Redesigning Society
Ideas and projects that seek to redesign society for a better world.
Film: Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney – The relationship between power, money and nature
Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney Founder of Embercoombe explores our troubled yet crucial relationship with power, money, nature, and each other, filmed at Small is festival 2012
Film: Wendy Stephenson Power to the People: social impact investments and social change
Wendy Stephenson: Power to the People: Join the revolution and make social impact investments mainstream to enable social change, filmed at Small is festival 2012
Film: Steve (PCN) – Is permaculture political?
Is permaculture just about growing food or is it inherently more political, join us to find out if we think permaculture is political.
Film: Colin Power – The Harmonic Economy – Off Grid 2012
Colin Power asks How could sacred geometry, and vortex mathematics be used to re-energize a withering economy? Filmed at the 2012 Off Grid festival
Film: Adam Hart Davis – Small scale solutions to climate change
Adam Hart Davis talks about small scale solutions to Climate Change at the Small is Beautiful festival 2012.
Film: Mike (PCN): Why the commons are important today
Why the commons is an important movement based on controlling resources for the common good, also outlines the history of the commons and enclosures.
Film: Uk Video Activism Discussion – Bristol Radical Film Festival 2012
Discussion about UK video activism from Bristol Radical Film Festival, includes speakers from vision on tv, Camcorder guerillas, Reel News and Permanent Culture Now.
FIlm: Chris Larcombe (Waysphere Project) – Holographic Mapping
Chris Larcombe talk on Holographic mapping for co-creating new worlds – Social Media for a new paradigm based on co-creation and well-being from Off Grid 2012
Film: Peoples Assembly – Environment Debate Cloudcuckooland Festival 2012
People’s Assemblies are democratic bodies representing everyone in a community and this is a film of the people’s assembly formed at the Cloudcuckooland festival, this one discussed the economy and the environment, some great discussion around how we should move to protect the environment and what the economic crisis means for the environment.
Film: Vision on tv guide to street reporting & Citizen Journalism
Vision on tv explain how to be your own media through citizten journalism, using their great platform.
Film: Ed Dowding (Sustaination) – The Future Of Our Food Systems
Watch Ed Dowding discuss the Future of our food systems, food mapping, transparency and the future of our food.
Film: David Taylor Green Party – Beyond Green Politics Off Grid Festival 2012
Can we move beyond Green Politics ask David Taylor.
Permaculture as a revolutionary force for change
Could permaculture offer an alternative to capitalism?
Film: David Holmgren Beyond Sustainability Talk
Dave Holmgrens talk Beyond sustainability, essential viewing on why we need to move towards a post oil society in an age where resource peaks are inevitable, using the principles of permaculture.
Film: Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
In this talk Silvia Federici talks about her forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles, excellent talk.
Felix Wood – Why Schumacher’s small is beautiful is still relevant
Felix Wood explains why Schumacher’s small is beautiful message is still relevant today, watch the film to find out more.
Film: George Mckay on radical gardening, Vandana Shiva and others discuss the importance of gardening, seeds and capitalism
Great series of lectures from Documenta (13), includes George Mckay and Vandana Shiva talking about our relationships to nature, seeds and animals great viewing
Film: Godfrey Boyle – Living on the sun how we can power the world on 100% renewables
Godfrey Boyle shows us how we can power the world on renewable energy in this inspiring talk that provides you with the real facts about renewables.
Film: What the Economic Crisis Really Means – and what we can do about it
This is a great film from Doing It Ourselves about the economic crisis, fractional reserve banking, peak oil and what it means for all of us and how people are developing ways of moving towards a new form of society.
Film: Karambu Ringera – Reclaiming wastelands: awakening possibilities in unlikely spaces
In this inspiring talk from the Small is Beautiful Festival 2012 she talks about reclaiming wastelands: awakening possibilities in unlikely spaces, through telling her life story and the stories of others.
Mark Boyles new book Moneyless Manifesto now available for free and to buy 🙂
Read the Moneyless Manifesto for free, a great read on how to unplug yourself from the money system and begin to live a more saner happier life.
Film: Odri Ighamre – From a Twig a Tree Grows: Empowering young people
Odiri talks about the organisation Kori Arts she is involved in, which empowers young people to become leaders and change makers in the UK and other countries, very inspiring talk from small is beautiful festival 2012.
Film: Polly Higgins – A Proposal for a 5th Crime Against Peace: Ecocide
Polly Higgins believes there should be a crime of ecocide, do you? find out more in her talk from small is beautiful festival 2012
Film: New Age Travellers – A personal story
Steve from Permanent Culture Now takes us through an enlightening, funny and sad personal history of his involvement in the UK new age traveller communities.
Film: Bristol pound the first citywide local currency
Find out about the first citywide local currency the Bristol Pound, in a talk from just before it was launched. It is now operating throughout the city of Bristol
Remaking Our World
Heartfelt and positive message from one person on how and why she is working to remake the world, we really relate to this message and I am sure you will to.
Film: Squatting past, present and future – Off grid 2012
Phoenix from solutions zone TV talks about the origins of squatting past, present and future at Sunrise Off Grid Festival 2012.
Film: The Reconomy Project talk – Off Grid 2012
Find out how the Transition REconomy project is helping people to transform their local communities.
Film: Yesterday’s To-Morrow – Bristol’s garden suburbs talk – BRHG @ Cloudcuckooland
Thought the transition movement was the first movement to look at localised food production and sustainability, think again as Bristol had its own transition type movement over a hundred years ago.
Film: Panel discussion on small scale food production – Off Grid 2012
Panel discussion on small scale food production with Patrick Whitefield.
Film: A three fold attack on protest
Find out how policing has changed to control/stop protest occurring in the UK through the history of the police, the militarised methods of policing, and the increasing criminalisation of protest.
Film: Small is beautiful festival
A short film about the Small is Beautiful festival 2012, a great festival, check our site for more great talks and films
Taking control of our food supply
Can we control the our food supply in the future, or are we powerless over it, read this to find out more.
Permaculture praxis
Permaculture needs action, and praxis is action, read this to find out why its needed to achieve a better world
Film: Bristol Green Week Schumacher Talks 2012
Permanent Culture Now is proud to bring you the Bristol Green Week Schumacher Talks, these talks cover a wide range of issues around sustainability and green issues, from ethics, to behaviour change, to zeronauts and more.
Film: The Politics and Ethics of Change
Is it ethical to resist corporations, corrupt political systems, to save the planet, how can we implement ethical change, when all around us we see unethical practices, listen to this talk to hear from 3 people about what it means to be ethical in the world today.
Film: Regeneration for Real
What does real regeneration look like asks Kevin Cloud (Grand Designs), Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns) & Tim Smit (Eden Project) watch this film of the Schumacher talk to to find out what they think regeneration really means.
Film: Behaviour Change: warts and all
Can we move towards a more sustainable world by changing our behaviour, what can be done to change behaviour, whose behaviour needs to change, , watch this talk to find out some of the ways that people are working to achieve positive behaviour change
Film: Moving to a ‘zero’ society: meet the Zeronauts
Can a sustainable society be reached through a zero approach, watch this Schumacher talk to find out new and innovative ways people are taking to achieve this.
Film: Clare Hedin: Green Economics. Dynamic Emergence
Is a new convergence possible between humans and nature, Clare Hedin believes that we have to, watch to find out more.
Film: Who says we can manage the planet?
Can we manage the planet Clive Hamilton author of Requiem for a Species, Johnathon Porritt and James Vaccaro of Triodos Bank discuss the issues.
Redefining work in an age of late Capitalism
What could work look like in a different post neoliberal world.
Film: Living memory, Future Worlds: Bristol Voices on Climate Change
What can we learn from the older generation about living in a world of less resource.
Permaculture systems with and without livestock
This piece provides a basic breakdown of permaculture systems that use of refrain from the use of livestock.
Celebrating being human
We should celebrate and have fun as we make a new world and in our activism.
Permaculture and Politics
How can permaculture and politics work together in the politics of the future.
Exploring models of Education: Critical Multiculturalism
What is the potential of critical multiculturalism as a possible educational model of the future.
Living the Permaculture way
What does it mean to live a permaculture way of life, read our experience and thoughts on this.
Retrofitting the Mind: Holistic thinking for a permanent culture
How can how we think help us move towards the development of a better world.
Film: Satish Kumar – Reverential Ecology Talk
Satish Kumar explains reverential ecology, what is our relationship to nature and how should we think about our place in the world, watch this film to see how reverential ecology approaches this questions.