Enriching Content

Speakers
Rashid Littlejohn, AKA Mr. Ecoswag
www.mygreencampaign.blogspot.com
Rashid's goal is to make the green campaign "cool" and accessible to urban youth ages 14-21. He promotes his 10 Green Tips for being the "green you" and uses hip hop as a means to capture kids attention. He works with the NY Restoration Project on their MillionTrees NYC Campaign and does tree stewardship in NYCHA Housing Projects.

Mike Gregoretti 1 (877) 4.LESSOIL (453-7764) email - Mikeg@lessoil.com, 
www.lessoil.com  
He is very interested in speaking to people about how cleaning up heating systems can improve efficiency in order to save businesses money. I thought he would be a perfect guest speaker for the DoRight Leadership Corporation’s Business Audits.
Books
Garbage Land: The Secret Trail of Trash & Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte
www.bottlemania.net
Both books are easy and enjoyable to read. The first book is about a woman from Brooklyn, NY who counts up and explores where all her garbage goes. The second book is about the rise of bottled water consumption and the battle over water rights and especially how it relates to the struggle of the people of Maine to try to get Nestle to stop pumping their water to produce Poland Springs.

Diet for a Small Planet & Getting a Grip by Francis Moore Lappe
www.smallplanet.org
The first was written by her in 1970 and is about how the American Diet is the root cause of world hunger and increase in our health crisis and how we can fix it. The second is more recent and is about how we create a living democracy by taking social action about the issues we care about.
Short Films
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5934530156227758850
This 19 minute film is about the rise of consumerism, capitalism, and waste in the US. She has a book by the same title http://www.gonetomorrow.org/.

Shame on You: That Can Be Reused by Educational Video Center
www.snagfilms.com/films/title/shame_on_you_that_can_be_reused/
This 12 minute film was made by NYC High School Students. It's about environmental racism in the South Bronx, which has the highest rates of asthma in the US due to the waste transfer stations. It suggests that one solution is through recycling.

PBS's Point of View: Bottle Water*
www.pbs.org/pov/borders/2004/water/water_bottle.html
This 6-minute film is about bottled water usage, marketing, and people perceptions of tap water.

Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers on PopCast* 
www.poptech.com/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=150
In this 20 minute film Chris Jordan talks about how he creates his photography to try to and convey statistics about American consumption and waste.

Plastic Debris on YouTube*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwuPSLx2Xc
This 6-minute film is about plastic in the Ocean due to litter.

Synthetic Sea on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Verhi88kR60
This 7-minute film is about the affects of plastic in the ocean on marine life.

The Story of Stuff
www.storyofstuff.com
This 20 minute film is about consumerism in the USA, where our things come from, and how our lifestyle can not be sustained by the planet.

PVC - Poison Plastic
www.pvcfree.org
This 5-minute film is a cartoon about PVC.
Feature-Length Films
Garbage: The Revolution Starts At Home
www.garbagerevolution.com
This documentary is about a family in Toronto that saves their garbage for 3 months and explores where all their garbage goes.

The History Channel Presents The Works: Garbage*
http://shop.history.com/detail.php?p=67820&v=All
This 50-minute film is very kid friends and explores garbage, with a specific emphasis on NYC. It talks about how much trash we generate, what types of each kind we make, where it all goes, how things get recycled, problems with plastic in the Ocean and what sorts of new and innovative technologies people are coming up with in order to address some of the garbage problems. Two misconceptions of the film are that all landfills generate energy by producing methane gas, a greenhouse gas, less than 3% in the US are doing this. Also they talk about how incinerators can scrub all pollutants out of the air, which is not true.

Addicted to Plastic
www.crypticmoth.com/plastic.php
This documentary explores the history, uses, and problems associated with plastic.

Garbage Warrior **
www.garbagewarrior.com
This documentary features an architect from New Mexico named Michael Reynolds who builds sustainable houses "off the grid" out of garbage (old tires, bottles, cans, etc) and the legal challenges he faces in the process.

Blue Vinyl **
www.bluevinyl.org
This documentary is about PVC (vinyl) and its harmful affects on the manufactures and residents surrounding the factories.

The Future of Food **
www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
This film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. (Viewing time: 1:28:54) you can watch it online for FREE.

The 11th Hour **
http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/
Along the same lines as An Inconvenient Truth, this documentary is by Leonard DiCaprio about climate change and what we can do about it. There are a lot of interviews with experts, including some information on biomimicry. Trashed http://www.trashedmovie.com/ This documentary is about garbage and landfills.

FLOW (For Love of Water) **
www.trashedmovie.com
This documentary is about corporate take over of water, especially in third world countries.

King Corn **
www.kingcorn.net
This film is about the corn industry in the US, how it is grown, what it is used for, and it's affects on our health.

*Micki Josi has created worksheets for in class use and posted them on her school recycling website www.ms447.org (go to class pages, mathematics, school recycling committee). Questions, comments, suggestions: please email me at micki@educatingtomorrow.org.

** These movies are on Nexflix.