GreenTreks was
invited to speak at the 13th Annual Environmental Film Festival in
the Nations’ Capital. On March 18th we’ll be presenting
two films on sustainability, so join us, bring some friends and help
spread the word!
Think Globally,
Eat Locally
USA,
2003, 24 minutes. DC Premiere. Produced by Greentreks. |
Why does so much of our food come from thousands of miles away?
Food shipped from far away not only wastes energy, but contains
more preservatives and chemicals and is less healthy than food
grown locally. This film shows how farms, inner-city gardens
and restaurants in Pennsylvania are focusing on raising, distributing
and serving locally grown organic foods. A dairy farm called
Milky Way Farm has adopted a sustainable approach, resulting
in milk with more nutrients. Sea Change Horticulture has created
vegetable gardens from vacant lots in Philadelphia's inner city
and restaurants like the White Dog Café use locally grown
foods through the Chefs Collaborative organization supporting
local farmers.
Screening followed by short animated film, The True Cost of
Food, and discussion with Maria Erades, GreenTreks Executive
Director; Diana Artemis, from the Sierra Club’s Committee
on Sustainable Consumption; Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher
at Worldwatch Institute; and Jonah Sachs from Free Range Graphics.
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Change is a Brewin’
USA, 2004, 3 minutes. Produced by Greentreks Network. |
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Where would
we be without our daily "fix" of coffee? We count
on this wonder drink to get us going each morning and make
us more energetic and alert, but how often do we think about
the environmental and social implications of getting coffee
from the plantation to our mugs? Coffee is one of those tropical
exports that is produced exclusively in the Third World and
consumed almost entirely in the First World. Greentreks recently
launched the Change is a Brewin' campaign, which is designed
to introduce coffee drinkers to the harsh realities of life
in the world's coffee growing regions and to enhance the many
efforts underway to resolve the global coffee crisis.
Join Maria Erades and photographer Gerry Hooper as they travel
to coffee growing regions in Nicaragua and Costa Rica to start
unraveling the complex pathway that leads from crop in the
field to brew in the cup.
Screening followed by discussion with Maria Erades, GreenTreks
Executive Director and Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher at
Worldwatch Institute.
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