A month ago, Public released our first documentary, Thrown To The Wind, by journalist and filmmaker Jonah Markowitz. Thrown To The Wind reveals the reality behind the specious claims of an industry that has long billed itself as a boon to the natural environment. Our film exposes the price the world is actually paying for the industrialization of our oceans by offshore wind corporations: the killing of whales and the potential extinction of an entire cetacean species.

We founded Public to do precisely this kind of journalism: independent, uncompromising, evidence-based reporting that the mainstream media is too industry-captured and too ideologically blinkered to undertake. Those of you who are paying for Public make that possible. Without your support, we couldn’t do any of this.

Today, we’re releasing Thrown To The Wind widely, without the paywall. It’s imperative that this film reach as wide an audience as possible, to maximize its real-world impact. The survival of the North American Right Whale may depend on it.

[I just started watching it right now – at 7 a.m. CST – and I have to give you all fair warning, the beginning is LADEN with touchy-feely, treacly New Age crap. IOW it’s not a NatGeo, but obviously a labor of love. Which is a shame, because it’s going to detract from average American being able to sit thru it all to get to the SO important, devastating research these folks did. Maybe they’re trying to reach hard-core environmentalists, too. I don’t know, but I can see it turning a lot of people off before they ever hit the heart of it and what a shame. That’s my impression so far. ~ Beege]