Emphasizing Locality – Green Media Mediography

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 book adaptation directed by Olivia Newman. It dives into the story of Kya Clark who got abandoned by her family from a very young age. She survives in the marshes of North Carolina by herself—living off selling mussels to a local store—and acquires the name ‘marsh girl’ from

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 Hollywood melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Cary Scott (Wyman) is a well-to-do fortyish widow in the town of Stoningham, in suburban New England, who becomes interested in Ron Kirby (Hudson), a nurseryman who takes care of her trees. Ron, content with his simple life outside the materialistic society in which they live, has

My Neighbour Totoro

My Neighbour Totoro is a 1988 fantasy story aimed primarily at children. Satsuki and Mei—a pair of young sisters—move to an old house in the countryside with their father Kusakabe as their mother recovers from an illness. The girls explore their new house and the surrounding forest, forming a secret friendship with a large forest

Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Matt Ross. It tells the story of a family, Ben Cash, his wife Leslie, and their six children aged seven to 18, who has decided to live in the wilderness, using survivalist skills, and opting for self-reliance and self-sufficiency, without dependence on modern technology. In line with

Minari

Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new beginnings are always challenging, and

Solar Power

A psychedelic/folk-pop album by New Zealand -born artist Lorde. The album deals with nature as a an escapist haven, introspection, climate anxiety, and more through its lyrics, sonic themes and organic recordings such as the chirping of Cicadas.

The Botanical Revolution: On the Necessity of Art and Gardening

An art exhibition that features an array of modern artistic interpretations of the ecological and shifting cultural importance of the garden. The exhibition seeks to stimulate ecological awareness and tries to educate its visitors on garden practices and views on nature throughout history while emphasizing the Anthropocene.

Pom Poko

Pom Poko (1994) is set in the Tama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo, in the late 1960s, and it is focused on a tribe of shape-shifting raccoon dogs who are threatened by a massive suburban development project. Pom Poko highlights the fact that the natural world can be exploited with the aim to promote urban development at the expense of nature.

Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a city building game released by Paradox Interactive in 2015. The player is challenged to build, maintain, and control or manage a city. In Cities: Skylines, the theme of sustainability plays an important role. Cities: Skylines makes the player an ecological citizen. You are an ecological citizen when you as an individual

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday revolves around Taeko, who takes a holiday from her busy office work in Tokyo. The film synthesizes the ecological objective for sustainable, organic farming with the individual's mental well-being.

AirForU

AirForU is an app that provides real-time air quality information and its health impacts.

RecycleNation

RecycleNation is an informative app that aims to increase responsible recycling rates in the US by making recycling easier for everyone involved.

“Ecosistemes” Menu

The menu ‘Ecosistemes’ at fine-dining restaurant Moments is structured according to different biomes, i.e. dishes usually combine ingredients that can be found in close proximity in nature, e.g. at a certain depth in the ocean. The menu was only available for a limited period of time.

Recyclebank

Recyclebank: CUT DOWN ON WASTE. INCREASE THE SAVINGS.

Love Clean Streets

Love Clean Streets allows local citizens to report environmental issues that they encounter (in the UK).

NatureHub

NatureHub is an informative platform that provides tips and ideas for people to lead a healthier and more sustainable life.

iRecycle

iRecycle is a 'search engine' for recycling, which provides users with local recycling information in the United States.

Marine Debris Tracker

"an open data citizen science movement"