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Switch Documentary Next Dinner and a Movie March 5
Filmed in 11 countries and exploring 9 key energy resources, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels, Switch takes viewers on an exciting world tour of the energy frontier.
What will it really take, to go from the energy that built our world, to the energy that will shape our future? You are invited find some answers and discuss the options at a free screening of Switch at Greens N Grains Cafe on Thursday, March 5 at 7 pm. The film explores the world’s leading energy sites and gets straight answers from the international leaders driving energy today, to discover the path to our energy transition.
Embraced by fossil and renewable energy companies, environmental groups, academics and the general public alike, Switch is the first truly balanced energy film – a nonpartisan, scientifically-based exploration of a much-needed transition. Rather than advocate for how it should happen, Switch travels the world to discover how it most likely will happen.
The film is also about a changing the ongoing energy conversation. Today, it’s polarized and unproductive. Switch focuses on practical realities and encourages a balanced understanding.
Finally, Switch is about changing the way we use energy, to realize the many economic and environmental benefits of efficiency.
Switch is part of the Switch Energy Project, whose mission is to change the energy conversation, from polarized to practical – so we can move forward toward a smarter energy future.
The Cafe at Greens N Grains Natural Food Store offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend but seating is limited to 28 people. Dinner and film reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights.
How To Beat The Winter Blues, Free Afternoon Seminar at Greens N Grains, Feb 19
If getting out of bed in the mornings is even harder this month, you may not be imagining it. In fact you may be one of the millions of people in America suffering from a health complaint typically referred to as the winter blues.
The condition is a form of mild lethargy and depression caused by a lack of sunshine combined with the psychological effect of the end of summer. It’s now thought to affect eight out of ten of us in one form or another. One-in-five of us suffer a more serious condition called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which, in its most severe cases, causes sufferers such strong symptoms of fatigue and depression that it can seriously disrupt their lives.
On Thursday, February 19 at 1 PM, Dr. Nicole James will provide a series of tips on “Beating the Winter Blues” at Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor. She plans to cover:
- How to effectively use light therapy and why it works,
- Benefits of vitamin D on your mood,
- Dietary strategies to support mood and
- How to balance your neurotransmitters.
SAD was only recognized in the 1980s and, like the winter blues, it is thought to be related to the amount of natural light available in the winter months. Medics believe that daylight triggers a reaction in our bodies each morning that stops us from producing melatonin, a hormone that makes us feel drowsy so we can sleep. In the winter months the lack of daylight can mean some peoples’ bodies do not stop producing melatonin – leaving them feeling exhausted.
Exposure to sunlight also boosts levels of serotonin, the chemical which makes us feel happy. During the winter months the body produces less serotonin, which can also lead to depression. If the change in seasons has left you feeling down in the dumps, Dr. Nicole’s top winter health tips could help you start to feel brighter.
Dr. Nicole James
There is no cost to attend but please, R.S.V.P. or get further information from Dr. Nicole James, CNC by email at nicole@DCOptimalHealth.net or with a call to her at 920.743.4221.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm. The GNG Website features news and monthly discount specials online at Greens-N-Grains.com.
INGREDIENTS, a Seasonal Exploration of the Local Food Movement, Feb 19
At the focal point of this film and the local food movement, are the farmers and chefs who are creating a truly sustainable food system.
Attention being paid to the local food movement comes at a time when the failings of our current industrialized food system are becoming all too clear. For the first time in history, our children’s generation is expected to have a shorter lifespan than our own. The quality, taste and nutritional value of the food we eat has dropped sharply over the last fifty years. Shipped from ever-greater distances, we have literally lost sight of where our food comes from and in the process we’ve lost a vital connection to our local community and to our health.
A feature-length documentary, INGREDIENTS illustrates how people around the country are working to revitalize that connection. Bebe Neuwirth, the film’s narrator is known for her portrayal of Frasier Crane’s wife on both the TV sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier. You are invited to join the “regulars” at Egg Harbor’s own cheerful alternative, the GNG Cafe for a screening and lively discussion at Dinner and a Movie Night on Thursday, February 19.
The film takes us across the U.S. from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the urban food deserts of Harlem and to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins. INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.
The Cafe at Greens N Grains Natural Food Store offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend but seating is limited to 28 people. Dinner and film reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights.
The Price of Sand, Next Dinner and a Movie at Greens N Grains, February 5
“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate.
The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has other uses- glass manufacturing and toothpaste, for instance – and a few established mines have been in operation here for decades. But now, new companies have arrived, and land with accessible silica deposits is selling for high prices.
In addition to a bonanza for a few lucky landowners, the new mines promise jobs and economic stimulus for the small towns and rural areas nearby.
“Two years ago, an oil company bought a tract of land near my mother’s house, in rural Goodhue County, Minnesota. The prospect of an open pit mine led to the formation of an opposition group, a series of public meetings, and a temporary county moratorium on frac sand mining,” says Jim Tittle, the film’s director.
He decided to visit people who live near existing frac sand mines and interview them for what eventually resulted in a series of YouTube videos.
“They told me stories of intense truck traffic, plummeting property values, toxic silica dust… a catalog of complaints that surprised me with its variety and intensity,” he explains.
He knew that YouTube short films can provoke discussion (56,000 views so far), but the story of this mining boom is far more complex. So he set out to raise the money to produce a full-length feature “The Price of Sand,” with new stories and a more comprehensive look at what’s happening.
You are invited to learn the real price of frac sand, not just in dollars, but in lost friendships, disrupted communities and the potential future of Wisconsin at the next Greens N Grains film screening on Thursday, February 5.
The GNG Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend but seating is limited to 28 people. Dinner and film reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights.
Breakthrough Weight Loss, Afternoon Seminar at Greens N Grains, Jan 22
Nicole James, CNC, Functional Medicine Clinician and Certified Nutritionist will present Weight Loss for Life! – a free seminar at Greens N Grains Natural Food Store in Egg Harbor on Thursday, January 22 beginning at 1 pm.
“Have you tried every fad diet known but still haven’t lost any weight? Or worse – did you lose weight and have it come roaring back shortly thereafter?” questions Nicole. “The truth is, you might have a specific health issue that is standing in the way between you and your ideal body.”
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm. The GNG Website features news and monthly discount specials online.
Greens N Grains to Host Screening of “Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff” Jan 22
A documentary about GTAC’s controversial proposal to dig an open-pit iron mine in Northern Wisconsin will be the feature at the next Dinner and a Movie Night at Greens N Grains Cafe on Thursday, January 22. The 25-minute film will be followed by a community discussion.
Produced and directed by Milwaukee-based 371 Productions, “Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff” takes viewers to Ashland and Iron Counties, where Cline Resources’ subsidiary GTAC has set off a battle over the state’s natural resources by proposing to dig what could be one of North America’s largest open pit mines in Wisconsin’s Penokee Hills. The film explores the potential impacts of the mine and how legislation changed the state’s mining laws.
“Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff” was commissioned by Al Jazeera America’s award-winning investigative documentary program “Fault Lines” and premiered in June 2014. The film is now touring the state in a series of screenings followed by community discussions and panels. It addresses a crucial issue for Wisconsinites.
“Fault Lines” correspondent Josh Rushing traveled to Ashland and Iron Counties to report the story. Viewers meet the players at the heart of the standoff, visiting a century old family-owned dairy farm that could be impacted by the mine. We hike deep in the woods in the harshest of winters to spend time with the Chippewa tribes who have set up an education and resistance camp to oppose the mine. The Bad River Chippewa tribe, who have lived in the region for generations, raise concerns that acid mine drainage would contaminate the water, fish and wild rice on which they depend. And we meet Leslie Kolesar, Chairwoman of the Iron County Mining Impact Committee, who tells “Fault Lines” the mine would bring 700 desperately needed jobs to a region with high unemployment.
“Fault Lines” talks to Wisconsin State Senator Bob Jauch, who opposes this mining project and tells us how GTAC ignored its critics. We also talk to Bob Seitz, Director of External Affairs for GTAC, who denies allegations that the company had a hand in writing mining legislation and defends the company’s record of environmental and safety violations.
It’s an unfolding battle in a pristine wilderness where even the tiny Iron County board election attracts money from outsiders like the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity. This is a story about money and power versus environmental concerns and a way of life for thousands of local residents. It’s a story ultimately about the state of our democracy.
Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the film screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The film screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights. The GNG Website features the official film trailer, news and monthly discount specials online at Greens-N-Grains.com.
DATCP Publishes Third Edition of Local Food Marketing Guide
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has updated the Wisconsin Local Food Marketing Guide.
New entries in this third edition include information about business development, using social media for marketing, business contracts, updated regulations and more. The guide may be downloaded for no cost from DATCP’s Website and can be mailed upon request.
The Local Food Marketing Guide includes information and strategies about reaching consumers directly through farmers markets, community supported agriculture, agritourism, farm markets, roadside stands and pick-your-own operations. It also includes information on selling through intermediate channels such as restaurants, grocery stores, schools, hospitals and distributors. The guide can help farmers and retailers make decisions about pricing, labeling and insurance. It also provides guidelines for getting proper licensing, following regulations and meeting food-safety standards.
The guide is a service of DATCP’s Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin program. Download a 106-page pdf copy of the guide at http://datcp.wi.gov/Business/Buy_Local_Buy_Wisconsin. Request a hard copy by emailing DatcpBLBW@Wisconsin.gov or by calling Kietra Olson at 608.224.5112.
The first edition garnered the Wisconsin Library Association Government Roundtable’s Distinguished Document Award, and was one of 12 documents to receive the American Library Association’s Notable State Government Document Award.
Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin is an economic development program designed to increase the amount of Wisconsin-grown and produced foods available for purchase by local consumers including families, institutions and businesses. The program offers education, technical assistance and other resources.
RESCHEDULED: DamNation Dinner and a Movie, Jan 15
Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream.
Ben Knight films the former Elwha Dam before its removal. Elwha River, Washington in a scene from DAMNATION. Photo: Travis Rummel
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
Produced by Patagonia, a manufacturer of high-end outdoor apparel, as an offshoot of its endangered-fish-saving World Trout Initiative, the film documents the havoc our nation has inflicted upon native fish populations by building 75,000 dams over approximately a 90-year span.
Chris Packham of the Village Voice says, “While many enviro-docs basically lower the audience into a dark well of hopelessness and then roll the credits, DamNation concludes with a triumphant fusillade of explosions, as communities across the country decommission and demolish environmentally destructive dams.”
Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm. The Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Website features the official film trailer as well as news and monthly discount specials.
Greens N Grains Invites you to Learn “How to be a CANcer THRIVEr” with Afternoon Speaker and Evening Dinner and a Movie, Dec 18
Kathy Navis invites everyone to visit Greens’ N Grains Natural Food Store and Café on Thursday, December 18 for a 1 pm presentation by Dr. Nicole James followed later in the evening with the biweekly Dinner and a Movie film screening event beginning at 6 pm.
Dr. Nicole James from Sturgeon Bay’s Center for Optimal Health will be discussing and answering questions regarding the launch of the Center For Optimal Health’s new CANcer THRIVEr program.
Their science-based treatments have proved to be an effective alternative/addition to traditional chemotherapy and radiation. This program is an individualized approach to healing the body, mind and spirit.
Each month Nicole visits Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor to share valuable, healthy nutrition-based approaches to achieving your potential in well being. There is no charge to attend.
This is the movie the food industry doesn’t want you to see!
FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.
“See the film at 7 pm on Thursday, December 18 and then join us and the filmmakers in taking the FED UP Challenge,” says Kathy Navis. “Join our cause and go sugar-free for 10 days. You can get details and sign up at the film screening.”
Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the film screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The film screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm.
Virunga, Next Film Screening for Dinner and a Movie, Dec 4
Virunga is the incredible true story of a group of brave people risking their lives to build a better future in a part of Africa the world has forgotten and a gripping exposé of the realities of life in the Congo.
Corruption, compassion, the imperiled gorillas and the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo lie at the core of this film, the next feature screening on Thursday, December 4 at Greens N Grains biweekly Dinner and a Movie Night in Egg Harbor.
The film is named after a national park in the Congo, where some of the world’s last mountain gorillas live. It’s the story of SOCO International oil company, M-23, a band of local rebels trying to control their land, fearless Congolese park rangers, an intrepid investigative journalist and soft-spoken Belgian warden fighting to protect it.
“This project has always been about much more than a film,” says Director Orlando von Einsiedel. “By showing the world exactly what was happening in the park, we realized early on that the film could act as a tool in the fight to protect Virunga National Park against SOCO International’s illegal exploration for oil.”
Is there a more dangerous national park on earth? If so, t’s hard to imagine. In some of the footage we see armed rangers cuddling frightened gorilla orphans as they prepare for an imminent M-23 rebel attack. A park warden named Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo, wears a hidden camera, as does an intrepid young French journalist named Melanie Gouby, in an effort to prove that SOCO is, at best, trying to buy its way into the park. The footage they capture appears pretty damning, showing a Congolese SOCO supporter offering bribes and a French contractor for the company speaking contemptuously about the need to “recolonize these countries.” They risked their lives to make this film.
“If a place as iconic as Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the last of the world’s mountain gorillas, falls in the face of illegal business interests, what is left on our planet that is safe from human greed?”
Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.
Greens N Grains Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm. The Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Website features the official film trailer as well as news and monthly discount specials.
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