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…
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 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 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…
Originally posted on October 12, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Going along well with our new call for submissions on the theme of Breaking Bread, The Trouble with Bread is a short documentary created by Maggie Beidelman, recent graduate of the University of California – Berkeley’s…
Originally posted on September 14, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Encouraging and inspiring, the film Racing to Zero documents the great work in which the city of San Francisco is engaged (see trailer below). By the year 2020, San Francisco hopes to have achieved zero…
Originally posted on June 8, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time is the first full-length documentary on Aldo Leopold, prominent early twentieth century conservationist and author of A Sand County Almanac (trailer below). Environmental ethicist J….
