Robert Redford

Profiles 6 individuals: In New York Attorney Helen Slottje helped towns across New York State protect themselves from fracking, when she utilized a clause in the state constitution that empowers municipalities to make local land use decisions. In India Ramesh Agrawal organized indigenous people to demand their right to information and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coalmines in Chhattisgarh. In Russia zoologist, Suren Gazaryan...

Profiles 6 individuals: In Michigan a family farmer boldly exposed the polluting practices of livestock factory farms, gaining the attention of the EPA; In Cuba a scientist has shifted from chemical dependence to organic practices of sustainable farming. In Costa Rica, an activist starts a movement to stop shark finning. In Cambodia, a visionary created solutions for protecting both the rural farmer's fields and the endangered Asian elephants who...

Profiles 6 individuals: In Germany community activists respond to the Chernobyl nuclear accident by creating the country's first successful, cooperatively owned, renewable power company. In Texas, an entrepreneur returns home to his environmentally damaged coastal community to fight a major industrial polluter. In Zimbabwe when the rhino population in his homeland is threatened by heavily armed poachers, a visionary bush pilot moves the animals hundreds...

Profiles 6 individuals: In Belgium a naturalist designed and runs his country's first national park. In Mexico a farm leader helps his people use ancient technology to grow their traditional crop, while preserving water and preventing erosion. In Siberia, a local biologist helps protect Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake. In Ecuador two men force a huge multi-national oil company to clean up 20 years of environmental damage; in Mozambique,...

Zambia and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) represent two divergent strategies on environmentalism. Meet people from both countries and learn of the successes, failures, and sacrifices they experienced seeking environmental justice.

Biodiversity is a central component to the successful operation of Earth's natural systems. Meet people from Haiti, Myanmar, Honduras, Kenya, Canada, and Scotland who spend time and energy securing healthy local environmental regulations.

Our natural environments are intrinsically more valuable than any grand visions of wealth created using methods detrimental to the Earth. Meet people in New York, India, Russia, Peru, Sumatra, and South Africa who favor health over profit.

Stewardship of the land is a central part of the human condition. Unfortunately, in some cases, so is greed. Meet people from California, Congo, India, Australia, Guatemala, and Slovenia whose spirit matches their intent to live healthily.

Shows how to build a lean-to, make a fire, obtain safe drinking water, harvest and prepare food plants, make tools and weapons, catch fish, and hunt animals

In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America”. Alpert journeyed to the East becoming Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher continuing...