After working for over five years Directing and Producing "Unacceptable Levels" I thought I wouldn't be up for another film about this subject anymore. It's not that it doesn't interest me as a citizen and as a person, as toxic chemicals are still all around us and the fight is just beginning. … [Read more...]
Tapped (2009)
"Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water." - www.tappedthemovie.com While up to 40% of bottled water is just filtered tap water, Americans are buying over 25 billion bottles of … [Read more...]
Garbage Warrior (2007)
This is the story of how eco-architect Michael Reynolds came to invent and build Earthships and Earthship communities. If you've never seen an Earthship, check out some pics here. Earthships are off-grid, near zero footprint homes that use garbage redirected from landfills for much of their raw material. An Earthship can use hundreds of car tires and thousands of aluminum … [Read more...]
The Future of Food (2004)
The Future of Food chronicles the path from family to factory farms and GMO foods and has been widely distributed as part of the international anti-GMO grassroots activist movements. It covers in some detail the debate between sustainable and industrial agriculture and the fight for accurate food labeling of GMO food worldwide. Can sustainable and permaculture methods provide … [Read more...]
No Impact Man (2009)
In the 2009 documentary, No Impact Man, Colin Beavan and his family embark on a year long project to live with zero environmental impact. As an author, Colin launched the project in 2006 as research for a book, living for a year with, "No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption...no problem." Personal opinion … [Read more...]