Excerpt from Recipes for Disaster

Concerned about the world's addiction to oil, and its disastrous environmental consequences for the planet, the filmmaker convinces his family to go on an "oil diet" for one year. Aiming to reduce their contribution to greenhouse gases, Webster—if not his wife and two young sons, who are very reluctant participants—is eager to learn from their experiment and becomes a man on a mission.

Divided into thirteen eponymous chapters, RECIPES FOR DISASTER chronicles their efforts on a month by month basis, revealing the personal difficulties involved in making such a radical change in lifestyle, and the surprising extent to which petroleum-based products figure in our everyday lives, including home heating and electricity, transportation, food, plastic products and packaging, clothing, even toothpaste, lipstick and shampoo.

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Film & Animation

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• documentary
• sustainability
• carbon
• emissions
• oil
• petroleum
• green
• no
• impact
• man

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Just aired on SBS tv australia. Loved it. Great informational sequences, moving human story, we laughed, we cried, we thought. Thanks.