[Scpg] {Path to Freedom} Film Screening: Ready or Not?

[Path to Freedom]

:: NEWS ::

Green Award

DerVaes Produce/Path to Freedom has been awarded Four Leaves in the 1st edition of Greenopia, the urban dwellers guide to green living.

Greenopia offers consumers the unique combination of useful printed guidebook - similar to Zagat's Restaurant Guide - and a vibrant, interactive online community.

Greenopia Four Leaves Award recognizes DerVaes Produce/Path to Freedom  for being in the top 10% of green business in LA.

Visit: http://www.greenopia.com/
Visit: http://www.pathtofreedom.com/produce 

Getting Our Goat

We anxiously await the arrival our baby goat that will join the rest of the happy menagerie of chickens, ducks and rabbit here on the homestead.  Stay tuned.

Action = Impact
In the next few months/year we hope to implement planned programs of "ONE-LESS," "POWER-DOWN DAY" and take part in the already appropriately coined "100 MILE DIET" (started by Bay Area Locavores as they challenged people from all over the world to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home).

We like to challenge ourselves even more this year to action and change.  Sure, we are already doing some of these actions/non-actions already, but how much more can we do.?

What do we mean by "one-less"?  One-less meal cooked on a gas stove, one-less hour(s) spent on the computer, one-less trip with the car, one-less food product or item purchased out of state and so on.  

Our goal is to work up to "Power Down Day" as it goes hand in hand with our  "One-Less" program which is one whole day without using any plug or hook up that includes:  lights, gas stove, tv, washing machine, computer (don't have much else) sans the refrigerator that will have to stay plugged in  (for now!)  and that includes the phone too.

New Projects

Bicycle blender
Haybox cooker
Rainwater cistern
Raising goats (again)
Greywater reclamation system 
Redesigning the backyard garden
Making herbal toothpaste, deodorant
Hatching chicken eggs to add to our existing "flock"
Winemaking
and more....

To read more about what's happening visit our online journal at www.pathtofreedom.com/journal 

:: SPECIAL INVITE ::

FILM SCREENING: READY OR NOT?

When: Saturday, May 6  
Time:  7:30 p.m. 
Where: USC Campus, Los Angeles

"READY OR NOT"

This is a story about three families who are preparing for the 
possibility of a global pandemic, global energy crisis, and global 
climate change.  Beyond awareness, beyond talk, they have taken action 
to ensure the safety of their families and communities.  They believe 
it is time to prepare for the future NOW, while they still can, before 
it's too late!  This crux of this story evolves around an average 
person's ability to do something small to help create a better future, 
by enhancing the power for resilience and adaptation.

Featuring Kathlyn Powell and Jorge Strunz, Melinda Epler and Matt 
Eliseo, and Path to Freedom (Jules, Anais, Jordanne and Justin).

With appearances by Jan Lundberg, and Michael Ruppert, and Strunz and 
Farah.

Directed by Melinda Briana Epler
Produced by Lindsay Trapnell and Matthew Williams
Cinematography by Andrew Russo
Sound Edited and Recorded by Erik Anderson and Landon Johnson
Edited by Bethe Gordon and Timothy Kolesk

This film will screen with two other documentaries of similar length. There will be a small reception following the screening.

:: NOTE ::

!!Seating is limited!!  They have asked that we invite no more than a limited amount of people in consideration of two other films that will be debuting on the same night.   

Be the first 15 to respond to this email invitation, send your rsvp to dervaes at pathtofreedom.com with subject line "ready or not rsvp."

www.pathtofreedom.com/calendar 

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Follow our path...
Organic Gardening, Urban Permaculture, Solar Energy, Homebrew Biodiesel, 
Citified Farm Animals, Cob Oven, Waste & Water Reclamation, Appropriate 
Technologies & More!

  ~ A pioneering journey towards self sufficiency, one step at a time ~
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PATH TO FREEDOM
  Sustainable Living Resource Center & Urban Homestead

  Jules Dervaes (founder /director)
  631 Cypress Ave
  Pasadena, CA  91103
  phone: 626.795.8400
  email:  dervaes at pathtofreedom.com
  web: www.PathtoFreedom.com

In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It 
is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the 
corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with 
nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change 
ourselves.    ~  Jules Dervaes ~

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