Rob Hopkins

The Turning Point

This is a trailer of The Turning Point: a return to community . The film explores the vital importance of community in the 21st century and its role in helping us to create a life-sustaining society. To buy the film please see www.green-shopping.co.uk The film takes an inspiring look at some of the sustainable community solutions that have grown up over the last 20 years around the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland. This multi-faith spiritual community, ecovillage and international centre for holistic education aspires to foster a new human consciousness and to create a positive and sustainable future. This film will be of particular interest to anyone involved in the Transition Town Movement or similar initiatives. Features Findhorn Wind Park: community-owned wind energy production Earthshare - Community Supported Agriculture The Living Machine - Ecological Sewage Treatment Findhorn Foundation Gardens Local Egg and Cheese Production Local organic and artisan Bakery Forres Transition Town community garden Car Pooling Adopting a Local Currency Internationally renowned speakers Richard Heinberg, Author of 'Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon world'. Rob Hopkins, Co-Founder of the Transition Network, author of 'The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience'. Joanna Macy, Author, 'Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect our Lives, Our World', Deep Ecologist, Buddhist Scholar. Megan Quinn Bachman, Outreach Director of Community ...

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Film Night with Transition City Manchester and Manchester Permaculture

Transition City Manchester and Manchester Permaculture present....
 
An exciting debut Film Night, Monday March 29th, 6.30pm - 9.30pm 
Screening Rob Hopkins new film 'In Transition' and Farm For A Future.

 

This is the first screening in Manchester of the new 'In transition' DVD, which explains what the transition movement is all about, and what we can do for our future - bringing together peak oil, climate change, and permaculture in one evening. 

We will also be showing some extracts from Rebecca Hosking's A Farm For A Future, which was broadcast on BBC2 last year. This film covers peak oil, the Transition movement, and showcased a number of permaculture farms and smallholdings in the UK as future sustainable farming.
 
Film showings will be augmented with slides and discussion around energy decent transition, the future of food, and media approaches to these issues.

As is traditional with permaculture network events, please bring food to share - veggie or vegan preferred.

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