Film Screening: Saving Walden’s World

6:30PM (Doors Open) | 7PM (Film)
Ted Daigle Auditorium
Edmund Casey Hall

Join STU Sustainability and the Sustainability Learning Lab for a special screening on the film Saving Walden’s World on Wednesday, March 19 in the Ted Daigle Auditorium, ECH. Door open at 6:30pm, film begins at 7pm. The director will host a special Q&A after the film.

Saving Walden’s World follows Jim Merkel as he sets off to three earth-efficient societies; Cuba, Slovenia and Kerala, India, in search of clues to save the world his son Walden will inherit. Along the way he encounters a force that could recover planetary balance – powerful women!

The film is an intimate journey to the leading edge of a massive planetary shift – where women have smaller families and over-consumers reduce ecological footprints. As population pressures ease due to rising female status and education, dozens of nations attempt to coerce more births, fearing fewer taxpayers, consumers and followers – and free women. 

 About Jim Merkel

Jim Merkel is filmmaker, author and educator that moved from military engineering to pioneering in simplicity. His book, Radical Simplicity, digs into the details of a globally equitable way of life. Jim worked as Dartmouth College’s Sustainability Coordinator and volunteers with the Sierra Club and other community organizations. He and his partner Susan Cutting and their child Walden live off-the-grid, growing much of their food, in a home they built with oaks and pines from their land in Belfast, Maine.

This event is organized by STU Sustainability and the Sustainability Learning Lab and co-sponsored by the departments of Environment & Society​, Economics​, Human Rights, Philosophy​, Women and Gender Studies​, Social Enterprise & Non-Profit, and the School of Social Work​.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-H3Y_471c