GRACE Communications Foundation

About this original series

Working with research, policy, consumer and grassroots organizations, GRACE promotes and helps develop community based production and consumption of food, water and energy.Creating innovative awareness campaigns, GRACE advocates for economically and environmentally sound alternatives to practices that are harmful to the ecosystem and public health.

Category
News & Politics
# Episodes
78 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of GRACE Communications Foundation

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  Perspectives on Long Island's Aging Power Plants
  
  For decades, aging power plants on Long Island have killed and injured billions of fish, larvae and eggs, harming marine ecosystems and the businesses that depend on them. In this slideshow three residents share what Long Island's marine waters mean to them and the community they live in; as well as their thoughts on the impact that old power plants have had on the marine environment.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 21, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    04:34
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  Long Island’s Drinking Water – Challenges and So...
  
  Do you know where your water comes from? That was the question posed to Long Islanders for a new video produced by the GRACE Communications Foundation. Consider this video a first step towards engaging Long Island residents about the Long Island Aquifer System and providing ideas about how they can be better stewards of this vital resource.
  - Release date
    
    Apr 16, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    06:31
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  HRH Prince Charles
  
  HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, gave the keynote speech at the Future of Food conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
  - Release date
    
    Feb 27, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    01:11
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  Farming
  
  Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, HARMONY captures on film in a way we’ve never seen before, an authentic leader on critical global issues.
  - Release date
    
    Feb 27, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    02:35
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  India
  
  Feeding the planet sustainably is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. In his keynote speech at the Future of Food conference, HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, sounded the alarm for an earth on the brink of agricultural disaster. onthefutureoffood.org
  - Release date
    
    Feb 27, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    01:54
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  Farmers v. Monsanto: NYC Citizens’ Assembly
  
  In late January Judge Federal Court Judge Naomi Buchwald heard the first arguments in OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto, a groundbreaking lawsuit brought by The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association on behalf of 83 farmer plaintiffs “seeking court protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act, from Monsanto-initiated patent infringement lawsuits.” Hundreds gathered in support of the farmers.
  - Release date
    
    Feb 15, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    03:57
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  Heroic Endeavors: Riverkeeper
  
  In addition to being a leader in the fight against fracking and the campaign to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, the Riverkeeper organization operates a comprehensive water quality testing program that collects and tests samples at dozens of sites from New York Harbor to Waterford, north of Albany. Their program, the first to regularly test Hudson River water quality, makes the data publicly available within days. In this slideshow produced by Dulce Fernandes, Riverkeeper Patrol Boa...
  - Release date
    
    Dec 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    07:08
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  Aliza Eliazarov: Documenting the New Farm Movement
  
  Recently, on a bright summer afternoon, I sat down with photographer Aliza Eliazarov to talk about her project “Sustain,” an ambitious photographic survey on the new farm movement taking place in America today. The project has taken Ms. Eliazarov across the country countless times in a quest to meet these new farmers and to document their relationships with the land and with more sustainable modes of food production, capturing their work and livelihoods in images of arresting beauty and contem...
  - Release date
    
    Sep 1, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    13:01
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  AQUA "Conserve Water"
  
  Watch 8-year old Aqua and her dog, Sparky, show her family how to conserve water and save money.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 17, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:52
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  The case for fish-friendlier power: A Watershed ...
  
  Every year, the United States’ aging fleet of coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants suck in nearly 100 trillion gallons of water from the nation’s rivers, lakes and estuaries through their antiquated cooling systems. In the process, these plants needlessly kill fish and other aquatic life. ; Learn more about the damage caused by the nation’s older power plants, and what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to do about it, from Executive Director and Hudson Riverkeeper Paul G...
  - Release date
    
    Jun 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    09:42