Participant Media

ReThink Interview: Jessica Yu, Director of Last Call at the Oasis

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Drought, Jessica Yu, Rethink Interview, Last Call at the Oasis, Climate Change, Water, Rethink Reviews, Documentary, Participant Media, Global Warming, Clean Water, Video, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Last Call at the Oasis explores the reasons why humans are polluting and consuming more fresh water than nature can replenish. I spoke with Yu, discussing some of the scarier facts she learned and how we need to shift our thinking about water.

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Water Ills Focus of New Documentary

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Australia, Participant Media, Jay Famiglietti, Endocrine Disrupters, Agriculture, Texas, Recyced Water, Pollution, Peter Gleick, Film, California, Tyrone Hayes, Jessica Yu, Aaron Wolf, Water, Erin Brockovich, Pollutants, Food, Hexavalent Chromium, Wastewater, Bottled Water, Video, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Green News
Bill Chameides

2012-05-03-Screenshot20120503at9.29.37AM.jpgLast Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."

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Demanding A Better Education For Children In Foster Care

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: The Rhode Island Foster Parents Association, No Child Left Behind, Angelo McClain, Participant Media, Education, Fostering Media Connections, Chidl Welfare, Cwla, Daniel Heimpel, The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Christine James-Brown, Waiting for Superman, David Kirp, Marian Wright Edelman, The United Way of Pioneer Valley, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, Nclb, Slidepollajax, Esea, Harvard Law School, The Stuart Foundation, The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Western New England College, Foster Care, Education Reform, Education News
Daniel Heimpel

The education of children in foster care is one step in a long, needed march towards a future where we put all children first.

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On the Road to Educational Equality

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Angelo McClain, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Child Welfare, Senator Mary Landrieu, Mitchell Chester, Children, Sixto Cancel, No Child Left Behind, Orphans, Fostering Media Connections, Daniel Heimpel, Participant Media, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Waiting for Superman, Education, Department of Children and Families, Marta Minow, Harvard Law School, Senator Chuck Grassley, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Foster Care, Education News
Daniel Heimpel

Town Hall at Harvard Law School highlights the intersection of foster care and education.

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Company with a Conscience: Participant Media's Social Action Campaign and 'The Beaver'

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Jennifer Lawrence, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Health, Participant Media, Jodie Foster, The Beaver, Mel Gibson, Participant Media Social Action Campaign, Healthy Living Mind, Home News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Participant Media holds the belief "...that a good story well told can truly make a difference in how one sees the world" -- that stories can compel social change.

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Waiting for "Waiting for Superman" (VIDEO)

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nea, Michelle Rhee, Randi Weingarten, SEED School, Race to the Top, Tenure, Teacher Unions, Davis Guggenheim, US Education, Harlem Children's Zone, Teacher Tenure, Participant Media, An Inconvenient Truth, Geoffrey Canada, Participant Productions, Uft, Waiting for Superman, Education, National Education Association, Bill Gates, Documentary, Schools, Impact News
Jack Hidary

A new film -- Waiting for Superman -- will send shockwaves through the political debate on education and will force the issue for the November elections.

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Feeling Powerless About Nuclear Weapons? Try "Zero"

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nagasaki, Lucy Walker, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Weapons, Participant Media, Hiroshima, Countdown to Zero, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, David Krieger, World News
Steven Crandell

Have you seen the new documentary Countdown to Zero? If not, get thee to a cinema post haste. You will see remarkable footage of one of the most interesting characters of the 20th century, J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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Take a Friend to the Movies -- Before It's Too Late

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Nuclear Weapons, Entertainment, Participant Media, Documentary, World, Peace, Movies, Countdown to Zero, Impact News
Steven Crandell

Heed my words. Go see Countdown To Zero. It will open your eyes to a nemesis that pretends to be a guard dog. There are still 23,000 nukes in the world, and they all have to go.

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Waiting for Superman Premieres at LA Film Festival

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Film Festival, Waiting for Superman, KIPP Charter Schools, Charter Schools, Davis Guggenheim, Paramount Pictures, Bill Gates, Jeff Skoll, Education Reform, Participant Media, Geoffrey Canada, Diane Weymermann, Harlem Children's Zone, Movie Trailer, Entertainment News
Tabby Biddle

Waiting for Superman is the kind of film we need more of in Hollywood. I say this because it takes an important social issue (education) and educates all of us.

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3-2-1 and the Social Change Film Forum at Harvard

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Social Change Film Forum, Social Media, Countdown-to-Zero-Movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Documentary Film, Participant Media, Lawrence Bender, Impact News
James Boyce

At the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum where "Countdown To Zero" was shown, the question was simple "Can film change the world?" I think the answer is clearly yes.

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Countdown to Zero: Investigating Our Most Urgent Security Threat

Lawrence Bender | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Countdown to Zero Movie, Start Treaty, Nuclear Weapons Treaty, An Inconvenient Truth, Nuclear Proliferation, Participant Media, Countdown to Zero, Nuclear Weapons START Treaty, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Politics News
Lawrence Bender

My hope is that my new movie Countdown to Zero will not only make people aware of the threat of nuclear weapons, but will also help create the political will necessary to ensure that the Senate ratifies the New START treaty.

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Small Good News: Hollywood Acts Up

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Participant Media, All for Good, Jeffry Skoll, The Soloist, The Giving Life, Small Good News, Healthy Living News
Karen Stabiner

What do you do once you've been the founding president of eBay? Good work, if you're Jeffrey Skoll, who oversees a network of socially-co...

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