Mexico journal. Life in the earth
Description
Urban punks with green hair and green thumbs, the members of Tierra Viva transform toxic Mexican earth into vegetable gardens. Their actions make up one remarkable part of this wide-ranging Mexican odyssey. Depicting Michoacan farmers who are fighting the trend to move to the cities-and preserving the winter home of the monarch butterflies-the program also journeys to Magdalena Bay, highlighting one man's attempt to save endangered sea turtles. With awareness of Mexico's poverty and environmental fragility, the video nevertheless portrays a nation rising to its challenges.
Runtime
28 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Nature (209)
- Environmental geography (78)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Physical geography (411)
- Political anthropology (62)
- Human ecology (350)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2003
Database
Films on Demand
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