What if your home could be handmade—from the ground beneath your feet?
This intimate micro-documentary tells the story of Betty Seaman—a mother, builder, and teacher—who constructed her family's cob home with her own hands. What began as a quest for affordable, sustainable shelter grew into a living classroom for resilience and community.
But when wildfires came dangerously close to consuming everything she had built, Betty was forced to confront the stark realities of life on a changing planet. Filmed while the Palisades fires were still smouldering, her story emerges as one of survival, adaptation, and the possibility of building back without using toxic materials.

Return to the Earth

This intimate micro-documentary tells the story of Betty Seaman—a mother, builder, and teacher—who constructed her family's cob home with her own hands. What began as a quest for affordable, sustainable shelter grew into a living classroom for resilience and community.

There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee conservationists like Matt Somerville, this theory is ludicrous. He has spent decades admiring free-living honey bees nesting in tree cavities and they are under increasing threats from commercial beekeeping, loss of habitat and other violences of the modern world. So Matt decided to do something about it. For the last 14 years he has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as minimal intervention homes for wild honey bees.

The Hive Architect

One man works tirelessly to help the honey bee in Britain.

In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends and their canine sidekick uncover how the world's smallest and fattest reindeer are unexpectedly thriving because of rising temperatures. But are they seeing a positive side-effect of climate change in the Arctic, or witnessing the end of innocence for Svalbard reindeer?

Reindalen

Fat reindeer are thriving in a warming Arctic. Two friends and there dog want to know what it really means.

On Deer Isle, Maine, home to one of the world’s most productive lobster ports, warming waters and invisible microplastic pollution threaten a centuries-old way of life. As veteran lobsterman Joel Billings and his daughter Hannah reckon with the possible end of their family’s tradition, neighbor and microplastics researcher Abby Barrows offers a vision for a more sustainable future through plastic-free aquaculture.

The Human Side of Plastic: Abby Barrows

Abby Barrows offers a vision for a more sustainable future through plastic-free aquaculture.

Confronted with the frustration of false narratives and intergenerational trauma that surround her, Tlingit skier and scientist Ellen Bradley returns to her traditional homelands in Southeast Alaska. Here, she uses skiing as a tool to reclaim her connection to the land she belongs to. The abundance and biodiversity of Lingít aaní (Tlingit land) have shaped the People of the Tides since time immemorial, molding all aspects of traditional and contemporary Tlingit life. Meanwhile, the outdoor industry depicts Alaska as a resource-rich landscape waiting to be conquered and exploited. Just like the ancestors of Ellen’s paternal clan, the Dog Salmon, have always done, people are meant to live in a reciprocal relationship with the land. Weaving ancestral knowledge, scientific understanding, and passion for her sport, we follow Ellen’s journey to help her community reclaim its place at the forefront of the stories told about their homelands. By dismantling barriers to accessing snowsports for Alaska Native youth, she empowers a generation to reclaim their relationship to the land in hopes that the mountains can teach them what it will take to endure the fight to protect their culture, language, and home forever.

Let My People Go Skiing

Arctic Alchemy” follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial on a research expedition to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds. Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us alive.

Arctic Alchemy

Renowned adventurer and climate scientist, Roman Dial embarks on a research expedition in the Alaska Arctic where he reckons with the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us alive.

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