Envision a world in which we no longer serve the economy, but the economy serves life.

Join Morag Gamble at the Permaculture Education Institute Film Club for an online screening of PURPOSE: A Wellbeing Economies Film

TWO screening times available online via zoom - pick the one that suits you best. Organise a watch party at your place!

We are so fortunate to be joined by Katherine Trebeck, who is featured in this documentary, at both events.

These screenings are brought to you by Permaculture Education Institute in partnership the Purpose film team, with thanks to director Martin Oetting.

The tickets are free, but please donate when you register and 50% donations will be sent to this independent film team and 50% will be sent to amazing young women creating wellbeing economies in refugee settlements. Please share generously.

ABOUT THE FILM

The global multi-crisis is accelerating, it affects all levels of society: democracy, climate, biodiversity, migration, justice, equality, institutions, farming … And yet, there is no mainstream debate about the issue at the core of many — if not all — of these problems: our economies. How they function, what they deliver and how they are designed is not really part of our public conversation.

The economic system that is running our societies has a very narrow focus: We must “grow the GDP”, i.e. make more money, no matter the cost. Rather than improving our lives, this logic is now tearing our societies and our planet apart. But no one seems to be working on a viable political alternative.

In late 2017, Katherine Trebeck initiates the ‘Wellbeing Economy Governments’, an international alliance opposed to the mighty G7. Her plan: a new group of countries that are ready to reshape their politics and redesign their economies. While she works tirelessly to make it happen, the project flounders, gets revived and evolves. Eventually, it unites five countries: Scotland, New Zealand, Iceland, Wales, and Finland. It may turn into a starting point for a new economic vision for the world.

Lorenzo Fioramonti helps start the alliance. Then, suddenly, he is invited to run for office in his home country Italy. He wins a parliamentary seat in the general election and hopes to create a wellbeing economy as a Minister for Economic Development. But then he gets sidelined in a troubled government. When it falls apart and a new coalition forms, he unexpectedly becomes Minister for Education and manages to implement some of his bold ideas.

With his film Purpose, director Martin Oetting asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies, and how can we change it? The film follows two individuals who develop ground-breaking political projects in order to shift our economic systems — away from endless GDP growth, towards wellbeing for people and planet. They envision a world in which we no longer serve the economy, but the economy serves us.

“We desperately need more and better stories about how to change our world. ‘Purpose’ provides precisely such a story — showing us what economic systems change looks like in action. Highly recommended!” -Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome

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Thanks to the sponsorship of the Permaculture Education Institute, all tickets are free, but we warmly invite you to donate generously to support fair share permaculture in refugee settlements led by and for women and youth - creating regenerative livelihoods and food systems that support wellbeing. Your donation goes 50% directly to the people leading this project with free mentorship from Morag and the Institute. The other 50% will go to this incredible independent film team.

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. Morag creates the Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube - collectively viewed millions of times. She hosts the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas and the Ethos Fellowship alongside Schumacher College Fellow, Fritjof Capra. She is the Director of Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees.

ABOUT THE SPONSOR

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 many courses.

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