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Is Geography Destiny? How Environments Shape Our Lives
The fourth season of "Earth Focus" explores how our environments affect our health. Stories of collective resistance and human agency reveal how geography itself is shaped by people, and how people act so that their destinies might not be determined by their geographies.

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Harry Reid’s Last Request: 'Home Means Nevada'
Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid protected wildlands and rivers and helped transform the image of his state from a wasteland into a home worthy of love and care.

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Kill the Senate Filibuster and Save a Bipartisan American West That Cares About the Environment
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid along with 18 Democratic senators say the filibuster may need to be reformed or abolished to break the partisan logjam holding up legislation on the most urgent crises facing our nation, including climate change.

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Mapping Power and Strategy for Conservation Victories: An Interview with Kai Anderson
Kai Anderson’s eye-catching, multi-colored, hand-drawn thematic maps have developed a cult following in conservation circles in the American West. He walks us through a map he created of Sen. Harry Reid's major environmental campaigns.

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Harry Reid’s lowercase 'green new deal'
"The New West and the Politics of the Environment," a feature-length documentary for the public television environmental news magazine “Earth Focus,” makes the case for placing former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada at the center of a green new deal.

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What’s at Stake in Our 'Public Lands'?
As an advocate for public lands, Jocelyn Torres is shaping the future of conservation by protecting wide-open landscapes of the American West from destructive industries.

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Settling Native American Water Rights in the American West: An Interview with Joe Ely
After a groundbreaking settlement that ended a century-long water war over Pyramid Lake, Joe Ely went on to help Native American tribes craft water settlements throughout the western U.S.

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4 Documentaries, 4 Lessons in Environmental Politics and Power
Four new “Earth Focus” documentaries explore environmental politics and power: from global youth climate activists to the United States Senate, via South Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.

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Searching for Justice in Our Consumption of Global Goods
If you have eaten avocado or driven in a car fueled by gasoline recently, you could be personally implicated in some of the stories told in this season of "Earth Focus."

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Why It's Important to Talk Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change
"Adaptation” was until recently a bad word in certain environmental circles. Now we know that we are already beginning to see and feel some of the effects of climate change. That’s why we have to talk about adaptation.