PERMACULTURE FILM CLUB: Who's Counting

Join Morag Gamble at this special Permaculture Education Institute Film Club on International Women's Day for an online screening of WHO'S COUNTING: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

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

This event is brought to you courtesy of Morag Gamble at the Permaculture Education Institute and the Ethos Foundation.

The tickets are free, but please donate when you register and 100% donations will be sent to young women we work with in refugee communities who uplift women through permaculture education and action, and are mentored by Morag and the Institute. 

The theme this year for International Women's Day is #ACCELERATEACTION .

ABOUT THE FILM

Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts-such as damage to the environment--and completely ignores the unpaid work of women. "Why is the market economy all that counts?" Ms. Waring asks.

In 1975, when she was just 22 years old, she was elected to the New Zealand parliament. She was re-elected three times, and eventually brought down the government on the issue of making New Zealand a nuclear free zone.

When she was chairperson of the Public Expenditures Committee, she perfected what she calls the "art of the dumb question." Ever since she has challenged the myths of economics, its elitist stance, and our tacit compliance with political agendas that masquerade as objective economic policy.

This film has inspired many people -- notably the Who's Counting Project -- to work on human-scale economic alternatives, local currency exchanges, and more humane ways of measuring the quality of life.

WATCH THE TRAILER

HOST: MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the Founder and Director 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 around the world, such as Schumacher College. For as long as she can remember, Morag has been an eco-feminist, and proudly recognises her suffragette great-aunt, Frida Gamble, who founded what became The Royal Women's Hospital (Melbourne) - Australia's first and leading specialist hospital for the health and wellbeing of women and newborns.

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 also 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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