| View Larger Image | Transforming Energy | DVDStarring: Jeremy Rifkin, Hunter Lovins, James Howard Kunstler, William McDonough
Directed By: Chuck Davis
| List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $22.49 | | You Save: | $2.46 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 60 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Passion River | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | January 08, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 102,703nd |
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Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 12/31/2007 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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Transforming Energy by C. davis (los angles)  5 Stars
April 27, 2008
This is the best most hopeful film yet on the issues of climate change and the technologies and amazing ideas and people responding to the challenge. The story about Shishmaref Alaska is a dramatic example of what we may all face.
Also a great debate between James Howrard Kunstler and Bill Mc Donough about the practicality of alternative energy as a solution to the end of oil and Global Warming
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