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Earth Focus Presents
"Earth Focus Presents" is a curated series of documentaries focusing on environmental challenges and solutions.
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Gringo Trails
Gringo Trails
"Gringo Trails" follows the positive and negative impacts of travel and tourism on numerous communities across the globe, including Thailand, Bolivia, Mali (Timbuktu) and Bhutan, documenting how communities thrive, adapt, or deteriorate in the face of mass tourism.
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2018-12-17T18:10:00-08:00KCETLINK
Thank You for the Rain
Thank You for the Rain
Five years ago, the Kenyan farmer Kisilu Musya started to document his family, his village and the impact that climate change is having on both. They face and film floods, droughts, storms and when Kisilu's house is destroyed by a storm, he starts a communal farmers' movement and calls for action against the extreme consequences of the weather. Kisilu makes it far in his struggle – all the way to both Oslo and the high circles of COP21 in Paris.
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2018-12-17T19:30:00-08:00KCETLINK
Featured
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Re-Plan It
This film follows Jock Brandis, an environmental entrepreneur who has devoted his life to low-cost solutions for environmental challenges around the world.
Articles
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Earth Focus
Earth Focus
The Long Battle Over Coastal Access at Hollister Ranch
A legal fight at Hollister Ranch could have lasting implications on the future of public access to the California coast.
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Earth Focus
Earth Focus
An Ecological and Historical Portrait of the Coast at Hollister Ranch
While Hollister is less developed than other places, calling this part of the coast “undeveloped” or “untarnished” or “pristine” fails to recognize its complex history of ownership and use.
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Earth Focus
Earth Focus
A Timeline of Hollister Ranch History
A timeline exploring the history of the human presence at Hollister Ranch, plus the changing and contested claims to that land.
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Earth Focus
Earth Focus
Hollister Ranch: A Brief Look at Four Decades of Legal History
For more than 40 years, state agencies and landowners have been battling over development permits and fees to limit the public's right to access the coast at Hollister Ranch.
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Earth Focus
Earth Focus
The Return of This 20-Pound Invasive Rodent Worries Wildlife Agencies
After wildlife agencies eradicated the voracious, 20-pound rodents in California in the 1970s, the invasive species has been spotted in the San Joaquin Valley again.
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Earth Focus
earth focus
Endgame: SB-120 and the Battle Over the Cadiz Project
The Cadiz project has been one of the most controversial and hardest-fought environmental battles the Mojave Desert.
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