I’ve never done very well with the whole “Wordless Wednesday” thing – guess I just have too much to say! But it’s always good to just shut up and enjoy sometimes…
Category: Media
What is an Urban Farm?
How do you define an “urban farm?” Film maker Dan Susman, co-creator of the forthcoming Growing Cities, tries to do so after witnessing dozens of efforts to produce food in urban settings.
How to Dry Your Hands with Just One Paper Towel
Learn how to dry your hands in public with just a single paper towel… and cut your own paper consumption.
The Urban Farm Comes to Film: Growing Cities
Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette saw that, despite the growth of urban agriculture around the United States, there wasn’t much going on in their home town of Omaha, Nebraska on this front… so they decided to strike out on a road trip to see what was happening in other cities. Growing Cities, a feature-length documentary, is the result of that road trip.
ENERGY STAR Celebrates Twenty Years of Changing the World
ENERGY STAR is celebrating 20 years of empowering Americans to save energy with its “Change the World” campaign. Take a look at how you can share your own efforts to use energy more efficiently with others.
SnagFilms’s Top 5 Earth Day Movies
To honor this year’s Earth Day, SnagFilms has brought to you a collection of excellent films that speak towards our need to protect our planet.
On Coal River: The Costs of "Cheap" Electricity (Movie)
The SnagFilms documentary On Coal River follows the lives of men, women, and children in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia who battle a large coal company.
The Deep Inner Thoughts of a Plastic Shopping Bag (Film)
Born from a supermarket in a seemingly suburban setting, an anonymous plastic bag embarks on an all too human and all too existential struggle for meaning and significance… really!
The Woodwalk Goes to Park City: the Paradigm Project on Film
The Paradigm Project showed up in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival to screen a short film on its own work cleaning up cooking in the developing world… and you can watch that film right here.
5 Problems with Being a Throwaway Society (Film)
Where does trash really go? A common misconception is that if we simply throw something away, then it will magically go to a place where we can forget about it forever. However, acting out of convenience and without consideration for the bigger environmental picture (and for our future), we have contributed to a throwaway culture in America. The SnagFilms documentary Trashed illuminates five major ways in which the seemingly trivial act of throwing away garbage has much more profound environmental and societal implications.
Inspiring: Hundreds of Jaw-Dropping Small Cabin and House Pics
Find inspiration in tiny homes? Like to spend time looking at how other people are creating small but livable spaces? Set aside a few hours, then, to browse the photographs at free cabin porn.
Global Water Resources: Where We Get It & What We Do With It (Infographic)
Where do we get our water? What do we use it for? The answers may surprise you, and clarify why we need to focus even more on conserving our precious water resources.
5 Reasons We Should be Concerned about Fracking (Film)
We all know that the affordability, efficiency, and sustainability of cleaner, greener energy will be a major challenge for this century. Some have called natural gas a better and cleaner energy source; yet, even if we set aside this hot air, the process of extracting the gas (called hydraulic fracturing or fracking) proves problematic for both environmentalists as well as those in proximity to the wells. SnagFilms’ After the Gas Rush series explores the dangers associated with natural gas fracking.