Category Archives: television & film

Eating Alabama: The Film

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 30, 2012
Eating Alabama began as a blog and film project to document the efforts of two couples in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area to eat food produced entirely within the state. It started as a six month endeavor and stretched into a year, and continued to affect their lives and eating habits afterwards. Now it’s a full-length film [...]
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 8, 2011
WHAT: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (film) WHEN: Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7pm WHERE: 111 St James Avenue, just west of Summit Street, Fairhope AL COST: $5 donation requested CONTACT: 251.928.8133 The documentary movie The Real Dirt on Farmer John, (2007, 82 minutes) is the true story about a Midwestern farmer who was [...]
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Reading Lists

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 5, 2011
I’m still compiling my own reading list page for my resources, but in the mean time here’s a couple of lists of slow food and sustainable food reading materials. From the Slow Food Blog, a list of articles, books, films, and web sites. At Audubon Magazine, prominent names in the sustainable food field give their [...]
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The Silence of the Bees

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 15, 2011
Although new research has revealed the likely cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in honeybees – a combination of a virus and a fungus – we still don’t know how to combat this extremely serious problem. On Saturday, March 19 at 7pm on APT IQ, Alabama Public Television rebroadcasts the 2007 Nature documentary “The Silence [...]
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LFPI October Meeting and Screening of What’s “Organic” About Organic?

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 11, 2010
WHAT: Fairhope LFPI October meeting/Screening of the documentary film What’s “Organic” About Organic? WHEN: Monday, October 18 at 6:30pm WHERE: Auditorium of the Fairhope Public Library COST: free, although contributions will be accepted FROM THE FILM’S WEB SITE: WHAT’S ORGANIC ABOUT “ORGANIC?” rings the alarm for the need to develop an ecological consciousness. The film [...]
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The Food and Climate Connection

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 24, 2010
From the Slow Food blog comes a link to a new online film from WHY Hunger called The Food and Climate Connection. [It] highlights the impact of today’s global food system on the climate and how a community-based food movement around the world is bringing to life a way of farming and eating that’s better [...]
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Garden Story on Public Television

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 24, 2010
I happened to sit down in front of the television today when the show Garden Story was on Alabama Public Television. I’d never seen it before, and this episode was about the community gardens of New York City’s lower East Side (a nice connection to this week’s Earth Day talk). The program is a ten-part [...]
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Food, Inc. to air on Alabama Public Television

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 13, 2010
WHAT: Food, Inc. WHEN: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 8pm WHERE: Alabama Public Television (or check your local PBS station for air dates and times) “You’ll never look at dinner the same way.” This excellent documentary showed up on critics’ lists as one of the best films of 2009 and was nominated for an Academy [...]
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Nature: Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 11, 2010
Most gardeners I know, and most children, love hummingbirds. If you fall into one of those categories – or even if you don’t, check out the newest episode of PBS’ Nature, Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air. It is filled with stunning cinematography, including plenty of high speed and slow motion footage, fascinating scientific work, and [...]
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Daniel Goleman on Bill Moyers Journal

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 2, 2010
At the Bill Moyers Journal site you can watch video or read a transcript of his interview with Daniel Goleman, psychologist, science journalist, and best-selling author. They discuss his 2009 book Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. Also mentioned, the Good Guide web site and how it [...]
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