environment

One of the many things that angered people about Sarah Palin was her support for aerial hunting of wolves. In honor of the release of Palin's book, our Got Docs feature this week is Return to the Wild: A Modern Tale of Wolf and Man from MoFilms. Wolves have been around for ages, and the myths and stereotypes about them have been around almost as long. Laws that protected the wolves have led to an increase in their population, but that has brought them into contact with more people who aren't used to predators in their midst.

Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. Rose Aguilar, John R. MacArthur, Dan Gross and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss this and other media questions in our Thursday segementt. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits.

Michael Ruppert is a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the financial meltdown that most politicians claimed no one had seen coming. Ruppert has plenty of other apocalyptic theories, from peak oil to drugs to, yes, 9/11. In the new film "Collapse," filmmaker Chris Smith follows Ruppert and looks into his theories. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? The film allows you to make your own judgments, while showing the risks and rewards of having -- and publishing -- unpopular opinions.

David Brower was a pioneering environmentalist, first executive director of the Sierra Club and a mentor to many young activists. The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Each winner is awarded $3000 and brought to San Francisco for the award week and a backcountry camping trip. This video, made by Rikshaw Films, gives a little bit of insight into the kind of work the institute is promoting with this award.