FUTURE DREAMING – Change the Story
with David Martin and David C. Korten
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The documentary is NOW available below for free viewing HERE during the month of April.
Here is a message form Dr David Martin about the documentary – Future Dreaming.
Directed by Kaya Finlayson and filmed in Antarctica, Future Dreaming explores the narratives that drive our economic, social and political thinking and offers a new way of understanding the human condition. The film captures a conversation with Dr. David E. Martin who takes a sweeping look into the past, present and future of mankind.
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Listen to our podcast with Dr. David Korten who writes and speaks on global and national issues, serves as president of the Living Economies Forum, is co-founder of YES! Magazine, and a member of the Club of Rome. His books include the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World, Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
We encourage you to utilize the film and discussion guides as resources for individual enrichment and community conversation. Learn how to become a Films for the Planet film Ambassador HERE. You can also find our Art of Hosting Film guidelines at the Members Circle to engage your community in film conversations. Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth is accompanied by an invaluable discussion guide PDF Version if you would like to engage your community around this important conversation. For an excellent summary of Change the Story, Change the Future, we recommend “A New Story for a New Economy – To Find our Human Place in a Living Universe” PDF here
“Our current story is about Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. The market is omniscient. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by a more compelling story that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it.
A Sacred Life and Living Earth story is grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth itself born of a living universe. Our health and well-being depend on an economy that works in co-productive partnership with the processes by which Earth’s community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence—and ours. Offering a hopeful vision, this book lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: In Search of a Deeper Truth
Chapter 1: Our Story Problem
Chapter 2: Our Quest to Know
Chapter 3: A Brief History of Story Politics
Chapter 4: Living Universe
Chapter 5: Children of a Living Earth
Chapter 6: Making a Living
Chapter 7: Enslaved by Corporate Robots Chapter 8: Economics for a Living Household
Chapter 9: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
Chapter 10: Own the Story, Own the Future
A New Story for a New Economy – To Find our Human Place in a Living Universe PDF here
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Click HERE to watch on Films for the Planet $5.00, 1 hour 8 minutes
Available for free download is a 74-page Discussion Guide and Companion to the film, a resource designed for student use and informal discussion groups. It follows the film, chapter by chapter, expanding on the arguments and pointing to a wealth of new resources for further learning, reflection and action.
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Click HERE to watch this internationally acclaimed award-winning series based on a best-selling book on Films for the Planet $7.99, 3 hours 35 minute series
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