Ready for some film for thought? Media That Matters brings you our first FOCUS release -- a collection of shorts on food and sustainability. Watch and take action for a healthy, sustainable and delicious future.

The Luckiest Nut In The World

• Join the Big Noise Campaign and add your voice to millions around the world who are calling for decision makers to make trade fair.
• Purchase fair trade products through Transfair.
• Make trade fair through Oxfam America.

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Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)

• Find out where to purchase fresh, locally grown food in your area from FoodRoutes.
• Read Global Exchage’s 10 ways to democratize the global ecomony.
• Share your thoughts on farm policy with the House Committee on Agriculture and the get the facts on the food from the Family Farm Act.
• Get updates from the Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board.

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Food Justice: A Growing Movement

• Join the Center for Food and Justice’s fight for a sustainable and socially just food system.
• Learn more about the People’s Grocery, developing creative solutions to the health, environmental and economic challenges the community faces every day.
• Campaign for health, justice, and sustainability through the Organic Consumers Association.

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Recycle

• Get recycling tips from Earth 911.
• Discover the Homeless Garden Project and learn how to replicate the program in your community.
• Get involved in the Reclaim the Future initiative helping to shape green economies in cities around the country.

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Inch By Inch: Providence Youth Gardens for Change

• Gain access to land, education and other resources to grow food in environmentally sustainable, local, affordable, and nutritious ways in the Greater Providence area.
• Launch new ideas about youth and adults partnering to create social change through sustainable agriculture.
• Help strengthen and expand school farming activities in states with existing program and assist other that do not yet have programs.

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Terminator Tomatoes

• Find alternative news and information about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness concentration, farm and trade policy and sustainable agriculture.
• Learn how the Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN), a network of activists, farmers, and NGOs, work on the myriad of issues surrounding biotechnology.
• Learn extensive information on the complex and controversial issue of genetic engineering.

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Young Agrarians

• Support the Farm to School Program by signing the Community Food Security Coalition’s petition.
• Search the Local Harvest map for farmer’s markets, family farms and locally grown produce in your community.
• Read “10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food for You and Your Family” by Farm Aid.
• Learn 10 things you can do today for food, media and living democracy from the Small Planet Institute.

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Profit Cola

• Advocate with the American Public Health Association and learn more about food legislation, advocacy, policy, and marketing especially advertising directed at adolescents.
• Learn about food marketing to children and youth. Is it a threat or an opportunity?
• Learn and Teach about food advertising through a series of teacher friendly lessons, such as: “Rooting Out the Truth in Food Ads.”

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Water Warriors

• Help implement the Water Affordability Program by contacting the Director of Detroit’s Water and Sewage Department.
• Stay informed and take action on current water-related issues through Food and Water Watch.
• Get the facts on water privatization from the Our Communites, Our Water campaign.

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Don't Worry

• Advocate with the Center for Science in the Public Interest on health and nutrition issues. There are also interactive game/site about food for kids.
• Check out the Bad Ad contest on The New Mexico Media Literacy Project. The org empowers people to become more critical consumers of media messages.
• Join the Alliance for a Media Literate America in promoting media literacy education that focuses on critical inquiry, learning, and skill building.

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One More Dead Fish

• Volunteer to encourage dialogue, share information, and create strategies and actions that promote the survival and development of Nova Scotia’s coastal and rural communities.
• Learn how to choose fish wisely.
• Promote sustainable cuisine by celebrating the joys of local, seasonal, and artisanal cooking with the food community.

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The Meatrix

• Learn how to live sustainably from Sustainable Table.
• Join the fight against factory farms through the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
• Help victims of the factory farm industry through Farm Sanctuary.
• Find local organic alternatives through Local Harvest.

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The Future of Food

• Learn more about what the Center for Food Safety is doing to protect human health and the environment.
• Join the campaign in eliminating genetically modified food from your diet.
• Support the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed through The Organic Seed Alliance.

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Food for Thought

• Learn to be Healthy: Educational activities for educators and students brought to you by the Highmark Foundation. Everything from teacher lesson plans to student games.
• Expand the supply of food resources available to low-income communities through advocacy, model programs, and research on food disparaties.
• Campaign for health, justice, and sustainability through the Organic Consumers Association. Here, you can also learn about genetic engineering and the need for natural foods.

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Broken Limbs: Searching for the New American Farmer

• Start a “convivium” in your area with the help of Slow Food U.S.A, an organization dedicated to preserving agricultural traditions.
• Support the national labeling program that helps consumers find sustainable foods on their grocers’ shelves.
• Join Edible Communities, a network working to rebuild the connection between consumers and their local food sheds.

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Ripe for Change

• Focus on healthy eating, physical activity, media literacy, self-esteem, and positive activism for youth ages 10-18 with the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation.
• Rethink school lunch and talk about the edible schoolyard initiative in Berkeley as well as learn about the transformation of public education to include stronger cultural and societal values.
• Grow and Cook! Slow Food in Schools is a unique national program of garden to table projects with children that cultivates the senses and teaches an ecological approach to food.

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