MIND FOOD FILM Series: Animate Earth
Event description
Join us for an inspirational cinematic experience to explore the new holistic way of looking at the world with Dr. Stephan Harding - a renowned ecologist and biologist. Prepare to be captivated by beautiful visuals and thought-provoking storytelling that will awaken your senses and deepen your connection to the world around us. Learn about the Gaia Theory, the new scientific revolution, and how to find meaning and significance from this planet's life-sustaining systems.
Whether you're a nature enthusiast, an environmental advocate, or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of our planet, Animate Earth promises to inspire, educate, and ignite conversations that matter.
WHAT IS MIND FOOD FILMS?
Mind Food Films is a series of film screenings from the Permaculture Education Institute. All films screened have been picked to be food for thought - expanding your ideas of the world we know is possible and delving into the various aspects of systems thinking.
Other films in this series:
- Ecology of Mind - a filmic portrait of Gregory Bateson by Nora Bateson
- 17 April 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
- 17 April 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)
- Mindwalk - an exploration of systems thinking through dialogue between a poet, a scientist and a politician
- 24 April 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
- 24 April 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)
- Symbiotic Earth - the life and ideas of radical ecological scientist, Lynn Margulis
- 1 May 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
- 1 May 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)
- Regenerating Life - how to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after!
- 8 May 9am AEST (America time-friendly)
- 8 May 7pm AEST (Europe/Asia/Africa time-friendly)
ABOUT THE FILM
Watch the trailer
Featuring leading scientists, ecologists, and authors, Animate Earth makes the case for a new holistic scientific revolution as an essential step towards solving the environmental crises created in large part by conventional science’s mechanistic view of the earth.
400 years ago the scientific revolution initiated our disconnect from nature. Despite its many benefits, the approach encouraged people to think of nature as something solely to exploit to meet our needs. Now, with current environmental dangers and uncertainties, the lm articulates the need for another scientific revolution, one that reconnects us with the planet by viewing the earth as a living system, as an animate being.
Animate Earth is presented by Dr. Stephan Harding, Oxford-trained biologist, renowned ecologist, and colleague of British scientist James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Theory. The film also features commentary from Brian Goodwin, Iain McGilchrist, Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, Jules Cashford, and Satish Kumar. Animate Earth begins with Dr. Harding’s description of his own transformation from a conventional scientist to one who balances the traditional approach with a more holistic, intuitive view. The lm goes on to provide an overview of the evolution of scientific thinking from the ancient Greeks to the enlightenment, and explores the roots and inspiration for today’s holistic scientific thinking, especially in the theories of Goethe and Lovelock.
Harding and the other experts take this thinking to the next level by articulating the principles involved in the new scientific revolution, an approach that at its core recognizes that the planet’s great, deeply interconnected life-sustaining systems are full of meaning and significance.
ABOUT STEPHAN HARDING
Stephan Harding was born in Venezuela in 1953. He came to England at the age of six. Since childhood Dr. Harding has had a deep fascination with the natural world, and his scientific cast of mind lead him to do a degree in Zoology at the University of Durham and then a doctorate on the behavioral ecology of the muntjac deer at Oxford University.
After Oxford, Dr. Harding was appointed Visiting Professor in Wildlife Management at the National University in Costa Rica, where he lived for two years before becoming a founder member of Schumacher College in 1990. Dr. Harding lives on the College campus with his wife Julia Ponsonby and their son Oscar, and is the author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia published in 2006 by Green Books. He is also the editor of a new book—Grow Small, Think Beautiful—just published by Floris Books.
Today, Dr. Harding is Resident Ecologist and MSc Coordinator at the College.
Contributions to Humans & Nature: What Does it Mean to be Human?
A response to “What does it mean to be human?”
Noteworthy Links: Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia
A book by Stephan Harding.
THIS IS A ‘PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ EVENT - WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY?
Whilst this event is for free, we do warmly welcome your generous donation. We always send 100% of all donations received via our registered charity, Ethos Foundation. Any donation received from this event will go towards permaculture food forest nurseries and planting in East African refugee camps and locally-led classes to show youth how to set up and maintain a perennial food forest. People have been living in these camps for decades - perennial food systems are so much more reliable, robust, and abundant, and help to fight the hunger and poverty experienced every day.
HOST: MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE
ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE
Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators and designers on six continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage and has taught at leading ecological learning centres such as Schumacher College. She is also the creator of the Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed over 10 million times. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship - a 6-month youth leadership program, Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees.
SPONSOR: PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE
ABOUT THE SPONSOR
Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers of permaculture 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 many courses.
- The all-inclusive Permaculture Educators Program is an in-depth online course and global learning community combining the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus permaculture business modules. Start anytime.
- Our foundational yearlong online Permaculture Design Course - will help you to create an amazing design for a place of your choice. Start anytime.
- The Incredible Edible Garden is our self-paced 6-module online permaculture gardening course