"The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far has problems that cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them."
Albert Einstein
These films inspire new ways of thinking.
The Next Industrial Revolution
Featuring the work of William McDonough - William McDonough is the Dean of architecture at University of Virginia at Charlottesburg, and one of the leading spokesmen of the movement to rebuild the world using ecological design at a profit. Some quotes
- "Waste equals food: eliminate the concept of waste" "What if all the byproducts of human activity were wetlands, wildlands and beauty?" This is one of the most powerful films in the festival. This film is so good that we will
be showing it continuously near the film rental office in the student union - you can pretend that William McDonough is speaking at our eco-fair.
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The sustainable agriculture revolution in Cuba
Cuba has embraced organic agriculture and permaculture. More than 60% of all the vegetables are produced on organic farms in the cities. Chemical agriculture has been banned within five miles of all major cities. Come see this amazing and surprising
story.
The Good Life
Helen and Scott Nearing - legendary founders of the modern homesteader movement and authors of "Living the Good Life" are profiled at age 70 and 90 while they build a new home by hand from stone on the coast of Maine. We find out that Scott
ran for Governor of New Jersey and that Helen is a classically trained violinist.
The Man Who Planted Trees
If you see only one film at the festival, see this one. It is a beautiful animation sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada. The story was written by Frenchman Jean Giono, and details the fictional life of Elzeard Bouffier, who plants millions
of trees in a desolate area of southern France and turns it into a lush forest.
Ruth Stout's Garden
You will never look at gardening the same after you see Ruth at 80+ years describes her simple methods of low work gardening. Many people ask the question "what more can I do in my garden" Ruth asks and answers the question "What else
can I not do in my garden" The living embodiment of do less and accomplish more.
The Back to Nature Garden
Masanobu Fukuoka has evolved the art of working with nature in growing food. Get a look at his rice farm throughout a year.
Environmental designers
Design Outlaws on the design frontier - brief interviews with the top people in environmental design including some vintage clips of Buckminster Fuller. See Amory Lovins, William McDonough, Stewart Brand, Michael Corbett, the story of Curitiba Brazil
(one of the worlds most ecological cities), Ian McHarg, John Todd, Jay Baldwin, and a host of others.
Global Gardener exerpts
The segment of this film that details the work of Eco-Fair 2002 keynote speaker Michael Corbett - The Village Homes project in Davis California.
Buckminster Fuller
He found the geometry of nature and invented the geodesic dome. Most modern thought on environmental design originates with him.
Alternative buildings tour of the US
See a wide range of buildings in many climatic zones on this worldwide tour of ecological building in the USA.
Small Is Beautiful
A warm portrait of E. F. Schumacher, the noted British economist, who, in his book of the same name, was the first to make the case for decentralized, small scale technology, and local human economies. We visit Schumacher at home in the English countryside,
and also at a huge, polluting phosphorus plant and an abandoned oil refinery - vivid examples of the kind of wrong-headed economic thinking he made it his life's work to combat. "A film that has been translated into fifteen languages, this is
a classic with many environmental lessons." Green Gems: The Environmental Film Guide.
As if people mattered
This film explores the work of EF Schumacher, a British economist and author of "Small is Beautiful". Filmed in Montana, Schumacher denounces what he calls "internal colonialism". After all, a colony is a territory that is being
developed not for its own sake by its own inhabitants, but by far away power- as a source of raw materials. In this case the far away powers are the large metropolitan areas.
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Les Hortillonnages d'un siecle a l'autre
(The Hortillonnages from one century to another) - Rare French film about a UNESCO world heritage gardening site in France. The Hortillonages is a 300 hectare (600 acre) site that has been used for commercial market farming for centuries. It was constructed
on a marsh, and crops are transported to the markets in the nearby town of Amiens by boat on an extensive system of canals. The site once supported several hundred families on 1-4 acre market garden farms. The effect of agriculture on the beauty of
the landscape is often neglected in the debate on agricultural policy. Come see an example of how diversified agriculture can create a landscape so beautiful that it was designated UNESCO world heritage site. In French, but worth seeing even if you
don't understand French: the beauty of the gardens transcends language.
Natural Capitalism: A presentation by Amory Lovins
Lovins uses practical examples to explain how applying natural capitalism principles can make business not just sustainable but also more profitable by applying the four principles of natural capitalism:
- Radically improving resource productivity,
- Shifting to biologically inspired production,
- Shifting from making and selling things to providing services in a way that rewards the first two steps,
- Reinvesting in natural and human capital.
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