Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

Name: Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
Rating: 8

8.0

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1 Season • 7 Episodes

Ended

Overview

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

1. In Grave Danger of Falling Food

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

2. Barefoot Economist

Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"

3. The Man Who Named the World

James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis

4. Declaration of a Heretic

Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society

5. Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

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

6. 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.