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Forthcoming eco-doc pedals the message home
by The Green A-TeamIt’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.