MEDIA THAT MATTERS: GOOD FOOD
Ready for some film for thought? Media That Matters brings you our first FOCUS release -- a collection of shorts on food and sustainability. Watch and take action for a healthy, sustainable and delicious future.
The Luckiest Nut In The World
- Join the Big Noise Campaign and add your voice to millions around the world who are calling for decision makers to make trade fair.
- Purchase fair trade products through Transfair.
- Make trade fair through Oxfam America.
Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)
- Find out where to purchase fresh, locally grown food in your area from FoodRoutes.
- Read Global Exchage’s 10 ways to democratize the global ecomony.
- Share your thoughts on farm policy with the House Committee on Agriculture and the get the facts on the food from the Family Farm Act.
- Get updates from the Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board.
Food Justice: A Growing Movement
- Join the Center for Food and Justice’s fight for a sustainable and socially just food system.
- Learn more about the People’s Grocery, developing creative solutions to the health, environmental and economic challenges the community faces every day.
- Campaign for health, justice, and sustainability through the Organic Consumers Association.
Recycle
- Get recycling tips from Earth 911.
- Discover the Homeless Garden Project and learn how to replicate the progam in your community.
- Get involved in the Reclaim the Future initiative helping to shape green economies in cities around the country.
Inch By Inch: Providence Youth Gardens for Change
- Gain access to land, education and other resources to grow food in environmentally sustainable, local, affordable, and nutritious ways in the Greater Providence area.
- Launch new ideas about youth and adults partnering to create social change through sustainable agriculture.
- Help strengthen and expand school farming activities in states with existing program and assist other that do not yet have programs.
Terminator Tomatoes
- Find alternative news and information about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness concentration, farm and trade policy and sustainable agriculture.
- Learn how the Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN), a network of activists, farmers, and NGOs, work on the myriad of issues surrounding biotechnology.
- Learn extensive information on the complex and controversial issue of genetic engineering.
Young Agrarians
- Support the Farm to School Program by signing the Community Food Security Coalition’s petition.
- Search the Local Harvest map for farmer’s markets, family farms and locally grown produce in your community.
- Read “10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food for You and Your Family” from Farm Aid.
- Learn 10 things you can do today for food, media and living democracy from the Small Planet Institute.
Profit Cola
- Advocate with the American Public Health Association and learn more about food legislation, advocacy, policy, and marketing especially advertising directed at adolescents.
- Learn about food marketing to children and youth. Is it a threat or an opportunity?
- Learn and Teach about food advertising through a series of teacher friendly lessons, such as: “Rooting Out the Truth in Food Ads.”
Water Warriors
- Help implement the Water Affordability Program by contacting the Director of Detroit’s Water and Sewage Department.
- Join people around the world for Blue October an international month of action to challenge corporate control of water and to protect water as a shared natural resource available to all.
- Get the facts on water privatization from the Our Communites, Our Water campaign.
Don't Worry
- Advocate with the Center for Science in the Public Interest on health and nutrition issues. There are also interactive game/site about food for kids.
- Check out the Bad Ad contest on The New Mexico Media Literacy Project. The org empowers people to become more critical consumers of media messages.
- Join the Alliance for a Media Literate America in promoting media literacy education that focuses on critical inquiry, learning, and skill building.
One More Dead Fish
- Volunteer to encourage dialogue, share information, and create strategies and actions that promote the survival and development of Nova Scotia’s coastal and rural communities.
- Learn how to choose fish wisely.
- Promote sustainable cuisine by celebrating the joys of local, seasonal, and artisanal cooking with the food community.
The Meatrix
- Learn how to live sustainably from Sustainable Table.
- Join the fight against factory farms through the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
- Help victims of the factory farm industry through Farm Sanctuary.
- Find local organic alternatives through Local Harvest.
The Future of Food
- Learn more about what the Center for Food Safety is doing to protect human health and the environment.
- Join The Campaign in creating legislation that will require the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the United States.
- Support the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed through The Organic Seed Alliance.
Food for Thought
- Learn to be Healthy: Educational activities for educators and students brought to you by the Highmark Foundation. Everything from teacher lesson plans to student games.
- Expand the supply of food resources available to low-income communities through advocacy, model programs, and research on food disparaties.
- Campaign for health, justice, and sustainability through the Organic Consumers Association. Here, you can also learn about genetic engineering and the need for natural foods.
Broken Limbs: Searching for the New American Farmer
- Start a “convivium” in your area with the help of Slow Food U.S.A, an organization dedicated to preserving agricultural traditions.
- Support the national labeling program that helps consumers find sustainable foods on their grocers’ shelves.
- Join Edible Communities, a network working to rebuild the connection between consumers and their local food sheds.
Ripe for Change
- Focus on healthy eating, physical activity, media literacy, self-esteem, and positive activism for youth ages 10-18 with the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation. Also, learn about the FUEL video series.
- Rethink school lunch and talk about the edible schoolyard initiative in Berkeley as well as learn about the transformation of public education to include stronger cultural and societal values.
- Grow and Cook! Slow Food in Schools is a unique national program of garden to table projects with children that cultivates the senses and teaches an ecological approach to food.
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