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AMERICAN RECYCLED follows brothers Tim and Noah Hussin as they bicycle 5,000 miles across the U.S. South over a period of two years, in a wildly poetic yet personally intimate experiment into scaling down, relocalizing, and connecting to community and land.
Director: Noah Hussin, Timothy Hussin
Share this film. Give others the chance to learn from its story.
Volunteer at community bike shop in your town or city. One great example is The reCyclery, “an educational bike shop” in Asheville, North Carolina, that encourages people to learn the trade of bike repair while promoting sustainability along the way.
Make sustainable choices at home. Were you inspired by the intentional communities and off-grid living featured in the film? Fellowship for Intentional Community and Off-grid are both great places to learn more about living life with sustainability in mind.
Stop food waste. Around $165 billion in food is thrown away annually in the U.S. alone. Expert dumpster diver Rob Greenfield offers his tips here.
Watch an article and video by the Hussin brothers in 2013, as they were in the midst of filming here.
In summer 2013, after graduating from college, I biked alone from Western Massachusetts to San Francisco. The journey took 74 days, 3,400 miles, and 7 flat tires. I didn’t wear bike shoes, never locked my bike once, never spent a dime on lodging, and never encountered a single bad person.
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Locations, milieus, backdrops: evocation of setting has played a key role in some of the year’s most fascinating work.
Check out the list of the 17 top place portraits of 2015 here.
“A couple years ago, Noah Hussin didn’t eat roadkill. Now it makes his mouth water.”
Read an interview with Noah Hussin here.
Read 11 reasons why you should eat roadkill, provided by David K. Gibson.
Using a combination of modern technology and old-fashioned common sense, these Yoopers and northern Michiganders eke out an off-the-grid existence in a bounteous but occasionally hostile land.
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"At once poignantly elegiac and inspirationally optimistic, AMERICA RECYCLED is a likeably idiosyncratic off-grid road-movie"
The Hollywood Reporter
"AN IMPRESSIVE FILM"
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