Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

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An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.

Trailers & Videos

Thumbnail for video: Bill Mollison - In Grave Danger of Falling Food [3of5]

Bill Mollison - In Grave Danger of Falling Food [3of5]

Seasons

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1. In Grave Danger of Falling Food

Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.

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2. Barefoot Economist

Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"

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3. The Man Who Named the World

James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis

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4. Declaration of a Heretic

Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society

Still image for Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems season 1 episode 5: Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

5. Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.

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6. Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King

Petrea King is a cancer survivor and founder of the Quest for Life Foundation. After learning how facing death changes a person, she began counseling people diagnosed with terminal illness.

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7. Democratic Allsorts

Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.

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