tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79223783557906819192011-07-08T05:07:48.892-07:00Eco-Flix for an Abundant PlanetMatt Harnackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14774865612280561283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922378355790681919.post-54047889044208637762011-02-12T19:06:00.000-08:002011-02-12T19:11:20.911-08:00

Big News! Fossil Fuel Free Film is screening at the San Francisco Green Film Festival. It's playing with another wonderful eco-flick called Green Lit, a film about the greening of Hollywood.  I think it's a perfect match. I can't wait to see you there!  The movie screens @3:00 pm Friday, March 04 at the Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema 2, One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level , San

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Hi Friends,  I work at a non-profit organization in East Palo Alto called Collective Roots. This year we have 6 interns working as part of a Green Jobs initiative.  They are learning about the food system, youth leadership, and garden based education. As part of the internship they are required to commute 5-7 miles to work. Instead of driving we wanted them to bicycle as part of their green

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Last Wednesday I taught a group of 23 teacher from the Palo Alto Unified School District how to effectively use video in the classroom. Because I always try to tie everything I do back to the environment, I prepared a stop motion animation exercise that shows how bio-magnification happens in the food chain. One group completed the exercise in less than an hour and uploaded their animation to

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I know you all have many eco-events on your plate as Earth Day approaches, but make sure you mark your calendar for this one. I will be playing several of my films at the Lucie Stern Community Center this Friday at 7:30pm. Former Mayor Peter Drekmeier will be hosting a Q&A after the screening. Come check out Used Matters, a film that won the "Best Environmental Award" at the Marin County Fair

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Big News! Fossil Fuel Free Film won the open category at the Greenlight Film Festival. I got a cash prize and an awesome reused basketball trophy. I want to thank everyone who put the festival together at the Mid-peninsula Media Center, especially Becca Fisher and Annie Folger. It was a wonderful night of youth films and a G rated version of my film. I would ordinarily give 4f a PG or PG-13

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Great news. Fossil Fuel Free Film will be playing at theGreenlight Earth Day Film Festival Awards CeremonyThursday, April 15th7:00-9:00PM Cubberley Theater4000 Middlefield RoadPalo Alto, CA

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Good news! Fossil Fuel Free Film is playing at the Green Lifestyle Film Festival. My film plays at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA on Saturday March 20th. The bad news is that my film plays at 8:10 in the morning. Not exactly prime-time, but hey, I gotta start somewhere.

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If you live under a rock or you happen to be an average American, as was cited on NPR's Marketplace earlier today, you probably don't know that the Kyoto protocol, version 2.0 will be determined at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in a matter of days. From December 6-18 leaders from around the world will converge in Denmark to flesh out the details of the Copenhagen Climate Treaty, and hopefully

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Along with their line of full sized CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar panels Global Solar makes several portable foldable panels. I bought their 12 watt model two years ago and was extremely happy with the panel until it unexpectedly broke a few months ago. I tried to diagnose the problem myself and even got a Stanford electrical engineering friend to help me figure it out. No dice.

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Earlier this year Fossil Fuel Free Film was selected as a semi finalist at the Angelus Student Film Festival, the biggest student film festival of the year. Because I was not selected as a finalist I basically disregarded the award at the time, but my friend and fellow filmmaker Nilima Abrams convinced me to write a post about the honor. Out 556 entries, from 185 film schools representing 28

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I'm at the green tech open and just saw presentations on great new innovative technologies. I recomend the bio fuel and new power source.

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Matt, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I believe that you sent this identical email to us a few weeks ago and it seems from this resend that no one has gotten back to you. I am sorry that we did not reply to your first email. The reason was that we were so shocked with the behavior of our employee we wanted to conduct a thorough investigation before replying to you. In the process

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Dear San Francisco Soup Company, I recently visited your restaurant in the San Francisco Airport. I enjoyed the zucchini muffin I purchased, however I do have a major complaint. When I reached the front of the line I requested to have the cahier fill my reusable water bottle, which I had just poured out before the security check. She refused. I was shocked and asked her why she wouldn’t do a

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Hello ECOS,I couldn't find any information about using your product in home gardens and gray water systems, so I decided to contact the company directly. I have been using your wonderful product for several months, and I am thinking about switching to it exclusively. I also am in the process of creating a gray water system to water my garden. I'm looking for a detergent not onlysafe to use in my

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Today was filled with contradiction.This morning Zuz and I awoke to the smell of bacon. This familiar childhood scent is now slightly nauseating when I consider the incriminating information I have learned about the other white meat. My overly generous roommate constantly tries to share his industrial food products with me, and this morning was no exception. He is so persistent with CAFO

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Check out the followup to Double Panes!!!

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Our friend David Roberts from Grist gave "Double Panes" the honor of being on the list of cringe worthy eco-songs. At first I wasn't quite sure if this was a complement, but upon further investigation I realized that he gave us the number 11 spot, "the best eco-song out there."

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Used Matters won in the Best Environmental category at the Marin County Fair Not only was there a nice cash prize the fair gave me a big green ribbon, like the one that you get for growing the biggest pumpkin or having the most viral steer. This is the first award I've ever gotten for one of my films and I will cherish it forever.Along with the ribbon I got two tickets to the festivities. On the

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Double Panes Lyrics[x2]I roll with a blower and I got mad gaugeIf you catch me on the corner put your name on my pageI'll come around here, we work it all dayI can do an audit in an hour if you wait[x2]Sometimes I'll be installing my frameI take a look around and see a bunch of single panesEveryone's a winner, efficiency gainsBona fide house doctor just making my name[x4]All I wanna do is (BANG

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On Tuesday, April 7 at 6pm, the Red Vic movie house is hosting a benefit for Pie Ranch, the farm and urban youth education center that also runs the popular Mission Pie. Pie From Scratch is playing on a double bill with King Corn. Pie From Scratch is a 12 minute documentary that Nilima Abrams and I made about Pie Ranch and the farm-to-school education programs that it has established with

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I'm almost finished shooting the film. I wanted to invite all of you to what will likely be the last scene, a Fossil Fuel Free Feast. Feel free to stop by if for a few minutes if you would like to check out the farm, see what we are growing, and have some extremely local pizza.This Sunday March 29 we will be firing up to cob oven to celebrate the beginning of spring. In the morning we will pick

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The Huffington Post featured Double Panes and our hits are going through the roof!!!

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Check out my video on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pezKEkBIhqA

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What impact do gifts count as? You get credit for giving them and if it weren’t for the giver, the item wouldn't exist in the gifted person’s life. The giver should take some responsibility even if it is to make sure that the gift was sustainably produced and can be sustainably disposed of. I totally surprised my mom. She invited all the parents of my childhood friends. I was wonderful to see

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I just got on a train to go visit my mother down in Orange County. I've always wondered how many people have to be riding the train before it becomes more energy efficient to take the train than drive a car. It's going to be a total surprise when I get there. She has no idea that I'm coming. She thinks I'm going to Skype in so I don't use fossil fuel, but I want to see her and I want to support

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It's Monday and I'm back. Thank goodness we few out when we did. Over 100 flights were canceled today. AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC..15kWh,refrigerator,Palo Alto Utilities,"Palo Alto, CA"27 miles,Driving,Zip car,Palo alto to mountain view,46 mpg8 bulbs ,Light in Jan's class,Stanford cogen,"Stanford, CA"3 bowls ,Cereal,Cascadian farms,Sedro Wolley Washington1 cup ,Milk ,Staus creamery ,"

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It's Sunday, and I haven't eaten this much food in two months. I didn't like the food I was eating any better than the local fare. I just didn't have any other option except to eat what was given to me, no questions asked. I wasn't going to ask the poor cashier at Dunkin Donuts if the donuts and coffee were local, especially not with 5 gruff Bostonian dudes wearing with goatees were waiting in

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I thought about flying today. My mom sent me the link to that video that is floating around youtube about how everything is amazing and nobody's happy. linkIt's totally true. If nothing else this project has made me appreciate technology more than ever. It has also given me a taste of what life would be like without it. "It" specifically being petroleum. Presently, each time we fly we pour tons

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I'm totally fed up with this project. I feel like I can't keep this up. My ideal lifestyle has been totally adulterated, and not only that, I'm still putting tons of effort into a goal that I can't accomplish. During the three months that I have been trying to live as sustainably as possible, I have done some of the least sustainable traveling possible. I have flown across the country twice.

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I ate the biggest most delicious burrito today, and I have no idea where it was from. I didn't have the energy, the time, or the money to make something local, and I cracked. I'm sorry. It was a fitting burrito. It's called the "super starving student burrito." Zuz and I each got one, and I ate a third of hers too.AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC..15kWh,refrigerator,Palo Alto Utilities,Palo Alto

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II made some oatmeal cookies for the first time ever. They were totally organic and almost completely local. The wheat was even from Full Belly Farms nearby. I needed some comfort food, and I needed to pig out a little. It wouldn't be very sustainable if I had to buy smaller jeans, would it?AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC..15kWh,refrigerator,Palo Alto Utilities,Palo Alto CA1.2kWh,office comp,

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark TwainI wish I could say the same. Classes are totally getting in the way of this film. It's difficult to make sure I get all the little assignments taken care of before class time, schedule shoots, come up with ideas, eat locally, and keep track of all my consumption. It's enough to make a person go a little mad...AMOUNT,ITEM,

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Each day gets more hectic than the last. Today I rode my bike from my house to the shakes performance of 2 Men of Verona and I brought all of my equipment. The stuff was so heavy that it took me twice as long to get to the venue. I got to the theater by the skin of my teeth to record the performance. So far so good but, I'm spinning plates and one of them is bound to fall. AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,

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It's Saturday and I had a productive day of shooting. Mike and I filmed at Collective Roots, a local non-profit dedicated to invigorating the local food movement in East Palo Alto. While I was there I got to talk to Wolfram, the head of the organization. He has been working in community gardens since the mid 80s and has created programs all over the state.I rented the Zip Car for the day because

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Energy Specialist David Coale explained to me today that there a new study found that the a sustainable amount of energy to use is about 2000 watts. Watts are a flow like a running hose. So in the course of a day, a 24 hours, at 2000 watts, is 48 kWh. It made me feel pretty good to know that I'm way under 48kWh per day. It also is making me consider creating an energy budget. Where I can spend

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The shoot with Joel Salatin was a huge success. It was getting towards the end of the garden tour and I had hardly said a word to the rock star farmer. I finally realized that if I didn't butt in, I wasn't going to get a shot worth showing in the movie. But man, can that fellow talk. I asked him what individuals can do to jump start the local food movement and he explained that is starts with

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Another whirlwind day. It's getting harder and harder to keep track of what I'm using because my schedule is getting more and more booked. I have started using a Google docs spreadsheet. Now I upload information from my phone and it goes directly into a handy dandy spreadsheet. Isn't that great? I'm getting ready for an interview with Joel Salatin tomorrow morning. I've heard that he can be

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Overwhelmed, tired and Hungry. AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC..14 kWh,Coffee maker and microwave1 cup,Oats,Sunridge farms,"Santa cruz, CA"1 cup,Coffee,Caffe ibis ,Peru1/4 cup,Raisins,Benzler,Fresno2.21kwh,Heater computer light,,,/21,Sandwich ,savvy Savories,"Berkeley, CA"1 bag ,rice chips,Lunberg," Richvale, CA".3kwh,Photo Class1.56kWh,Office computer2,carrots,Pinnacle Farms,"San Juan Batista,

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I'm getting really burnt out with this project and I need some time to regroup. I'm still keeping track of my usage, but I'm not sure where this film is going. I need to focus on the task at hand.AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC.1 cup ,coffee,Cafe Feminino,Peru,Triple Certified and made by and all women's co-operative farm1 cup ,yogurt,Wallaby ,"Napa, CA"1 cup ,granola,Galaxy Granola,"San Rafael

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AMOUNT,ITEM,COMPANY,LOCATION,MISC.1,bagel,Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels,Palo Alto. CA,"Flour from General Mills, Vancouver"4 Tbsp ,cream cheese ,Clover Organics ,"Petaluma, CA"1 cup ,coffee,Ibis ,Peru,Triple Certified1,fugi apple,Fruit Farm,"Winters, CA"5 slices,bread,San Francisco Bread Group,"San Francisco, CA"8 oz,grass fed beef,Old Creek Ranch,"Cayucos, CA"2 cups ,salad,Pinnacle Farms,"San Juan

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.42 kWh / 2 load of laundry.09 kWh coffee maker1 cup / tortilla chips / ___2 oranges / Fresno, CA2 cups / coffee/ ibis / triple certified / Perusnacked on samples Sigona's Farmers market / all over1/2 cup / prunes / CA1 chicken sausage / Trader Joes2 cups / salad / Pinnacle Farms / San Juan Batista, CA 1/2 onion / Pinnacle Farms / San Juan Batista, CA1 potato / Zuckerman's Farm / Stockton, CA3

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Jesse Cool invited me to film a class where she and Drew Harwell teach soon to be elementary school teachers how to maintain a school garden. The class was split into three groups. When I got there, Drew was teaching one group how to grow yarrow, lettuce, spinach, and chamomile in a single pot. Another group was preparing lunch with Jessie in her beautiful kitchen. A third group was harvesting

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Zuzanna and I had a much less expensive pre-valentines day dinner at the Cool Cafe. I have written about the cafe before, but I can't speak highly enough about it. Jessie Cool is committed to doing everything she can do to run her restaurant as sustainably as possible. She even has organic half & half for the Cafe Man coffee, a brew made by an indigenous co-op in Chiapas Mexico. Our meal was

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I have been supper busy, but I'm still keeping an active log of my consumption. This is the data for Tuesday and Wednesday.Day 52PhotoclassDriving / 10.8 miles / to and from the mechanic / 24 mpg3 Tbls / peanut butter / Santa Cruz, CA1 Tbls / strawberry jelly / Fontana Farms / Ceres, CA1 cup / walnuts / Fontana Farms / Ceres, CA1 cup / coffee / Allegro / Mexico 1 apple / Pinnacle Farms / San

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I had dinner last night with several people from the green community. Jeb calls himself a connection maker. He is involved with Acterra and is very involved in the Palo Alto Green community. David Coale is part of that community as well. He is a solar panel installation specialist and invited me to go on one of his jobs with him. We had a wonderful dinner, and I will see what come of this

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My Roommate Melanie asked me if I have been able to eat on a budget with my local food diet. You tell me if you think an all local, all organic, guilt free, diet is cost prohibitive. Here is a listing of most of the food that I will eat during the upcoming week. 12 eggs $41lb/ beef $71/2lb cheese $51/2lb / butter $61 laof / bread $3.251lb / yogurt $512oz / granola $51 head lettuce $1.501/2lb /

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Ditch Atkins, and loose a pound a week with the new local food diet. It's good for you and the environment.I have been loosing weight during this project, but for the last few days I have been very well fed. Zuz and I have eaten almost completely locally this week, and we are even incorporating the mushrooms that we cultivated ourselves. Also, my friend Gahl is an avocado distributor, and he sent

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4.2 on the consumt-0-meter1 cup / almonds / Fontana Farms / Ceres, CA3.78 kWh office40w / 22 fluorescent tubes / 8 hours / divided 2Almond poppy seed muffin / Costco ?shipping to sebastopol2 fillet snapper / Monterey Bay3 laves / kale / Pinnacle Farms / San Juan Batista, CA 1/2 onion / Pinnacle Farms / San Juan Batista, CA 1 cup / oyster mushroom / home grown3 garlic cloves / Pinnacle Farms /

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Frozen yogurt at Fraiche is local, organic, and totally delicious.

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I tried to write a my entire midterm paper for my photo history class using solar power. While I completed the paper, my printer failed on the last and final page of printing. Then I couldn't get the darn thing to print the last page. I ended up taking the file to campus and printing it there. I would say that the paper is 95% solar powered.You might find an excerpt from of the paper interesting:

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Progress is slow, but I'm starting to book interview dates with green folks around town. I've booked an interview with my mechanic to figure out what to do with my car. I'm in contact with Acterra for energy, Veggielution for food, and Linda Buzzell-Saltman for my mental health. After filming Acterra last weekend, I got a message from a woman named Laurna Fear. It seems that she would like to use

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The photo below is of a fully local lunch. The sour kraut is homemade and the cabbage came from San Juan Batista. The eggs are from Glaum's Farms near Santa Cruz where the chickens actually get to live outdoors like real chickens. They have 28 acres safe from predators (except for the farmers) to lay their eggs. There are 70,000 birds all together and the eggs are gathered by hand. The place

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I'm so busy with classes that I'm letting these posts slip a bit. My apologies.1 cup / almonds / / Fontana Farms / Ceres, CA4 apples / Pinnacle Farms / San Juan Batista, CA1 orange / Watsonville, CAJamie's classJan's class1 cup milk / Straus Creamery / Petaluma, CA1 cup / granola / Galaxy Granola / San Rafael, CA1/3 cup rasisn / Bezler Farms / Fresno, CA4 cup salad broccoli, cabbage, greens,

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I went to the farmers market, and met with several of the farmers who said they would be interested in participating in the film. I'm planning on filming at the Palo Alto Farmers Market next Sunday.Consumption Meter: 4.8.34kwh comp & lamp2 cups / coffee / Tully's Coffee / grown in Brazil / roasted in Seattle 2 bagels / Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels / ?1/2 tomato / ?6 Tbsp / cream cheese / ?2 slices /

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Today I filmed and participated in a green community event in Palo Alto. An organization called Acterra rallied 200 people from the community to distribute information on how to green our community and prepare in the event of an emergency. The organization offers free home energy audits to households in the community. I want to film an Acterra energy audit and then have them film an energy audit

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I need your input. I'm in contact with the leading practitioner on eco-psychology and eco-anxiety. She said she would be willing to talk to me about her practice and help me overcome my fear of environmental devastation. The only problem is that she lives in Santa Barbara and the CO2 that I will emit during the trip is causing even more eco-anxiety. What should I do? Should I offset my impact of

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Jesse Cool operates the Cool Cafe in the Sanford Museum. Her menu features mostly local and organic ingredients. It's so exciting to find restaurants that where I can trust that the food I ate was produced as ethically as possible. You are what you eat. Jesse has three restaurants total in the area, the other two being, the Flea St. Cafe and the JZ Cool Eatery. Maybe I can take Zuzanna on a date

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Jesse Cool operates the Cool Cafe at the Sanford Museum. Her menu features mostly local and organic ingredients. It's so exciting to find restaurants where I can trust that the food is produced as responsibly as possible. If you are what you eat, than eating from her restaurants will make you green. Jesse has three restaurants in the area. The other two are, the Flea St. Cafe and the JZ Cool

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.13 kWh / coffee maker1 cup / coffee / Cafe Feminino / Peru 1 cup yogurt / Straus Creamery / Marshall, CA1 cup / granola / Galaxy Granola / San Rafael, CA1.5 cups / pinto beans / Milk Pale Market1 tortilla / la tortilla factory / Santa Rosa. CA1 oz cheese / Spring Hill / Petaluma. CA .7 kWh / comp and lamp in office Photo history class750w / 2 hours / projector40w / 22 fluorescent tubes 100w / 12

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Enjoy!

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I found this wonderful little cupcake shop in the Town and Country shopping center. All of their cupcakes are produced as locally and sustainably as possible. Zuzanna and I tried the chocolate raspberry and the passion fruit cupcake. They were delicious. Above is an uploaded photo of their menu and you can visit there website at www.karascupcakes.com.15 kWh / comp & lamp,13 KWh / toast & coffee1

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Can anyone tell me why we went to Vietnam? Was it really because of the threat of communism, or was there a deeper American imperial agenda at work? I just watched a documentary called Hearts and Minds. This powerful film challenges US motivations for the Vietnam War, and does so in an extremely cinematic way. After the two-hour epic I was left feeling extremely frustrated because it seems like I

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I just got my rented book from Chegg.com. Apparently, they plant a tree for every book you rent. Way to be part of the solution, Chegg!!!

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I just bought lithium polymer rechargeable 9-volt batteries so I can solar power the wireless mics. I bought them from battery junction; the company who makes them is called iPower. I'm a little nervous about the safety of the batteries, but the website says that there are numerous safety mechanisms installed on the product. Also, I read more about lithium polymer batteries and they claim to be

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Here is a letter template to figure out where your food comes from. Lets see if it works. Send the letter to your favorite eco-product and how they respond. Then post their response as a comment on this blog. Dear Sir or Madam:I’m writing to enquire about the production of (eco-product X). I’m very pleased with the quality of (eco-product X). I appreciate that you are committed to producing a

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I'm putting the final touches on my proposal, and it should be approved by the end of tomorrow. It has been a huge trial to complete the treatment for my film. I have no idea exactly what will happen over the course of the next few months, but I had to write a proposal as if I did. I wrote it a little like a short story. I imagined what my characters would say, and how they would react to various

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I'm getting back on track with my project. I'm exhausted from the long weekend and I need to get to bed early tonight. I think the weekends post should keep anyone reading busy so I'm just going to give the rundown of today's use. Consumpt-0-meter: 3.8.06kWh / coffee grinder and maker1 cup / coffee / Cafe Femenino / shade grown fair trade / Peru 1 cup / hot rice cereal / CaliforniaJamie's Class2

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My fossil fuel fast has been put on hiatus for the past few days. I've been keeping track as best I can, but I’ve done a mediocre job. I'm sitting in the airport watching CNN waiting for a later flight because I missed my original connecting flight by 2 minutes. I'm going to fill you in on an embarrassing secret that shows how crazy I am becoming. After pouring massive amount of CO2 into the

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Presently, eco-friendly flight is not commercially viable. I sat on my flight and ate a bag of organic granola looking on in disgust at the hundred of sodas cans and number 2 plastics that were never going to be recycled. If not for my hippie snack my eco-anxiety would have been unbearable. Reading Good Magazine on the fight also helped. I wonder what the older fellows beside me thought when I

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I'm flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow. It's totally against the ideology of my project, but I have a responsibility to my classmates. Each of us crews for another classmate. I was assigned to Meghan's project. I'm pretty nervous about the weather, but it will give me a change to see what the "real world" is like. According to Sustainable Travel International my round trip is going to put about 1.7

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I'm not sure exactly what I want the film to be and look like, but I know that I want to include complex issues. Take the example of food miles. Some studies have shown that because of economies of scale, it’s more efficient to produce and ship large quantities of a product from half way around the world than to produce them locally. However, there are other reasons for going local then food

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I just learned how to ferment cabbage from my friend Monica. She teaches middle school science and is a wonderful instructor. Fermenting cabbage is simple. First you get large food container. Next you cut up a pound or two of cabbage. Then you salt the cabbage and put it in the container. The only tricky part is to press the cabbage periodically. The salt sucks the water out of the cabbage and as

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GREEN FILMS GALORE   Garbage !  A film that shows a family getting totally swallowed by the waste they produce over the course of three months.  Princess Mononoke A beautiful animation by the director of Spirited Away. The spirit of the forest is in distress and it's caused by human impact. King Corn We are made of corn. A film that shows how corn is integral to the industrial food system.

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I Grass Tip of the day: My solar shower was 104 degrees. It was the hottest shower I've taken in weeks. It's easy to modify a camping shower to get your water way hotter. Cut open a cardboard box and line it with aluminum foil. Be creative and try different things. Put the water out in the morning and it will be hot when you get home from school or work. Then when you learn of the awesome power

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I hardly used anything today, but if I continued to live this way I will certainly become malnourished. The farmers market is tomorrow morning and I will make sure to stock up. I rode to Hidden Villa to begin my training as a docent. http://www.hiddenvilla.org/ The farm educator, Sarah going to introduce me to some of the outspoken and eccentric folks who are involved in the organization. I'm

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I was able to warm some water up to about 85 degrees today and got to take the hottest shower I've had in weeks. There are three solar showers on campus, but none of them are hooked up correctly at the moment. Hopefully, the class on renewable energy will have one working soon so I can shower with a little more regularity. As you can see some of the things that I'm eating are not as local as they

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Today is my first solar powered post. My brother, Dan kindly agreed to let me borrow the computer for the duration of the project. The machine consumes about 50 watts of electricity compared to my desktop that uses 4 time that amount. It's not the fastest computer, but I think it will do a fine job. Yesterday my mother called me with some wonderful news. She signed up with Solar City, and my

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There is nearly scientific consensus that our consumption of fossil fuel is changing the composition of our atmosphere. For all but a small minority, anthropogenic climate change is no longer a question. It’s a fact. Finding alternatives to a petroleum-based system is imperative for the survival of our civilization, but turning the dream of a sustainable world into a reality is proving to be a

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Today was the first day of classes. I only had one class today, but it made me realize that I need to keep track of much more now that I'm back at school. For example, I was in the classroom for about an hour and a half, there were 40 fluorescent tubes, 12 large incandescent bulbs, and a Panasonic projector running for the who time. Furthermore, the room was climate controlled. The energy

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I didn't use much today but I didn't do much either. I have been writing in circles again, trying to figure out the movie’s structure my movie and figure out what scenes to film. It’s getting late, and I'm getting very cold so I'll make this quick.When I look at nature not only do I see unparalleled beauty, I see an extremely effective design. Nature, god, mother earth, what ever you want to call

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Zuz and I rode our bikes to Hidden Villa today. Zuz was pretty nervous because she had never ridden that far, and I was nervous because I know how much her bike sucks. We really need to get her a road bike, but we made it there safe and sound. We took a workshop on home mushroom cultivation and began to foster a relationship with Hidden Villa. I want to include them in my movie in some capacity.

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When Zuzanna and I woke up this morning we could see our breath. We decided that the most productive way we could spend our time was to remain under the covers because the alternative would have meant freezing our butts off. I turned to her, and as my breath condensed midair, thanked her for putting up with my insanity. She tells me that she is having fun learning how to reduce her impact and

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These days I am able to accomplish much less. I don't know if it is because of my compulsive accounting of the things I consume or if the cold winter has slowed my productivity. Lately, I have spent more time cooking, eating, and biking and less time in front of a computer working. Also at the end of each day, I'm left feeling tired. I don't have to worry about insomnia or getting enough exercise

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Last night I drove a Zip Car for the first time. I reserved the car, I rode my bike onto campus, swiped the Zip Card, then drove a Prius to pick Zuzanna up from the San Jose airport. JetBlue misplaced one of her bags and she was dealing with the airlines until moments before midnight. At midnight we were able to share a magical New Years kiss. I dropped her off at her house and rushed back to

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Last night I took the Caltrain to the city and rode my bike the rest of the way to Andrew and Karen's house on Potrero Hill. I met up with Levi, Joe, and Lindsay, some friend from college who are visiting SF new years. We took a bus to the Mission and cabbed it home. I'm running into some major obstacles. This was the most eco-friendly way I could think of getting to my friends, but I still used

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Today was warm and simple, but tonight is going to be more difficult. I spent the day writing a tardy term paper. I should be done with it by tomorrow. My roommate Tim is preparing to move and willed me his white sage bush. He explained that the tiny medicinal herb was an essential element used in Native American ritual steam huts. He also told me how the plant is wise. It grows very slowly.

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It's a warm 52 degrees tonight, but I'm still wearing my glittens while I type. This project is already doing two things to me. It's making me appreciate daylight and summer so much more. I have been making up for some of my wasteful indiscretions from a few days ago. My biggest energy demand was for cooking pinto beans and pasta. This morning I freed Nilima's keys from her office and went over

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Let's keep this short and sweet. Grant took off in the morning and Beth, Aaron, and I spent the day together. We ate some cereal then headed over to the farmers market. I tried to figure out where Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels sources their wheat, but no one there had a clue. I talked to the farmers at the market and they new exactly where their food was from. I bought Veggies from King City and San

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Tell me if you think I fell off the wagon today. When Beth, Aaron, and I woke up, I realized that it's really hard to be a good host when you haven't been buying anything for a week. We biked to Safeway to get some ingredients. My goal was to make pancakes from scratch. It took a little extra time, but now I know that the difference between pre-made pancake mix and plain flour. It’s a few

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Hello My Peeps,Today was pretty interesting. I fell behind last quarter and have been trying desperately to catch up during this break. Today I was able to finish all of the work for one of my classes. I weatherproofed some of my room this morning and while I was working on the house I got a call from some college friends. My friends, Aaron and Beth called and asked if they could crash at my

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Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas to everyone. I Skyped with my family today in lieu of traveling home for the Holidays. I tried to film our rendezvous, but it turned into a minor disaster. I rode my bike to campus to pick up the camera from my Nilma’s office. It was raining off an on, and I was fighting to stay out of the rain. I picked up the camera and began to ride home. It started to rain

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Kristi, here is the weatherproofing that, I'm using. I don't know how environmentally friendly it is, but I am almost certain that it is better than wasting fuel on heat all winter. Mike, I can't believe that there is a solar powered welder. The sun is awesome.I got a hair cut today, and I made sure that the barber cut my hair by hand and not with clippers.Here's what I used:1 Apple /

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