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A Magical 28-year Journey to Food Resilience Growing Forested Foods Growing Wild Together Other films you might like 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. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living 20 mins An Invitation for Wildness The Guytons have made a name for themselves as forest gardeners. In this first of two films we tour the forest when it is 23 years old. Regenerating Nature, Simple Living 30 mins Fools & Dreamers Does regenerating a native forest mean hundreds of staff or volunteers planting individual tress? What about leaving it to nature? 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. Share your thoughts about the film Growing Wild Together Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @jackjames9005 “ @karenmoran68 “ @mattchew5965 “ @Titania Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Links to resources about the Guyton’s work, forested foods and food forest design: Watch our original 2016 film about the Guyton’s permaculture food forest, An Invitation for Wildness Information about the Longwood Loop food resilience ‘trade route’ the Guyton’s use to supply their forested foods direct to the local community Learn about the Guyton’s local South Coast Environment Society 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. Growing Wild Together - English Growing Wild Together - Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Watch our original film from 2016, An Invitation for Wildness . In Growing Wild Together we return to the nearly 30-year-old food forest growing on 2 acres of urban land in southernmost Aotearoa New Zealand. The forest, previously an abandoned section filled with rubbish and burnt house remains, was the subject of our 2016 film An Invitation for Wildness . Now we’ve returned to find out what has changed in the forest and for the people who live there. Robyn and Robert’s forest garden is home to countless forms of life, from trees and plants to birds, fish, and insects, and of course the humans who live amongst it all, in harmony. With time it grows wilder and wilder – “Like me,” says Robert. Since we first visited, the couple have also developed new projects, one of them reviving an old trade route, to help create food resilience for the nearby rural communities. In the film, Robert says he’s convinced that the food forest model will be one of the most important models for creating a resilient future on Earth. He maintains we must learn to be loved by the forest. Here is a film to inspire love for our forests and everything they generously gift us! Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature About Growing Wild Together 16 mins “ This was truly inspirational. We need to localize agriculture and live with the land. His speech about optimism was just what I needed. Thanks so much, Happen Films! @jackjames9005 YouTube ” “ It was wonderful to revisit these beautiful people and their thriving, abundant food forest. @karenmoran68 Instagram ” “ Thank you for following up. The original is my go-to video when I need a connection to all things beautiful. Thank you for sharing. @mattchew5965 YouTube ” “ Wonderful film. We need more like it. @Titania Website ” 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

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre Degrowth in the Suburbs 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, 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. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living 5 mins Urban Abundance This couple have turned their urban back yard into beautiful neat rows of market garden and help others to garden in their own back yards. Share your thoughts about Degrowth in the Suburbs Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @leamonty2992 “ @jeniehuynh4805 “ @TheHomesteadingHobbit “ @meeganhardaker6595 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Festivals 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. Degrowth in the Suburbs - English Degrowth in the Suburbs - Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! By living more simply, creating permaculture gardens, utilising energy technologies such as biogas and solar power, and taking part in community initiatives like car sharing, this household creates money and time savings that enable them to work fewer hours and develop a thriving and sustainable home. Find out more about Sam Alexander's Degrowth work: Simplicity Institute Simplicity Collective ‘ Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary ‘ Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy About Degrowth in the Suburbs 15 mins “ These videos give me hope and make me dream of what I can do. They show me there are people doing the right thing. Thank you. @leamonty2992 YouTube ” “ This is a wonderful way to live and save our planet. Great documentary. Thank you for sharing. @jeniehuynh4805 YouTube ” “ Such a beautiful documentary. Start small, and it will be an amazing journey as you watch your home unfold to its greatest joy. @TheHomesteadingHobbit YouTube ” “ All of your films are wonderful, thank you for this gift to the world! Fills me up with hope. @meeganhardaker6595 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 Importance of the Community in Tackling Social Isolation and Food Insecurity Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity 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, 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, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living 5 mins Urban Abundance This couple have turned their urban back yard into beautiful neat rows of market garden and help others to garden in their own back yards. Share your thoughts about the Together We Grow film Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @between2beaches “ @hannahwagner4249 “ @countrymousesfarmhouse497 “ @ricoconnor3351 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 Common Unity and it’s community hub partners Common Unity website that showcases how it’s building the community in Lower Hutt Instagram feed showcasing Common Unity’s community development project Follow Common Unity’s work to create community on Facebook Website for Kokiri Marae, which runs a pataka kai (community food bank) Facebook page for the Kokiri Marae pataka kai (community food bank) Links to more about Common Unity and building community resilience ‘Common Unity: a flourishing community hub’ – RNZ interview with Julia Milne, 2022 ‘Young Māori leading by example for what co-governance could look like’ – Stuff article, 2023 ‘Down to earth: Common Unity Project founder Julia Milne’s love of The Remakery’ – Stuff article, 20 Access the Common Unity Grow Kit What does Common Unity do when food insecurity is turning into a social crisis? They open source everything! After 12 months of development and input from their community, Common Unity has launched a community “Grow Kit” course that’s free to view. Click here to access the Grow Kit link on the Common Unity website . Support Common Unity in their community building There are a bunch of ways we can each help Common Unity continue their work to create community. From gifts in kind like seeds, garden tools, fabrics, and more, to programmes like “Fund Our Whānau” and “Fund a Farmer” where donations help them to educate their community to grow food. Click this link to check out the options on the Common Unity Support page . What do you get when you combine a community cafe, a community grocer and a community bike works? Plus a repair cafe, a sewing workshop, garden sharing, and a honey-making enterprise? Common Unity! A truly wonderful example of the importance of the community in tackling issues like social isolation and food insecurity. And in building the social connections and social relationships so important to health and life. In Together We Grow we get to know a group of community members doing the important work of caring for others and building community resilience. It’s a community hub of learning, support, creativity, joy, sharing and shared interest, all in one place. Watch the trailer for Together We Grow Download subtitles Together We Grow is currently available with the subtitles listed below. We hope to add more languages in the future – let us know if you have the skills or funding to add your language! Click on a link to download the .srt subtitle file for your chosen language. Download English subtitles Download Spanish subtitles Download German subtitles Download Portuguese subtitles Download Chinese subtitles Download Chinese-Taiwan subtitles Audio Description (AD) version Download Together We Grow with Audio Description (AD) Food & Gardening, Community, Permaculture, Urban Living About Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity 39 mins “ What an inspiring film. I would love to see community hubs like this everywhere! @between2beaches Instagram ” “ Wow. Amazing film. I haven't felt that hopeful in a while. @hannahwagner4249 YouTube ” “ I loved this. What an incredible initiative, what a beautiful, creative community. I really admire everything they do. Thank you so much for bringing it to us in this beautifully made film. @countrymousesfarmhouse497 YouTube ” “ I am so touched by this remarkable story. Absolutely invigorating and uplifting. 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Brett & Nici from Limestone Permaculture on drought, bushfires, & answering your questions. HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #5 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Brett & Nici from Limestone Permaculture on drought, bushfires, & answering your questions. 00:00 / 1:07:23 Find out more about Brett and Nici Website Facebook Instagram Description We’ve made two short films about Limestone Permaculture Farm, we shot the first one in 2015 and the second in 2019. There’s a heap of learning, growth and wisdom shared across the two episodes, but a short film is just never enough, even two of them! We wanted to do a follow-up interview with Brett and Nici because during that second shoot there were massive bush fires on the horizon and the farm was in the middle of a long-time drought. How have they come through it all and what’s keeping them going? We’ve also included some questions asked on YouTube and over on Instagram. Thanks for asking, folks! Enjoy the episode. Permaculture, Farming & Composting, Gardening, Simple Living 67 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

A meditation on crafting a beautiful human Flute Making and Human Making Other films you might like Simple Living, Permaculture, Community, Urban Living 12 mins A Day in the Life of Woody 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. Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Economy, Urban Living 13 mins Being the Change at 85 Helen Dew is an 85-year-old activist with a passion for gardening, community resilience, biochar, seed saving and living simply. Share your thoughts about Flute Making and Human Making Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @catalinadelcidbarillas4183 “ @MPBussey “ @jmindich “ @Elsa568being 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 here . Flute Making and Human Making is a meditation on the similarities to be found between two unlikely things – a traditional Japanese bamboo flute and a human being. This short film is a unique exploration into the making of a shakuhachi flute, from bamboo harvest to beautiful music, and the crossovers with the making of a beautiful human. Had the thought ever occurred to you? Set your imagination to play! Begin with a posture of openness, of attentiveness. Breathe down through the fluteness of your spine to sense the tensions, where to soften, where to loosen. Consider the flute’s five holes and your own five senses. What crafting can take place, what adjustments, so that the wholeness of your being becomes the greatest, most wonderful offering you can gift to the world? Buddhist teacher Tarchin Hearn and blind flutemaker Kelvin Falconer take us on a journey into new territory, asking us to meditate deeply on our own crafting, our own fluteness, to take our turn in serious music-making for the healing of the world. The film is based on Tarchin Hearn’s book Something Beautiful for the World: A shakuhachi sadhana . If you’re inspired by the film to read the book, or to learn more about Tarchin’s teachings, visit his website at https://greendharmatreasury.org/ 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. Flute Making and Human Making - English Flute Making and Human Making - Spanish Flute Making and Human Making - German If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Mindfulness About Flute Making and Human Making 17 mins “ Thank you for the poetry and metaphor of this film. 💚💙💛.... Pure light for the soul! @catalinadelcidbarillas4183 YouTube ” “ Fabulous meditation on craft, and sound, and spirit! Thank you! @MPBussey YouTube ” “ Stunningly beautiful and insightful; both the content and the filmmaking. Thank you! @jmindich YouTube ” “ This video touched my soul. Thanks so much. @Elsa568being 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

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