
In Switzerland, the Crowther Lab is taking a big picture approach to understanding the holistic structure of global ecosystems.

Center for Food Safety. 2015
By harnessing the immense power of photosynthesis, we can convert atmospheric carbon, a problem, into soil carbon, a solution. Emerging science proves that shifting to regenerative forms of agriculture such as agroecology, agroforestry, cover-cropping, holistic grazing and permaculture will allow us to store excess carbon safely in the ground.

2020
The film follows the journey of a Chilean woman who is fighting for the land of her community against a big company that is extracting lithium from the earth to make green cars. In Spanish with subtitles. Powerful messaging on Environmental Justice and whose voice is heard, how one women’s walk makes a difference (at least as this film was made). I also really like how it makes connections that people in big rich countries who are driving their electric cars and think they are doing good for the environment maybe don’t really understand the impact that green technology can have on other environments.

Director: Mark Decena. 2022
Through two young farmers from Black Earth Farms Collective and Sogorea Te Land Trust, we learn that regenerative agriculture practices have origins in Black and Indigenous cultures.

African Climate Reality Project. 2021
Everyone has the right to a safe and healthy environment, yet South Africans are experiencing extreme climate and environmental injustices all around the country.

February 2024
The story of the Three Sisters, and what we can learn about sustainably growing food from Indigenous practices.

Sep 26, 2019
There's two times more carbon in the earth's soil than in all of its vegetation and the atmosphere -- combined. Biogeochemist Asmeret Asefaw Berhe dives into the science of soil and shares how we could use its awesome carbon-trapping power to offset climate change. "[Soil] represents the difference between life and lifelessness in the earth system, and it can also help us combat climate change -- if we can only stop treating it like dirt," she says.”

January 2023
Regenerative soil practices are a bright spot for climate change, food security, health, community building, and everything in between. With biomimicry as a backdrop to support nature’s technology, healthy soil practices repair broken water cycles, enhance nutrition sometimes 90 to 1, and at scale can pull as much carbon out of the air annually as we currently emit globally. Yet, it is accessible and supports community building and equity like no other single global solution. Through distributed networks of centers for training and innovation, communities, municipalities and industries have the opportunity to make a difference immediately. While forthcoming advancements in AI & ML have the opportunity to broaden and accelerate a myriad of these ecological and economic benefits.