PERMACULTURE FILM CLUB: Coral Gardeners

90% of coral reefs could be gone by 2050 - devastating especially for small island nations. See how the Maldives is trying to regrow them.

SCREENING TIME

• Thursday February 19th, 7pm Brisbane
  (London 9am, Paris 10am, Nairobi 12pm, Tokyo 6pm , 8pm Melbourne)

DIRECTOR: Jon Bowermaster

RELEASE: 2023

DURATION: 21 minutes + 30 mins discussion

COST: SLIDING SCALE $0-20

Thanks to the sponsorship of the Permaculture Education Institute, all tickets are PAY WHAT YOU CAN. No one is turned away, but we do very warmly welcome donations to support fair share permaculture in refugee settlements led by and for women and youth - regenerating ecosystems and food systems. We recommend $10-20. Your donation goes 100% directly to the people leading this project with free mentorship from Morag and the Institute.

CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE LIVE SESSIONS

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ABOUT THE FILM

Filmmaker Jon Bowermaster documents a novel restoration experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food, and income to a local population threatened by climate change.

Thanks to a changing global climate, warming ocean temperatures and acidification, coral reefs around the world are dying. Fast. It's projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that if we don't rescue them now, 90% of the planet's reefs will disappear by 2050.

In island nations like the Maldives, reef systems built over millions of years are essential for protection, food and income. "If we don't save the corals now, we're talking the death of a nation," says Maldives Environmental Minister Aminath Shauna.

Finding ways to preserve and regrow coral reefs has become an emergency for many throughout the chain of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean.

"We've already fooled with Mother Nature and look how the planet has responded," says former President Mohamed Nasheed. "Everything is more: the winds are stronger, the waves are higher, the droughts are longer, the sun is hotter and the coral are dying."

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: JON BOWERMASTER

Jon Bowermaster (born June 29, 1954) is an oceans expert, journalist, writer, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society's 'Ocean Heroes,' his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled.

Bowermaster has written eleven books and produced and or directed more than thirty documentary films. His feature documentaries include Dear President Obama, Antarctica, on the Edge, After the Spill and Ghost Fleet. He is a longtime contributor to magazines ranging from The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic to Outside and Rolling Stone.

His National Geographic-sponsored Oceans 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak over the course of ten years (1999–2008), bringing back stories from the Aleutian Islands to French Polynesia, Gabon to Tasmania, and more, reporting on how the planet's one ocean, its residents and various coastlines are faring in today's busy world. The project resulted in an eight-part television series for the National Geographic Channel.

HOST: MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute offering programs for permaculture educators and designers on six continents. You can find out about learning permaculture with her HERE. She has lived for more than a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage. Morag is the host of the Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed millions of times. She hosts the annual International Permaculture Festival of Ideas and twice a year leads the Ethos Fellowship alongside Schumacher College Fellow, Fritjof Capra. She is the Capra Course Alumni Network host, and member of the EcoCivilization Coalition with Jeremy Lent. She is also host of Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for women and youth in refugee and village communities in East Africa.

SPONSOR: PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers and leaders of permaculture programs and to activate permaculture communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcasts, masterclasses, discussion forums, and courses. 

The all-inclusive Permaculture Educators Program is an in-depth online course and global learning community - for beginners to advanced practitioners - combining the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus permaculture business modules. Start anytime. 

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