Like many people, I have become keenly aware that we cannot carry on living the over-consumptive, wasteful lifestyles that we have been groomed and encouraged to lead.  It was with a major overhaul, a drastic remodel in mind, that Theme Room Films took shape in 2007, and that the concept for Greening the Cube: 100-Mile Housing took seed; our plan was to explore and document the efforts of people not so unlike us that are living with a localized focus amidst all the complexity of our ‘globalized’ world.                 

What prompted me to undertake the telling of this story are the people I have been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of over the past two years.  

They are builders both alternative and conventional, from builders of innovative, natural homes, to builders of rich, vibrant communities.  

Builders of ecological economies, and builders of vision, to builders of urban oases found amongst sky-scraped sight-lines.  I hope they will serve as an inspiration for you, too, and that whatever you take away from the stories and practices documented in this film will enrich your experience in your own built and evolving environment- whether in housing, community, energy use or the like, there is always room for change, and ideally, room too, for improvement.

Tyler Austin Bradley

Director

Our feature documentary has been shown extensively (and independently) throughout the West Kootenays and Columbia Basin area of British Columbia, Canada and was an official selection of the 2009 Rossland Mountain Film Festival,

and The 2010 Okanagan International Film Festival.  It made it’s European premiere at the 2010 Globians Documentary Film Festival in Berlin. 

‘Greening The Cube - 100 Mile Housing’ has been screened at numerous collegiate and post-secondary institutions including Selkirk College and Niagara College as an addendum to courses taught in Integrated Environmental Technologies and Green Building.  It has a broad appeal, having attracted the interest of industry professionals, too, in the form of the United States Green Building Council; the film screened to a theatre full of USGBC Houston, Texas chapter members, and screened at the 2010 Greenbuild International Film Festival in Chicago, USA at the 2010 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo and shown in the traveling film festival of 2011 with the USGBC.