Plant This Movie 2014|83min|USA Directed by Karney Hatch Australian Premiere
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Plant This Movie, documents the rise and rise of international urban agriculture
Narrated by Daryl Hannah, Plant This Movie explores the zeitgeist of urban farming around the world.
From the incredible story of Havana, Cuba, to communities of urban farmers in cities as diverse as Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, London, and Lima, the rise of urban agriculture is quickly becoming an unstoppable force.
From vacant lots, to rooftops to front yards, the place for food in our cities is changing, and Plant This Movie shows why.
Ula is the Campaign Lead for Oxfam Australia’s food, climate and land justice work. For the past decade or so, she has worked as an advocate, campaigner, researcher and communicator within the environmental and international development sectors.
Chris Ryan is Professor and Director of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab at the University of Melbourne. He was foundation professor of Design and Sustainability at RMIT University from 1996-2004 and founding Director of the ARC National Centre for Environmental Design 1989-1997.
His early community work included the establishment of networks for alternative communities and alternative technology in the UK and the creation of CERES in Brunswick in 1979. CERES was a community take-over of waste land for the purpose of researching and creating new socially and environmentally sustainable jobs, focused on the production of energy, food, housing, organic compost (and worms) and new educational curricula.
Chris was professor and then Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund university, Sweden 1997-2002. In 2002 he was consultant to the UN Environment Program coordinating and writing the Global Progress Report on Sustainable Consumption for the Johannesburg UN world summit in 2002.
He is currently one of the leaders of an ARC linkage project to model food futures for Australia and he directs the national Visions and Pathways 2040 project to understand potential futures for Australian Cities if they achieve 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
He is joint-director of the International Eco-Acupuncture project (EcoA) with Dr Michael Trudgeon. EcoA takes a ‘distributed transformation’ approach to achieving sustainable cities, towns and suburbs, based on co-designing resilient futures and identifying many small interventions to change the dynamics of urban life.
EcoA is a program to catalyse (rapid) urban transformation exploring the potential for localised networked systems of energy, water, food, transport, waste and built infrastructure. The program has been developed and refined over five years of work in Melbourne and a number of Victorian towns and, over the last few years, in various European cities.
Kate is an Associate Director at Planisphere, with degrees in Product Design, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design she has a strong and ongoing interest in the way in which our built environment can affect our health and wellbeing.
Kate loves spreading the word about healthy cities and 3000acres and has recently presented at TEDx Melbourne, Arup’s ‘Shaping our City’ series, International Women’s Day and Jon Faine’s Conversation Hour where she mistakenly told the listeners that it might be a good idea to start eating possums.
Matt is a facilitator and sustainability consultant specialising in change, strategy and communication. He’s worked with people and organisations in all sectors – business, government, the arts, education and more – to bring about positive change.
Along with a freelance facilitation and consulting practice, Matt delivers the Centre for Sustainability Leadership Fellowship in Melbourne, and change management training with the Monash Sustainability Institute.
Matt is a passionate advocate for the connections between the personal, the political, the natural and the cultural. He is singer and songwriter with Melbourne band, The General Assembly, where his music acts as a creative, vital response to living in an unsustainable culture.
His belief in the importance of cultural change for transition have recently led him to work in the arts sector, including a role as Greenie-in-Residence at Arts House and board positions with Next Wave Festival and TippingPoint Australia.
