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Stephan Harding's Animate Earth Film

Tue, 07 Feb 2012

Stephan Harding's Animate Earth Film

I watched Stephan Harding's Animate Earth film last night. For those unfamiliar with Stephan and his work, he is the resident ecologist at Schumacher College in Totnes and is a highly inspirational and engaging expert on Gaia Theory and ecological thinking. I've attended a number of his talks whilst at the college and this film does a great job of capturing his enthusiasm and knowledge on the subject.

In the film he presents many of the ideas that can be found in his book of the same name. He introduces the nature of the ecological crisis we are currently experiencing, discusses Goethe's approach to science (which is very much the basis for his teaching at Schumacher), explains Gaia Theory and illustrates it all with a detailed look at the long-term carbon cycle (albeit without the amusing personifications of the elements involved that I have heard him use before!).

The film is an impassioned plea for a more holistic view of the world around us in order to come up with long-term solutions to ecological problems. It's a film that needs to be seen and I encourage you to try and see it.

See www.animateearth.com for more information about the film. You can find the book on Amazon here or simply search for "Animate Earth".

Author: Sean Clark