FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.
About the Film
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. Small family farmers are making a comeback. They're growing much healthier food, and lots more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms.
For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But to respond to climate change and the end of cheap energy, each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow food more sustainably.
Good Food visits producers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all.
About the Film
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.
It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.
No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.
"Lords of Nature"
Join the Yakima Environmental Learning Foundation (YELF),
Tuesday, January 17, 2012, starting at 7:00 pm
@ The Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N 48th Avenue in Yakima,
for a follow up to the "Living with Wolves" event.
Please join us January 17th at 7:00 pm at The Wesley Methodist Church.
This film explores the vital role that apex predators, like wolves and cougars, play in restoring and maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity. The film also examines what ranchers and livestock producers are doing to adjust their operations and management practices to avoid conflicts with predators. Please join us to see this important film about this very timely topic, and bring your friends. Everyone is welcome. Free admission; donations to YELF accepted.
Join us for an evening of two incredible locally produced films:
We Still Live Here • Film by Anne Makepeace
Return of the Wapato • Short Film by Emily Washines
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, starting at 7:00 pm
The Parker Room, in the Decio Building @ Yakima Valley Community College.
Anne Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more than twenty-five years. Her most recently completed documentary, We Still Live Here, won the 2011 Full Frame Inspiration Award. We Still Live Here, is a documentary about the return of the Wampanoag language. Makepeace also won fellowships in support of the project from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist whose story is central to the film, recently won a MacArthur "genius" award for her unprecedented work in bringing back her people's language, which had not been spoken for over a century. Information provided by: www.makepeaceproductions.com/bio.html
Emily Washines (Yakama/Cree/Skokomish) works on Public Relations at the Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management Program. She grew up in Toppenish, attended YVCC, transferred to Central Washington University, and finally completed her MPA at The Evergreen State College. Her film short, The Return of the Wapato, describes the return of the Wapato to the reservation of The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, after a 70-year absence. As a result of agricultural diversion, the water table was discovered to have lowered and an imbalance in nature occurred. A shift in nature also contributed to a shift in the cultural foods and plants available. The Return of the Wapato provides an opportunity to learn how the Yakama Nation restores tribal land areas to historical use and ultimately protects the resources for future generations. Information provided by: www.ecotrust.org/press/wwri_films_20100831.html
This free event is co-sponsored by:
YVCC Ethnic Programs, Title V Grant, YVCC Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) Student Club, YVCC TiinMa Student Club, YVCC Black Student Union Student Club, YVCC ASL Student Club, YVCC Social Science Department, Central Washington University, and the Yakima Environmental Learning Foundation.
For more information: 574-6800 ext. 3151/mcuevas@yvcc.edu or visit www.yvcc.edu/diversity
"The Yes Men Fix The World"
Join us for an exciting film night at the high school
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, starting at 7:00 pm
@ Eisenhower High School Little Theatre
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.
Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.
Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun? Everyone is welcome
This free event is co-sponsored by:
Eisenhower High School Environment Club and the Yakima Environmental Learning Foundation.
