“If you are environmentally conscious but harbor doubts about the current global warming narrative, Regenerating Life is an axis-shifting film that re-frames this complex issue.”
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Regenerating Life. Directed by John Feldman (2023). 137 minutes. Documentary, USA. In English.
See it from anywhere in the world, at any time, throughout October. Access is free.
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In this highly insightful documentary, director John Feldman takes us into his personal research journey and asks us to rethink everything we believe we know about climate change by exploring deeper ecological questions. “CO2 going up is not the cause (…) it’s the symptom of a disturbed system.” He shows us that, fundamentally, nature, the system of life, regulates our climate. When humankind affects this balance by cutting down forests, removing animals from land they help keep healthy, polluting soil and depriving it of nutrients, reducing biodiversity, it sets the conditions for climate change. The key role of water is beautifully explored. “Water governs 95% of the heat dynamics on Earth (…) simply by keeping landscapes cool and moist we can affectively turn the greenhouse effect from high down to simmer.” John interviews groundbreaking academics and activists leading valuable initiatives around the world, such as in India, to convince us that a reframing of the causes and therefore the solutions of the climate crisis is urgently needed. He also adds humor by interspersing relevant clips from fictional films. Don’t miss seeing this!
“John Feldman’s film is a masterpiece in which he puts life, in terms of healthy ecosystems, centre-stage as the Earth’s extraordinary global-temperature regulator.”
Peter Bunyard, FLS, author of Extreme Weather: The Cataclysmic Effects of Climate Change
Live session on Friday, November 8 at noon EST.
With the film’s director, John Feldman and Didi Pershouse, founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative.
Co-hosted with Darren Rabinowitz, Teachers College, Columbia University, Program Chair of the Environmental and Sustainability Education CIES Special Interest Group.
Didi Pershouse
Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative, the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and a co-founder of the “Can we Rehydrate California?” Initiative. She teaches participatory workshops, helping to show the nested relationships between soil health, human health, water cycles, and climate resiliency. Her facilitator’s guide “Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function”, is used in over 60 countries. She wrote “The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities”. She was a contributing author to “The Climate Emergency: How Africa Can Survive and Thrive”; “Climate Change and Creation Care”; and “Health in the Anthropocene”.
The Director
John Feldman
John Feldman’s career spans over 40 years and covers a wide range of genres. His films have won numerous international awards. He made Symbiotic Earth (2018), a documentary about the maverick scientist Lynn Margulis. Since 2005 he has focused on making documentaries in the arts and sciences including EVO: Ten Questions Everyone Should Ask about Evolution (2011, CINE Golden Eagle; Parents Choice Award). His earlier feature fiction films include Who the Hell is Bobby Roos? (2002, “New American Cinema Award” at Seattle International Film Festival).
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