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Permaculture: Building Sustainable Futures for Walden’s World

Permaculture offers modern society a vision of sustainability and harmony with nature—not in retreat, but as a plan for the sustainable future we must collectively build.
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Creating Local Food Systems Can Defeat Industrial Food Corporations

When communities rebuild local food systems, they create models others can follow. Local food isn’t just about what’s on your plate—it’s about the system.
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Denying Abortion Rights Are Unkind Acts Against the Marginalized

The United States has had a long-standing and controversial issue with abortion rights which have been shaped by legal battles, political beliefs, and social movements. The main point of discussion surrounding this debate is whether women have the right to make autonomous decisions about their own bodies.
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Sailing for Sustainability arrives at MOFF

2 Great Things to do this Summer. Attend MOFF! Read this Film Review

This summer Jim Merkel will be taking his documentary film “Saving Walden’s World” to a series of screenings by sailboat along Maine’s magnificent coastline, arriving without fossil fuels when possible. First stop, Portland ME at Space for the Maine Outdoor Film Festival or MOFF. We will highlight one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals at each screening, arriving at the UN in NYC for the Summit of the Future meeting September 22-23.
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SAILING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

In July and August, Jim Merkel will be taking “Saving Walden’s World” to a series of screenings by sailboat, SAILING FOR SUSTAINABILITY,  with the goal of arriving without fossil fuels to as many of our Maine events as possible.
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NEXT STOP FOR SAVING WALDEN’S WORLD – FREDERICTON, NB

The University of New Brunswick is excited to host Saving Walden’s World, a film that has its roots in Belfast, Maine with author and filmmaker, Jim Merkel on May 29, at 6:15 p.m. at Tilley Hall, Room 102.
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7 Great Reasons to Cycle this Earth Day

With Earth Day upon us, I’m thinking of Slovenia, and the dividends from decades of programs that ensure all citizens have a right to a decent quality of life. As I cycle the network from cities to countryside, and met with movers and shakers, another world seemed more possible.
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US Embargo Against Cuba Squander 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Cuba’s decades of remarkable progress toward the 17 sustainable development goals are being squandered by US foreign policy and cold war ideology. This week’s headlines about Cuba’s food and fuel shortages and frustrated citizens is heart wrenching. News channels and “experts” have several narratives, to either lay blame on Cuba or on the US.
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Is Feminism Sexy or for Everybody?

Looking for more substance on feminism on International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month, I looked up the life of the late writer bell hooks.  Her title “Feminism is for Everybody” caught my attention. I’d not heard of bell hooks or read any of her some 40 books, but once I started to dig in, wow. Hooks writes, “Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”
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About The Director

Jim Merkel is a filmmaker, engineer and activist. This film grew out of his book Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth and the Jan Cannon film radically simple.

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