How to Save the World
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Producer: Barbara Sumner-BurstynWriter: Barbara Sumner-Burstyn
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-22
Studio: Cloud South Films
DVD Reviews of How to Save the World
DVD Review: Worth viewing, but...
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, the message of this film is most commendable. I agree with nearly everything it professes.
However, as a documentary, I was quite disappointed. First of all, the necessary information was all presented in the first half of the film, i.e. explaining how Bio-Dynamics works, and the global benefits. The entire second half of the film just goes on to repeat the praises of organic and ethical farming. (Which we all know about, anyways.)
Secondly, the writing is weak-- even a bit annoying. First, the narrator calls Peter Proctor "the father of modern Bio-Dynetics". But actually we learn *Rudolph Steiner* invented it. (I guess Steiner is not the "modern" father since he only first lectured on it in the 1920's ??)
There are other incongruous and factually questionable declarations, but I'll leave it at that.
Finally, there is music CONSTANTLY in the fore or background. Several times something interesting was being said but I couldn't hear it because of the ubiquitous global village-type music drowning everything out.(At times it sounded like those big oil TV commercials trying to come across Earth-friendly. You know the ones.)
So, again, I love the message, but the messanger kind of killed it for me.
Maybe thats because my expectations were high after just seeing "We Feed the World" by Erwin Wagonhofer. This guy went EVERYWHERE and interviewed EVERYBODY, from Brazilian shanty towns to Nestl? corporate headquarters. And even though it wasn't perfect either, it was at times utterly riveting in its brutal objectivity.
I guess what ultimately bothered me about "How to Save the World", was that it's thinly veiled sentimental propaganda got in the way of the story.
Even still, its worth seeing, (if for no other reason than to be reminded what a god Rudoplh Steiner was).
DVD Review: Okay Film about Biodynamic Farming and it's Applications
Summary: 3 Stars
This last summer I spent working on a biodynamic farm, while I was there I watched this video. It has a very basic (and good if not a little big long) introduction to biodynamic agriculture (the way of farming invented by Rudolf Steiner - a mystic/occultist who lived in the 1800s) especially as applied in India.
DVD Review: Inspiring and outstandingly up front.
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone concerned with life in this planet should see this movie. The best I've watched on biodynamics. DVD Review: Self sufficiency in a Peak Oil world
Summary: 5 Stars
In a world of rapidly growing population and dwindling resources, this film offers hope. Modern agriculture is the process of turning petroleum into food via fertilisers, pesticides and the use of powerful tractors. But as oil and gas production begins to decline, and soils become exhausted, the world faces an imminent food crisis. The recent oil spikes and food price inflation of 2008 herald the disaster to come. However, Peter Proctor shows how soils can be rebuilt and crop yields boosted again by bio-dynamic methods that begin with composting based on cow manure. One farmer at at time, he is rebuilding the food production capacity of India, with a view to spreading the methods world-wide. But time is short. This could be the most important film you ever see. An inspirational film for all interested in Organic food, Environmentalism, Peak Oil and Self-Sufficency. DVD Review: How to Save the World
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD presents an inspiring picture of the work that Peter Proctor has done in India. I just returned from visiting one of the farmers who he has trained in India and it is clear to me that Peter was very successful in sharing the power of Biodynamics. I was most impressed .
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