Topic: Economics & Development

How much does your double latte cost, in human terms? Go inside the movement for fair trade coffee.

Energy production on native lands is polluting the reservation and leaving poverty in its dirty shadow.

"It was obviously the dirtiest coal-fired plant in the West."

The Black Mesa and Kayenta mines became the largest coal strip-mining complex in the world.

"Water has the power to take life and to give life. If you don't respect it, you might find yourself in a serious situation."

Explore the largely untold story of industrialized hard rock mining in Butte, Montana.

When the mines closed, a poisonous silence settled over Butte.

The Granite Mountain mine fire killed 168 miners, sparking a strike.

"Every night I prayed that I’d get killed instead of gettin' crippled."

Filmmaker Pamela Roberts offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Butte, America.

Discover one Bulgarian town's identity crisis involving war, nuclear power, and giant mosquitoes.

Three Latina immigrants working in L.A. sweatshops fight for labor justice.

In Iran, there is a thriving trade in kidneys, which poor people line up to sell at less than $3,000.

Commerce in Brazil is on the move; street vendors dominate the local economies.

A look at industrial gold-mining in two remote locations, Borneo and Guinea.

A woman returns home to her children in Bolivia after 15 years to find they've become strangers.

A New Orleans Vietnamese community fights a toxic post-Katrina landfill near their homes.

“We were never invited to the table. We have a right to be part of the community-driven process.”

“Why did you put this ... where people don’t speak the language, so you think they can’t protest?”

“Go get all of ... the food and we will cook it together and eat as a community.”

Meet Cairo's Zaballeen, who recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect.

“We are the garbage collectors. Always blessed.”

“Egypt must be famous for recycling. Here, we recycle 80 percent of what we collect.”

“This is going to go to a landfill. This is going to a hole in the earth.”

A filmmaker follows her father back to Afghanistan to fight skyrocketing maternal mortality.

Eight widows in Galilee form a cooperative to make and sell pickles and support their families.

A son questions his father, who evicts the poor and powerless for a living.

In the near future, climate change has radically altered the real estate market.

In a world of genetically modified agriculture, a heirloom seed black market grows.

Decades after leaving, a filmmaker returns to chronicle life along the Chinese-North Korean border.