Ocean 8 Films (Firm)
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the four-year moratorium against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York state any day a concert/protest was organized on his doorstep in the state capitol of Albany. The event brought together scientists, musicians, activists and actors in a scripted night onstage inviting the governor to join the anti-fracking majority in his home state.
2) Sink or Swim
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's amazing how many people who live surrounded by ocean, just a few feet above sea level, never learn to swim. In May 2014 National Geographic 'ocean hero' Jon Bowermaster organized a learn-to-swim camp in the Maldives to teach 50 3rd graders and 20 of their burka-clad mothers how to swim. In a place more threatened by global climate change and rising sea levels than almost anywhere on the planet, it is particularly important that its residents...
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Filmmakers and journalists have been working on the film for nearly three years, filming in more than twenty states and conducting more than 120 interviews. Narrated by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, the film is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy, but it is also a very loud shout-out to every elected official in the country to carefully consider the growing evidence that proves that leaving fossil fuels in the...
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When you think of California, what images pop first into mind? Ocean ... beaches ... mountains ... healthy living ... Hollywood ... beautiful people...All of which are true. ..But so is the fact that California is the third largest oil producing state in the nation, with a long history of all of the downsides that come with fossil fuel extraction: Dirty air, polluted land, contaminated water, ill health...Even as California's Green economy has grown...
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As a candidate, Joe Biden called climate change an "existential threat" and promised to make fixing the problem part and parcel of every legislative action undertaken during his Administration. Truth is, that while the Biden team got off to a good start - shutting down the XL Pipeline and rejoining the Paris Agreement on his first day in office - that commitment has wavered ever since, as related environmental ills, from flooding to fires, extraordinary...
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