Go Further

Go Further is a movie that was made in 2003 starring Woody Harrelson.  Tim and I just completed watching it.   The movie is a documentary focused on the idea that a single person can make large-scale change.  Basically, Woody and some friends rode their bicycles followed by a biofueled bus down the west cost from Washington through Oregon and California and stopped at local colleges along the way to raise awareness about the environment.  Although it wasn't a big learning experience for me, it was great to see people who have positive mindsets about how to save our environment.  Some of the topics explored were paper, meat, milk, renewable energy, vericomposting and organic farming.  The whole trip they ate following a raw food diet (yum, lots of fresh veggies and fruits!)  I found much about their eating to be inspiring.  I mean really, some of the food we consume we can't even pronounce the ingredients on the label!  And supposedly 2/3 of all the food on the shelves at the grocery store has some sort of genetically modified ingredient(s)...and it's not even required by law to label them saying so.  Scary!    In the Extras of the DVD,  Woody read a poem that he wrote that I think is nicely done.    The poem is too long to post here, but here is an excerpt:

Thoughts from Within by Woody Harrelson:

..."I sit on the grass under a tree 

dreaming of the way things used to be 

Pre-Industrial Revolution 

which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted 

before Parkinson's, and mad cows 

and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas 

like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers 

like Monsanto and Dupont had their way 

as they continue to today. 

This was Pre-us 

back when the buffalo roamed 

and the Indian's home 

was the forest, and God was nature 

and heaven was here and now 

Can you imagine clean water, food, and air 

living in community with animals and people who care?"

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