A while back I read a New York Times article about Colin Beavan and his family. They were living in Manhattan and Colin had decided they’d go a year without making any impact on the environment. By the time the New York Times had caught up with the Beavans, they were already living without electricity or toilet paper. The impression I got from the article was that this project was just another wacky experiment by another wacky environmentalist (Colin). Having spent time with the Beavan family through the documentary No Impact Man, I think the New York Times got it all wrong.
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Food for Thought: How Big (Bully) Business Rules the Roost(er)
According to the website for the film Food, Inc., “…filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has …
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- 12 Jun 2009 | Brandon Fuller
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The annual Silver Docs film festival runs from June 15 – 22 at the AFI theater in Silver Spring. The festival offers an opportunity to see tons of great documentaries on a huge array of topics. The categories for this year’s documentaries include African interest, LGBT interest, music interest, environmental interest and more.
Obviously the environmental docs were the ones that caught our eye. One film in particular seemed the most interesting.
“No …
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