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Koyaanisqatsi meant for me - when I was 18 years old - the definite eye opener on how beautiful our earth is and how bad "civilization" messed up with it. It also shows the hectic way people live nowadays, with fast images of people and cars moving in different situations in a city, moving all in the same directions, going nowhere, and going nowhere very quickly.

This documentary begins with the beginning: how life and human beings emerged on this wonderful planet, how ecosystems arose that formed the atmosphere, how those ecosystems became more complex, how those ecosystems still serve us today, and what our cultural path has been on this planet. It all went berserk when we began using fossil fuels, specifically: oil.

Capitalism still thrives on the belief that the sky is the limit. In the last 50 years, in the Great Plains, a volume of groundwater was pumped up that would need 2.000 years of rainwater to replenish. The capitalist depletion of our precious water sources for irrigation is actually enhanced by global warming.

What’s wrong with producing a lot of food in a small amount of space at a very affordable price ? This documentary answers that simple question.

Dr. Arpad Pusztai is astonished : "I find that it is very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs. We have to find the guinea pigs in the laboratory." But the FDA prefers to use the whole US-population for this purpose.

Jared Diamond wonders if one day, tourists will be looking to the rusty casco's of skyscrapers in New York, like we now look at the ruins of the cities of the Maya's, overgrown with the jungle. The answer is clear. The question is not if the US Empire will fall. The question is : when ?

Japan is the last nation in the world that considers whales more interesting as meat than as wonderful creatures that deserve our most profound admiration and respect. The Sea Shepherds are fighting back !

The authors lead us back to the basics, when they state : "We do not have a body, we are a body; we are not surrounded by an "environment"; we are an intimate part of the ecosphere." Therefore, they introduce an alternative indicator to the GNP, the Ecological Footprint (EF).

"It used to be that everyone in this country had a connection to farms, but now most of these farms have gone". Peterson’s farm has now 1200 shareholders from a Community Supported Agriculture scheme. Each shareholder receives each week a box full of fresh and healthy vegetables and fruits. This way, the farm performs its historical role again, reuniting people with the source of the food.

This book shows a path, told in a passionate way by the author, in which his company has gradually been transformed into an employee-owned company. The Mission Statement of South Mountain is : “To enrich our community through our work” !