Latest movies related to sustainability and waking up

EARTH DAYS
http://www.earthdaysmovie.com/

Fuel the Film (supposedly coming to Spokane)
http://thefuelfilm.com/

No Impact Man (the movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo&feature=player_embedded

HOOKED ON GROWTH
Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity (A documentary in production now)
http://vimeo.com/2708808

Fresh the Movie
http://www.freshthemovie.com/

A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-River-of-Waste-The-Hazardous-Truth-About-Factory-Farms/93243847657
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=19185

Older:

Earthlings
http://www.earthlings.com/

Our Daily Bread
http://www.ourdailybread.at/

King Corn
http://www.kingcorn.net/

The Future of Food
http://www.thefutureoffood.com/

We Feed The World
http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/film.htm

Some more
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item626

More to watch online in internet archive
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aprelinger%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fsubject%3A%22Sustainability%22

SolaTube skylight, free light for dark areas

Finally got around to installing this solatube, it has been sitting in our garage for two years. Since this is a roof project, we used a installer familiar with doing this. We keep wanting to turn the lights off in our hallway/stairway, as the light is so bright.

Before:


And after ( this time the images were both taken with manual exposure, same settings, same time, around 1 pm) :


I'm told this Solatube puts out the equivalent of 300 watts, most likely during the midday hours. It puts out light as soon as the sun rises.

Growing edible landscaping in and/or outside the office

If you work in a traditional complacent environment, you'll find it hard to convince people to grow edible landscaping on the building grounds. That will probably take time. So the next thing you can do is find less obvious spots, perhaps behind signage, or behind buildings, or on top of your building. Chat with the grounds keepers about it, they are closer to the earth, more likely to understand.

If that all does not work, how about right in your office or cubicle? This surely is your space, and you should be able to grow an edible plant in that location. Some of the things growing in my office currently..

Cucumber.
Bell peppers grow in northern climates in the winter in an office with south facing windows.
Cayenne peppers and chives.

Eventually even the stubborn people will start realizing it makes sense to swap ornamental petrochemical dependent landscaping for edible landscaping. Edible and beautiful, you can have both!