Plant This Movie

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Environmental Film Profiles (videos)

Hatch, Karney. Plant This Movie. Los Angeles: Stephon Litwinczuk, 2014. HD, 83 min. https://vimeo.com/96868393.

Plant This Movie explores the zeitgeist of urban farming around the world, from the incredible story of Havana, Cuba to communities of urban farmers in cities as diverse as Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, London, and Lima. In the US, the story focuses on New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The film is narrated by Daryl Hannah. (Source: Official Film Website)

© 2014 The Video Project. Trailer used with permission.

This film is available at the Rachel Carson Center Library (RCC, 4th floor, Leopoldstrasse 11a, 80802 Munich) for on-site viewing only. For more information, please contact library@rcc.lmu.de.

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Further readings: 
  • Certomà, Chiara. "Critical Urban Gardening." In: “Think Global, Eat Local: Exploring Foodways,” edited by Michel Pimbert, Rachel Shindelar, and Hanna Schösler. Special issue, RCC Perspectives 1 (2015):13–17.
  • Keogh, Mick. "Will Locavores Destroy the Planet?" Food Australia 64, no. 5 (2012): 22–6.
  • Pimbert, Michel. Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomous Food Systems. London: IIED, 2009.
  • Pimbert, Michel, Rachel Shindelar, and Hanna Schösler, eds. "Think Global, Eat Local: Exploring Foodways." Special issue, RCC Perspectives 1 (2015).
  • Mauch, Christof. “Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 1. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8556
  • Shindelar, Rachel."The Ecological Sustainability of Local Food Systems." In: “Think Global, Eat Local: Exploring Foodways,” edited by Michel Pimbert, Rachel Shindelar, and Hanna Schösler. Special issue, RCC Perspectives 1 (2015): 19–23.
  • Stanton, John L., et al. "Who are the Locavores?" Journal of Consumer Marketing 29, no. 4 (2012): 248–61.