Eco-Visionaries: Green Week / Seachtain Glas 2025

Academic Video Online

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NCAD's first Green Week/Seachtain Glas takes place from the 10 - 14 March, with a full programme of activities promoting sustainability and climate action across our campus and creative practices. Inspired by the Green Week initiatives in Higher Education Institutions across Ireland, this week aims to highlight the critical role we play in addressing environmental challenges.

As part of the Green Week/Seachtain Glas programme, the Edward Murphy Library will host a series of lunchtime and evening screenings of documentaries and films from the Alexander Street Academic Video Online database. These are open to all members of the NCAD community, and seats in the Group Space will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. 

 

Location: Group Space, Edward Murphy Library 

Booking: No advance booking, 12 seats available on a first come, first served basis

Times: 

Lunchtime, Monday - Friday: 1:00 - 2:00 

Evenings, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 5:00 - 6:30

 

For lunchtime screenings, you are welcome to bring a paper bag lunch, but please be mindful of other viewers and take all packaging away with you!

 

Date	Time	Film Title
Monday, 10 March	1:00 - 2:00	Blame Game
Tuesday, 11 March	1:00 - 2:00	Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline – The Solomon Islands and Australia
Tuesday, 11 March	5:00 - 6:30	The Here Now Project
Wednesday, 12 March	1:00 - 2:00	Gardening for the Planet
Wednesday, 12 March	5:00 - 6:45	Geographies of Solitude
Thursday, 13 March	1:00 - 2:00	Eden: Untamed Planet – Borneo: Sacred Forest
Thursday, 13 March	5:00 - 6:30	OYATE
Friday, 14 March	1:00 - 2:00	The Forest Within Us

Monday, 10 March 

1:00 - 2:00 

‘Blame Game’

Run time: 49 minutes 

 

As more and more of us use and replace electronic devices, manufacturers have failed to offer solutions for how to deal with the resulting waste, and much of it is exported to a toxic dump in Ghana where scavengers do their best to salvage what they can. ‘Blame Game’ investigates the murky world of global electronic waste disposal, where legal grey areas, a lack of investment in recycling, unscrupulous businesses and politicised application of the existing laws lead to wasted opportunities, environmental degradation and for the people of Agbogbloshie - hellish living conditions in a toxic dumping ground. 

 

Tuesday, 11 March 

1:00 - 2:00 

‘Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline – The Solomon Islands and Australia’

Run time: 52 minutes 

 

The world is changing in ways never seen before. Humanity is up against a global problem that threatens our way of life. In this series, Ade Adepitan travels to places on the frontline of climate change to see how life is being affected right now. But he'll also scour the globe for solutions to climate change - the natural and technological fixes that can help us slow climate change and adapt to the changes already taking place.

 

Tuesday, 11 March, 

5:00 - 6:30

‘The Here Now Project’ 

Run Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes 

 

2021 was the year climate change became undeniable. Fires, floods, and storms ravaged the globe, proving predictions from climate scientists had come true. Emmy-winning filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs chronicle this pivotal year through everyday people’s eyes, using thousands of hours of raw footage. With no narration or talking heads, The Here Now Project transforms simple cell phone videos into powerful acts of witness, capturing the immense global scale of climate change and the extraordinary resilience, courage, and resourcefulness needed to confront it. This immersive, powerful, and inspiring film issues a bold wake-up call to the world, urging unity and action in the face of our shared crisis: we’re all in this together.

 

Wednesday, 12 March 

1:00 - 2:00 

‘Gardening for the Planet’ 

Run time: 58 minutes 

 

Climate change is real. We can actually measure that the Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate, greenhouse gasses are rising, and even the oceans are getting warmer. Gardening For the Planet, offers a ray of hope by showcasing how nurturing the environment through native plant gardening connects people to the Earth in a meaningful way and demonstrates how every gardener and every community can combat climate change in their own backyard. 

 

Wednesday, 12 March 

5:00 - 6:45

‘Geographies of Solitude’ 

Run time: 1 hour, 44 minutes 

 

An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, ‘Geographies of Solitude’ is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world filled with arresting images and made with an activist spirit.

 

Thursday, 13 March 

1:00 - 2:00 

‘Eden: Untamed Planet – Borneo: Sacred Forest’ 

Run time: 48 minutes 

 

From the Namib Desert to Patagonia, only a handful of places on Earth can claim to be largely unchanged. Isolated from the rest of the world, these places have been protected from the most damaging effects of human interference. Delicately balanced, species-rich, unique ecosystems. In these lands, life exists as nature intended. This series embarks on a breathtaking journey to Earth’s last Edens. It visits incredible landscapes and reveals thrilling new behaviour from the world’s most iconic animals. As the heavy tread of humans falls ever closer to these beautiful and fragile lands, now is the time to reveal their captivating stories.

 

Thursday, 13 March

5:00 - 6:30 

‘OYATE’ (2022) 

Run Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes 

 

In 2016, the world turned its eyes to the people of Standing Rock as they formed a coalition of unprecedented magnitude to defend their land and water from the threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline. An inflection points for human rights and environmental justice, the #NoDAPL struggle became a rallying cry for Indigenous people everywhere to take a stand against the myriad injustices committed against them for centuries. OYATE elevates the voices of Indigenous activists, organizers, and politicians as they offer their perspective on that complicated history, contextualize the #NoDAPL movement, illuminate the interconnectivity between the issues facing Indian Country today, and look towards a more sovereign and sustainable future for their people.

 

Friday, 14 March 

1:00 - 2:00 

‘The Forest Within Us’

Run time: 52 minutes 

 

The Börzsöny forest in Northern Hungary is filled with stories. Here grass frogs, eagle owls, peregrine falcons, fire salamanders, foxes, wild cats, red deer, wild orchids, beech trees and others ebb and flow with the seasons and illustrate the director's motto: "nature around us opens a gateway to nature within us”.

 

Academic Video Online

Want to know more about accessing these eVideos? Academic Video Online is an online video resource accessible through the Library Catalogue. For more information on how to use Academic Video Online, check out our video below or our libguide on it here.