{"id":1333,"date":"2010-09-05T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/05\/low-impact-movie\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:06:24","slug":"low-impact-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/05\/low-impact-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"low impact movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9Ctt7FGFBo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&lt;a href=&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/levelground.info\/#\/featured-article\/4539720766\">Level Ground<\/a> has an excellent review by <a href=\"http:\/\/another-green-world.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/no-impact-man.html\">Another Green World<\/a>&#8216;s Derek Wall of the eco-doc <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmJ1JxeM-9M&amp;feature=related\">No Impact Man<\/a> (you can click the title to watch the whole thing, apparently).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We can&#8217;t collect bottles and line them up until we get to a sustainable world. Structural change rather than individual action is essential. Take transport, I think the first battle is to get people out of their cars and into the subway. However without real investment in public transport this isn&#8217;t going to work. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The film is a slow burn joy; the most important points come out of the cracks and between the lines. [&#8230;] Colin, by subverting the reality genre, provides environmental education in spades.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] the real No Impact Man (and women and children) lives in Colombia, Latin America and is absent from Beavan&#8217;s film. In Colombia, Afro-Colombian communities live green lives, growing their food organically and gently prospering on very little. Ironically they are under attack from the paramilitary death squads, as powerful figures make a grab for their land, so that palm oil plantations can be used to make quick profits for bio-fuels to run cars in the USA driven by greens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/levelground.info\/#\/featured-article\/4539720766\">here.<\/a> (I haven&#8217;t seen the film yet, so can&#8217;t comment on it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;Level Ground has an excellent review by Another Green World&#8216;s Derek Wall of the eco-doc No Impact Man (you can click the title to watch the whole thing, apparently). We can&#8217;t collect bottles and line them up until we get to a sustainable world. Structural change rather than individual action is essential. 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