Our Eco on Friday, June 21st will be The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos. Documentary, 2008 – 78 minutes. Director- Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward. Disney Nature, France/US/UK. English. The film documents the lives of lesser flamingos on the isolated shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, revealing the breeding and parenting habits of the…
Our Ecofilm on Friday, June 14th will be Werner Herzog’s The Wheel of Time (Kalachakra). Documentary, 2003 – 81 minutes. Director- Werner Herzog. Germany. English. Watch the full movie here: The word Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) refers to a very complex teaching and practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Although the teaching is very advanced and difficult…
Our next Eco Film on Friday, June 7th will be another episode of David Attenborough’s First Life – Conquest. 2010, 59 minutes. BBC. UK, English w/subtitles Following the Tree of Life, Attenborough’s journey continues in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, where fossils document an explosion in animal diversity never seen before or after. Travelling from there to…
Our Eco Film on Friday, May 31st will be Supermen of Malegaon. Documentary, 2008 – 70 minutes. Directed by Faiza Ahmed Khan. India. Hindi w/ English subtitles Supermen of Malegaon revolves around the passion which residents of Malegaon, a small town in Maharashtra, India, have for film making. The town is fraught with communal tensions,…
Our next Eco Film on Friday, May 24th will be David Attenborough’s First Life – Arrival. 2010, 59 minutes. BBC. UK, English w/subtitles In First Life – Arrival, David Attenborough goes back in time to the roots of the tree of life, in search of the very first animals. His journey begins in a forest…
On Friday, May 17th, our Eco Film will be Queen Of The Sun: What Are The Bees Telling Us. 2010 – 83 minutes. Directed by Taggart Siegel, English From Taggart Siegel, director of THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN, Queen of the Sun is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis. Taking us…
Our next Eco Film on Friday, May 10th will be Between the Folds. 2008 – 56 minutes. Directed by Vanessa Gould, English Winner of 9 independent awards including a Peabody Award. Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard–earned graduate degrees—all to…
We are currently preparing the site here in Anse-Pitres, Haiti to host a Creole Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course from the 3rd to the 14th of June. We are delighted to offer this opportunity in collaboration with the SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) organisation based in Port-au-Prince who are doing wonderful work there transforming wastes into resources. More can…
This month we have been super busy with infrastructure work so that we can host a Creole Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course in June 2013. Firstly, a 70 year old architect came to build an amazing structure that he designed, built efficiently from locally available materials that gives excellent ventilation and can also survive a…
Our Eco Film on Friday, May 3rd will be The Ambassador. Denmark 2011 – 93 minutes. Directed by Mads Brugger, English w English Subtitles Winner: Best Documentary @ Robert Festival & nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Mads Brügger goes undercover as the Liberian diplomat and businessman Mr. Cortzen with the object of…
