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Forthcoming eco-doc pedals the message home

by The Green A-Team

It’s one thing to make a documentary film on America’s sustainable communities but it’s another to do it by bike.

The hand brakes have been applied to the pedal-powered production phase of a soon-to-be-released documentary film called Within Reach, a 6000 mile bike tour of communities, cohabitations, and communes shot entirely using solar-powered electronics and leg-powered bicycles.

We caught up with riders, director, and producer Ryan Mlynarczyk and Mandy Creighton encamped and rejuvenating at the Joyful Path Healing and Meditation Center out in Blue Mounds Wisconsin.

For us that meant eco villages, co-housing communities which are more of an urban, townhouse style co-habitation, a co-op where everybody lives under the same roof but you each have your own bedroom.  And then we also visited a couple of the old communes that are still around.

The movie isn’t slated to be screened until Earth Day 2011 but you can catch teasers, clips and blog posts on their website, WithinReachMovie.com.

For more on sustainable communities and the full interview with Mandy and Ryan, click here.

Photos by Ryan Mlynarczyk.


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Current.com: The Collective Conscienctiousness

by Rich Awn

If you’re not getting enough from your bookmarking sites, readers, comment apps, and content penetrators, stop squirming and start sharing on Current.com.

Recent noodlings around this explosive and intelligent community have seen two Green Air posts make it to the homepage and one almost made it on TV! While that may sound tawdry, I assure you this is like total vilification amid the hulking mass of Google AdSense supported contamination out there.

The ultra-sympathetic and largely discerning user base rapidly shares content through a media accelerator that does most of the work for you.  Once a url is submitted, pictures from the submission can be selected, descriptions can be made, heart palpitating headlines can be added as well as links, files, and a webcam soundoff recorder if you can’t bark your point accross loudly enough with words.  Customizable notifications are available and I would recommend customizing with a heavy hand.  I checked all the boxes and allow 100% of the updates on new submissions and comments to be emailed to me and admitedly, it’s a bit much.

What’s slightly unnerving from a traditional broadcast perspective is how the Current TV News segment has the sound of total automation and the complete absence of anyone real producing it.  The tin-throated cyber female announcer delivers the generic interstitial copy with perfect diction and the top stories are there from the most votes accumulated from (what we hope are) human users.  This isn’t to say I’m not totally impressed by it… I’m just worried talking heads may be obsolete pretty soon!

I’ll say I’ve had more fun and ease of use with Current than any other social bookmarking site I’m on (and I’m a whole lot).  So if you go, add me!


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Green Project in B.C. Burns Sawdust, Treats Sewage in Backyard

by The Green A-Team

Full Bloomberg article here.

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Like the bright but annoying kid in class that raises his hand whenever the teacher asks a question, Canada is running laps around the rest of North American sustainable design projects with this 15-acre master-planned sustainable community located along the harbourfront of downtown Victoria.

This keystone project from Windmill West is putting a price behind it’s platinum LEED promises, offering up $1 million to the city of Victoria if Canada’s Green Building Council doesn’t legitimize their claims.  With vocabulary like “natural capitialism” and “New Urbanism” entering the lexicon of developers and architects, sustainable communities may be a thing of the nearer future than expected… and not a moment too soon!  If you just can’t wait, there’s one in Sweden (pictured) where the residents look quite happy.

Photo by Ivonne de la Guardia.


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Visit Izzit:
Sniffing Out the Green Stuff That’s Up to Snuff

by Rich Awn

Ever wonder if your local pizza place is donating it’s fry oil to veggie deisel converts?

Allow your queries to be queer no more – introducing IzzitGreen.com!

In the spirit of quitting-your-job-to-save-the-world, founders Peter Hughes, President, and Tom Permatteo, CEO, jammed their skills earned in the corporate tech trenches into an environmental particle accelerator and out popped this nifty website.  What it does is allows you, the interested participant with varying shades of Green, to be proactive in how you shop, eat, and enjoy life.

Izzit does a lot of the work for you by providing guides and background information for a constantly expanding category list of businesses.  With forums and groups under development, your quiver will be flush with Green arrows to grill your favorite establishments and then discuss with other Izzit members in your zip code.

The niftiest thing about joining Izzit and telling your friends is that they’ve partnered with the Food Project, a Community Supported Agricultural organization, who will donate a serving of fresh, organic, locally grown food to a neighbor in need.  TOO COOL!!!

The Green A-Team stands by the burgeoning community of IzzitGreen.com… so sign up and have some fun!

Photo by Alex Denniston.


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