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We The Tiny House People

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 1:30pm
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TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.

Documentary runtime: 1:21:47
Release: 2012
Director/producer/writer/shooter/editor: Kirsten Dirksen
Concept & additional shooting/writing: Nicolás Boullosa Guerrero

Raising Davis: A Celebration of Cooperatives and Community

Submitted by Jeff Shaw on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 11:33am
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Featuring locals involved with founding of UCD Experimental College, Unitrans, Coffee House, Farmers Market, Davis Food Co-op, Davis Bicycles, Bike Forth! and more. 

With Bob Black, Ann Evans, Richard Gertman, Christy Jensen, Jonathan Woolley, Karen Firestein.

Moderated by Chris Benner, Associate Professor, Community and Regional Development, UC Davis.

Air Auschwitz

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 2:55pm
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It's no longer safe to breathe the air, eat fodd, or drink the water.  Are we being poisoned deliberately?  What is the link between the Federal Reserve, the Illuminati and the New World Order?

sponsored by Deborah J Whitman

Perils for Pedestrians

Submitted by John Z Wetmore on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 3:24pm
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--We visit the Koln International School of Design in Germany (KISD). Their Cultural Library program has students look at everyday things from a new perspective. Results are compared with students in other countries. Two of the projects looked at parking bicycles and waiting at bus stops.

--How might a designer think about electric vehicles?

--We talk with a bicyclist who moved from Amsterdam to Cologne.

--We meet a pedestrian advocate from Nairobi at the Walk21 conference.