PBS Erna Buffie; USA
2013, 52 min 57 sec
When we think about plants, we don’t often associate a term like “behavior” with them, but experimental plant ecologist JC Cahill wants to change that. The University of Alberta professor maintains that plants do behave and lead anything but solitary and sedentary lives.
Bruce Starr
2011; 15 min 32 sec
Experience what is was like to be in the Sacret Forests in Damanhur and listen to the singing plants. It will change your perception on life.
Bartholomäus Traubeck
2011, 2 min 13 sec
A record player that plays slices of wood.
Modified record player, wood, sleeves.
National Geographic; USA
2015, 4 min 5 sec
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses “chip grafting” to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits. Van Aken says it’s both a work of art and a time line of the varieties’ blossoming and fruiting. He’s created more than a dozen of the trees that have been planted at sites such as museums around the U.S., which he sees as a way to spread diversity on a small scale.
TED, Stefano Manusco,
2010, 17 min 59 sec
Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities … But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.
Let’s face it, with our all consuming global problems, there aren’t many natural solutions out there that can halt &reverse deforestation, stabilise the climate by returning carbon to the soil where it belongs, solve poverty & extreme hunger all in one hit are there?
Yet this is exactly what the food forest is capable of, and provided people understand it and are at the centre of the system, they can go on living off that land forever.
WITHHELDINTELLIGENCE
2011, 5 min 56 sec
About 7 hours south of Hanoi there are extremely well established small gardens creating together a Food Forest that’s been in one family for 28 generations.
Dan Harris-Pascal, TEDxCanberra; Australia
2014, 16 min 58 sec
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Forest Gardening involves mimicking the forest to grow ecosystems for productive and ecological goals. Dan, the Forest Gardener, explains how we can do this is our own backyards and communities/urban environments. Dan is a young ecologist with experience in forestry, botany, horticulture and land management. He has worked in Botanic Gardens in Hawaii, Ranger Programs in Arnhem Land and in school gardens and nurseries around Canberra.
GeoBeats News
2017, 59 sec
The majority of the world’s nations are committed to combatting climate change, and China has already embarked upon very forward-thinking efforts to minimize carbon emissions.
National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase
2016, 10 min 45 sec
David Milarch’s near-death experience inspired a personal quest: to archive the genetics of the world’s largest trees before they’re gone. This short film from The Story Group documents his effort to save the redwood champions of Northern California from the effects of climate change.