NEW  MOVIE STARHAWK
Permaculture: The Growing Edge

http://www.belili.org/permaculture/Permaculture_GrowingEdge.html

VIDEO CLIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVtfYP3jCu4&feature=player_embedded



Permaculture: The Growing Edge is an antidote to environmental despair, a hopeful and practical look at a path to a viable, flourishing future. The film introduces us to inspiring examples of projects, including a visit David Holmgren's own homestead, tracking deer with naturalist Jon Young, sheet mulching an inner-city garden with Hunters Point Family, transforming an intersection into a gathering place with City Repair and joining mycologist Paul Stamets as he cleans up an oil spill with mushrooms. We interview some of the key figures in the Permaculture movement, including David Holmgren, Penny Livingston-Stark, James Stark, Paul Stamets, Mark Lakeman, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Maddy Harland, and others.

Permaculture is a sustainable system of earth care that offers solutions to many of our grave environmental problems and a hopeful, proactive vision of change. The Permaculture movement, started by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the nineteen seventies, is now a worldwide network of skilled ecological designers, teachers, food growers, natural builders, environmental activists and visionaries. "Permaculture is the key to a post-carbon future," says Maddy Harlan, editor of Permaculture Magazine.

We will be offering Permaculture: The Growing Edge on both DVD and as a download starting on November 5th. More details will be posted here as soon as we have them.

* Hold a HOUSE PARTY screening - you can now download a poster, a recipe and a set of discussion questions. Take a look at the HOUSE PARTIES page for all the information!
Visit our More on Permaculture page for Permaculture definitions, principles and resources.

Why This Film?

Today, anyone who loves the earth knows that we face a huge crisis. Climate change, oil spills, toxins and habitat destruction threaten the viability of ecosystems around the world, and damage the life-support systems that we all depend upon.

The reality is alarming and sometimes overwhelming. And yet-solutions to our most grave problems do exist. While governments stall and politicians prevaricate, ordinary people around the world are making changes in their lives and trying out new ways of growing food, providing for human needs, and building community.

Starhawk practices and teaches the system of ecological design called permaculture. Together, Donna Read and Starhawk wanted to document the positive steps people and taking and the solutions that do exist. We believe that people can face huge changes and make enormous efforts when we feel hopeful, that we are best motivated not by fear and alarm but by vision and love. Permaculture: The Growing Edge is our labor of love, exploring just a few examples of the immensely creative and regenerative ideas that are inspiring people around the globe.

Starhawk - an author of eleven books on feminist and earth-based spirituality, an activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and director
of Earth Activist Training. She and Donna co-created Belili productions. See her website at:www.starhawk.org

Donna Read - a producer, director and film editor. She was a member of the National Film Board of Canada's renowned women's studio, Studio D, for many years where she directed the Goddess trilogy and many other films before forming Belili productions.