Hyoomen's List: watchables

It's Not Easy Being Green is a television series on BBC Two starring Dick Strawbridge and focusing on how to live an environmentally friendly, low impact life. To date there have been three series.

Have first two series (seasons).

A five-part series on the best of what's "green," Eco-Tech dives into: Future Fuels - Zero Waste - Building Green - Powering Up - Extreme Weather.

I have episode 2; could grab more.

This award-winning documentary is a look throughout history at the different and surprising attitudes to sex and love, presented by Terry Jones.
The programme traces the story of changing social and religious attitudes to sex through a broad swathe of history.

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Welcome to the companion Web site to "Japan's Secret Garden," originally broadcast on December 18, 2000. The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands of years.

Garbage Warrior is a 2007 film about architect Mike Reynolds, inventor of the Earthship style of building, directed by Oliver Hodge. It follows Reynolds' struggle with the legislature of Taos, New Mexico, the location of his experimental Earthship community, in order to be allowed to build homes that do not match the structures of local building codes.

The film's story revolves around the scientist's struggle to control his creation, the android robot whose software was upgraded to give it the ability to comprehend and generate human emotions. The plan backfires as the robot falls in love with the scientist's fiancée and is further manipulated to bring destruction to the world when it lands in the hands of a rival scientist.

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life is a 1997 American documentary film written, produced, and directed by Michael Paxton. Its focus is on novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, who promoted her philosophy of Objectivism through her books, articles, speeches, and media appearances.

BBC documentary series exploring the history of design.

Grand Designs is a British television series produced by Talkback Thames and broadcast on Channel 4 which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa is a 2007 documentary written and directed by Jeremy Stulberg and Randy Stulberg. The film documents a loose-knit desert community in "the Mesa," five miles from the Rio Grande and 25 miles from the nearest town. The film was a 2007 entrant into the Slamdance Film Festival for Documentary Competition Features, and it has aired on The Sundance Channel.

This DVD, whose aim is to inspire people to start their own permaculture projects, shows how permaculture is practiced in four very different settings:

How an Austrian Farmer simply observes nature and survives without depending on subsidies
 
Sepp Holzer created an edible landscape on 1500 m above sea level. Between the pinetree monocultures of Austria he built the biggest functioning permaculture landscape of Europe.

Emilia Hazelip presents the approach she developed based on permaculture and Masanobu Fukuoka’s principles of natural farming. She explains that her method improves soil life by using permanent beds, by keeping the ground permanently covered using mulches, and by planting together different plant families and plant shapes. She uses no fertilizers and never works the soil.

King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis (directed by Aaron Woolf) as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of corn has had for American society, spotlighting the role of government subsidies in encouraging the huge amount of corn grown.

Alexander Sasha Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA, more commonly known as Ecstasy.
Considered to be one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century, Sasha s vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research, making him a subject of fascination and controversy among fellow scientists and a folk hero to recreational users of psychedelics.
Dirty Pictures uncovers the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and takes viewers inside his Northern California home where he lives with his wife of 40 years and continues to carry out experiments in a makeshift laboratory.

Dumped was a British reality television programme which started on 2 September 2007 and aired nightly until 5 September 2007 on Channel 4.[1] It involved 11 contestants living for three weeks on a rubbish dump next to a landfill site near Croydon, Surrey.[2] The contestants who "survived" the 21 days and used only what they found on the dump were awarded £20,000 to share equally between them

Les and his wife will explore the difficulty of building a ‘green’ home entirely off the power grid.

First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture is a fantastic documentary, released in 2009, embodying an extensive research work carried out for four years, on four continents, directed by David Sheen, that militates in favor of a massive paradigm shift in architecture, revitalizing traditional skills and materials, promoting simple living closer to Earth and regeneration of rural communities.

e² is a critically acclaimed, multipart PBS series about the innovators and pioneers who envision a better quality of life on earth: socially, culturally, economically and ecologically.