About Green Unplugged: This festival aspires to explore the nature that flows without and within us. It wishes to overlap the sound of our cry today with that of nature and hopes to collectively perceive a new path. It intends to contemplate on the environment and the need to co-create future generations with new consciousness. The festival aspires not only to witness the regeneration of the environment—the greater body that nourishes human species—but also to contemplate upon the integra... more

The Mekong River is a massive ecosystem that is the lifeline for more than 60 million people across six countries: China, Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. For the people in the Lower Mekong Basin, it provides more fish to more people than any other river in the world. With an estimated commercial value exceeding US$2 billion per year, its the worlds most valuable inland fishery. At the same time, more than 184 hydropower dams are currently planned, under construction o... more

Everyday as we put out our garbage, are we thinking of its impact on global warming and climate change? Very often we are not making the connection. India generates over 42 million tonnes of garbage everyday, the majority of which reaches landfills and open dump sites. These are massive polluters and are amongst the primary contributors to climate change, leading to resource destruction, and thereby encouraging further resource extraction. Often overlooked, is the fact that urban landfill... more

Way Beyond Weight is a documentary about obesity, the biggest epidemic in the history that affects children. For the first time children have the same disease symptoms as adults: heart and breathing problems, depression, and type 2 diabetes. All of them are based on obesity. Worldwide, kids are heavier than they should be. And unhealthy. From Brazil to Kuwait, childhood obesity is becoming very common. Why are kids carrying this extra weight? The industry, the marketers, the parents, th... more

Our planet’s economic and environmental future hangs on an unlikely thread: the clothesline. British filmmaker Steven Lake criss-crosses the world to unravel the reasons and consequences for banishing the clotheslines in favour of tumble dryers. Corporate America sold the world an electric dream, replacing simple centuries-old outdoors line-drying with the electricity-hungry dryer. As a consequence, the demand for coal, and energy consumption across the globe has rapidl... more

Brazil is, since 2008, the country that consumes more pesticides on the planet! Many of these herbicides, fungicides and pesticides we consume are prohibited almost everywhere in the world for the risk they pose to human health and the environment. The danger is for the workers, who handle the poisons, and for the entire population of the countryside and cities, which consume agricultural products with pesticides. "The world is being completely intoxicated by an unnecessary and greedy industr... more

You can find them deep in the jungles of Borneo; in the canyons of the Hollywood Hills; in market stalls in Bali; and even in your own backyard. They’re the Fruit Hunters, the subjects of the new film from acclaimed director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight). Driven by an unquenchable passion to taste the wondrous, weird and unique, they’ve dedicated their lives to creating a Garden of Eden in a world increasingly dominated by industrialized monoculture. The Fruit Hunters is ... more