Aaron Lucich is a young guy who set out in 2005 to find a sustainable food system, and he is making a movie about his quest. At present, the movie consists of segments -- lots of interviews with a Who's Who in sustainble/organic agriculture efforts (farmers, PhD's, M.D.'s, etc.) -- not yet compiled into the finished piece. (And the segments I have watched are extremely well done.)
The web site for We Are What We Eat (the working title of the movie) is here. (There is little there at present.) The video segments posted there don't seem to play as well as they do when viewing them on his Facebook site. They can't be embedded on blogs or other web sites at present, so you'll have to view them in situ.
I STRONGLY encourage you to set aside 20 minutes to watch one of the segments: The unaminous voices of the individuals featured is overwhelming. What saddens me so is that we don't have people like these experts setting agriculture/environmental/medical policy in Washington. The men and women in this clip are so knowledgeable -- they have spend their professional lives studying the earth, farming it, and connecting soil with health. They have not only a scientific basis for what they say but an intuitive sense that our current ways of living are unsustainable. This segment begins with Charles Walters (founder of ACRES USA), one of the patriarchs of the eco-ag movement -- and maybe one of the smartest people alive. If you watch the video segment I recommend below, be sure to stay for the final 4-5 minutes where the interviewees are identified. It's great to put names, faces, and voices with some of the legends of the eco-ag movement.
The segment I'm recommending is here on Lucich's web site (though I couldn't get it to play). It plays easily on his Facebook site here. I'm a member of Facebook so I gained access to the video easily -- I don't know if you have to have a Facebook account to see this video or not, but it would be worth establishing one just to see the video. If you are active on Facebook, while at the video site become a "Fan" of Lucich's site to add to the momentum for the movie he is developing.
JUST ADDED: I found a <3 minute version of the video I'm recommending above on YouTube. PLEASE watch the longer 20 minute version -- but this short will give you a taste:
The web site for We Are What We Eat (the working title of the movie) is here. (There is little there at present.) The video segments posted there don't seem to play as well as they do when viewing them on his Facebook site. They can't be embedded on blogs or other web sites at present, so you'll have to view them in situ.
I STRONGLY encourage you to set aside 20 minutes to watch one of the segments: The unaminous voices of the individuals featured is overwhelming. What saddens me so is that we don't have people like these experts setting agriculture/environmental/medical policy in Washington. The men and women in this clip are so knowledgeable -- they have spend their professional lives studying the earth, farming it, and connecting soil with health. They have not only a scientific basis for what they say but an intuitive sense that our current ways of living are unsustainable. This segment begins with Charles Walters (founder of ACRES USA), one of the patriarchs of the eco-ag movement -- and maybe one of the smartest people alive. If you watch the video segment I recommend below, be sure to stay for the final 4-5 minutes where the interviewees are identified. It's great to put names, faces, and voices with some of the legends of the eco-ag movement.
The segment I'm recommending is here on Lucich's web site (though I couldn't get it to play). It plays easily on his Facebook site here. I'm a member of Facebook so I gained access to the video easily -- I don't know if you have to have a Facebook account to see this video or not, but it would be worth establishing one just to see the video. If you are active on Facebook, while at the video site become a "Fan" of Lucich's site to add to the momentum for the movie he is developing.
JUST ADDED: I found a <3 minute version of the video I'm recommending above on YouTube. PLEASE watch the longer 20 minute version -- but this short will give you a taste:
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For anyone with Facebook issues the short can be viewed on Google Video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=554381095443702755#
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