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How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One World Trailer

In response to farmer suicides in India.

What does an environmentally friendly biodynamic food system capable of feeding everyone actually look like?

This film is a blueprint for a post-industrial future. It takes you into the heart of the world's most important renaissance.

The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.

Our existence on this planet is precarious.

Modern industrial agriculture is destroying the earth:
Desertification, water scarcity, toxic cocktails of agricultural chemicals pervading our food chains, ocean ecosystem collapse, soil erosion and massive loss of soil fertility.

Our ecosystems ore overwhelmed. Humanity's increasing demands are exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity.

A simple recipe to save the world?

One old man and a bucket of cow-dung.

Why YOU should see this film

Modern agriculture causes topsoil to be eroded at 3 million tons per hour. (that’s 26 billion tons a year)

Human mass is replacing biomass and other species. The carrying capacity of the earth is almost spent.

To maintain our comfort zone lifestyles we will soon need five earths to sustain us in the style to which we have become accustomed.

The mantra of free trade has failed the world’s poor. There is a better way.

Human created climate change is destroying the Planet. Ecosystems collapse is not some sci-fi fantasy. It is real and it is happening. Right now.

Biodynamic agriculture may be the only answer we have left.

"When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big Food Trend Predictions for 2009

The following list of Big Food Trends and Emerging Trends was predicted by The Food People, UK's leading food trends and food innovation business. It seems like many of their forecasts have already gained some momentum here in the states, but it is still an interesting read. I added my notes and links in italics.

Big Trends for 2009

* Comfort food - Incorporating retro, nostalgia, feel good foods of the past. (ex. Jamba Juice will start selling steel cut oats with fruit for breakfast. Better option for those fast food mornings)

* Scratch cooking and home baking - More cooking from raw ingredients, also more breads, tray bakes, not just because it saves money but also it makes you feel great. (More Vegan/Raw Food Potlucks and Meet-ups)

* Less protein - It is expensive and also there are so many possibilities with vegetable accompaniments. (Thank you World Peace Diet!)

* Thirst for food skills and knowledge - More entry level cookery schools teaching the basics and how to get the best out of what you have. (for example: The Natural Epicurean Culinary School, Austin TX)

Restaurant and farm alliances - Savvy restaurateurs teaming up with farms to bring the consumers food that they know and trust. (For example: Casa de Luz, Austin TX)

* More miniaturization - Things getting smaller – greater choice, less cost, more variety, more cute factor. (The vegan cupcake revolution has been here!)

* Health - Instant nutrition, ultra low calorie, health through natural choices (ex. FDA's approval of Stevia. Finally! )

Emerging Food trends for 2009:

• Beauty foods - Foods that enhance your inner or outer beauty. (Get sweet with fruit)
  

• Raw food - Foods that are raw and retain all of their natural goodness, raw food diets (I am now addicted to green smoothies after participating in a free 3 day cleanse with Dr. Ritamarie a couple of weeks ago. I highly recommend anybody with $97, a blender, and a very strong desire to take their health life to a brighter level to Sign Up for a  7 day cleanse. You are worth it and she is awesome and will give you all the inspiration ad motivation you need to get you through it.
  

• Free food - Incorporating foraging, freeganism, growing your own.
  

• Bistronomics - Avant garde cuisine at bistro prices by using what’s in season, not throwing anything away and using modern cooking techniques

• Community food projects - Power to the people, groups of people sharing land, skills and knowledge to share food within communities (here's a list of Community Gardens in Austin, TX)
  

• Anti (this and that) foods - Foods that fight certain conditions and aliments. (I don't see this trend ever going away, sometimes it can be annoying)
  

• Fun - Introduction of more fun, personality and informality into brands and the dining room
  

• Multi sensory emotional food experiences - Use of alternative techniques to cook, serve, present food to deliver a more all encompassing food experience that is multi sensory. (For ex. several upscale & risky restaurants are popping up in places like New York that are un lit; pitch black rooms allowing for customers to "focus" on the food. Interesting? ) 

Without clarity, we don't know we need to change. Without willingness, we cannot adopt better habits. Without discipline, we cannot keep from falling back into the old habits.