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.
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.
Official site ↗RiverBlue
dir. Roger Williams
Traces how textile dyeing and finishing turns rivers toxic, denim especially.
Official site ↗Fashionopolis
Dana Thomas
The price of fast fashion and the people rebuilding clothes-making around it.
Official site ↗Overdressed
Elizabeth L. Cline
The book that named the shockingly high cost of cheap clothing before anyone else.
Official site ↗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.
Official site ↗Cowspiracy
dir. Kip Andersen
The environmental weight of animal agriculture, and why it stays out of the conversation.
Official site ↗Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist braids Indigenous knowledge and science into how we might live with plants, not off them.
Official site ↗Seaspiracy
dir. Ali Tabrizi
Puts the environmental cost of industrial fishing on the table, nets, bycatch and labour.
Official site ↗Dark Waters
dir. Todd Haynes
The true story of the lawyer who exposed decades of PFAS "forever chemical" contamination.
Official site ↗The Devil We Know
dir. Stephanie Soechtig
The documentary behind the same C8 / Teflon scandal, told through the community that lived it.
Official site ↗Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
The book that exposed what pesticides do downstream and effectively started modern environmentalism.
Official site ↗The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard
Twenty minutes on where our stuff comes from and where it goes. The clearest primer there is.
Official site ↗No Logo
Naomi Klein
The book that connected the logo on the front to the sweatshop out of sight.
Official site ↗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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