Watch & Read

The films and books the audience keeps naming, gathered by topic. Every link was checked before it went up. Start with the topic you care about.

Film2015

The True Cost

dir. Andrew Morgan

Follows a garment from the shop rail back to the people who made it, and what fast fashion costs them.

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Film2017

RiverBlue

dir. Roger Williams

Traces how textile dyeing and finishing turns rivers toxic, denim especially.

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Book2019

Fashionopolis

Dana Thomas

The price of fast fashion and the people rebuilding clothes-making around it.

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Book2012

Overdressed

Elizabeth L. Cline

The book that named the shockingly high cost of cheap clothing before anyone else.

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Film2020

Kiss the Ground

dir. Josh & Rebecca Tickell

Makes the case that healthy soil, and how we farm it, is a lever on the whole climate.

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Film2014

Cowspiracy

dir. Kip Andersen

The environmental weight of animal agriculture, and why it stays out of the conversation.

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Book2013

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A botanist braids Indigenous knowledge and science into how we might live with plants, not off them.

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Film2021

Seaspiracy

dir. Ali Tabrizi

Puts the environmental cost of industrial fishing on the table, nets, bycatch and labour.

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Film2019

Dark Waters

dir. Todd Haynes

The true story of the lawyer who exposed decades of PFAS "forever chemical" contamination.

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Film2018

The Devil We Know

dir. Stephanie Soechtig

The documentary behind the same C8 / Teflon scandal, told through the community that lived it.

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Book1962

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

The book that exposed what pesticides do downstream and effectively started modern environmentalism.

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Film2007

The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard

Twenty minutes on where our stuff comes from and where it goes. The clearest primer there is.

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Book1999

No Logo

Naomi Klein

The book that connected the logo on the front to the sweatshop out of sight.

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Book2014

This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein

The argument that the climate crisis is a prompt to change the economy that caused it.

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