Eat The Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age
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EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne's "permablitzers" as they prepare for the end of the oil age... one garden at a time.
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| Video information | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Caitlin Hall |
| Directed by | Tanya Curnow |
| Contact | write the producer |
| Produced | Jan 30, 2009 |
Full Description
Peak oil theorist Richard Heinberg believes global oil production will climax in 2010, sending our oil-dependent food infrastructure into a tailspin. Modern conventional farming uses 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy. A group of young permaculture activists in Melbourne is trying to address this imbalance. One garden at a time, they are digging in and converting suburban lawns to tiny organic farms.
Eat The Suburbs received its world premiere at the 2007 Hot Docs International Film Festival, but is available online for first time here.
A film by Tanya Curnow.
See:
Richard Heinberg: www.richardheinberg.com
Permablitz: www.permablitz.net
Eat The Suburbs (Adam's blog from which film name was taken): www.eatthesuburbs.org
