Explore April's Peralta TV highlights featuring documentaries on environmental conservation, wildlife protection, and scientific advocacy. Learn about crucial issues and actions for a sustainable future.
Peralta TV can be seen on
Channel 27: Alameda, Berkeley
Channel 28: Emeryville, Piedmont, Oakland
AT&T U-Verse Channel 99
THE SCIENTIST'S WARNING
4/04 (Thur) @ 2pm
4/22 (Mon) @ 8pm
A film by Oregon State Productions
In collaboration with the Alliance of World Scientists
Produced by David Baker
Directed by Saskia Madlener
THE SCIENTIST'S WARNING is a documentary film about a researcher who started a movement to encourage scientists to help turn scientific knowledge into action. It's the story of scientists all over the world awakening to the need to become advocates for the fate of the planet and the humans who depend on it. Follow the journey of researcher Bill Ripple as he decides it's finally time for scientists to step out from behind the data and take a stand as the planet tips perilously close to disaster.
ECOSENSE FOR LIVING
Executive Produced by Jennie Garlington, Suzan Satterfield, and Mary Grace Higgs
Produced & Directed by Suzan Satterfield
ECOSENSE FOR LIVING explores the planet-saving work of scientists, organizations, and conservationists across the country and beyond. From "boots on the ground" action to high-tech innovations, ECOSENSE highlights what's happening behind the scenes and gives viewers actions they can take to live a more planet-friendly life.
EPISODE 1: PLANET OF POLLINATORS
4/09 (Tue) @ 2pm
4/12 (Fri) @ 8pm
4/14 (Sun) @ 6pm
All eyes are on the pollinators as we explore three of the most charismatic creatures to ever work their magic on our flowering plants and crops: Bees, Monarch Butterflies, and Hummingbirds. In Asheville, host Jennie Garlington explores the North Carolina Arboretum, to find all three in a wonderland of habitats designed to attract them. In Atlanta, Ashley and Lloyd Hardrick are Black beekeepers who share their love and knowledge of bees and bee products inside the city, in schools, and now up to Maine. Monarch expert, Jeanne Megal, shows us the hidden world of “America’s Butterfly,” (including the story of her successful wing transplant!). In the Research Triangle area of NC, Susan Campbell bands hummingbirds to better understand their lives and survival skills.
EPISODE 2: SAVING HALF THE SEAS
4/16 (Tue) @ 2pm
4/19 (Fri) @ 8pm
4/21 (Sun) @ 6pm
From marine reserves expanding beyond the Galapagos Islands to aquaculture and the unique preservation of a southeastern coast, EcoSense looks at ways people are managing our relationships where shore meets sea and beyond. In the Galapagos, a new marine reserve is the result of multi-national cooperation to save migrating animals from intense fishing pressures. In Cedar Key, Florida, one fishing community managed to pivot when environmental pressures caused the oyster population to crash. And how did only 100 miles of Georgia coast protect 33% of all the marsh on the entire east coast? On Tybee Island near Savannah, they’re experimenting with marsh and dunes to deal with sea level rise.
EPISODE 3: SAVING HALF THE EARTH
4/23 (Tue) @ 2pm
4/26 (Fri) @ 8pm
4/28 (Sun) @ 6pm
The E.O. Wilson Foundation continues to lead the movement to preserve half the earth’s biodiversity. How are they applying Dr. Wilson’s philosophy to identify biodiverse hot spots? One of E.O. Wilson’s proteges, Ben Raines, shows us why the Mobile River basin has earned the title “America’s Amazon.” In middle Georgia, the Ocmulgee lands could be a model for how a national park embraces the influence of the indigenous people whose history predates ancient Egyptian pyramids and whose lives are still tied to their original homelands there.
EPISODE 4: MESSING WITH MOTHER NATURE
4/30 (Tue) @ 2pm
5/03 (Fri) @ 8pm
5/05 (Sun) @ 6pm
The reality is that there are very few places on Earth that haven’t been altered by humans. When is a coyote no longer a coyote? In Galveston, Texas, coyotes dubbed “ghost wolves” carry high amounts of red wolf DNA. Scientists consider whether their genetic material could save the few red wolves that are left in captivity. Across the country, groups consider whether they’ll welcome American Chestnut trees that are engineered with a wheat gene to resist the blight that nearly wiped out their existence. In the Florida Keys, mosquitoes modified to lower disease levels have met with a great deal of resistance and concern. What happened that moved people from interest to alarm?
THE NEED FOR CONNECTIVITY
4/11 (Thur) @ 2pm
4/17 (Wed) @ 6:30pm
4/28 (Sun) @ 7:30pm
An fStop Foundation Film
Produced and Directed by Max Freund and William Freund
If we can save the Florida panther, we can save Florida, but how do you save an endangered species?
THE NEED FOR CONNECTIVITY tells the story of an incredible panther, FP224, and how vehicles and growth can adversely affect wildlife. Our cast, Mark, Jason, Brent, and Sean describe the challenges and dangers faced by panthers and other wildlife in Florida as almost 1000 people a day move to the State. But they also show us the dedicated work being done by so many people and agencies in the state to create wildlife crossings and help save the Florida Wildlife Corridor before it's too late.
If we learn from our past and are determined enough, there is a bright future ahead for the panthers, and for all of Florida.
DECODING THE DRIFTLESS
4/13 (Sat) @ 8:30pm
4/29 (Mon) @ 4pm
A film by Sustainable Driftless, Inc.
Produced by George Howe, Tim Jacobson, and Rob Nelson
Directed by Jonas Stenstrom
DECODING THE DRIFTLESS is a wild ride of adventure through the air, across rugged landscapes, on and under the water, through a secret underworld, and across time itself to explore and decipher ancient clues of archaeology, paleontology, geology, and biology of the Driftless Region, with its captivating scenic beauty. Learn why this one region, in the heart of America, is the only “island driftless region” in the world.
MARINA DEL REY SKETCH COMEDY SHOW
Produced by Conservation Comedy LLC.
Directed by Sara Newton
Portlandia meets The Plastic Problem. An absurdist group of boat dwellers band together to educate folks about conservation through sketch comedy in the sunny harbor of Marina Del Rey CA. Conservation Comedy...Because sometimes you don't want to cry.
EPISODE 1: PLENTY OF TRASH
4/19 (Fri) @ 6:30pm
4/24 (Wed) @ 8pm
Tech bros introduce a new app for cleaner beaches; a conservationist questions her decision to adopt; a comedian gets the gig of a lifetime. Drama! Intrigue! Birdhouses! All in this first episode of The MDR Sketch Comedy Show.
EPISODE 2: PLENTY OF FLAGS
4/26 (Fri) @ 6:30pm
5/01 (Wed) @ 8pm
Tech bros try their hand at dating apps; a group of friends come together for an intervention; a new reality show proposes a nearly impossible challenge. Scandal! Deceit! Storm drain nets! All this and more in episode number two of The MDR Sketch Comedy Show.
POWER OF THE RIVER: EXPEDITION TO THE HEART OF WATER IN BHUTAN
4/22 (Mon) @ 7pm
Written, Directed, and Produced by Greg I. Hamilton
An adventure from the last Himalayan kingdom. Home to the world’s most ambitious commitment to protect nature, Bhutan faces urgent pressure to dam every river. A man named “Good Karma” guides an expedition to keep his country’s mightiest river free.
