Awareness Resources

Awareness Resources for Hemp and Sustainable Goods

Here are some resources for learning more about hemp & sustainable textiles. Browse articles, authors, books, films & more!

Conferences (National and International)

• Bioneers in Marin County in October 2019 view
• Biomimicry Conference in LA in December 2019 view

Pollution and Political Movies

• The Insider – Russell Crowe – Al Pacino – Christopher Plummer
• The China Syndrome – Old movie with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemon regarding Nuke Industry
• Erin Brockovich – Julia Roberts – Corporate Water pollution
• A Civil Action – Robert Duvall and John Travolta – Grace pollution of water in Woburn Mass
• Documentary: Rachel Carson – Voice over by Oliver Platt DDT
• The Most Dangerous Man in America – The Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg
• Prosecuting Evil – Documentary about Ben Ferencz – Attorney at Nuremberg after WWll
• Michael Moore Movies
• Deepwater Horizon – Explosion of the BP oil rig in the gulf of mexico – Mark Wahlberg – John Malkovich

Writing and Authors

• Gary Snyder
• Mary Oliver – Poet
• Chief Seattle’s letter to the American Congress

Food Movies

• Forks over Knives
• FU = Fed Up

Books

• Ishmael – Ray Andersons motivating book
• The Ecology of Commerce – Paul Hawken
• Living Down Stream – Sandra Steinberger – A woman story of living downstream from the chemical Industry
• Our Stolen Future – Toxic inhibitors and chemicals which are destroying animal and human reproductivity
• William McDonough – environmental architect – has worked extensively with the Chinese on energy and cities
• Amory Lovins – Rocky Mountain Institute – Aspen
• Spaceship Earth – Buckminster Fuller
• Diet for a Small Planet

Schools With Environmental Ethics

• College of the Atlantic
• Bio-mimmecry Institute
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): (www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/history.html)

Ethical Organizations

• CHEJ – Center for Health and Environmental Justice – Started by Lois Gibbs a mother riled by the burial of 55 gallon drums of toxic chemicals in upstate NY by Hooker Chemical in 1979.