cancer made me do it...Project: Southern Tier Episode 3
source: http://www.vimeo.com/16317153
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Way back in 2008, when George W. Bush was still running the country, I rode a bicycle across the Southern Tier of the United States to document different environmental perspectives. At the time of the ride my Dad was going through Chemo and his first Bone Marrow Transplant. My Brother's girlfriend Meghan, age 24 was three years into chemo for colon and liver cancer. Meghan's fight with cancer was over in the end of July 2009.
During the making of this documentary I did not tell anyone I interviewed about my proximity to cancer. But it was the proximity to cancer that continued to get me further across the country on a bicycle everyday. More and more the thinking with cancer
is that it exists in all of our DNA. The triggers to manifest cancer come from the environment around us. Through out the bike ride ride I thought constantly of the fight that my Dad and Meghan were going through each day.
I wanted to know what people thought about the polluted planet we live on. Do they ask themselves about water and air quality issues? Is the food they are eating safe for human consumption? What do you think about climate change? Does God play a role in keeping the planet clean?
Project: Southern Tier
Episode 3
From: Alpine, TX
To: New Orleans, LA.
Topics: Return to Organics, Christianity and the Environment, Erosion, Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier (INHC), The Dead Zone, Bead ReUSE in New Orleans.
http://www.vimeo.com/16317153
http://www.southern-tier.net/Southern_Tier/Southern_Tier_Welcome.html
During the making of this documentary I did not tell anyone I interviewed about my proximity to cancer. But it was the proximity to cancer that continued to get me further across the country on a bicycle everyday. More and more the thinking with cancer
is that it exists in all of our DNA. The triggers to manifest cancer come from the environment around us. Through out the bike ride ride I thought constantly of the fight that my Dad and Meghan were going through each day.
I wanted to know what people thought about the polluted planet we live on. Do they ask themselves about water and air quality issues? Is the food they are eating safe for human consumption? What do you think about climate change? Does God play a role in keeping the planet clean?
Project: Southern Tier
Episode 3
From: Alpine, TX
To: New Orleans, LA.
Topics: Return to Organics, Christianity and the Environment, Erosion, Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier (INHC), The Dead Zone, Bead ReUSE in New Orleans.
http://www.vimeo.com/16317153
http://www.southern-tier.net/Southern_Tier/Southern_Tier_Welcome.html
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