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Tuesday, August 10 , 2010 | Gene Rosow
Dirt! The Movie was inspired by William Bryant Logan’s book
DIRT: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth.
It connects our deepest positive multi-denominational religious values to the ground beneath our feet – among other amazing perspectives on the subject.
The book itself was written in a cathedral. More >
Wednesday, July 21 , 2010 | The Dirt Crew
Dirt! The Movie is featured in the Spring 2010 Green issue of Produced By,
The Official Magazine of the Producers Guild of America.
Click on more to download the PDF and read all about it! More >
Wednesday, July 21 , 2010 | Dulce Fernandes, Research and Policy Analyst, Network for New Energy Choices
At the Brooklyn Children's Museum (a pioneer educational institution and the first museum created expressly for kids), a workshop on soil teaches kids about dirt and its wonders. Watch the video (originally published on Ecocentric) and learn with the kids about soil, seeds, and the world class Olympic snail race.
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Thursday, July 01 , 2010 | Posted by Emily Brooks
Dirt! The Movie is one of the most powerful, most influential, and most important documentaries I have ever seen.
Of all the planets in the known universe, only Earth has a living, breathing "skin" formed over the course of countless millennia. Our entire world is dependent on the health of our dirt, and it is safe to say that we don't even consider dirt and soil -
it's probably at the very bottom (if even on) our list of things to improve our environment and incorporate green and sustainable business practices into our company's standard operating procedures. More >
Wednesday, June 09 , 2010 | The Dirt! Team
Dirt! The Movie Producer/Director Bill Benenson interviewed on LinkTV's Earth Focus.
To see the interview, click on the more link: More >
Friday, May 28 , 2010 | The Dirt! Team
The Dirt! Team was having a little fun this week back at Dirt! Central.
This is our suggestion for the famed Hollywood sign re-design.
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Friday, May 28 , 2010 | The Dirt! Team
Parade Magazine and parade.com chose Dirt! The Movie as one of it's Parade Picks for the week
of May 23, 2010. It was quite an honor to be selected by "the most widely read magazine in the U.S."
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Thursday, April 22 , 2010
Since the space shot of our planet eye-popped up on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalogue, more of us in the general public have had a new perspective on our planet. And a growing world wide appreciation that has turned into celebrations in honor of our planet. More >
Tuesday, April 20 , 2010 | Dirt Team
Our friends at Team Earth (Conservation International) launched
their new movie series with Dirt! The Movie!
check it out here: http://blog.teamearth.com/tag/dirt/
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Friday, April 16 , 2010 | Andy Lipkis, President TreePeople
Why should we care about dirt? With more than half the people on earth living in cities, what’s the big deal about something we work hard to keep out of our homes and streets? As it turns out, dirt – the earth’s living soil - is a huge deal when it comes to our sustainability, resilience, adaptation to climate change and protection from its effects, in fact our very lives. More >
Monday, April 12 , 2010 | Gene Rosow
Dirt salutes National Garden Month which the National Gardening Association (NGA) sponsors every April. This April let's garden to improve our health and community well being. As the NGA puts it: gardening will make "America a greener, healthier, more livable place." Same for the whole planet! Healthy gardens, healthy people and healthy communities begin with healthy dirt. Your faithful Dirt Road Warrior has also been spending time in the garden. More >
Tuesday, April 06 , 2010 | Gene Rosow
Please remember that above all our film emphasizes that soils are living breathing systems. And that one of the best actions we can take to help those eco-systems is to test our soils and share that information.
So we invite you – heck, we urge you - to participate in The Living Breathing Dirt Test. It's fun, easy to use, scientifically valid and demonstrates that your soil is alive and breathing. How alive? That’s what you will be testing. More >
Friday, April 02 , 2010 | Gene Rosow
Your Dirt Road Warrior is delighted to report that DIRT! The Movie is popping up at wonderful Community Cinema Screenings across the country.
PBS’s Emmy and Peabody award winning series ITVS honors independent film makers and audiences by putting them together in screenings in which community members discuss issues raised in the film and relate them to their own concerns and activities to improve their lives.
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Wednesday, March 31 , 2010 | Bill Benenson, Director/Producer
It was a really great DIRTy week - from Central Park in NYC, with our hero and inspiration Bill Logan and a few hundred new friends, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in D.C. we spread the dirty word to passionate dirt lovers and the newly initiated.
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Thursday, March 04 , 2010 | Gene Rosow
Dirt is dying in Afghanistan
26 years of chaos will do that: constant warfare, extended drought, deforestation, de-vegetation, declining soil fertility, falling water tables, salinsation, widespread wind and water soil erosion, a nightmare
Afghanistan now faces the complete eradication of its forests. So there will be more floods, avalanches and landslides. And millions more displaced Afghans.
Afghanistan’s long-term environmental degradation is caused, in part, by a complete collapse of local and national forms of governance. More >
Thursday, February 11 , 2010 | Team Dirt!
Valentine’s Day is here! And although we adore flowers,
chocolate and love poems, isn't it more fun to get dirty?
We thought you'd agree.
So this year send a "dirty" Valentine gift to those you love: Dirt! The Movie.
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Wednesday, January 20 , 2010
Listen to Gene Rosow on Air America's Hollywood! CLOUT with Richard Greene
discussing the Haiti tragedy and its relationship to the use and abuse of the
soil and its repercussions.
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Wednesday, January 20 , 2010
Director/producers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson flank Andy Lipkis, of Tree People, and Dirt! The Movie's narrator Jamie Lee Curtis after a boffo presentation at the Television Critics Association's Winter Press Tour held at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena on January 13th. Dirt! The Movie airs Thursday, April 20th at 10pm on PBS Independent Lens. Shout it out, Dirt! has clout. More >
Thursday, December 17 , 2009 | Gene Rosow
How we manage carbon is key to dealing with climate change. And dirt is key to managing carbon. Soil is the key life support system for ecological functions: biomass production in agriculture and forestry; storing, filtering and transforming nutrients, substances and water; biodiversity of habitats, species and genes; the physical and cultural environment of all human activity; the source of raw materials....you get the idea. More >
Thursday, December 10 , 2009 | Gene Rosow
While the temperature this decade continues to climb, thousands of like-minded citizens of the planet have gathered in Copenhagen to talk about climate change. Millions of people around the world are paying attention.
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