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An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.
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Episode 1 - In Grave Danger of Falling Food
Release Date:Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.
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Episode 2 - Barefoot Economist
Release Date:Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"
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Episode 3 - The Man Who Named the World
Release Date:James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis
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Episode 4 - Declaration of a Heretic
Release Date:Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society
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Episode 5 - Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth
Release Date:Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.
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Episode 6 - Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King
Release Date:Petrea King is a cancer survivor and founder of the Quest for Life Foundation. After learning how facing death changes a person, she began counseling people diagnosed with terminal illness.
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Episode 7 - Democratic Allsorts
Release Date:Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.