This June, check out The End Of Suburbia.
Got gardening skills? After curling up with The End of Suburbia, you might be left with the feeling that stocking up rakes and hoes, mulching your yard, and giving vegetable growing a try isn’t such a bad idea. Because growing your own food could be a reality soon.
The End of Suburbia focuses on the many angles of our daily luxuries and how they will all be coming to an end near us. A nice house in the suburbs and the convenient supermarkets around each corner, each stocked with low priced food and goods, couldn’t be possible without the main trucks, trains, and barges that port our goods around the world. And these are all powered by our good friend Oil.
This 78-minute journey takes you back to where it all started: the rise of the suburbs in the 50’s, taking families out of the city and fulfilling the American dream: a larger plot of yard with a car to get you where you needed to go. This is now quoted to be the “greatest mis-allocation of resources in the history of the world.” Flash forward 60 years and you have supermarket and convenience chains on every corner, feeding suburban populations and using oil to get the goods “close” to home. You have traffic problems that are tearing apart the atmosphere. And the energy source that is fueling them all is coming to an end. Everything you thought was normal about surburbia…. is not.
What’s most interesting and concerning about The End of Suburbia is that although the film was produced just a few years ago in 2004, you can instantly apply their future predictions about a $4.00 gallon of gas (who’s isn’t now?), a never ending oil war, and the rise and fall of alternative methods of energy based on their popularity in the media (corn had a good rap for a while, but now it’s becoming increasingly clear that food for energy can’t be an all around solution).
It’s shocking, but though provoking enough to keep you thinking for days. And you might just end up taking on a few new hobbies to become more self sustainable.
For more information on the film, visit http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
