{"id":39161,"date":"2013-02-21T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=34766"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:44:50","slug":"trainsforming-america-environmental-film-festival-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/trainsforming-america-environmental-film-festival-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainsforming America (Environmental Film Festival Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Train Commute Haiku #559<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Your North Face parka
\nLeads me to believe you’re on
\nA grand adventure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continuing on with PlanetSave’s coverage of a recent Environmental Film Festival in Florida, here’s a post on the new documentary Trainsforming America<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Trainsforming America — New Documentary<\/a><\/h2>\n

A new film, Trainsforming America<\/a><\/em>, takes a look at passenger rail in the US from the passengers’ perspective.\u00a0This is a documentary produced by two concerned citizens, Katie Chen and Rebecca (Autumn) Sansom<\/a>,\u00a0who are worried (like many people are) about what an increasing population combined with climate change is going to do to our beautiful country.<\/p>\n

Europeans’ lives involve mass transit<\/a>,\u00a0large bike paths<\/a> (more like streets in some places) much more so than Americans’ lives. So, regularly riding modern trains<\/a> is like drinking water<\/a>\u00a0for many,\u00a0something one is doing naturally in the course of a day or week. So, in Trainsforming America<\/em>,\u00a0Katie and Rebecca talk to passengers who are used to living in a train culture. They contrast this experience with that of Americans, who are used to living in a car culture. The intent is that they get everyone to understand that our transportation systems need to change over to mass transit <\/a>to a much greater extent.\u00a0We have to improve our infrastructure<\/a> in considerable ways, and it needs to happen soon.<\/p>\n