a journal of reflective environmental practice
Displaying the courage, strength, and love-filled justice of the water protectors against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), who brought hope to many through their actions at Standing Rock in 2016, the documentary Awake: a Dream from Standing Rock invites us all into the…
In How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change, filmmaker Josh Fox (GASLAND) starts off the film by describing this dawning realization: “Even though we could beat the fossil fuel industry in our own backyard, we…
As we head into the season of giving and receiving, the focal question of the documentary Death by Design: The Dirty Secret of Our Digital Addiction: Where do our phones and other devices come from, and where do they go when they die?…
Originally posted on June 12, 2017 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain With recent news about alleged “disappearances” of Chinese activists working at factories producing Ivanka Trump’s line of shoes, as well as President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, citing economic “unfairness”…
Originally posted on May 8, 2017 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Just over a week after the People’s Climate March that drew over 200,000 marchers to Washington, DC and was organized by Bill McKibben’s 350.org, and in this moment where the president of the United…
Originally posted on February 7, 2017 by Tammy Cloutier Editor, Whole Terrain Jagged snow-capped peaks erupt from a sea of clouds as a lone man in black appears in the opening scene of Jumbo Wild, his back to the camera. (See trailer below.) He is…
Originally posted on June 13, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain In the wake of an unprecedented number of extreme weather events in the last several years, Weather Gone Wild explores the significance of these events as well as strategies we could employ in order to mitigate them. Although each weather event…
Originally posted on April 18, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Fans of the author and environmental activist Edward Abbey will love the documentary Wrenched. For younger generations of environmentalists, who may not have encountered Abbey’s writing yet, this film can introduce them to Abbey’s…
Originally posted on January 8, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain In 1984-85, coal miners throughout most of the United Kingdom went on strike, protesting the Thatcher administration’s attempts at controlling trade unions. The biggest and longest strike in the history of the…
Originally posted on November 6, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain When Concord, MA resident and octogenarian Jean Hill learned from her grandson, Mack, about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the contribution that plastic water bottles were making to the problem, she decided she…
