This DVD contains all three films on the Austrian “Agro-Rebel” Sepp Holzer, who simply observes nature and works with it successfully.
Sepp Holzer built one of the biggest functioning permaculture farms in Europe.
This DVD contains 3 films about Permaculture Farming:
Farming with Nature:
A beautiful fishpond system with its own water power station, 9000 fruit trees and many other plants support each other in this biotope. 30 different types of potatoes, many different grains, fruits, vegetables, herbs and wildflowers are growing just about everywhere: in the forest, on extremely steep hills, on rocky soil, on pathways, around ponds, as well as raised beds. All of this he grows without the use of any pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer and without depending on subsidies.
Aquaculture:
Fishponds on a mountain farm: an unusual sight at these altitudes. On an Austrian mountain, permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer created more than 70 ponds and wetland areas covering about 3 hectares. Aquaculture is about the sustainable use of water.
Terraces and Raised Beds:
Lungau, Austria. Pine forest carpets the alpine foothills. It looks natural, a typical scene from a tourist brochure- but it was not always so. This landscape used to support diverse flora and fauna until the pine trees were planted making the soil acidic…and acidic soil is completely unsuited to agricultural use. Farmer Sepp Holzer has made a name for himself by successfully challenging this damaging practice.
Is it possible to live a year making zero impact on the environment?
Is it possible to do this from the 11th story of a New York City apartment? Accomplished author Colin Beavan is determined to find out, and to take his wife and toddler along for the ride. Read more in the blog.
For his next book, Colin proposes that he address global warming head on and become “No Impact Man,” forgoing electricity, cars, even toilet paper in an effort to reduce, in fact annihilate, his impact on the environment. The only catch is that to do this successfully, he needs his wife, Michelle—a self-proclaimed coffee and shopping addict who writes for BusinessWeek—and their 3-year-old daughter to join him in the endeavor. Takeout restaurants are replaced with local farmers markets, subways with bicycles, elevators with staircases, washing machines with soap-filled bathtubs, electric lights with candles, refrigeration with clay pots and garbage cans with compost heaps.
Once the novelty of their new situation wears off, Michelle must adjust herself to living someone else’s dream, all while contending with dreams of her own. If a Starbucks venti, sugar- free, nonfat, vanilla soy, double-shot, decaf, no-foam, extra-hot mocha has too much impact on the environment, what about a second child? On a bumpy road less traveled in modern society, where the destination is not greater industry, efficiency and gadgetry, but rather sustainability and simplicity, NO IMPACT MAN is a delightful, inspiring and unexpectedly moving exploration of contemporary marriage and how one person can change his life, and in doing so possibly change the world.
Released online June 5, 2009 World Environment Day
The Global Premiere of HOME on 5 June for World Environment Day now features major screenings in exceptional metropolitan sites with a star-studded attendance
Personal Message from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer and Founding President, GoodPlanet.org, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, to avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. We have no time to lose. I have been nurturing this film for more than fifteen years. What I saw and learnt as I flew over the Earth has changed me for ever. Today I want to share what I have experienced throughout these journeys. I believe that we have the collective wisdom to find a solution. The film will be aired for free on 5 June – World Environment Day – on the internet, on TV and in thousands of movie theatres around the world.
I would like this movie to become your movie. Share it and act!
By 2030 the United Nations estimates two-thirds of the world will lack access to clean drinking water. Tapped will illustrate the impact of the global water crisis on America and what we can do as individuals to enact change sooner rather than later. Tapped examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.
The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing premiered at Sundance Film Festival
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.
The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Sundance took place in Park City, Utah, January 15-25, 2009.
In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food.
It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
Filmed over two years, The End of the Line follows the investigative reporter Charles Clover as he confronts politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, who exhibit little regard for the damage they are doing to the oceans.
One of his allies is the former tuna farmer turned whistleblower Roberto Mielgo – on the trail of those destroying the world’s magnificent bluefin tuna population.
Filmed across the world – from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market – featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world.
French fishermen hit back at stars’ bid to save bluefin tuna
Threat to livelihood sparks anger in Mediterranean port as celebrities campaign over plight of species.
Blue Fin Tuna Fishing
It has been a long few weeks for captain Jean-Louis Donnarel and the crew of the Provence-Côte d’Azur II. Long, rough and not very profitable. After sailing a total of 6,600 nautical miles – first to Cyprus, then the length of the Egyptian coast, to Malta, around the Balearics and then home – the Provence-Côte d’Azur II returned with 84 tonnes of bluefin tuna, a catch that will barely cover the costs of the voyage.
“We found fish on the last day,” Donnarel said last week. “Without that, we would have been finished. Someone has to take a decision. Do they want us to fish or not? If not, they should put us out of our misery.” READ ENTIRE STORY HERE.
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli–the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival will take place in Turin, Italy from the 8th to 13th October 2009. CinemAmbiente began in Turin in 1998, with the ambition of promoting the culture of the environment through cinema. It wants above all to be a festival involving enjoyment; here the best films of the year dealing with environmental issues can be seen and tributes to great documentary producers are presented, followed by debates and moments of reflection, both ‘in loco’ and in schools.
American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF) is preparing for its 2009 festival to be held November 5-8, 2009, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (about 70 miles west of Washington, DC). the ACFF presents outstanding films dealing with natural resource conservation — films that inspire audiences to reflect upon the natural environment and view environmental challenges in new ways.
KLUNKERZ, produced and directed by Billy Savage, will be broadcast on PBS affiliate KQED June 28-July 3rd 2009. Using archival footage and recent conversations, KLUNKERZ is the story of the development of the mountain bike.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, San Francisco was the vortex of America’s counter-culture movement. Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, another movement was under way. The kids there would shake up a 100 year old American industry, within a decade creating a worldwide phenomenon.
This DVD contains all three films on the Austrian “Agro-Rebel” Sepp Holzer, who simply observes nature and works with it successfully.
