Elwha River Dam, the largest dam removal project ever attempted in the U.S, 2011. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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DamNation is a feature documentary, shown this week at SXSW in Austin, Tx.
Through the use of beautiful cinematography and authenticity on several levels, it educates the audience in a powerfully moving way…
Read Full Article, by Vivian Norris; Huffington Post
WATCH: DamNation Official trailer, on Youtube
Produced by Stoecker Ecological and Felt Soul Media” and presented by Patagonia.
“This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation¹s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.”
DamNation Trailer, Official Trailer, Youtube
Patagonia Presents DamNation, A Stoecker Ecological & Felt Soul Media Production; Executive Producer Yvon Chouinard; Produced by Matt Stoecker & Travis Rummel; Directed by Ben Knight & Travis Rummel; Edited by Ben Knight; Associate Producer Beda Calhoun; Conceived by Matt Stoecker and Yvon Chouinard.
Five Pop Culture Documentaries That Hollywood Should Make, Time Magazine
Tracking Sediments’ Fate In Largest-Ever Dam Removal
Scientists tracking the aftermath of the largest dam removal in U.S. history say the dismantling of a dam in northwestern Washington state has unleashed about 34 million cubic yards of sediment and debris that built up for more than a century…
Let’s Talk About Sand: “Sand Wars” Film Director Denis Delestrac, At TEDxBarcelona
Controversial dam projects – in pictures, The Guardian UK
A look is taken at some of the world’s most contentious dam projects, from the Three Gorges in China to Brazil’s Belo Monte dam.
New Global Warming Culprit: Dams
Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down…
Sediment Trapped Behind Dams Makes Them ‘Hot Spots’ for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The large reservoirs of water behind the world’s 50,000 large dams are a known source of methane. Methane has a warming effect 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. That knowledge led to questions about hydroelectric power’s image as a green and nonpolluting energy source…
Sediments on the Elwha river shores. Photo courtesy of: © Andy C., Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS)
