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“Windfall” now available on DVD and streaming
Exposing the downside of wind turbines, director Laura Israel’s illuminating documentary underlines the harmful facets of harnessing wind power, including the constant noise and potential for financial opportunism. Purchase DVD from First Run Features. Purchase DVD from Amazon. Download from Amazon. Borrow DVD or view via Netflix. Download from iTunes. Download via xBox or Zune. For purchase by libraries, colleges, K-12 schools, media centers, and other non-profit educational organizations, contact windfalledu@gmail.com. For distribution or broadcast outside of North America, contact . . .
First Run Features to release award-winning documentary: WINDFALL
Opens Friday, February 3rd, 2012, at New York’s Quad Cinema and other cities nationally as well as on select VOD platforms Wind power: it’s clean; it’s green; it’s good. Or is it? Wind power … it’s sustainable … it burns no fossil fuels … it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the residents of Meredith, New York, first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s . . .
“Too Close”
A look into the siting of industrial wind turbine projects in residential areas. You’ll hear from those who experience the shadow flicker and ill health effects of the Hull and Falmouth Massachusetts turbines. You’ll see how another small town is gearing up for a fight against government and the goliath that is the big wind industry.
Aesthetics, Denmark, Events, Noise, Publications, Videos •
Source: Knut Pedersen
Wind Power Horror Serenade
This is a true story of an old freedom fighter’s valiant stand against the unjustice of wind power, with music as a weapon. On April 9th, 1940, Denmark was occupied by German troops. The first years of occupation there was no resistance. Then a small group of youngsters in a high school in Aalborg, Northern Jutland, started a kind of sabotage and began to steel weapons from the Germans. Their activities had no real results, but the youths became known . . .
“Con with the Wind” trailer
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Windfarm Wars – Episodes 3 and 4
The observational documentary series with remarkable access that follows a global developer’s controversial six-year battle to build a windfarm in the heart of some of Devon’s most sensitive landscape. Broadcast schedule (BBC2): Episode 3: Fri 27 May 2011, 19:00 England & Northern Ireland; Sat 28 May 2011, 18:30 Scotland; Tue 31 May 2011, 19:00 Wales Episode 4: Fri 3 Jun 2011, 19:00 England & Northern Ireland, 19:30 Wales; at 4 Jun 2011, 17:40 Scotland Episode 3: Following the local authority’s . . .