Bees & VCC = The greenest public structure in Vancouver Video by: Stefan Morel From the filmmaker: The Vancouver Convention Centre was minted as the city’s newest architectural wonder, at the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The greenest public structure on Vancouver’s ever-rising urban skyline, the VCC was engineered with a host of sustainable [...] Read more »
In Depth Interview with Multi-Award-Winnng Director Mark Dodd
Mark Dodd is an award winning photographer-filmmaker who has worked world-wide for 20 years with the BBC. Visit his website at www.1080films.co.uk to view this and other projects AH:What is the film “The Man Who Stopped the Dessert” about? MD:The film is a documentary about Yacouba Sawadogo. He’s an illiterate African peasant farmer from Burkina [...] Read more »
Delivering Personal Chefs to Your Home
A Conversation with Munchery Co-founder, Tri Tran: AH: Please tell me about Munchery.com and how long have you been in business? TT: Munchery started back in May, 2011 AH:Do you work directly with farmers? TT: We do not work directly with farmer’s per se, but our chefs definitely do all they can to utilize local [...] Read more »
Life Sciences Film Festival
Call for Entry Details about the 2012 Festival: International Festival of Documentary Films on Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, lsff.cz Life Sciences Film Festival Call for Entry: lsff.cz/en/akt/73 Our conversation with the LSFF Program Director, Štěpán Alexander: AH:How did the get it’s start? SA: The idea to [...] Read more »
The Bucket Mystery Solved
Farming Artifact Explained Video by: Rick Gibb and Jim Hawkins From the filmmakers: Sean Quinn, curator of the Moynalty Steam Threshing Museum explains the practical use of this bucket. About Harvest, LLC shares stories about food and agriculture. Subscribe to receive stories about the science, history and relevance of agricultural crops grown and harvested around [...] Read more »
We Farm
A Worldwide Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing Network For more information visit: wefarm.info Read more »
Vert: Social Enterprise Engineered From Bags
Dell Social Innovation Challenge Submission Vert is a project that was created as a submission for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. It’s creators shared with us that their motivation for starting the project where not financial, that rather they hope to “contribute to the debate on agriculture, technology and food security” adding that it also [...] Read more »
Documentary Trailer: ‘The Man Who Stopped The Desert’
Winner of 7 international film awards Trailer & film by: 1080 Films From the Mark Dodd, the filmmaker: Winner of 7 international film awards, The Man Who Stopped the Desert is a one hour feature doc telling the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an African peasant farmer who has pioneered a technique that reverses the process [...] Read more »
The Four Distinct Pillars of Sustainable Food
Sustainable Food Systems, Part 2 In our previous conversation with John Turenne we learned he is nationally recognized for breaking new ground in the food industry. In this conversation with the inspired President and founder of Sustainable Food Systems, we learn how he got his start in creating his breakthrough company. AH:What did you do [...] Read more »
Growing Cities: “Urban Farming has a Lot of Potential”
Growing Cities is a documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. Documenting Urban Farmers Across the Country When I first saw the trailer for the documentary, “Growing Cities“, I knew I wanted to know [...] Read more »