#triple divide

[itsthefreeoutside]

Day 175-Triple Divide CDT day 3-Even after over 10k miles of hiking across 20 states I still get to see new animals.

[rjzimmerman]

Triple Divide Trailer

Extract from Vimeo, explaining the documentary:

"Actor Mark Ruffalo co-narrates this 18-month cradle-to-grave fracking investigation by Public Herald, an investigative news nonprofit co-founded by journalists Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman. Triple Divide features never before seen interviews with industry giants and advocates, exclusive reports with impacted landowners, uncovered state documents, and expert testimonies.

"It's title represents one of only four Triple Continental Divides in North America, a place that provides drinking water to millions of Americans, signaling to the audience that everything, and everyone, is downstream from shale gas extraction.:

[earthpeacesteph]

It's been awhile since I've been on Tumblr and it's about time I change that. I'm not back to the whole college semester balancing act of school work, organization coordinating, working, a social life and now a romantic relationship all together. I'm managing to keep my head above water and I'm trying to keep time to focus on myself and my health - mental and physical. So I'm making a few changes as you'll see below;

Week long Vegetarian Challenge started October 1st. [Completed]

On day 10 of Vegetarian Diet.

Dating Sean [1 Month] who's a gluten free, dairy free, soy free, ovo-vegetarian. Needless to say, his knowledge on food and health is incredible and I'm learning a lot from him!

I'm now registered in Group X classes at the Rec Center for the first time EVER. I go every Thursday for Yoga, Piloxing (pilates and boxing), and power pedaling (cycling). #itsintense 

Weekly Farmers Market visits every Wednesday for local produce and food. Trying new things... like Spaghetti Squash.

Quinoa tastes good.

Dairy free cheese, butter and milk are real!!!

Almond milk, Soy milk and Rice milk are awesome alternatives to traditional dairy milk.

Gluten Free brownies are INCREDIBLE!

I need to get a legit knife set so I can cut, dice and mince ingredients for cooking because I want to experiment with more home made meals.

I'm going to PowerShift 2013 this year in Pittsburgh and I'm STOKED for it! [9 days]

Involved with organizing & local politics: City Council elections and Charter Amendment (about fracking) for the November 5th elections, the local anti-fracking group Protect BG, have met city officials (like, whoa! Awesome!) while still being involved with the Environmental Service Club (President) and the Environmental Action Group (Community Outreach). I feel involved, informed, and like I can make a difference... I love it!

Planning on going to the gym at my apartment 4x a week #weightlifting #tone #cardo #sweat 

I'm down about 8-10lbs

Continuing to look into Meditation, Yoga, Chakras, and Energy Healing.

Tried my first Buffalo Burger about 2 weeks ago.

Met the directors of the Documentary 'Triple Divide' :D

Purely Decadent, dairy free cookie dough ice cream is AMAZING!

Happy Badger and Naslada are places I will return to. Fo Sho!

I'm visiting the peta2.com website more, reading about food additives and anything related to health lately too.

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Mark Ruffalo Narrates Triple Divide

Dear Triple Divide supporter,

This is not a picture of the studio that critically-acclaimed actor Mark Ruffalo had to record in to narrate part of Triple Divide. It is, however, the closet-turned-studio that Melissa had to record her narration in. She's not complaining though - instead she's thankful (and authoring this memo while referring to herself in the third person.) Melissa and Joshua are both thankful that Mark and sound engineer Elias Gwinn made time (on the fly) to help create a new, improved final narration for Triple Divide…just this morning. Ruffalo has spent a lot of time speaking up for shalefield families in distress and for that we have mad respect. Elias, a.k.a. Velidoxi, is a mad sound scientist hell bent on creating substrates to build and coalesce. Together they came on a mild winter day in NYC to contribute to this project - thanks guys. Which means - Josh and Melissa are (gratefully) back in the editing room, and those of you who've already donated to the film will have to wait in further anticipation of what we are dying to send out to you all! For those of you who watched the uncut version of the film we sent on New Years Day, the final cut is slimmer, transformed, and ready to fight. Everyone who's test screened Triple Divide so far has agreed that the film is beautifully shot. And for that, the vision of artist, journalist, and now documentary filmmaker Joshua Pribanic deserves full credit. Me - I'm just a girl with a nice voice and bone to pick from Potter County, Pennsylvania (now referring to herself in the first person) without a website to link to, who thinks Stephen Cleghorn is the shit. (See Triple Divide.) Thank you all for your support and for being patient - we'll have Triple Divide to you very soon! PS - Massive thanks to John Trallo and Ralph Kisberg for their guidance, kindness, spirits, and spare beds... Peace & elbow grease, Melissa (& approved by Josh)

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EcoWatch Interviews Public Herald About Fracking & Triple Divide

Triple Divide: A True Story

With high-profile activists like Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon taking a stand against fracking, the controversial drilling practice has been pulled from the periphery and placed in the public’s main line-of-sight at a scale sparking movement from Hollywood.  Promised Land, a film starring Matt Damon as a salesman for a natural gas company, hits theaters tonight, lending cinematic drama to the issue of fracking.  While the large-scale exposure is valuable, Melissa Troutman, co-creator of another film on fracking, is careful to iterate an important fact, “Promised Land is a story, but this [Triple Divide] is a true story.”

Triple Divide, a documentary by Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman of Public Herald, investigates the effects of fracking in the Marcellus Shale Region of Pennsylvania from the ground up, focusing its lens on the true accounts of neighbors who have lost their water well to contamination from drilling, and farmers, like the ones in Promised Land, who have lost their land to pollution from a nearby well pad.  In their first live interview about the film, journalists Joshua and Melissa discussed Triple Divide and the impact of fracking with Stefanie Spear, Founder and Editor of EcoWatch, a news service designed to promote and build a community of grassroots environmental activism.  You can watch the full interview above or at EcoWatch.

Information on Triple Divide and fracking in Pennsylvania can be found at tripledividefilm.org or publicherald.org.

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EcoWatch TV Interview: Filmmakers of New Fracking Documentary Triple Divide

EcoWatch

On Jan. 3, EcoWatch TV with Stefanie Spear featured the new fracking documentary Triple Divide and interviewed filmmakers Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman. Triple Divide is about the truth behind oil and gas development in shale plays across Pennsylvania and is scheduled for release the end of January.

Watch the inaugural EcoWatch TV interview and hear firsthand the account of these two extraordinary filmmakers as they unfold the truth about fracking’s undeniable impacts on local communities and our most valuable natural resources:

Through personal stories, experts and public documents, Triple Divide tells a cautionary tale about the consequences of fracking, including contamination of water, air and land; intimidation and harassment of citizens; loss of property, investments and standard of living; weak and under enforced state regulations; decay of public trust; illness; fragmentation of Pennsylvania’s last stands of core forest; and lack of protection over basic human rights.

The film begins at one of only four triple continental divides on the North American continent in Potter County, Pennsylvania, where everything is downstream. From this peak, rain is sent to three sides of the continent—the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, Chesapeake Bay on the eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. This vast water basin is drained by three major rivers—the Allegheny, Genesee and Susquehanna. These waterways rank among the most coveted trout streams in the U.S., helping to create a regenerative tourism economy upon which locals have depended for generations. At this “watershed moment” in Pennsylvania’s history, which way will the future flow?