James Howard Kunstler

Las causas que subyacen al colapso de las civilizaciones suelen atribuirse a la sobreexplotación de los recursos. Mientras escribimos esto, el mundo se tambalea por el caos económico, el pico del petróleo, el cambio climático, la degradación medioambiental y la agitación política. Cada día, los titulares repiten historias de escándalos y traición a la confianza pública. No hace falta que exijamos con indignación el fin del actual sistema mundial: parece que ya se está desmoronando. Pero los actos de valor, compasión y altruismo abundan, incluso en los lugares más dañados. Al documentar la resistencia de las personas más afectadas por la guerra y la represión, y el heroísmo de los que salen a la luz para enfrentarse a la crisis, END:CIV ilumina una salida a esta locura que todo lo consume y a un futuro más sano. Con el apoyo de la narración de Jensen, la película nos pide que actuemos como si realmente amáramos esta tierra.

FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter - building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia

After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia, filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe, outlining the issues actively moving the energy crisis from theory to reality. Spurred to action by the realities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change.

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...

While Los Lobos' score plays, the narrator with the voice of cowboy and humorist Will Rogers, tells a true story about sharpshooter Annie Oakley, the last heroin of the Wild West and a lasting star of Buffalo Bill's famous Wild West Show.