All Posts Tagged With: "environment"
Sundancing 08: Up the Yangtze
The New Deal was FDR’s answer to the economic depression in this country. It included big public works projects that created our infrastructure as well as providing jobs to those who had lost everything in The Depression. It was workfare aimed at modernizing the country and helping its citizens.
Some eco tips
When I was researching for yesterday’s indieWIRE green docs article, I came across several sites that I thought were interesting that have nothing to do with film. Thought I’d share them:
GreenDimes -Â For $36 a year, this company will stop your junk mail. I might be work that you could do yourself though it sounds labor-intensive to find all the direct mailers to get yourself removed from the mailing lists. I also wonder if it stops the “Resident” mailers. But, I’ve used the telemarketers opt-out and found it to be bliss so this would probably be something I’ll try when I get some extra cash.
Eco-Cell - Donate your old cell phone to raise money for gorrilla conservation.
NYC Donate - Gives you ways to donate all kinds of things, from cell phones to clothes and furniture.
More suggestions to help us deal with trash and/or unwanted goods?
indieWIRE: Doc Column - Are Green Docs Hot?
It seemed to come out of nowhere: a high-production value theatrical doc featuring the then media-shy former presidential candidate Al Gore. Skeptics abound prior to the release — it was tough to imagine that an intellectual stiff like Gore could carry a feature doc about, of all things, global warming, yet the film seems to have raised the profile of a whole crop of new “green” work. Yet, filmmaker and blogger AJ Schnack polled some industry folks before the release of “Truth” to gauge the buzz. David Poland of Movie City News said what others felt, “I think anything over $2 million is a real success for this film. It’s just not a pop event.” Read the rest>>
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Thanks, Agnes. Without smart friends like you getting the word out, our films would go nowhere. Such a blessing when ...
Definitely a good meme.
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I went to a small liberal arts school in New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson. What did you read? 
hey Agnes, where did you go to school? I also took a course called Creative Non-Fiction (though we never read ...