As founder and owner of Visions West, Dave Gardner has written/produced/directed hundreds of corporate film and video projects for more than a dozen Fortune 100 and over 30 Forbes 500 companies over the last 25 years.
Apparently that’s not enough: 
In November 2006 Gardner created Citizen-Powered Media, a Colorado non-profit that received 501(c)3 status from the IRS in July, 2007. Its main project is producing a documentary film about the conflict between growth and sustainability.
The movie, Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity, through real world video, animation, and interviews examines how
- community or urban growth,
- population growth,
- consumption growth, and
- economic growth
contribute to an increasing ecological footprint, one that’s already unsustainable.
Learn more on the GrowthBusters website including how you can help get the film finished through donations of (tax-deductible) money or your time and expertise. (For example, I’m transcribing some interviews that Dave’s conducted, a humble task that’s both tedious and, due to the quality of the people, just fascinating.)
Stream or download a 50 minute radio interview with Dave from February 6, 2008.
See also the GIM post which prompted me to lend a hand. As John said:
There’s a message of hope associated with Dave’s work, a message that we can replace our futile and self destructive grasping for a prosperity imagined to result from growth with the achievement of true prosperity through a new, harmonious relationship with the earth.
update: Dave reports he has shot about 80% of the film and expects to finish shooting in September so the film will be completed beginning of 2009. He’s already has begun post-production (editing) work. He writes,
The pace is a bit unpredictable simply because I have so far been largely self-funding the film. That means I’m constantly having to stop work on the documentary so I can produce paying projects. My hope is to get some grant funding, increase grass roots donation activity, and connect with some individual major donors over the next several months. The more funding success I achieve, the more I’ll be able to focus on the documentary, and the sooner it will be complete.
It’s important work. Help if you can. One way to do that is to spread the word.
I want to report John Feeney as a missing person. I also want report missing the discussions that went on at John’s excellent blog Growth Is Madness. How do I do that?
Send mail to John.
[...] world hooked on growth (see here for the movie) sees inflation as uniformly bad. Rising prices reduce the value of the [...]
Dear Trinifar, Dave Gardner, Magne and Friends,
Since John closed the Growth is Madness Blog, I have missed regular occasions to hear from him and all of you.
Keep going……………
Silence regarding the human-induced global challenges looming ominously before humanity cannot be allowed to prevail.
Let me mention that Andy Revkin of the NY Times has come forward with the DOT EARTH BLOG. I having been blogging there a lot in recent weeks.
All my best to each of you,
Steve
Steve, I feel the same way. I also follow the discussions on Dot Earth and appreciate your efforts there.
You and anyone else who might like the idea of the new blog Some Maintenance Required are invited to become contributors there (with no obligation to post, just that you could whenever so motivated). Naturally anyone can comment on posts at any time.
As you say, “keep going….”
Steve,
I hope you’re feeling alright. The mountain view remains hilarious, I suppose?
Is the global economy a primary precipitant of worldwide ecological degradation because the distinctly human-driven construction’s gigantic size and rampant growth could soon become patently unsustainable in a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home such as Earth provides to the family of humanity?
That is to say, could at least one of the causes of life and the Earth, as we know them, “going to hell in a handbasket” be that the global political economy is a human construction that takes its shape as a perpetual motion machine and is operated as a colossal pyramid scheme? Unfortunately, both the ‘machine’ and the scheme are unsustainable.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php
[...] Media board member Stephanie Gardner. I can’t wait for Dave wrap up his documentary Hooked on Growth, and you can help him complete [...]
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