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The Story of Stuff
Click here to watch this amazing short 20 minute documentary. A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Transition Towns
Planning for a low energy future

 

The Green House Project
In the heart of Johannesburg, the GreenHouse Project shelters a budding sustainable movement.

An Experiment in Backyard Sustainability
This guy shows how much food can be grown in just one season even in a rented back yard. It's so worth it!

Growing Food Growing Energy
Community Supported Agricultural System at a local school in a US town.

How Much food can I grow around my house
A small suburban garden produces loads of food for herself and the neighbourhood and is committed to changing the town to a sustainable town within 20 years. Shows how much fun it is to grow enough food for your own needs.

             How To Save Seeds

The Hemp Revolution

From describing the production of a fibre much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less grievous side effects than chemical pharmaceutical products. The film also investigates why America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the non-narcotic industrial hemp, to the complete ban on hemp production in 1938. This story in particular is interesting, and it points out that the large oil based industries actually had a key role in the aforementioned ban. Food for thought! The conclusion of the documentary could be that hemp may prove to be a valid alternative to both oil and wood in the future.«