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Showing 1 - 10 of 41 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Local Economies
Bread Bike
Sam, Matt and Mariah are three energetic young people on California’s central coast, un-inspired by what they studied in college, but, with a passion for dough - the bread kind.
Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 19 minutes
Company Town
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 77 minutes
Entangled
How climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, North America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 75 minutes
The Farmers of Gaho
Farmers in Ethiopia have mastered dryland agriculture.
Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 21 minutes
Farming the Sky
Winters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are long, and the growing season is short. A head of lettuce travels an average 2,000 miles to get there, often arriving shriveled and tasteless. Architect Nona Yehia knew there had to be a better way to get food to eat. Traditional industrial scale agriculture might never be replaced, but she was sure it could be improved. She designed a new kind of greenhouse: a building that would pack a perfectly controlled growing environment into a space built up vertically on a sliver of town land.
Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 8 minutes
Farmsteaders
Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as a locally sustainable family farm.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
Fixing Food 2, Ep. 3: Native Roots
As the first Native woman brewery owner in the U.S., Shyla Sheppard draws on her indigenous heritage to forge her own path in a white male-dominated industry.
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 8 minutes
Food Coop
Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 97 minutes
Fort McMoney: Vote Jim Rogers!
Something of a follow-up to the online game/film Fort McMoney, Vote for Jim Rogers continues to explore if democracy is soluble in oil through the impact of the oil sands industry in Alberta, Canada.
National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 52 minutes
