Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (Free Full Documentary)

Living the Change is a free feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way.

Directors Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson have brought together stories from their travels, along with interviews with experts able to explain how we come to be where we are today. From forest gardens to composting toilets, community supported agriculture to timebanking, Living the Change offers ways we can rethink our approach to how we live.

Subtitles available in: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
04:11 - Exploring the issues
20:30 - Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
26:28 - Regenerative Agriculture
31:34 - Food Forest
36:55 - Interbeing
40:48 - Permaculture Farm
48:00 - Family Living Simply
53:34 - Local Currency / Timebanking
58:40 - Repair Café
1:01:51 - Living Zero Waste
1:07:28 - Composting Toilets
1:11:20 - Compost Pickup
1:16:02 - Outro

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[deborahcarter]

Grew small backyard garden, been eating and preserving vegetables all summer, compost, substitute plastic. Don't walk into grocery store, pesticides and processed foods. Lost 50 lbs., take me off medication. I feel an urgency, I'm 64, hoping to find peace in nature, with animals and self sustainability. I do feel alone in a materialistic world, grew up in country.

[SusanA]

I continue to do more each year. I am only one person, but I plant diverse trees indigenous to our area every year, I teach the values of diversification & an arboretum indigenous to our area. I recycle and I aim for a zero carbon footprint. I have added exterior insulation, interior insulation, roller shutters, awnings, rain water collection reservoirs and NON GMO heritage brand organic gardens. Every year I add something new. We can do this.

[sagessedantan]

"Waste is a human concept - Nature doesn't do waste" I love that! So simple, yet it describes both the problem and the solution so clearly.

[rbsax]

This documentary has become the catalyst in my taking action to build a food forest in the property left to me by my late father. Permaculture farming here I come....

[sueellerman]

Great to be reminded that there are many, many GOOD things happening in our world; many, many good people leading the way and shining their light. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Lightdancer]

'Do what the soft animal of our body loves!'
I'm grateful to live in Oregon's green Willamette Valley, be able to garden and have access to a year round farmers Market.
This year I moved to my a little house at my daughter's, and have begun new gardens. I also tend a raised bed tea garden, (square, about a meter across) as part of a 28 bed 'Edible Landscaping' project - in spring we give away over 3000 plant starts and in fall produce ... town residents can stroll the street and pick what's ripe.
The project is a subset of Zeros Waste, which was begun by a fellow whose family heritage farm was next to the town dump. After returning to our community, he worked to find more sustainable solutions for Reducing, Reusing Recycling and composting.

[maroue]

Thank you so much for this documentary! I finally understand what is this missing part in my life. No matter what I did in my life, how hard I have worked, how much I have demanded from my body in sports, how many things I have purchased and then sold again. If you cannot connect with nature you will never be complete. What really opened my eyes was this phrase:
"The reunion that we long for is unavailable to us.
That is good for business because it drives consumerism, it drives acquisitiveness
it drives greed, it drives all kinds of neurotic behaviours
that seek to compensate for the missing relationships."

[emmalespade]

Those magnificent landscapes make my heart so peaceful that I can't doubt that my place is among trees, hills and rivers that give us everything we really need.

[charlieadams]

Heard this quote which completely changed my views. Why sustain something degraded when regenerative is easily reachable. Much love!

[annanelson]

I firmly believe that individuals, families, neighborhoods are best off if we take responsibility for our basic food security. Grow, forage what will keep you fed. ‘Trade” for the extras - spices, sugar, flour- nice to have but you can live with out. There are obviously barriers, not the least of which is control of land by people who don’t need it for food….yet. I so much appreciate this discussion.

[beklerken]

I cried a tear or two for humanity after seeing this program. People in this frame of mind should be the ones on the helm to lead us and the world. Thank you for airing this wonderful way of lifestyle where everything wins in terms of creation.

[jodytrimmel]

All of these ideas are so creative and inspiring. I love that they all saw a problem and offered a solution, not because they have a "talking head" telling them this is the solution, but rather have created their own communities of like-minded people that isn't driven by greed and financial gain 💛

[mikabee]

Beautiful stories. I would have loved to see more representation of positive changes being made by the urban (84%) and rental (33%) dwellers of NZ. It's such a wonderful privilege to own your own home, be allowed to keep animals, and be free to modify the dirt as you please. How might the rest of us move towards positive change within our means?

[lifeoutdoorsenthusiast]

Absolutely brilliant and inspiring guys! We all need to join hands to drive this change around the world! Cheers from Canada!

[teejay]

"Find and trust what feels aligned with what you really are. If you live by that and spread that vibe and other people living like that - then the whole planet's gonna change."

[anerawewillneverforget]

Love and inspiration is what humanity needs right now. We're headed into the abyss, however, we CAN make change, you just need to want it bad enough 💛

[KenTanis]

Thank you for releasing your art for free. I need to be able to share this broadly. It is a testament to your interviewing and editing skills that this documentary explains so many complicated systems and their interactions so clearly and concisely.

[backtonature]

What a beautiful world it is if all of us are doing our part to save mother nature in a simple way of living🤗🤗🤗

[ligbzd]

This is one of the most inspiring documentaries I've ever seen. Thank you!

[kingofthelemons]

Love this. would love to see a post covid update and how these small farms are eleviating the pressures of supply chain issues in their local communities