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A Sustainable Future is Within Reach
Within Reach is a film documenting one resilient couple’s 6,500 mile bicycling journey across the United States in search of sustainable communities.
Mandy and Ryan gave up their corporate jobs and houses to travel thousands of miles in search of a new home, while also looking within.
One of the most important questions facing the world today is “Can humans live sustainably?” This film answers this in a resounding way – Yes!
Meet people from around the country showing that there might just be a better way we can live together on this planet. It is not only possible, it is already underway!
Within Reach includes Interviews with:
Richard Heinberg, peak oil expert, author, co-founder Post-Carbon Institute
Nina Leopold, Aldo Leopold’s daughter, Ecologist
Diana Leafe Christian, past editor of Communities Magazine,
Author “Creating Community” & “Finding Community”
Bob Dixson, Mayor of Greensberg, KS
Bob Walker, Sustainable Energy Community Organizer, VT
Bill Stetson, Environmental statesman, friend of Obama
Charris Ford, early biodiesel pioneer and activism mentor of Daryl Hannah
John Shaeffer, Founder of Real Goods and Solar Living Institute, solar retail pioneer
Mark Lakeman, Founder of City Repair
Scott Kellog, Founder of Rhyzome Collective, Author of “Urban Sustainability Handbook”
Domo Geshe Rinpoche, 9th, Female Tibetan Buddhist Lama, sustainable communitarian, author
Albert Bates, Founder of the Ecovillage Training Center @ The Farm, TN, author
Eustace Conway, primitive skills expert, communitarian,
Main character of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book “The Last American Man”
A Sample of the 100 Communities Visited:
LA Ecovillage, Los Angeles, CA
Sonora Cohousing, Tucson, AZ
Holy Scrap Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences, NM
Rhizome Collective, Austin, TX
Make It Right NOLA, New Orleans, LA
The Farm, Summertown, TN
Earthaven Ecovillage, Black Mountain, NC
Twin Oaks, Louisa, VA
Cobb Hill Cohousing, Hartland, VT
Ecovillage at Ithaca, Ithaca, NY
Joyful Path Buddhist Monestary, Blue Mounds, WI
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, MO
Possibility Alliance, La Plata, MO
Hummingbird Community, Cleveland, NM
DVD Region Code: 0 (international, region-free)
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Release Date: 2013
Publisher: Advocate Studios
Director: Ryan Mlynarczyk
Studio: Reach Within Productions
