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Through grassroots efforts we promote consensus and collaboration to preserve natural resources and enhance economic development, improving the quality of life in the region for current and future generations.
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Sustainable Sandhills Annual Meeting
When:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 @ 6 pm
Where:
250 NW Broad St. / Southern Pines, NC
*Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Sunrise Theater
Please join us for the Sustainable Sandhills Annual Meeting!
This event is open to all members and those who are interested in learning more about Sustainable Sandhills!
The event will include displays of the our most popular programs and projects, and will begin with at short meeting to highlight some of this year’s success stories. We will also introduce two new promotional videos developed for the organization.
Two FREE films will be featured immediately following the annual meeting:
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. (30 minutes) Trailer
Following up on their Peabody Award-winning documentary King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis have returned to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact that their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream. A lively investigation and a worthy follow-up, Big River asks, "Is industrial agriculture worth its hidden costs?" (27 minutes) Trailer