Center for Economic Security

THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Shot in Europe and the United States, “The Next Industrial Revolution” is a 55 minute film about the movement led by architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart to bring together ecology and commerce. It includes the stories of three Michigan companies and their revolutionary efforts to reinvent the fundamental DNA of the industrial revolution. This film has been translated into four languages and is used to promote industrial sustainability around the globe.

Winner The Chris Award, Columbus International Filn Festival

WHAT WILL WE EAT?

“What Will We Eat?” is a new 26 minute film that reveals the growing crisis in industrial agriculture and how a grassroots coalition of consumers and small farmers is inventing a healthy, humane, homegrown alternative. Filmed primarily in West Michigan, “What Will We Eat?” focuses on the success of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market in Muskegon – Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusively sell local produce raised according to organic standards and products from animals raised humanely.

East Lansing Film Festival, Muskegon Film Festival, Annapolis Film Festival, Saugatuck Film Festival

To purchase "What Will We Eat?" (by Credit Card), visit the Chris Bedford Films section of the Local Harvest website www.localharvest.org/store/M10155

OR you can purchase it by check. Individuals send $25/DVD and Institutions (including all non-paid screening rights) send $100/DVD to Chris Bedford, 6543 Hancock Road, Montague, MI 49437.

THE ORGANIC OPPORTUNITY

This 26 minute film tells the story of the first county in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development. In 2005, Woodbury County, Iowa became the first county in the nation to offer tax rebates to farmers who transition to organic agriculture. In 2006, the county became the first in the nation to mandate the purchase of locally grown organic food by county institutions. And in 2006 the county offered access to farm land and housing to new farmers to relocate to Woodbury County to farm organically.

Home to the Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market in Sioux City -- the nation's first farmers market to exclusively sell "healthy, humane, homegrown" food -- Sioux City and Woodbury County have begun an economic rennaissance around the operation and promotion of small organic family farms growing for local consumption. "The Organic Opportunity" looks at these developments in depth, offering anyone interested in economic development and healthy food a model for change in their communities.

To purchase "The Organic Opportunity" visit the Chris Bedford Films section of the Local Harvest website. www.localharvest.org/store/M10155

Or you can purchase a DVD by check. Send $25 to CHRIS BEDFORD, #6543 Hancock Road, Montague, MI 49437. Institutions can purchase the film, with all non-paid screening rights for $100.

COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher & the Reinvention of the Local Economy

In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial derivatives.  In the 1970s, “Small is Beautiful” helped launch a back-to-the-land movement that is the ancestor to the Local Food Revolution of today.

For the last three decades, the E.F. Schumacher Society has transformed Schumacher’s ideas into a series of practical innovations – reinventing much of the local economy of Great Barrington, Massachusetts and southern Berkshire County in the process. 

Chris Bedford’s new 37 minutes film, COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy tells the story of the Society’s remarkable work that includes founding of the nation’s first CSA, economic development based on Community Land Trusts, and the creation of the nation’s most successful local currency – BerkShares.

To purchase "COMING HOME" (by Credit Card), visit the Chris Bedford Films section of the Local Harvest website www.localharvest.org/store/M10155

OR you can purchase it by check. Individuals send $30/DVD and Institutions (including all non-paid screening rights) send $100/DVD to Chris Bedford, 6543 Hancock Road, Montague, MI 49437.