Films featuring Bart Elmore
An Environmental Historian's Requiem for Recycling
TEDx
Bartow Elmore speaks about how the solution to the current plastic waste problem lies in the history of one of the biggest enterprises in the world: the Coca-Cola industry. Bart Elmore studies the past in order to understand how we can live more sustainably on this planet.
Climate Change and the Efficiency Distraction
TEDx
Bart Elmore explores how business executives’ emphasis on improving efficiency in operations can distract them from the hard work of radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and challenge us to consider what we can do as individuals to address this dilemma.
Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
Veritasium
This is the history of Monsanto’s herbicides, with expertise contributed by Carey Gillam at the New Lede, Nathan Donley at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Bart Elmore at Ohio State University.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Bart speaks with Joe Rogan about the history of Monsanto and Coca-Cola on Episode #1722.
Full episode available here.
Coca Cola's Recycling Scandal
Cash Investigation: A Plastic Surgery
Director: Sandrine Rigaud
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: France
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018 (France)
Teaching history: Why is history important?
A candid Q&A with environmental historian Bart Elmore on why history matters, how it shapes everyday life, and what a historian-teacher really does—the joys, challenges, and practical advice for aspiring historians.
The Cost of Cheapness
The story of Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart, and how Sam Walton leveraged his knowledge of rural areas and federal government projects to build a retail empire. A film by Ethan Payne for the 2023 Southern Foodways Symposium.
Coke Knew Their Plastic Would Trash the Planet…And Did It Anyway
Once upon a time, Coke’s bottles were an environmentalist's dream: stylish glass bottles washed and reused over and over, leaving no pollution. Today Coca-Cola is the world’s biggest plastic producer and polluter. What happened?
The Story of Stuff Project is an environmental nonprofit focused on anti-consumerism and putting people over profit.