KRCB's Natural Heroes WINS an Emmy®!
Series Producer, Valerie Landes, of Natural Heroes won
Outstanding Achievement in the category of
Public/Current Affairs Program!

Natural Heroes returns for its third season on KRCB TV!
Independent filmmakers focus their lenses on the natural world and the people who are making
a difference for all of us. Don’t miss this nationally distributed series of independent films on the environment, co-produced by KRCB & GreenTreks. Click here for Natural Heroes Site.

Power Shift - click to see promo
Hosted and narrated by Cameron Diaz, Power Shift explores the abundant possibilities of clean, renewable energy. This beautiful, inspiring program travels the world to discover how energy touches our daily lives. Power Shift offers specific action steps that viewers can take to create a sustainable future. Be part of the solution. It's time for a power shift.

Fruit Tree Tour Story - click to see promo
Traveling in a veggie oil-powered caravan, 25 earth educators teach students about sustainable ecology through a day long program that includes West African agricultural drumming and earth-conscious hip-hop, planting over 1000 fruit trees at urban schools.

Coffee to Go: A Fair Trade Story - click to see promo
Why are 25 million coffee farmers impoverished while we spend more
and more for our coffee? What is the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade? This film explores the answers to these questions and many more. Hear from experts, students, coffee lovers, and from the coffee farmers themselves and learn how their lives and ours are inextricably joined.

Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness - click to see promo
Known as the “Thoreau of the American West,” Edward Abbey, author and essayist is noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness is a biography of Edward Abbey as remembered by his family and friends.

Texas Gold - click to see promo
Diane Wilson - mother of five, fourth generation fisherwoman, and self-proclaimed “unreasonable woman” uses hunger strikes and civil disobedience to battle the giants of the petro-chemical industry in the most toxic place in America. Surviving imprisonment, surveillance and harassment, Diane believes that putting your life at risk is when change happens.

Wings Over the Wild: LightHawk in Mesoamerica - click to see promo
Sometimes a bird's-eye view makes all the difference. Wings is a visual journey into the missions of volunteer pilots that fly for a conservation aviation organization. Flying Cessnas over the vibrant and threatened landscapes of Central America, this film celebrates the belief that we all can make a difference.

Watershed Heroes - click to see promo
From grade schoolers to commercial fishermen, people from all walks of life are taking environmental stewardship seriously. Whether they're fighting to get lead out of a school's drinking water or working to convert an abandoned farm into a thriving wetland, these water heroes are doing amazing things to protect our most essential resource.

South Central Farm - click to see promo
With help from celebrity activitists (Darryl Hannah, Joan Baez, Martin Sheen, and Willie Nelson), this film profiles the controversy over the South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the largest urban garden in the country. The film highlights the benefits of urban farms, citizen supporters, dramatic evictions of farmers, rarely told developer's defense and updates on the farmers' efforts to continue to sustain themselves, physically and spiritually.

Big Apples, Big Ideas - click to see promo
Broken Limbs
The future looks grim in "The Apple Capital of the World" in Washington state. Apple growers by the thousands are going out of business. But there's also an entirely new breed of farmer, practitioners of a sustainable agriculture. These new American farmers define a path of renewal that could hold the answer for farmers across America.
Worms in the Big Apple
All over New York City, tiny creatures are transforming residents' garbage into soil. This playful, educational film reveals the fascinating, fun, and sometimes stinky culture of urban composting.

Oceans of Conservation - click to see promo
Titans of the Coral Sea
As the world's oceans face greater and more complex challenges, communities from Mexico to New Guinea are working to protect the biodiversity of the earth's most valuable resource. In the brilliant turquoise waters of Papua New Guinea, the Titan people have fished the same coral reefs for over 40,000 years. Now, for the first time ever, they are running out of fish.
Whale Sharks of Holbox
The continuing decline of the native fish polpulation in areas all around the world is having a major impact on the future well being of many lives and communities dependant on fish to survive.
Intertidal Heroes
The Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is home to a variety of diverse organisms and animals,all living together along the surf and rocky tidepools of Moss Beach, California, is being threatened by throngs of curious visitors.

Traveling Our Natural World - click to see promo
As we travel through our natural world we find ways to live harmonusly with the wilderness.
Conversing with Aotearoa
In an age of technological integration and urban life, New Zealanders turn to the wilderness to fathom their deep, personal connection with the land.
Handle with Care
In Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, people, industry and nature are working towards a common environmental goal. What does it take to save paradise so the human and wildlife residents can live in harmony?

Mama Earth: EcoEcon 101 - click to see promo
Another gloom and doom film? No! Quite the contrary, this film revels in innovation, invention and creativity. An inspiring road map of successful ways to achieve sustainability through reinventing old business methods and finding new paths to healthy communities, protecting natural resources and attaining a more profitable bottom line.

A School in the Woods - click to see promo
As more children are growing up in an urban environment, there is less connection to our natural world. Outdoor learning centers such as IslandWood on Bainbridge Island, WA provide exceptional learning experiences and inspire lifelong environmental and community stewardship.

Series Two
International Animal Rescue - Watch the Film
China Bear Rescue: Animals Asia Foundation signed an agreement with the Chinese government to free moon bears from the worst bear bile farms in China, where their bile is extracted for use in traditional medicine. Many
bears now live in peace in the Animals Asia sanctuary after rescue and
recovery. Love of Sloth: A sloth rescue center in Costa Rica teaches
children to appreciate sloths and their forest ecosystem. As the species is
pushed ever closer to the brink of extinction, this knowledge is critical.

Richard Nelson's Alaska - Watch the Film
Richard Nelson has spent years with the Alaskan Eskimo, learning how to
subsist on the Arctic ice. Nelson will leave you more curious about our
Earth and motivated to find your own way to participate in preserving
America's wild places.

Natural Balance - Watch the Film
Sweet Soil: Four family farms and a natural foods store shows why fresh, local food is important.
Wishing the Salmon Home: A young naturalist educates himself and others about salmon. Rock on: What's environmental art?
Meet a balance artist who uses our natural surroundings to create art.

Returning Home - Watch the Film
Bringing the Common Murre back to Devil's Slide Rock: When an oil spill
wipes out a seabird colony, biologists hatch an innovative plan to bring
the birds back to a challenging location.

A Child's Garden of Peace - Watch the Film
Brazilian children plan an environmental project cleaning up their
community and creating a community garden. They celebrate life and their
success with a grand carnival dance.

Saving Our Oceans - Watch the Film
Excerpts from "Farming the Seas" and "Empty Oceans, Empty Nets'"A
documentary that looks at the state of our seas and the issues of
disappearing fish. Scientists estimate that 70% of the world's commercially fished species have been fished to, or beyond, the brink at which their populations can sustain themselves. It will help in understanding what's happening and why, and what you can do to stop the drastic decline in fish populations.

Protecting America - Watch the Film
Protecting New Orleans: Dr. John Day predicted in July 2005 that the New Orleans levees would break any minute. This well-known expert on Mississippi delta restoration is researching those wetlands, and proposing the most effective ways to rebuild.
Caretaker at the Park: An urban park caretaker shows what a difference keeping a big city park clean can make for a community.
Wild Horse Spirit: Brief history and a current update exposing a new bill which gutted the protection that wild horses were granted in 1971.The "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act" was unanimously passed by Congress as a result of American citizens sending more letters to Congress over the threats to these wild animals than over any other domestic issue in U.S. History. Narrated by Viggo Mortensen.

It’s Not Just Empty Space, with David Suzuki - Watch the Film
Earth + Air + Fire + Water = Life. In a time when people are thirsty for honesty, inspiration, meaning, and global change, renowned scientist and visionary Dr. David Suzuki delivers the most important message of his career: what it means to be fully human in our interconnected universe. The film’s stunning motion graphics weave a tapestry that transforms Dr. Suzuki’s wisdom into a complete sensory experience, literally creating new worlds and new ways of seeing. Features music of Leonard Cohen.

Justice for Bhopal: 20 Years Later - More Information
More than 20 years after Union Carbide’s industrial disaster in Bhopal (India), people still have to fight for the cleaning of contaminated zones, the supply of drinkable water, and medical research. Justice for Bhopal is a glimpse into the courage and tenacity of exceptional citizens of the world.

East and West - Watch the Film
Winnemem War Dance: A proposal to raise the height of Shasta Dam near Redding, CA, threatens to flood Winnemem Wintu sacred sites on the McCloud River. The Winnemem responded with a four-day war dance to unite the people spiritually in their struggle for sovereignty and religious freedom, and their efforts to protect the water, salmon, and ceremonial sites. Features Julia Butterfly Hill. Damming the Angry River: Chinese environmentalists fight the seemingly inevitable fate of the beautiful Nu River in China. Building One House: Redfeather Development Group helps Native American tribal members build each other's straw bale homes on their reservations: one small grassroots organization making a big difference. Narrated by Robert Redford, music by Pearl Jam.

Building Community with Greenspace - Watch the Film
Yale University students work together with many different urban New Haven, CT, neighborhoods to create green spaces, urban rehabilitation, safety, and pride.

Last Journey for the Leatherback - Watch the Film
Scientists predict the giant Pacific leatherback sea turtle, which has survived unchanged for over 100 million years, could vanish in the next 5 to 30 years if threats from wasteful industrial fishing are not curtailed.

Napo Wildlife Center, Para Los Futuros - Watch the Film
People of Amazonian Ecuador have saved 82 square miles of rainforest by building an eco-tourism lodge. Reacting to the rampant deforestation in the region, these people realized the innate value of their intact lands and the importance of preserving their traditions and way of life.

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