Ripe for Change Deluxe Edition
One of the four episodes from the California and the American Dream Series, this fascinating documentary explores the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years. It illuminates the complex forces struggling for control of the future of California’s agriculture, and provides provocative commentary by a wide array of eloquent farmers, prominent chefs, and noted authors and scientists.
Through the “window” of food and agriculture, Ripe for Change reveals two parallel yet contrasting views of our world. One holds that large-scale agriculture, genetic engineering, and technology promise a hunger-less future. The other calls for a more organic, sustainable, and locally focused style of farming that reclaims the aesthetic and nurturing qualities of food and considers the impact of agriculture on the environment, on communities, and on workers. Ripe for Change was produced by Jed Riffe and directed by filmmaker Emiko Omori.
Deluxe Edition includes six extra videos: Oil and Agriculture, Globalization and GMOs, The Triple Bottom Line, The Edible Schoolyard, Atrazine and the Environment, and An Immigrant's Story.
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Oil and Agriculture
Journalist, educator, and author, Richard Heinberg, illuminates one of the central conflicts in California agriculture – the tension between industrialized, conventional agriculture that is a leading user of fossil fuels and sustainable agriculture that stresses use of local products and decrease...
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Globalization and GMOs
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Environmental Activist, Delhi, India and San Francisco, reveals what drove her to becoming an activist was attending the first meeting of the biotechnology industry where they set up the World Trade Organization and treaties were created to force third world countries replace t...
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Atrazine and the Environment
Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, shares his research on the widely used herbicide Atrazine and its disturbing effects on frogs, the environment, and on public health. We learn that Atrazine is the most widely used h...
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The Triple Bottom Line
Paul Dolan, Master Winemaker in Healdsburg, California, formerly of Fetzer Vineyards, was a conventional grape grower and winemaker when he saw the possibility for truly changing industry practices through sustainability. He transitioned to organic, sustainable production methods and completely t...
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An Immigrant's Story
Maria Ines Catalan is an organic farmer and entrepreneur in Hollister, California. After eight years harvesting produce for minimum wage, Catalan made the transition to becoming an organic farmer and marketing her produce to restaurants, farmers’ markets and a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA...
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The Edible Schoolyard
This segment features Alice Waters, Will Scott, Jr., and David Mas Masumoto. Waters, founder, executive chef, and owner of the world renowned Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, California, created the Edible Schoolyard program with the Berkeley Unified School District to teach children...
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Ripe For Change
Release date: 2006
Director: Emiko Omori
Producer: Jed RiffeOne of the four episodes from the California and the American Dream Series, this fascinating documentary explores the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years. It illuminates the complex forces struggl...
