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 »
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 »
Bee Well
Beekeeping Advocate Shares Her Story Video by: Kirby Engelman From the filmmaker: Honeybees are very misunderstood. Commonly feared for what is simply their self defense against giant flailing arms, they are actually extremely calming creatures that create something so miraculous and delicious. These passionate workers are disappearing everyday, a heartbreaking fact called Colony Collapse Disorder. [...] 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 »
How Aquaponics Works
Video by: CJ Sinner From the filmmaker: Jesse Meeder, the farm director at Buffalo-based Massachusetts Avenue Project, explains how the science behind aquaponics works. Read more »
Food for the Future
Missouri University Drives Collaborative Food Research Effort Video by: MU News Bureau and Nathan Hurst From the MU News Bureau: Researchers at MU are studying all aspects of food production through a collaborative effort called “Food for the Future.” Food for the Future is one part of a larger initiative called Mizzou Advantage, which brings [...] Read more »
Mineral & Vitamin Deficiency in Developing Countries
One Solution:Biofortification The World Health Organization (WHO) indicates deficiencies that are most limiting in diets are: iron, zinc and vitamin A. HarvestPlus is an organization that seeks to reduce hidden hunger and provide micronutrients to billions of people directly through the staple foods that they eat through a process called biofortification. In this podcast we [...] Read more »
Farming in the Future
An Introduction to “Smart Farm” This video is the first installment of a new project called “Smart Farm” Video by: Aubrey White (twitter: @letters_science) From the filmmaker: Follow along in my first year of operating a farm as I explore a bit of science, a bit of technology, and a lot about my little piece [...] Read more »
Tanzania Cotton Programme
Boosting Yields Through Conservation Agriculture The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is working with the Tanzania Cotton Board to transform the country’s cotton & textile sector. Gatsby is a trust set up by David Sainsbury to realise his charitable objectives in a number of different areas. Since 2007 it has been working with the Tanzania Cotton Board [...] Read more »