Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Garbage! the Movie

I've been busy recently helping my friend Andrew Nisker promote his new environmental doc Garbage!. The summary goes something like
Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. Writer and Director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it’s doing to the world.
For me it's kind of the flipside of "An Inconvenient Truth" in that instead of starting at a global level and working down it starts at the household level and works up. It also provides people with concrete things they can do, right now, today to have an impact. Rather than wait for various governments and industries to decide to act. I, obviously, highly recommend it.

The film is also, following the model of many recent docs, not going to theaters. It is premiering November 19 in homes, schools, churches, community centers, etc., so if you like you can buy a copy from the website and set up a screening through Brave New Theaters.

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