Living the Change
Catalogue Number: HAP006
Producer: Happen Films
Producers: Osmond, Jordan
Directors: Osmond, Jordan
Producing Agencies: Happen Films
Subject: Agriculture, Consumer Studies, Documentary, Environmental Studies, Health, Science, Social Sciences, Tech/Voc
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: New Zealand
Copyright Year: 2018
Running Time: 85:29
Sometimes it can feel like the environmental, economic and social issues the world is currently facing are too big, too overwhelming, to be dealt with by individuals. Climate change, resource limits, economic downturn, social disconnection. Surely these issues can only be properly managed by our governments? Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today– solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way.
Directors Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson have brought together stories from their travels around New Zealand, along with interviews with experts able to explain how we come to be where we are today. Featured are holistic grazing, regenerative agriculture, fossil fuel use reduction, forest gardens, interconnectedness, permaculture, composting toilets, a repair café, community supported agriculture, waste reduction, and time banking (bartering), Living the Change offers ways we can rethink our approach to how we live. Each and every one of us has the power to create change.
Living the Change sets out to inspire us to do just that. There are so many exciting and important ideas and initiatives out there, so much hope and inspiration.This film aims to generate discussion as widely and deeply as possible about how each of us views the future and our part in it.
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