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A Minute Of Your Time: "So An Airplane Walks Into A Bar"

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Biodiesel takes to the skies as airplanes explore alternative energy sources like camelina and jatropha. However, all this innovation comes with a steep price tag: food. Someone has to grow all those useful fuel crops, and it's falling to third world farmers to shoulder the burden while production of edible foodstuffs declines accordingly. With most of the affected population unlikely to enjoy the benefits of green air travel, who will? The answer: Goldman Sachs.

04:00

Downstream Backstage: Toronto Screening
An exclusive report from the Toronto screening of Downstream, the Babelgum-produced documentary about the controversial Alberta Oil Sands. Over 1200 people attended the event, while the discussion panel included the Academy Award-nominated director, Leslie Iwerks, the Emmy Award-winning producer, Philip Alberstat, as well as representatives from Greenpeace and the Canadian Parliament.

02:25

A Minute of Your Time: "Wine to Water"
So do you favor a dry chardonnay with your fish? Or maybe something from Provence? Well, it may all be moot if climate change has its way. Global warming is changing the winemaking map across the world as weather becomes hotter and water more scarce. France may feel the pinch, but English wineries couldn't be happier...

02:29

Ninjin - The Way of the Vegetable Assassin
The story of a man with a gun and a mission - to eliminate all instances of unseasonal vegetable consumption.
For more content from this Branded Channel, check out Babelgum's Green TV

05:42

GERES - Solar Greenhouses in India
GERES has worked with local NGOs in Ladakh to design a robust greenhouse that captures and retains the suns heat. They won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2009.

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04:29

Walking on Water
A winner of the 2006 Ashden Awards, International Development Enterprises India (IDEI) wins the Enterprise Award for marketing over half a million treadle pumps to farmers in the plains of India.

19:40

One Planet Food
Food is now cheap in this country, but at what cost? If everyone in the world ate and lived as we do, we'd need the resources of three planets not one. Three young secret agents are briefed by "The Boss" to investigate the impact of food and farming on the environment. Their assignments take them to classified location where they discover facts about where our food actually comes from. They find out whether it is possible to opt for One Planet Food. Will our agents achieve their missions? You have 19 minutes to find out... he views expressed in the film reflect those of the Soil Association, the UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable, organic farming and championing human health.

02:05

Ministry of Rice
An important Public Service Announcement from your Government and The Biotech Industry (represented here by chemical giant Bayer) pronouncing the benefits of genetically modified rice strain - LL62. Barely tried and tested this GM Rice is coming to your dinner plate nevertheless - unless you take action now!

06:24

International Development Enterprises, India
The winners of the world's leading green energy awards were announced last night, all of them demonstrating a commitment to address climate change and bring social and economic benefits that radically improve people's lives. This year, the Outstanding Achievement Award went to International Development Enterprises, India. IDEI won an Ashden Award in 2006 for their treadle pump that farmers use to lift water to irrigate their crops, and lift their families out of poverty and is now scaling up. IDEI hopes that nearly two million pumps will have been sold by 2020.

04:56

Play to Stop. Europe for Climate' - Nottingham
The campaign 'Play to Stop. Europe for Climate' is run by the European Commission to raise awareness and to involve young people in the fight against climate change. This clip features a MTV VJ becoming a 'greener person' as he learns the basics about growing your own food and finds out how polluting and expensive it is to eat fruit and vegetables from across the Globe.
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01:02

Barroso, COP 15
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, insists on the importance of the Copenhagen Climate Conference to address climate change.
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