Documentary
This is a list of must-see documentaries that will open your eyes to :
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how toxic daily use products can be,
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the environmental consequences of polluting industries,
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how unethical and cruel some companies can they be, and
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how to protect yourself from their greediness.
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how to be an activist
Before The Flood
Before the Flood is n eye-opening documentary about climate change.
A film by the amazing activist and environmentalist Leonardo Di Caprio.
If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic, features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand
A must-see.
Dark Waters Film
Dark Waters is an inspiring true story of one man, Robert Billot against big polluting cooperation. Based on the NY times article.
A movie with the brave activist Mark Ruffalo, that shows the fight of a lawyer against the forever chemicals companies. TIP SHEET here
PFAS chemicals are a family of thousands of highly toxic “forever” chemicals that don’t break down and can stay in our bodies and our environment for decades. Found in Teflon, nonstick cookware but also widely used in a variety of other consumer products, including waterproof clothing and furniture, food packaging, self-cleaning ovens, airplanes, and cars. The new film DARK WATERS exposes how chemical companies like Dupont, creator of Teflon, nonstick cookware, pollute the environment with forever chemicals causing massive impacts on public health - and have gotten away with it.
Learn more on their page darkwaters.participant.com
River Blue Documentary
River Blue is the backstage of the fashion industry and the dirty secrets behind their manufacturing and their fashions show and their not so glamour representations.
This environmental abuse is portraited in this documentary narrated by Jason Presley. After watching this movie, you will reconsider your fashion purchases.
If you like me, don't want to be part of this irresponsible behavior, buy used clothing or when buying new apparel look for eco-friendly, organic and responsible brands certified by GOTS: Global Standard Organic Textile such as Wear Pact.
Kiss The Ground Film
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
This movie is positioned to catalyze a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species future.
Straws Film
Straws film shows why I don’t use plastic straws.
Straws are one of the single-use items contributing to landfills and the estimated 8.5 million metric tons of plastic waste entering seas annually, taking decades to hundreds of years to break down to microscopic levels now pervasive in bottled and tap water, soils, and even the air we’re breathing.
After watching this you will be looking for straw alternatives and here they are: glass straws, metal straws, paper straws, bamboo straws, silicone straws, or strawless, better for your lip wrinkles!
Not So Pretty on HBO Max
After watching #NotSoPretty series you will understand how much is hidden from us!
👉“Not So Pretty” is the first-ever comprehensive large-scale investigative exposé of the trillion-dollar cosmetics, beauty, and personal care industry.
Almost every chemical you can imagine is regulated by the FDA or EPA, except for the chemicals we use in our everyday personal care products.
😤Many skincare products contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Some of the topics exposed:
❌TALC:
Asbestos is found in any products containing talc. Talc is found in makeup, baby powder, and more. Read the label and don’t use any talc-containing products!
✅ Safer makeup: prettyorganicgirl.com/makeup
Safer baby powder: prettyorganicgirl.com/baby-powder
❌NAIL SALONS:
Manicure: in nail salons, we and the workers are being exposed to dangerous chemicals at levels as high as workers in oil refineries and auto garages! If they say: “non-toxic nail polishes,” they could be still be greenwashing. If you smell toxic fumes, don’t enter the place. Demand better working conditions with the safer Beauty Bill packages.
✅ For safer nail polishes: prettyorganicgirl.com/nail-polish
❌EXPENSIVE BRANDS: They are not safer just because they are more expensive. In my experience, it is actually the other way around, it is the big names that seem to sell us the most toxic products!
✅My fav non-toxic brands: prettyorganicgirl.com
❌FRAGRANCE/Perfume: Fragrance is one of the most toxic and mysterious sources of endocrine disruptor ingredients. It contains tons of undisclosed and controversial chemicals.
✅Safer fragrance: prettyorgancgirl.com/fragrance
❌PLASTIC: Avoid plastic packaging with the recycling codes 3, 6, and 7, which leak BPA into the products.
Better codes: 2, 4, and 5
✅Plastic-free products: prettyorganicgirl.com/plastic-free
👉I am amazed to see how many have ditched their products after watching “Not So Pretty!” An eye-opening documentary for anyone!
💰Do not feed these unethical, lying, dangerous, greedy brands! 🤑A must-see!
Eating Our Way To Extinction
After watching this documentary I am really reconsidering eating meat or fish. There are too many dirty secrets in both industry
They are both not giving us the food they are claiming and they are selling us sick animals raised in disgusting environments filled with toxic poison to keep them alive.
For sure you don't want to eat farmed raised fish. I even not avoiding fidh il and I switched to vegan fish oil
Narrated by Kate Winslet, this entertaining and surprising documentary will challenge the way you look at the food industry. What is the true cost of food? Who pays the price? Featuring shocking undercover footage and poignant first-hand accounts from indigenous people, this one-of-a-kind documentary will permanently change your perception of food and its connection to the future of our planet.
Seaspiracy Documenatry
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers alarming global corruption.
Incredibly interesting, this documentary open your eyes in way you will ever know.
It reveals the dirty secrets and the destruction behind the so unregulated fish industry.
The brave creator of this documentary go to investigate dangerous territory , where corruption and power take place.
You wont see the fish in the same way after watching this.
It will also teach how to shop and what to do.
They are telling us to not trust anybody including famous seal and organizations that are supposed to protect the ocean while are only protecting their business.
At this point I could tell you to avoid farmed first first, shop for wild fish only in local trusted store, farmers market and discover and meet local fisher man.
Very well done.