Resources and Action 2022 Grassroots Film Fest

Watch Inspiring Films, Learn More, and Take Action!

Breaking Barriers

• The next time you buy gear for your outdoor adventures, seek out a BIPOC-owned company
• Check out American Trail’s accessibility hub to learn more about creating accessible outdoor recreation: https://www.americantrails.org/resources/accessibility-hub
• Join a local hiking group and invite a friend who may not have had as much exposure to the outdoors
• Articles on the “nature gap”:
  • Nature Gap: Why Outdoor Spaces Lack Diversity and Inclusion
  • How “Nature Deprived” Neighborhoods Impact the Health of People of Color
  • Since When Have Trees Existed Only for Rich Americans?
  • How to Make the Outdoors More Inclusive
  • Mental Health Benefits of an Inclusive Outdoor Escape

Healthy Land, Healthy Communities (Reciprocity and regenerative food ways/land stewardship)

• Learn whose ancestral land you’re living on at https://native-land.ca/
• Prioritize heirloom crops designed for your local ecosystem when planting an edible garden
• Minimize your use of disposable plastics to prevent trash from escaping into waterways
• Reduce your consumption of meat products.
• Visit https://localharvest.org  to find local farms, markets, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operations
• Reduce your food waste!
  • In addition to using up valuable resources and contributing to food insecurity, food waste produces methane in landfill, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Up to 40% of food in America is wasted. Consumers produce the most waste compared to any other sector.
  • Info on how to reduce your food waste:

• • • It all Comes Back to Climate Change
    • How Food Waste Perpetuates Food Insecurity
  • Compost your food scraps!
    • How to Compost at Home
    • Oakland Compost Service
    • 95 Items You Can Compost
  • Freeze any perishable food that you will not eat in the next few days.
    • A Guide to Freezing
  • Be aware that expiration dates are not an indicator of food safety, but of peak quality.
    • Should We Follow Expiration Dates?
  • When shopping, opt for dented packaging, “ugly” produce, and single bananas, because they will likely be thrown away. Find more info here.

Get involved with the films!

• Tahmina Martelly: Improving Food Access, Building Community, & Protecting the Puget Sound
  • Visit We Are Puget Sound
  • Visit World Relief Western Washington
  • Visit Washington Environmental Council
• Bring the Salmon Home
  • BRINGTHESALMONHOME.ORG
• Salmon Science: Watershed to Ocean
  • Long Live the Kings: https://lltk.org
  • Produced by ZP Productions: https://www.instagram.com/zp.producti…
  • Hood Canal Steelhead Project: https://www.pnwsalmoncenter.org/resea…
  • International Year of the Salmon 2022 Winter High Seas Expedition: https://yearofthesalmon.org/2022exped…
  • NOAA Fisheries: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region…
  • Follow LLTK for more salmon science and recovery actions:
  • https://www.facebook.com/longlivekings
  • https://www.instagram.com/longlive.ki…
  • https://twitter.com/Longlivekings

Backyard Polluters

• Find out what cosmetic toxics you might be unknowingly interacting with at https://www.clearya.com/
• Check your local air quality and avoid high-energy activities on days when quality is poor. Learn more ways to spare the air with this tool.
• Explore your local area and its environmental justice impacts with the EPA’s EJScreen tool: https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen 
• Consider switching to an energy supplier that supports the transition to, and democratization of, clean power. Learn more: ​​https://www.localcleanenergy.org/
• Understand how you are impacted by industrial facilities: Look up a pollution map, or air quality index, of the area you live. 
  • Check out this study on air quality inequity.
• Support local campaigns to hold companies accountable with heavier regulations.
  • Helpful information on industrial air pollution: https://cleanair.org/industrial-air-pollution/
• Reduce the need for excessive manufacturing and product transportation by shrinking your consumer footprint: Buy less.
• Avoid showering or doing laundry on rainy days: sewage can overflow from storm drains and run into waterways.
• See how Bay Keeper, Rose Foundation Grantee, is working to keep our bay clean: https://baykeeper.org/featured/-victories-protect-san-francisco-bay-industrial-pollution

Get involved with the films!

• The Sacrifice Zone
  • More information 

• No Place for a Mine
  • Take a stand against mines: 
    • Cascade Forest Conservancy (founded the Green River Valley Alliance): https://www.greenrivervalleyalliance.org/
    • https://www.cascadeforest.org/2022/03/03/whats-next-for-the-green-river-valley/

Cohabitating: Sharing the Planet with Other Species

• Lower your consumption of meat. Factory farmed livestock are a primary driver of deforestation, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.99% of meat produced comes from factory farms.
• Purchase animal-safe household products. Rat poisons and the like are poisonous for other animals too!
• Look for cruelty-free cosmetic products.
• Support restoration projects aimed at rewilding landscapes.
• Advocate for the protection of wild spaces in your community and around the globe.
• Examine ways you have normalized an extractive relationship with animals
• Learn which species are endangered in your state at https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/species-listings-by-state-totals?statusCategory=Listed
• Further information:
  • Factory Farming and the Environment: Impacts on the Planet
  • The Massive Impact of Factory Farming on Our Environment
  • The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry
  • How Do You Avoid Factory Farmed Products?
  • Avoiding Factory Farmed Chicken Products

Get involved with the films!

• Tule Elk: the Killing of a Native Species
  • Visit https://restoreptreyesseashore.org/elkfilm/ for information on how to get involved
• Shaba
  • According to the World Wildlife Fund, there is an estimate that 20,000 African elephants are killed each year. That is an average of 55 a day.
  • Check out the Retiti Elephant Sanctuary, featured in Shaba

Generation Climate Change

• Talk to the young people in your life about ecoanxiety and help them process their emotions. According to a climate change survey across 10 nations, 75% of young people say ‘the future is frightening.’
• Help youth from built environments connect to natural environments
  • Support youth programs focused on environmental justice like New Voices Are Rising: rosefdn.org/new-voices
• Advocate for green policy that works towards a more sustainable future.