Green Planet Films

Did you know that surfboards can be made out of plants? Watch this episode as Joel learns how eco-friendly surfboards are made.

Did you know that goats are great swimmers but hate to get wet? Join host Joel Greene on this entertaining quest to learn all about goat farming and how goat cheese is made. Be sure and keep an eye out for the sneaky goat that tried to eat our microphone!

Daniel Everett is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Piraha people and their language. The Grammar of Happiness is a documentary that explores whether one man's journey into the heart of the Amazon can redefine our understanding of human language.

Esteem is a profound documentary that explores the fundamental reason behind the environmental crisis. It suggests that our destruction of the earth is a mirror of humanity's psychological and emotional state, and shows how we can heal this wound with vulnerability, compassion, love and mindfulness.

Given our current practices, the planet will soon be unable to satisfy the demand for food. This is already of vital concern, but it is set to become even more pressing. What kind of solutions could help us rise to this immense challenge? Food 3.0 provides a three-part answer to this question. Techno Food: What's cooking in the Silicon Valley? Bio Food: The development of a more sustainable agriculture and the eating habits of tomorrow; Franken Food: A step towards genetically modified food...

It is our light, our warmth, our food. Humans rise with it and fear its disappearance. We are so accustomed to its presence that we forgot it was born and will die someday. But how well do we really know the Sun? 2 45 minutes on one DVD

Joel ventures through this episode to learn how homeowners can keep their yards "green" or environmentally friendly. This is an important one kids, so be sure to watch with your parents!

99% of the plastic that should be floating in the oceans is missing. Even accounting for the plastic that washes up on beaches or is trapped in arctic ice, millions of tonnes has simply disappeared. As most plastic never deteriorates, it simply breaks down into smaller and smaller particles that are invisible to the human eye, what happens to this missing ocean plastic is a mystery. In this investigation, scientists embark in search of the micro-plastics. Small, mostly invisible, toxic, they...

The Gauchos del Mar brothers (producers of the films Gauchos Del Mar, Tierra de Patagones and Peninsula Mitre) explore the Falkland Islands, a 700 hundred islands archipelago, aiming to unite and construct bridges through surfing and the ocean. After the Falklands War in 1982, the islands have been a very delicate subject in the Southern Hemisphere. The Azulay brothers aim to bring peace and start building a relationship in between the inhabitants of the Islands and Argentina that have been...

ScrapHouse was a temporary demonstration home, built entirely of salvaged material on Civic Center Plaza adjacent to San Francisco City Hall. Over the course of just six weeks, a team of volunteers scoured Bay Area dumps and scrap yards. A group of architects, landscape architects, lighting specialists, and metal fabricators repurposed the materials, giving them new life. ScrapHouse illustrated the possibilities as well as the challenges of green building, recycling, and reuse.

A story of a community in conflict in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The film takes an unusually unbiased look at four local residents, two timber workers and two environmentalists, as they try to balance the health of the forest with the jobs of the workers who depend on it.

Have you ever wondered what happens to all the wood when an old house gets torn down? Join Joel as he explores the Old Texas Wood facility to learn how they reclaim, refurbish and resell the wood.