PERMACULTURE FILM CLUB: ANIMATE EARTH

SCREENING & DISCUSSION

ANIMATE EARTH - SCIENCE, INTUITION AND GAIA

Animate Earth is a documentary film written and presented by the late Dr Stephan Harding, renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock.

Stephan put forward a radical approach to the ecological crisis by arguing that many of the problems we now face stem from having lost our intuitive relationship with nature. Stephan believed that traditional mechanistic science fuelled the crisis and that we urgently need to develop an expanded science that cultivates intuitive wisdom alongside rational knowledge so that we can experience everything, from the smallest microbes to our planet’s great life-sustaining cycles, as deeply interconnected.

Building on the revolutionary discoveries of James Lovelockʼs Gaia Theory, Stephan went one step further and explored opportunities to heal our relationship with the Earth through the new discipline of holistic science.

The film features interviews with leading environmentalists, scientists and spiritual leaders, including Brian Goodwin, Iain McGilchrist, Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, Jules Cashford and Satish Kumar.

WATCH THE TRAILER

IN MEMORY OF DR STEPHAN HARDING

Dr Stephan Harding was a long-time friend of Morag's from Schumacher College. Stephan was a founding faculty member of the college and was the Deep Ecology Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Holistic Science - a Masters program he created there. He was the author of Animate Earth - a book that inspires in readers a profound sense of the interconnectedness of life, and to discover what it means to live harmoniously as part of a sentient creature of planetary proportions. This new understanding may solve the most serious problems that face us as a species today. Stephan Harding was a renowned ecologist who had worked closely with physicist-author-activist, Fritjof Capra and Gaia Theory creator, James Lovelock. The film we are watching here is based on Stephan's book.

FILM CLUB HOST: MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is a global permaculture ambassador, speaker, educator, mentor and true-based philanthropist. She founded the Permaculture Education Institute, curates a blog and YouTube - Our Permaculture Life, leads the Ethos Foundation Charity, and hosts the Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, plus this monthly Permaculture Film Club and Permaculture Masterclasses. Morag also mentors Permayouth, the Ethos Fellowship (university without walls) and enjoys life in her ecovillage home.

MORAG AND STEPHAN IN CONVERSATION AT SCHUMACHER COLLEGE

EVENT SPONSOR: PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, teaches permaculture designers, teachers and community activators around the world through the Permaculture Educators Program and hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcast, masterclasses and discussion forums. Permaculture Education Institute also hosts Hive - a global learning community for PDC graduates anywhere in the world.

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

This is a PAY WHAT YOU CAN event. 100% of all donations received at this event will go towards the refugee youth permaculture programs we work closely with in East Africa - including permaculture, ecoliteracy, ecological restoration programs led and designed by refugee youth.