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RESOURCES FOR FEEDING OURSELVES SUSTAINABLY

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FILMS:

check out:
The University Of California at Berkeley’s online library has curated a rather amazing and comprehensive list of movies about food.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/fooddocs.html

future of food
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=124

supersize me
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=98

fast food nation
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/fastfoodnation/

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil?
The Greening of Cuba.
Cuba, The Accidental Revolution

The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
available from Old Dog Documentaries,
http://www.olddogdocumentaries.com/vid_gb.html

Our Daily Bread
http://www.ourdailybread.at/jart/projects/utb/website.jart?rel=en

We Feed the World
http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/film.htm

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/subjects/agriculture.html

Food - http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/fd.html

Deconstructing Supper: Is Your Food Safe?
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/decon.html

Beyond Organic: The Vision of Fairview Gardens
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bo.html

The Close to Nature Garden (about Fukuoka)
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/cng.html

Global Gardener
Permaculture with Bill Mollison
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/global.html

The world according to Monsanto
http://freedocumentaries.com/film.php?id=215

King Corn
http://www.kingcorn.net/

How to cook your life?
http://www.cookyourlifemovie.com/home.html

The Dirt on Farmer John
http://www.farmerjohnmovie.com/



BOOKS

* Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

* Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters

* Slow Food Revolution  by Carlo Petrini and Gigi Padovani

* Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed by Carlo Petrini, Jamey Lionette, Vandana Shiva

* Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

* Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin

* The Self-healing Cookbook by Kristina Turner

* Energetics of Food by Steve Gagne

* Food Politics by Marion Nestle

* Botany of Desire
   Omnivore's Dilemma
   In Defense of Food 
by Michael Pollan

*
The Way We Eat and Why Our Food Choices Matter by  Peter Singer and Jim Mason

*
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by  Sandor Ellix Katz

 

 


WEBSITES

100 mile diet
http://100milediet.org/category/about/

http://www.foodnews.org/index.php

http://www.bigpicture.tv/categories/food - videos of talking heads talking about food


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