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Lifestyle Videos
Title: Affluenza
Catalog #: VEM 083 Production: VHS. 57 min. KCTS/Seattle
and Oregon Public Broadcasting. 1997.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
Affluenza is a fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: overconsumption and materialism. Hosted by National Public Radio's Scott Simon, it explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on families, communities and the environment. In response to this materialistic lifestyle, many people are opting out of the consumer culture. Some are turning to one of the fastest growing trends in our country, voluntary simplicity, which is just one of the many "cures" that are explored in Affluenza.
Title: Amish, The; A People of Preservation
Catalog #: VEM 057 Production: VHS. 54 minutes. Gateway
Films, Vision Video
Format: Documentary Audience: General
Authentic vignettes of Amish origins, farm life, childhood, school, worship, recreation, courtship, barn raising, horse transportation, and the impact of tourism.
Title: Break Forth Into Joy! Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle
Catalog #: VEM 078 Production: VHS.15 min., w/ 3 additional
10-min. sections. Alternative.1995.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
Adults, Senior High study guide.
So many of us are overwhelmed by daily demands and too many bills, not enough money, long work hours, not enough sleep, too many commitments, and not enough time for family, friends, and God. In our desperate search for "the good life," we seem to have forgotten what brings us joy and gives life meaning.
This video helps us take a critical look at our lifestyle choices and the shape our lives have taken. It helps us realize how our obsession with buying and owning effects the earth, other people, and the human spirit. By sharing feelings, thoughts and practical ideas from a variety of people who struggle with life in a consumer society, this video calls us toward a lifestyle that is more fulfilling and joyful.
Title: Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Catalog #: VEM 056 Production: VHS. 120 minutes. Paramount
Pictures.
Format: Drama Audience: General
St. Francis of Assisi seeks communion with the natural world by renouncing his family riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions.
Title: Circle of the Spirit: A Saga of Native Americans in the
Catholic Church
Catalog #: VEM 054 Production: VHS. 60 minutes. United
States Catholic Conference, 1990.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
Tell the story of the Coeur d'Alene tribe of Idaho and the Lummi tribe of Washington and their relationships to the Catholic Church.
Title: Creating Sustainable Communities: Nurturing the Spirit
in the Places We Live
Catalog #: VEM 037 Production: VHS. Earth Ministry, 1995
Format: Lecture/Presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry's Winter Gathering, January 14, 1995. Alan AtKisson, nationally recognized consultant, writer, and authority on matters of sustainable development: co-founder of Sustainable Seattle; former executive editor of In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture.
Sheila Kelly, co-chair of the Sustainable Communities Working Group for the President's Council on Sustainable Development: Trustee of Sustainable Seattle; member of design team for the Whidbey Institute.
Title: Creations Caretakers
Catalog #: VEM 041
Production: VHS. 25 minutes. General Board of Church and Society
of the United Methodist Church.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
A look at the loss of family farms in favor of larger corporate holdings dependent on chemicals, etc. It looks at both the human effect and the effect on the land.
Title: Diet for a New America and Your Health, Your Planet
Catalog #: VEM 058 Production: VHS.; 60 minutes. Produced
by Ed Schuaman & Judy Prizinsky.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
Hosted by John Robbins, who discusses his theories on environmental and personal health consequences of a diet based on animal products.
Title: Exploring Voluntary Simplicity: Three Perspectives
Catalog #: VEM 070 Production: VHS. Earth Ministry, 1996.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry Spring Gathering, June 7, 1996.
Evy McDonald: "Your Money or Your Life: A Tool for Conscious Consumption in God's World." Evy talks about what is enough, how we know when we have enough, and how we can meet our true needs without compromising the ability of others, now and in the future, to meet their needs.
Cecile Andrews: "Study Circles & Community Building." Cecile is one of the region's leading voices on how to lead a more meaningful, focused life within the context of community support. For years she has led workshops on and facilitated the growth of Voluntary Simplicity Study Circles. Study circles, which originated in Sweden, do not focus on a "topic," but on "transforming one's life." Cecile speaks about how to live more simply through the nurturing communities that study circles engender.
Michael Schut: "Simplicity as Compassion: An Introduction to Earth Ministry's Simple Living Curriculum". Michael introduces Earth Ministry's new Simple Living Curriculum. It focuses on simplicity as a spirituality of compassion in the modern context of overconsumption, economic inequity, and God's call in our lives.
Title: Food, Earth, and Care of the Soul
Catalog #: VEM 075 Production: VHS. 2 tapes. Earth Ministry,
1996.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry's Fall Gathering, October 19, 1996.
Carla Berkedal: "The Spirituality of Food."
Carla, Earth Ministry's Founding Director, speaks on food as nurturer of body and soul.
Carol Sue Hunting:"Food, Faith, and 'EarthSaving'."
Carol Sue, Chair of EarthSave Seattle, talks about the work and mission of EarthSave, sharing some of her own story as it relates to her faith and food choices.
Martha Goodlett: "Supporting Sustainable Agriculture."
Martha, Coordinator of P-Patch's Cultivating Communities Project, relates her experiences as a local, organic farmer and describes the community supported agriculture (CSA) project she coordinates in the Rainier Vista Housing Complex (a partnership project involving Earth Ministry and P-Patch).
Michael Schut: "Food for Life."
Michael, Earth Ministry's Associate Director, describes Earth Ministry's involvement in the Rainier Vista Cultivating Communities Project, highlights its connection to social and environmental justice, and previews the then up-coming Food for Life Shopper's Guide (now entitled "Food, Faith & Sustainability.").
Title: Having Enough in a Have More World; Lifestyles For a Living
Planet
Catalog #: VEM 005 Production: VHS. 1 Hr., 45 min. Earth
Ministry, 1992.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
April 1992 Earth Ministry / St. Mark's Ecology-Spirituality group meeting.
Speaker Vicki Robin, New Road Map Foundation, challenges us to reduce consumption and define what is enough for each of us.
Title: How Much is Enough?
Catalog #: VEM 052 Production: VHS. 2 tapes: VEM 052-1:
100 minutes; VEM 052-2: 85 minutes. Earth Ministry, 1993
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry Fall Gathering, September 25, 1993.
VEM 052-1: Alan Durning of Worldwatch Institute speaks on the effects of our excessive consumption on the world environment.
VEM 052-2: A panel composed of members of various congregations discusses experiences in forming environmental groups in their churches.
Title: Hutterites, The; To Care and Not to Care
Catalog #: VEM 039 Production: VHS. 58 min. Gateway Films,
Vision Video, 1984.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
The Hutterites are a society in which faithfulness to Christ's teaching is more important than self-advancement or worldly comforts. They live strict communal lives based on the teachings of the Bible, while farming over a million acres in Canada and the United States using the most advanced farm equipment.
Title: Reducing Energy Costs in Religious Buildings
Catalog #: VEM 042 Production: VHS. 27 minutes. Interfaith
Coalition on Energy (ICE), Philadelphia, PA.
Format: Documentary Audience: Adults
Addresses methods to reduce energy costs in churches and parochial schools.
Title: Together in the Garden
Catalog #: VEM 014 Production: VHS. 20 min. World Council
of Churches, 1991.
Format: Documentary Audience: General
A pre- Earth Summit look at what the church's role should be in relation to global survival. This video provides church groups with a challenging message concerning their responsibility for the future. Voices and experiences from around the world are shared to give direction for how Christians can heal the earth, build justice, and sustain life for the future.
Questions considered include, What is the role and voice of the churches? How do we see the contributions of Christians throughout the world to this challenge of global survival? Can the church offer its vision and commitment to the justice, peace, and the integrity of creation?
Title: Visions of Justice
Catalog #: VEM 081 Production: VHS. 1996.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
A portion of the Vision of Justice conference held November 1, 1996, at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle. The conference focused on peace, racism, the environment and economic justice as issues within the Episcopal Church.
This is a video of the keynote address, by Tom Athanasiou, author of Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor.