Get lead-free garden hoses? Make solar ovens?
At least, grow cilantro or parsley in a pot on our windowsills?
Create a small group that commits to reducing consumption, exploring questions like What's a luxury? What's essential? Who defines what's sustainable? Who decides what's sustainable? How can I reduce my consumption by three percent this month?... and gets informed about what our technologies entail from cradle-to-grave.
Films about making computers, solar panels, industrial wind, e-vehicles and other "green" technologies
"The Semiconductor Industry's Water Problem." Click Here
"Headwind"21" by Marijn Poels, about former London banker Alexander Pohl's experience with industrial wind facilities in Sweden. Click Here
"Dark Waters," about attorney Robert Bilott's suit against DuPont's manufacturing of PFOAs. Solar panels have PFOA coating. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
"Planet of the Humans," Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore's film about "renewables'" ecological impacts. Click Here
"Bright Green Lies," Julia Barnes' documentary based on Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert's book about "green" tech's ecological impacts. https://www.brightgreenlies.com/
"Complicit," Heather White and Lynn Zhang's documentary about Chinese youth who swipe circuit boards with n-hexane, a toxic solvent. www.complicitfilm.org
"Manufactured Landscapes" and "Anthropocene" by Edward Burtynsky. Click Here
"Profit and Loss: Standing on Sacred Ground," directed by Christopher McLeod, about two indigenous groups' resistance to mining on their land. Click Here
"MisLead" by Tamara Rubin. This is about lead poisoning and an industry that harms in the name of profit. Click Here
Films about restoration projects
John Liu's Ecosystem Restoration Camps. "To survive as a species, humanity must shift from commodifying nature to 'naturalizing' our economy." Click Here
Woody Harrelson's "Kiss the Ground." https://kissthegroundmovie.com/
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