Image credit: Peak Moment TV

When Peak Moment TV asked whether being uncivilized is sustainable, it prompted an interesting discussion on what happens if we move away from current models of industrial civilization.

Image: How the World Works critiques The Story of Cosmetics

Lee Doren, at How the World Works, has produced a critique of

Image: Story of Stuff - Cosmetics

Let me start out by saying there are a lot of good people in the chemicals industry and in the cosmetics industry.

Josh Tickell's documentary "Fuel" available on DVD June 22.

Since Earth Day, we've been watching gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, with daily dispatches relaying the horrors.

Bee barely hangs on before collapsing. Photo by Operaticomnivore

Following France and Germany, last year the Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of a class of pesticides, nicotine-based neonicotinoids, as a "precautionary measure." The compelling results - restored bee populations - prompted the government to uphold the ban.

One quick one for documentary fans, lovers of free expr

Filmmaker Copeland on thin ice. Photo courtesy of Into the Cold

Because it's still there? To commemorate the centennial of Adm.

A group of middle school students in India protest plastics. Image courtesy of Participant Media.

Appalachian citizens fight mountaintop strip-mining. Papua New Guineans refuse commercial logging.

Last year the folks at Disneynature brought us the spectacular film, "Earth," on Earth Day. This year the studio releases "Oceans," a chronicle of the mysterious depths in five of the world's oceans, showing in theaters on April 22, Earth Day 2010.