Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

Series 1

7Episodes

Episodes

1. In Grave Danger of Falling Food

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

Guest Stars:

Bill Mollison

2. Barefoot Economist

Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"

Guest Stars:

Manfred Max-Neef

3. The Man Who Named the World

James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis

Guest Stars:

James Lovelock

4. Declaration of a Heretic

Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society

Guest Stars:

Jeremy Rifkin

5. Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

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

Guest Stars:

Michel Odent

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.

Guest Stars:

Petrea King

7. Democratic Allsorts

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

Guest Stars:

Frances Moore Lappé