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Food Waste Recycling Through Community Composting Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story Other films you might like Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste 7 mins Closing the Loop Learn about how this couple manages their composting toilet, why it's so important, and how easy it is! Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy 15 mins From Finance to Farmer Explore the beautiful food forest Andrew Martin has created from a paddock of grass, and learn all the reasons why he's doing so. Share your thoughts about the film Ben & bEartha Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @iloveowls8748 “ @turtle2212 “ @helenmcgill5563 “ @amber6172 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Festival selections: Links to information about Nelson’s Community Compost and its composting programme Community Compost website detailing their composting service and Compost Club Instagram feed for Community Compost featuring their automatic composting machine Follow Community Compost’s food waste recycling journey and connect with their team of composters on Facebook Links to more about bEartha the compost turner and the need for food waste composting ‘Creating a composting machine – a tale of invention’ – RNZ interview with Ben Bushell ‘Nelson community compost scheme aims to avoid waste’ – Stuff article on Community Compost’s composting service ‘Why our food scraps are being driven hundreds of kilometres out of town’ – The Spinoff article about food waste recycling Links to resources about how to make compost We love Kiwi gardener Kath Irvine’s Easy Peasy Compost article for tips on making great compost at home. If you prefer a video to learn how to make compost, Morag Gamble of the Permaculture Institute offers the in-depth guide 5 Ways to Compost . This is a link to a fabulous online book by Home Grown Permaculture called Home Composting in Hobart (but of course, you don’t need to be in Hobart for it to work for you too!). Ben & bEartha follows the story of passionate composter Ben Bushell of Community Compost, Nelson ( https://communitycompost.co.nz/ ). Through the inspiring story of Ben and his dedicated composting community, we get to know bEartha, an automatic composting machine that’s about to revolutionise small-scale commercial composting. Why is composting important? What is aerobic composting? How can mechanical composting support the need for food waste solutions? And what’s the story with “community composting” anyway? Find out in this inspiring film about a potentially game-changing approach to making compost on an urban scale. Watch the trailer for Ben & bEartha: Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening About Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story 39 mins “ Incredible video full of such inspiring people!! Made me cry and want to be part of a community like this myself someday! @iloveowls8748 YouTube ” “ This inspirational docu brought me to tears of joy! What a wonderful masterpiece of grass roots empowerment that shows what is possible if we look at what we can do rather than what we cannot do. @turtle2212 YouTube ” “ Thank you Happen Films for making such an inspirational story once again. Ben and his team deserve so much gratitude and thanks for doing what every town should be doing! @helenmcgill5563 YouTube ” “ Compost heroes indeed! Beautiful! Thank you for creating, documenting, and sharing such an important and inspiring journey! There needs to be a bEartha in every town and community. @amber6172 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

The full-length interview with Nicole Foss from our documentary A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity. NICOLE FOSS EXTENDED INTERVIEW << Previous Interview Next Interview >> Find out more about Nicole Foss http://simplicityinstitute.org Description Economist Nicole Foss is co-editor of website The Automatic Earth. Here she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.This is the full interview we shot with her for our film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . We can only ever fit in a few minutes’ worth of the amazing interviews we get to shoot, so here’s the whole thing for people who want to get into the nitty-gritty! This is the full-length version of the interview from our documentary A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . These are the timecodes for the questions we asked Nicole: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:41 – What is the relationship between energy and economics? 00:08:05 – What is peak oil and why is it important? 00:15:57 – How do you respond to those who say that, due to the shale boom in the US, ‘peak oil is dead’? 00:30:27 – Can you describe the essence of the global financial system and explain why it’s so fragile? 00:38:37 – Could you please explain your understanding of the global financial crisis and what role expensive oil played in this? 00:46:43 – You have argued that the instability of the financial system is of greater and more immediate concern than climate change and peak oil. Please elaborate. 01:00:10 – What is your take on whether renewables or nuclear energy will be able to save us from peaking energy resources? 01:06:18 – You’ve said that the system cannot be reformed. Why can’t strong financial regulation, environmental regulation, redistributing through taxation help? 01:17:34 – You’ve said that the future belongs to the adaptable. What is resilience and how do we become more resilient? 01:31:30 – Would it be fair to summarise that strategic advice by saying that the main thing we need to do is try to prefigure a low energy, low consumption, simpler way of living? 01:41:35 – You’ve said that building community is one of the most important things we can do. Why do you think this is? 01:47:53 – When thinking about the world, I constantly find myself battling to find a space between naive optimism and despair. Can the crises underway and on their way be turned into opportunities? Community, Urban Living, Simple Living 114 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future Living the Change Other films you might like Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening 39 mins Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Food & Gardening, Community, Permaculture, Urban Living 39 mins Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity Learn the variety of ways this community comes together to help those in need to have access to great food and meaningful connections Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste 78 mins A Simpler Way What would it look like to live within Earth's available resources? This group came together to explore a one-world-footprint lifestyle. Share your thoughts about the film Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable World Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @ligbzd837 “ @KenTanis “ @alwaysaboutthejourney “ @rbsax Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Festival selections: Watch the short films by Happen Films that inspired this documentary: An Invitation for Wildness Growing Wild Together The Future of Food Restoring Paradise From Finance to Farmer Living Simply in a Tiny Cabin Watch the extended interview with Charles Eisenstein Watch our podcast episode with Susan Krumdieck Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Living the Change - English subtitles Living the Change - German voiceover If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that showcases individual and collective responses to the global crises we face today – highlighting solutions any one of us can be part of and offering 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, along with interviews with experts able to explain how we come to be where we are today. From forest gardens to composting toilets, community supported agriculture to timebanking, Living the Change offers ways we can rethink our approach to how we live. Watch the trailer for Living the Change : A few reviews for Living the Change from our social media platforms: “Best thing I have seen in ages, EVERYONE should watch this!! So happy that I helped to crowdfund this project, the quality of the production and story being told is incredible, brilliant! Thank you, Happen Films.” – Phil Beenham, Facebook “…I’ve seen (and shown) many movies on similar topics. To date this is the best one I’ve seen. Beautifully grounded, pulls no punches about the gravity of the situation we face but gives excellent examples of credible and achievable solutions. ” – Gail, Facebook “This film creates hope… Instead of the negative, despairing, angry message that a collapse is coming…. it focuses on living a good, ethical, meaningful life now AND being more prepared to assist with a transition back to our earthling roots.” – Adriana, Amazon “I never write reviews but I feel compelled to recommend this movie…The movie addresses permaculture, alternative currencies, zero waste, etc in a beautiful and inspiring way. Watch it, and be better for it.” – Ayme, Amazon Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste About Living the Change 86 mins “ This is one of the most inspiring documentaries I've ever seen. Thank you! @ligbzd837 YouTube ” “ Thank you for releasing your art for free. I need to be able to share this broadly. It is a testament to your interviewing and editing skills that this documentary explains so many complicated systems and their interactions so clearly and concisely. @KenTanis YouTube ” “ This film has just given me such a deep and profound inspiration to change how I choose to live my life. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it with the world. @alwaysaboutthejourney Instagram ” “ This documentary has become the catalyst in my taking action to build a food forest in the property left to me by my late father. Permaculture farming here I come @rbsax YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Family Living Off the Grid in a Tiny House in New Zealand Living Simply in an Off-Grid Tiny House Other films you might like Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 16 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy 15 mins Degrowth in the Suburbs What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 12 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about Living Simply in an Off-grid Tiny House Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @emalinedelapaix “ @hannahletinich “ @cracksofthepast “ @barradale_farm Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Find out more about Tom and Sarah Visit their Instagram page Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Living Simply in an Off-Grid Tiny Home - English If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa live in a 20sqm off-grid tiny house on a property on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Instead of paying rent, they share the work of looking after the land with the owners, and both families share in the farm’s abundant produce. We were inspired by how much happier they’ve found themselves by living with less. Tom is a medical doctor and Sarah is an illustrator but both have chosen to reduce their work to almost nothing in order to have more time to focus on living well – a lifestyle choice that is more possible for many of us than we might think. This little 6-minute film has been one of our most popular to date, perhaps because it describes a lifestyle so many of us would love to be living. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building About Living Simply in an Off-Grid Tiny House 6 mins “ This made me smile and cry. What a beautiful couple and life. So inspiring. @emalinedelapaix YouTube ” “ Love the way you highlight people and their relationship with land and food. @hannahletinich Instagram ” “ This is actually how we are supposed to live! Kudos fo this beautiful family! @cracksofthepast YouTube ” “ Such a lovely family and a great film. @barradale_farm Instagram ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

92% of Her Vegetables In Just 4 Hours a Week The Plummery, 5-year Revisit Other films you might like Community, Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture 8 mins Hua Parakore Hua Parakore encapsulates the principles behind growing food from a te ao Māori – Māori worldview perspective. Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 12 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about The Plummery Revisit Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ Aeyla-n1r “ daviddreher8588 “ yvonnescraftycorner Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Watch our first film with Kat: The Plummery Find out more about Kat and The Plummery: Kat Lavers' Website Kat Lavers' Instagram Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. The Plummery, 5-Year Revisit – English If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Back in 2019 we visited Kat Lavers at her Melbourne home, The Plummery. We were awed not just by the abundance of food growing in her 100sq/m back yard, but by her approach to life, her household and community practices, and her wonderful eloquence. That film has been a hit – 2.2 million views to date on YouTube and over 1500 comments that are overwhelmingly inspired, excited, loving and grateful to Kat for her quiet wisdom. The film was also selected in four international film festivals. It’s been on our mind to film with Kat again – to see if things have changed in the garden and in her thinking. Happily Kat was equally excited to share an update and even expand on her insights into inner-city gardening and living. We shot a revisit film with her in December 2024, just at the start of Melbourne’s summer, and this time Kat spoke about creating resilience both in our gardens and in our homes. We also get to see some of the very cool critters that maintain her garden’s thriving ecosystem. Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Permaculture About The Plummery, 5-year Revisit 12 mins “ I absolutely love your garden! I have watched the first film so many times! So this second one is a delight! Thank you! Aeyla-n1r YouTube ” “ I get some much inspiration from watching smaller spaces produce such abundance. I'm filled with awe at what can be accomplished with consistent effort and love for the process. daviddreher8588 YouTube ” “ How wonderful to see an update, I shared the first video with many people to try to encourage them to grow food not lawns. Thank you for sharing. yvonnescraftycorner YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

This Couple Live an Ultra Low-Waste Life and You Can Too! The Rubbish Trip Other films you might like Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening 39 mins Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Share your thoughts about The Rubbish Trip film Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @earth2jennyl “ @barbarajones9069 “ @slowhappytravels “ @onestrangeboat Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Festival selections: Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. The Rubbish Trip - English If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Hannah and Liam are the inspiring couple behind The Rubbish Trip, originally a nationwide tour offering free zero waste workshops around Aotearoa New Zealand. Now experts on the why’s and how’s of reducing waste, Hannah and Liam are our personal zero waste heroes – educators, advocates, and activists on a subject that is ultimately about so much more than waste. For this film, we asked Hannah and Liam about their perspective on what it means to be zero waste, what it’s taken for them to make suitable lifestyle changes toward that goal, and their work in advocacy and activism. This short film offers inspiration and encouragement to all of us, no matter where we are on our waste minimisation journey. Hannah and Liam’s story offers another opportunity for Happen Films to contribute to the global conversation about waste. It is topical and it needs urgent action. We see it as a critical subject to be discussing in our households, communities, businesses, and with our governments: how can each and every one of us assume responsibility for our impact on the planet and on each other and work towards the necessary system change? Find out more about Hannah & Liam and The Rubbish Trip The Rubbish Trip website Instagram Facebook Zero Waste, Urban Living, Simple Living About The Rubbish Trip 17 mins “ I loved this video! I feel inspired, not lectured. Thank you! @earth2jennyl YouTube ” “ I have been working towards minimal waste but your film has inspired me to go for zero waste and hopefully inspire others. @barbarajones9069 YouTube ” “ Wow, Hannah and Liam are amazing human beings! Thank you for sharing their story. I'm slowly adopting the "zero-waste" lifestyle. I have so much to learn but watching this video was super helpful and inspiring! @slowhappytravels YouTube ” “ This is really impactful, thank you. Makes me think a lot about how I can change my lifestyle too! @onestrangeboat YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

SuperAdobe Earthbag Tiny House Build Time Lapse Earthbag Timelapse Other films you might like Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building, Community 25 mins Strawbale Dream Home Follow Adam and Sian as they build their traditional timber frame home combining timber joinery, strawbale and cob. Simple Living, Homes & Building 12 mins The Handmade Housetruck Explore the simple life and beautiful home of this couple in their beautiful off-grid handmade tiny house truck, built with love and skill. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building 8 mins Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House Meet Taj as she gives a tour and describes living simply in this 10 sq metre tiny house built using reclaimed materials. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living 4 mins Agari Permaculture Farm A short film showcasing Agari Permaculture Farm, a place for exploring natural building and permaculture. Share your thoughts about Earthbag Time Lapse Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @PlantSugar “ @JustOneKnight “ @stephenrogers7886 “ @groundpounder8855 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Watch the documentary A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity This 3-minute time lapse shows the construction of a SuperAdobe earthbag tiny house built in the community where we lived while filming the feature-length documentary A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . Simple Living, Homes & Building About Earthbag Timelapse 2 mins “ Good job! I love a good time lapse. @PlantSugar YouTube ” “ I would so love to do something like this. @JustOneKnight YouTube ” “ I would love to live off grid in a house like this. @stephenrogers7886 YouTube ” “ Awesome simply living! @groundpounder8855 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

15-Year Permaculture Property Transformation 15 Years of Limestone Permaculture Farm Other films you might like Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming 17 mins Limestone Permaculture Tour #3 Our second film with Brett and Nici of Limestone Permaculture, and the third film in our Permaculture Tours series. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature 11 mins Melliodora Tour A tour of David Holmgren and Su Dennett's 1-hectare permaculture paradise – explore the home and garden of the co-founder of permaculture. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature 13 mins Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 The first of two Happen Films tours of well known Limestone Permaculture Farm, where an abundance of food and medicine is grown on 1 acre. Share your thoughts about 15 Years of Limestone Permaculture Farm Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Learn more about Limestone Permaculture Farm: Watch the first tour we made in 2015 Watch the second tour we made in 2019 Limestone Permaculture Farm links – Website / Instagram / Facebook Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. [to come!] If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Limestone Permaculture Farm is a 1-acre property in Stroud Road, NSW, Australia. Here Brett and Nici demonstrate permaculture design processes and principles through homesteading, small scale farming, and food forest systems, alongside a host of energy and water conservation practices, while also offering permaculture courses and contributing to local community activities. From its beginnings as a house surrounded by bare paddocks, the farm has transformed since 2010 into a thriving paradise that is constantly evolving. Because we’ve been so inspired by both the farm and the farmers, this is our third film with Brett and Nici. The enthusiasm and energy Brett shared with us on camera in our first film found an equally enthusiastic audience: “Simply awesome. I'm about to start from scratch and I've never felt more invigorated. So inspirational.” We visited them again in 2019, and that film met with a similar response from all of you. “Watching how this beautiful farm has evolved, thrived, and changed so many people’s lives for the better is truly inspirational!” Now, 10 and a half years on from making that first film, we’re so pleased to be able to share a third film with you about Limestone Permaculture Farm. It’s incredible to see how this 1-acre property has evolved and we’re grateful to Brett and Nici for once again sharing their passion and knowledge with us. They’ve created something truly special, and their approach is so heartfelt and deeply passionate that you can’t help just loving everything about the place and people! Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature About 15 Years of Limestone Permaculture Farm 12 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Purple Pear Biodynamic Permaculture Farm Tour Purple Pear Permaculture Farm Other films you might like Zero Waste, Urban Living, Simple Living 17 mins The Rubbish Trip What does it mean to be on the zero waste journey? And why is it important for us each to take personal responsibility for our waste? Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 16 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy 15 mins From Finance to Farmer Explore the beautiful food forest Andrew Martin has created from a paddock of grass, and learn all the reasons why he's doing so. Share your thoughts about Purple Pear Permaculture Farm Tour Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @tahliel “ @ajourneyonearth “ @cathyphegley7414 “ @angelikal4564 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Visit the Purple Pear Permaculture website A tour of Purple Pear Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a permaculture and biodynamic farm with rotating tractor domes over mandala garden beds, pigs, chooks and some great philosophy. Mark and Kate run a small CSA (community supported agriculture) offering veggie boxes to their local community. They dream not of growing ever bigger and bigger and controlling the market for veggies in their region, but rather of staying small and supporting other vegetable growers to initiate similar projects, or even to join theirs, so that everyone in the community is eating well and living well. Now there’s a vision to be inspired by! Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture About Purple Pear Permaculture Farm 6 mins “ What a fabulous tour! Thank you. @tahliel YouTube ” “ These tours/interviews/short films give me so much hope and enthusiasm for the future. @ajourneyonearth YouTube ” “ He is so inspiring. What an amazing place and way of life. @cathyphegley7414 YouTube ” “ This makes my heart flutter. Beautiful truths spoken here. @angelikal4564 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

A look inside the life of an unschooled 11-year-old A Day in the Life of Woody Other films you might like Community, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming 12 mins From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands A film exploring how the simple practice of grazing goats on wild lands can lead to a healthier forest and a more connected community. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 12 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste 86 mins Living the Change Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @Siriuslyyy “ tommycastles “ @SewWithSally “ @regenerationtrust5779 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . About this series This film forms part of the collaborative series “Something Beautiful for the World”, a project in which three filmmakers from around the globe explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. The series is made up of 12 short films, from across five continents, four from each filmmaker, and releasing one per month for the whole of 2024. Watch all the films in the series here . Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. A Day in the Life of Woody-English A Day in the Life of Woody-Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! A Day in the Life of Woody showcases the unschooled life of 11-year-old Blackwood, a boy who has been schooled from home all his life. There’s not much missing in a day spent with Woody that you wouldn’t find in the life of most 11-year-old Australian boys – bows & arrows, playing cricket, family time, learning time… but there’s a difference here. From growing the tree to make his future bows & arrows to skillfully handling a chainsaw as he helps his dad manage the local commons forest, Woody’s daily life is both similar and very different to the average young boy’s. Told entirely from Woody’s perspective, this 12-minute film shares an inspiring insight into one young boy’s experience of the world. We love this family and have made a few films about them! Watch more at the links below: Creatures of Place From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands The New Peasants (in production) And find out more about Artist as Family by signing up to their blog . Simple Living, Permaculture, Community, Urban Living About A Day in the Life of Woody 12 mins “ I didn't want it to end... The joy in this child's life. @Siriuslyyy YouTube ” “ Such a pure, delightful film to watch! tommycastles Instagram ” “ What a beautiful boy and family. This is so inspiring. Thank you for this film! @SewWithSally YouTube ” “ Well done. If only we all started that way. What an inspiration. @regenerationtrust5779 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Cute $2500 rustic tiny house with beautiful geodesic dome window Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House Other films you might like Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste 86 mins Living the Change Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste 78 mins A Simpler Way What would it look like to live within Earth's available resources? This group came together to explore a one-world-footprint lifestyle. Community, Simple Living, Permaculture, Homes & Building, Zero Waste 4 mins $420 Tiny House This film showcases the build of a very tiny house, built using reclaimed materials by a couple with no previous building experience. Simple Living, Homes & Building 2 mins Earthbag Timelapse A 3-minute time lapse showing the build of an earthbag tiny house built by unskilled labourers at Wurruk'an, in Gippsland, Australia. Share your thoughts about Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Find out more about the community Taj was part of in our free-to-view feature film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . Check out the construction and a tour of this cute 10-square-metre mostly recycled tiny house with a lead-light geodesic dome window, built on land shared by a community committed to simple living. The build cost around $2500, and was completed by a group of mostly unskilled builders in Gippsland, Australia. The house has a loft bed, and work and living space below, with no need for a bathroom or kitchen as these are part of the community’s shared facilities. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building About Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House 8 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

The full interview with Grahman Turner from our film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity GRAHAM TURNER EXTENDED INTERVIEW << Previous Interview Next Interview >> Find out more about Graham Turner https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/53539/limits-to-growth-book-eccology-50-years/ Description Graham Turner is an academic whose focus is on whole-of-system analysis on the long-term physical sustainability of the environment and economy. This is the full interview we shot with him for our film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . We can only ever fit in a few minutes’ worth of the amazing interviews we get to shoot, so here’s the whole thing for people who want to get into the nitty-gritty! Watch the free-to-view feature film that drew on this interview: A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . Community, Simple Living, Urban Living 52 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Full-length interview from the film Hua Parakore: Living Indigenous Food Sovereignty DR JESSICA HUTCHINGS EXTENDED INTERVIEW << Previous Interview Next Interview >> Find out more about Jessica Hutchings' work Te Waka Kai Ora: https://www.tewakakaiora.co.nz Jessica Hutchings: https://jessicahutchings.org Purchase Jessica’s book via the links on her website: https://jessicahutchings.org/books-and-offerings/ Description Hua Parakore provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs or GMO. It also encapsulates the Māori worldview in its approach to how food growers are verified as Hua Parakore, with principles that require practitioners to deeply consider such things as their connection with the land, its energy, the many species living on it, and their community. Question timecodes 0:55: What was this land like when you arrived here? 3:28: Could you speak about the origin of the farm’s name, Papawhakaritorito? 4:48: What is Hua Parakore? 9:35: What are the core principles of Hua Parakore? 11:28: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Whakapapa’? 15:25: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Te Ao Tūroa’? 16:54: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Mauri’? 19:52: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Māramatanga’? 24:29: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Mana’? 26:26: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Wairua’? 27:45: What is the worldview behind the Hua Parakore framework? 31:05: How does Hua Parakore differ from organic certification schemes? 33:16: How does the process of becoming Hua Parakore verified differ to organic certification? 36:04: Could you speak to how biodynamics is incorporated into your Hua Parakore practice at Papawhakaritorito? 39:51: Could you explore the connections between healthy soil and healthy people? 42:16: What does the phrase food sovereignty mean? 48:42: What advice would you give to someone wanting to engage with Hua Parakore? 49:36: What place is there in Hua Parakore for Pākehā [non-Māori New Zealanders]? 51:07: How can Pākehā support Māori food sovereignty more generally? 53:41: How relevant is Hua Parakore beyond Aotearoa New Zealand? 56:13: How important is seed saving in the Hua Parakore framework? Community, Farming & Composting, Gardening, Permaculture 60 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty with the Hua Parakore Organic Framework Hua Parakore Other films you might like Regenerating Nature, Food & Gardening 17 mins Fishing for the Future A small-scale, thoughtful and ethical approach to fishing our oceans is possible – this family is leading the way. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature 11 mins Melliodora Tour A tour of David Holmgren and Su Dennett's 1-hectare permaculture paradise – explore the home and garden of the co-founder of permaculture. Farming, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature 8 mins Restoring Paradise A short film showcases Mangarara Farm, where holistic grazing practices are regenerating the land to the biodiverse fields that once were. Share your thoughts about the film Hua Parakore Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @realisticmgmt “ @richdensem “ @annburge291 “ @kirti9751 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Find out more about Hua Parakore: Watch our full interview with Jessica Hutchings Visit the Te Waka Kai Ora website Visit Jessica Hutchings’ website Purchase Jessica Hutchings’ books on her website Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Hua Parakore - Māori Hua Parakore - English If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Hua Parakore was established in Aotearoa New Zealand by Te Waka Kai Ora, the National Māori Organics Authority. It provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs or GMO. It also encapsulates the Māori worldview in its approach to how food growers are verified as Hua Parakore, with principles that require practitioners to deeply consider such things as their connection with the land, its energy, the many species living on it, and their community. This documentary provides an insight into Hua Parakore from the perspective of one of its most knowledgeable practitioners – Jessica Hutchings was one of the researchers who helped develop the framework. Community, Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture About Hua Parakore 8 mins “ There is so much we have to learn from Indigenous ways of knowing and caring for the land. Thank you for sharing this insightful piece on Māori principles. @realisticmgmt YouTube ” “ Loved it. Watched the full interview too. Makes for interesting viewing after just finishing Charles Eisenstein's book on the story of interbeing. @richdensem Instagram ” “ Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for making this film. @annburge291 YouTube ” “ Nine minutes of inspiring holistic practical wisdom. Thank you for bringing the values underlying the farm as a gentle immersive experience. @kirti9751 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Rethinking renewable energy with professor Susan Krumdieck. HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #4 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Rethinking renewable energy with professor Susan Krumdieck. 00:00 / 49:03 Learn more about Susan Krumdieck Book: Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future , by Susan Krumdieck Article of interest: Susan’s response to the film Planet of the Humans . Website YouTube Blog Transcript Jordon: Hey everyone, we’re Jordan and Antoinette and welcome to another episode of the Happen Films podcast. If you’ve seen our film Living the Change, you might recognise this week’s guest professor, Susan Krumdieck, who we interviewed in that film about renewable energy. Show More Description In Episode 4 of the Happen Films Podcast, we speak with Dr Susan Krumdieck. Susan is an American-born, New Zealand-based Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Canterbury University. Her research has developed novel methodologies and tools needed to rapidly downshift fossil fuel use while recovering real value for people and environment. Over the course of her research she has worked on development of every type of renewable and alternative energy technology, culminating in founding the emerging field of Transition Engineering. Transition Engineering actions social responsibility and sound science to deliver change projects that down-shift the exposure to fossil fuel supply and climate change risks. Transition Engineers work in the gap between fossil fuelled expectations and constraints of flourishing. This is a topic that fascinates us both. The first time we met Susan was in 2016 when we interviewed her for our film Living the Change. It was a game-changing conversation for us, as while we weren’t exactly ‘techno-optimists’, we soon realised how little we new about the realities of the mainstream renewable energy story. Susan might break your bubble about that story, but she does it with great passion and always with a tone of what we called ‘hopefulness’ and she calls ‘purpose’. Susan’s approach to renewables, and that of Transition Engineering, is to begin with our vision for the future. These days, rather than simply researching new technologies to make renewables more efficient, she is rethinking how we use our technology, how much of it we even need, and what alternatives exist to technology itself that could improve our lives while reducing our exploitation of the earth. Community, Urban Living 49 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest An Invitation for Wildness Other films you might like Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 16 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 8 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 12 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about An Invitation for Wildness Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @LandElevated “ @raya7656 “ @elliebella2710 “ @stellamonde Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Find out more about Robert and Robyn Guyton: Watch our follow-up film with Guytons, five years on: Growing Wild Together Visit the Guyton's Facebook Page, The Forest Gardeners Read about the Longwood Loop food resilience network started by Robyn Read more about life at the Guyton’s place on Robert’s blog . Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. An Invitation for Wildness - English An Invitation for Wildness - Turkish An Invitation for Wildness - Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton’s amazing 23-year-old food forest. The 2-acre property has been transformed from a neglected piece of land into a thriving ecosystem of native and exotic trees where birds and insects live in abundance. Robert and Robyn are a huge inspiration to us, not only for their beautiful approach to healing the land and saving heritage trees and seeds, but for the way they’ve impacted on their local community. They’ve operated an environment centre in their town for over 20 years, where the community comes together to learn and discuss, buy produce and sit by the warm fire over a cuppa. We’ve even heard of folk who’ve up and moved to Riverton because they’re so inspired by the Guytons! Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living About An Invitation for Wildness 20 mins “ Truly inspiring. A lot of people prefer this kind of living now. Thanks for giving people great ideas! @LandElevated YouTube ” “ Thank you Happen Films, your videos changed my life and gIve me so much inspiration, I'm so grateful and happy that people who respect nature still exist @raya7656 YouTube ” “ What a brilliant film - thank you so much for sharing the Guyton's inspiring work. Putting it into practice here in Ghana! @elliebella2710 YouTube ” “ This is the video I always come back to. It's the video that has started me down the garden and permaculture rabbit hole, and it is still one of my favourites to watch. @stellamonde YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Couple Builds Tiny House for Only $420! $420 Tiny House Other films you might like Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy 15 mins Degrowth in the Suburbs What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building 8 mins Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House Meet Taj as she gives a tour and describes living simply in this 10 sq metre tiny house built using reclaimed materials. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living 4 mins Agari Permaculture Farm A short film showcasing Agari Permaculture Farm, a place for exploring natural building and permaculture. Share your thoughts about $420 Tiny House Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @enoch327 “ @australianwoman9696 “ @smileyhappyradio “ @bottlenosedolphin8494 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . See more about Liam and Rachel’s community in our free-to-view feature film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . Meet Liam and Rachel, who built this cute 6.25-metre tiny house for just $420. Using almost entirely reclaimed materials, including bits and pieces scavenged from building sites and dumpsters, the couple built their first home with no previous building experience. The teeny little house has a living area downstairs and above it a loft with a double bed. As they were living in community, Liam and Rachel didn’t need to include a kitchen and bathroom, as they have shared facilities and a communal living space nearby. This is their perfect retreat, surrounded by vegetable plots and looking out onto beautiful native bush. Community, Simple Living, Permaculture, Homes & Building, Zero Waste About $420 Tiny House 4 mins “ Living proof that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Bravo! @enoch327 YouTube ” “ I love this tiny home! It's got soul, unlike commercially built homes. Great job, guys! @australianwoman9696 YouTube ” “ This is one of the most joyful videos I have watched in a long time. Good luck to you with your home! @smileyhappyradio YouTube ” “ This video was heartwarming and gave me hope and spiritual strength. Encouraging, humble and honest simplicity. @bottlenosedolphin8494 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Farming Sustainably With Regenerative Agriculture Restoring Paradise Other films you might like Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 16 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Community, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming 12 mins From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands A film exploring how the simple practice of grazing goats on wild lands can lead to a healthier forest and a more connected community. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture 5 mins The Future of Food Frank and Josje discuss Community Supported Agriculture as a sustainable and viable food system for the future. Share your thoughts about Restoring Paradise Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @OurChangingClimate “ @AgroforestryAcademy “ @LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY “ @merquitiedd Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Learn more about Greg's work at Mangarara: Visit the Mangarara website Regenerative agriculture offers a future for the sustainable farming of meat in line with nature’s needs, by using holistic grazing and organic/biodynamic practices and even sequestering carbon in the soil – so important in the fight against climate change. At Mangarara , in New Zealand’s beautiful Hawke’s Bay, Greg Hart and his family are in the process of restoring 1500 acres of land, conventionally farmed for over 150 years, into the paradise it once was. Focusing on diversity of animals, plantings and practices they are creating not only a beautiful landscape but also a beautiful place for animals and people to live and thrive. Holistic grazing keeps the grass long in order to build soil biology, sequester carbon, reduce fossil fuel inputs and keep animals naturally healthy. The neighbouring farmers might think it’s a wasteful practice, but as Greg says in the film, “Waste is a human concept. Nature doesn’t do waste.” Farming, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature About Restoring Paradise 8 mins “ When you get a Happen Films video in your subscription feed, you know it's going to be a great day. Another awesome video, thanks! @OurChangingClimate YouTube ” “ Very inspiring. We believe that working with animals, along with agroforestry systems, is one of the most powerful ways of regenerating soils and ecosystems. Congratulations on the work! @AgroforestryAcademy YouTube ” “ Amazing. Love seeing people who are actually making a change as opposed to just complaining on the internet. @LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY YouTube ” “ This is so incredibly interesting! Thank you for all your videos and work! You inspire! @merquitiedd YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Make Amazing Compost with a Composting Toilet Closing the Loop Other films you might like Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening 39 mins Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 8 mins A Life with Less Waste What secrets does this family hold to reducing individual impact on the planet by reducing family waste streams? Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living 14 mins Abdallah House A tour of a very small urban section that has been developed using permaculture principles to make best use of the space. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 12 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about Closing the Loop Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @markanthony4655 “ @nadakuditigopikrishna6587 “ @Helen1118Kang “ @pennyparker2370 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . We highly recommend the book Lisa mentions by Joseph Jenkins, The Humanure Handbook – you can buy it online or download a free PDF . Here’s a subject we’re super passionate about – although it’s not for everyone! Humanure composting is the ultimate in self-responsibility. When we use flush toilets we not only waste beautiful clean water, we waste an incredibly useful resource. Our poo, when properly composted, is a brilliant addition to our gardens, making it the ultimate in ways to create a closed-loop system. While this isn’t an immediate option for apartment-dwellers, it’s certainly an option for anyone with a back yard big enough to hold a couple of compost bays. In this video, Greg and Lisa describe one of the easiest ways to compost your poo. And not without a bit of humour too! Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste About Closing the Loop 7 mins “ Loved the film. Always wondered if it could be done, now I have the answer. Thank you so much. @markanthony4655 YouTube ” “ This method helps to get rid of polluting water resources across the world. Thank you very much for sharing this great video. @nadakuditigopikrishna6587 YouTube ” “ Awesome video! We need to spread this kind of videos to the world! Thank you so much. @Helen1118Kang YouTube ” “ Loved this film. We have been making humanure for 12 months now. No going back. @pennyparker2370 Instagram ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text

Navigating the human predicament with Nate Hagens HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #6 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Navigating the human predicament with Nate Hagens 00:00 / 56:23 Learn more about Nate Hagens Websites: The Great Simplification , The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future Book: The Bottlenecks of the 21st Century: Essays on the Systems Synthesis of the Human Predicament by Nate Hagens & D.J. White Article: Ecological Economics issue 169: ‘Economics for the Future – Beyond the Superorganism’ by Nate Hagens Transcript Antoinette: Hi everyone, I’m Antoinette, welcome to the Happen Films podcast. Today I’m speaking to Nate Hagens. Nate’s the co-founder and director of the Institute for Energy and Our Future. He has a deep knowledge of the workings of finance, having begun his career on Wall Street, but his focus changed entirely in the early 2000s. Since then he’s dedicated himself to understanding the interrelationship between energy, the environment, and finance and the implications of that relationship on human futures. Nate teaches a course at the University of Minnesota called Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament and that course is available online. He also gives regular talks, which are available online and I’ll pop links to those in the show notes and in the YouTube description. I’m really excited to speak to Nate today and I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation. Show More Description In Episode 6 of the Happen Films podcast, with Jordan away spending time with an unwell family member, Antoinette is flying solo for the first time. She had the pleasure of speaking to Nate Hagens, someone we’ve been following for a while now because we love his deep knowledge and insight into the interrelationship between the environment, energy, and finance. Having begun his career on Wall Street, Nate has a deep understanding of finance, but his career took a change of direction in the early 2000s as he began to understand the repercussions of peak oil. His personal research led him back to university and a PhD in Natural Resources and he’s dedicated the last 20 years to educating himself, freshman students and the world at large about what he terms The Human Predicament. Now, instead of Wall Street being the hub of his universe, he states: “Our real stock market is our air, our soils, our forests, our oceans, and the biodiversity we share the planet with. This stock market has been going down for over a millennium and has been in slo-mo crash mode [for decades].” How did we get to this point, and how do we move beyond it in a way that ensures the planet and humans will thrive? We hope you enjoy the podcast. Check out the links to dive deeper into Nate’s research, writings and videoed talks. Urban Living, Permaculture, Zero Waste 56 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text Add text