You are invited to the Regenerative Communities Summit Film Series

A rare look into the life of local Native wisdom keepers – people who hold humanity’s most intimate knowledge about how to live in balance with the Earth and how to thrive with the natural world. The film invites us to consider how the healing of the planet could be facilitated – from the current mainstream economic paradigm based in exploitation and domination, to the type of relationship that human beings have held dear for tens of thousands of years – a sacred one that is based in respect and reciprocity.

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, a quiet revolution has been percolating on the island of Puerto Rico. What began as an impromptu community kitchen meant to help feed survivors in the town of Caguas quickly grew into an island-wide network of mutual aid centers (Centros de Apoyo Mutuo) with the ultimate goal to restore power — both electric and civic — to the people.

“Dancing with the Cannibal Giant: Five New Stories for the Great Transition”was created as an educational tool that can be used to move us beyond disempowerment, in order to enact real change in a changing world. Chris Wood was inspired to ask the question: “Will we have the wisdom to survive climate chaos and planetary destruction?”

David Fleming, a historian, economist, and ecologist unpacks our prevailing economic systems and offers a compelling vision of how we can recover what we have lost.

In the film, we encounter extraordinary people and projects from four continents that are cultivating a resilience not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth: renegade economist Kate Raworth, conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, Gaian ecologist Stephan Harding, localization revolutionary Helena Norberg-Hodge, inspirational practivist and Transition Network co-founder Rob Hopkins, eco-pioneer and Forum for the Future co-founder Jonathon Porritt and philanthropist/composer Peter Buffett, among many others.

Syntropic farming is a new and ancient regenerative agriculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls.

Purpose-driven companies looking to change the world through an alternative economic model measure success not only financially but also socially and environmentally. Their practice of “conscious commerce” offers solutions to some of today’s most pressing issues. This award-winning documentary empowers viewers to be part of the solution by “voting with their dollars” and supporting brands and products that make positive change for the planet.

”Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work” tells the little known stories of employee-owned businesses that  provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces.

With the long decline in US manufacturing and today’s economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working so some citizens and public officials are reinventing our failing economy in order to restore long term community stability and a more egalitarian way of life.