Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

1 Season
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An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.

Episodes

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E1

In Grave Danger of Falling Food

Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.

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E2

Barefoot Economist

Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"

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E3

The Man Who Named the World

James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis

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E4

Declaration of a Heretic

Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society

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E5

Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.

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E6

Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King

Petrea King is a cancer survivor and founder of the Quest for Life Foundation. After learning how facing death changes a person, she began counseling people diagnosed with terminal illness.

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E7

Democratic Allsorts

Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.