Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
Released: 2007Runtime: 95 min
After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia, filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe, outlining the issues actively moving the energy crisis from theory to reality. Spurred to action by the realities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change.
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- Ed Schreyeras Self - Former Governor General of Canada
- Matthew Simmonsas Self - Author, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
- Richard Heinbergas Self - Author, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
- Michael Ruppertas Self - Author, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
- Jeremy Rifkinas Self - Author, The Hydrogen Economy
- Thomas Homer Dixonas Self - Author, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
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Ed Schreyer
as Self - Former Governor General of Canada
Matthew Simmons
as Self - Author, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Richard Heinberg
as Self - Author, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Michael Ruppert
as Self - Author, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Jeremy Rifkin
as Self - Author, The Hydrogen Economy
Thomas Homer Dixon
as Self - Author, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Roscoe Bartlett
as Self - Representative, Maryland
James Woolsey
as Self - Former CIA Director
James Howard Kunstler
as Self - The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Kate Holloway
as Self - Powering Down in Toronto
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