Greens N Grains

Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future… the next Green Door Film Society Screening at Greens N Grains, Thursday, December 29. The city of Detroit has been unearthing its Urban Roots in a [...]

Temple Grandin is autistic… she is also an American doctor of animal science, a professor at Colorado State University, a bestselling author, and perhaps the best known scientist in the humane livestock handling industry And that’s not because her name was mentioned 7 times in the last Grammy Awards.  Grandin believes it is her autism [...]

On Thursday, December 8, Forks Over Knives, the film revered as a “great movie” by New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, will be re-screened for local film critics to review and discuss at the first of this season’s meetings of the Green Door Film Society. Research done by two world-renowned experts, biochemist and co-author of [...]

Stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician Bill Hicks (Dec. 16, 1961 – Feb. 26, 1994) might be considered the Gen X equivalent of Lenny Bruce, both considered to be highly controversial performers whose works are steeped in dark comedy. Bill Hicks was 16 years old in 1978 when he first started performing stand-up at [...]

Get Involved in World Food Day Rallies, Marches, Recruiting Drives, Film Screenings, Potlucks and House Parties. This World Food Day, October 16, 2011, is going to be the largest day of action for labels on genetically engineered food in U.S. history. All around the country, local Millions Against Monsanto chapters are planning Right2Know rallies, marches, [...]

Witness for Peace, Upper Midwest is hosting a Fair Trade Fair at the Settlement Shops on Saturday, August 20 from 11 am – 4 pm. Come to support local businesses and organizations that sell fairly traded products, and learn about the differences between Fair Trade and Free Trade. Purchase beautiful, fairly traded crafts, gifts, foods [...]

Nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary in the 77th Academy Awards, The Story of the Weeping Camel is better described as a “docudrama.” The film was written and directed by two student filmmakers, Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia. The Washington Post’s Ann [...]

Greens N Grains will be screening Josh Fox’s film, Gasland, a 2011 Oscar-nominated documentary about hydraulic fracturing that is enraging the fossil-fuel lobby and has Hollywood spinning. On Thursday, February 24 at 7 pm you can learn all about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” the process by which natural gas and oil is extracted from the [...]

Works by local Door County filmmakers are the main event on Thursday, February 10 at Greens N Grains Movie Night. Yes, that’s me on the cover of the Peninsula Pulse this week. Yes, that is a camera on top of my crash helmet. But no, I failed to hit the record button last year before [...]

Bring a canned food donation for Feed My People to ‘Lost in Woonsocket’ an amazing story about human transformation, Thursday, January 27 at 7 pm at Greens N Grains Deli. Lost & Found in America (LAFIA) is a non-profit organization focused on documenting positive, humanitarian stories on film.  They believe in educating and inspiring viewers [...]