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Three Gorges exodus complete

July 24, 2008

BEIJING - After four years of migration, over 4 million people have been evacuated from their homes to make way for the waters of China’s gargantuan hydroelectric project. Read more

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Bond races to rescue South American reservoir in Quantum of Solace

July 23, 2008


The newest James Bond flick, perpetuating its Casino Royale pursuits, puts a betrayed 007 to work chasing after sinister CIA-linked opportunist Dominic Greene. As Bond discovers, Greene intends to take over a seemingly barren piece of land, which actually harbors beneath its arid facade one of South America’s largest reservoirs. Read more

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Water is the trope at Traverse City Film Festival’s showing of Idiocracy

July 23, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - A funky dystopian comedy, Idiocracy heralds water as the common-sense solution to crop failure in a highly-privatized futuristic world. Read more

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Herzog film captures life atop planet’s largest freshwater preserve

July 23, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - In Werner Herzog’s filmic journey to Antarctica, he engages a geographically marginalized society of marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers to understand the nuanced drama of their lives atop, within, and beneath the South Pole’s vast freshwater freeze. Read more

Popularity: 2%

Water shortage puts libido in limbo in film, Absurdistan

July 23, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - This year’s Traverse City Film Festival will show the lighter side of the water crisis with the film Absurdistan. The comedy, set in a fictional village of the former Eastern bloc, explores what happens when virile village men decide a broken pipeline can wait and women boycott in protest. Read more

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Up the Yangtze depicts social complexity of China’s Three Gorges Dam

July 21, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu Shui departs to work for the opportunistic tourism company, Farewell Cruises, on the quickly changing Yangtze River. Read more

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Prize-winning film Trouble the Water wins festival accolades

July 21, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - Trouble the Water, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2008, documents the front lines of climate change in a cooperative production that takes viewers from the imminence to the aftermath of New Orlean’s Hurricane Katrina. Read more

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Sleep Dealer: Border control, mind control, and privatized water

July 21, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - Sleep Dealer, director Alex Rivera’s first film, explores a dystopian future of corporate-controlled water where Americans indenture the nervous systems of would-be Mexican immigrants to operate robots across the border. Read more

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Video: A conversation with former NASA astronaut and MIR cosmonaut, Jerry Linenger

July 8, 2008

NASA astronaut and MIR cosmonaut Jerry Linenger talks about his experiences in space, above the Circle of Blue. Linenger remarks on the similarities between the closed environment of a space station and the closed ecosystem of our blue planet. Read more

Popularity: 9%

Video: A conversation with Circle of Blue science advisor and president of the Pacific Institute, Peter Gleick

July 8, 2008

Peter Gleick, science advisor for Circle of Blue and president of the Pacific Institute, talks about the need to redefine how nations address water issues. Read more

Popularity: 9%

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