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Island earth / A Peel Productions presents ; a film by Cyrus Sutton ; directed by Cyrus Sutton ; producers, Annabel Pirrie, Gabriela Aoun, Daniel Perlaky.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable agriculture--Hawaii.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- Pesticides.
- Transgenic organisms--Hawaii.
- Transgenic organisms.
- Island ecology--Hawaii.
- Island ecology.
- Hawaii--Environmental conditions--21st century.
- Hawaii.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 2 min.) : digital, sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : A Peel, LLC, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- Summary:
- Facing the destructive forces of modern agriculture, a handful of Hawaiians seek to use the wisdom of their ancestors to make Hawaii a beacon of hope for an uncertain future. Some researchers believe the biggest challenge facing humanity today is how we will feed the world in the coming decades. Experts warn that we will have to grow as much food in the next 35 years as we've grown in the history of civilization. According to scientists, one-third of the Earth's farmable soils have already been lost to development and unsustainable farming practices. A new system of growing food has to be established. Hawaiians have already survived such a crisis. With a limited amount of land and a large population they needed to achieve efficient systems of growing food or face collapse. The question now stands: what can we learn from Hawaii's past to help save the Earth's future? Hawaii is a microcosm for both the world's food problems and solutions. More GMO seeds have been grown on Hawaii, per acre, than anywhere in the United States. It also has the highest food prices in the nation. Yet, just 200 years ago, Hawaiians had one of the most advanced organic farming systems ever documented. Island Earth follows the lives of a handful of Hawaiians seeking to use the wisdoms of the past to make Hawaii a beacon of hope for an uncertain future.
- Participant:
- With Malia Chun [and others].
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Cyrus Sutton ; editor, Asako Ushio.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Distributed by Collective Eye.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).
- OCLC:
- 1288335401
- Publisher Number:
- ce-isl Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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