Death in The Garden
Quest for ecological & cultural regeneration. Films/podcasts/writing - attempting to disentangle ourselves from industrial civilization and its unintended machinations.
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Circumambulating the Food System | BONUS EPISODE (opens the original)
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On this bonus episode, we are joined by Alex Leff of Human Nature Odyssey to discuss the food system and the strange incentives that perpetuate a system that is at once convenient and destructive. Alex was also thinking about food, as he had just released a podcast entitled The Forest and Forager before this conversation, where he takes the listener on a journey through the Garden of Eden and the grocery
We Made a Film about the Food System for Local Futures (opens the original)
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Whether we’re conscious of it or not, food sits at the center of human life and society. Our entire civilization hinges on the production of food, and for hundreds of years, food has been produced in a way that is leading to breakdown in every sector of human life: it is causing biodiversity loss, loss of livelihoods, health decline, human rights abuses, widespread animal abuse, climate change, and the collapse of food security in regions all over the world.It’s becoming increasingly appare
What is the Human Animal? (opens the original)
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Below is the script for a video that we published on our YouTube channel on October 21, 2024. The last time anyone has touched the document from which I’m pulling this was October 18, 2024.I’m publishing this now because I want to see what Substack’s new partnership with Pangram will say about my writing (and I’m not yet finished with my current essay so I didn’t want to wait to do this test). I’ve never used AI to assist in anything I’ve ever written, and most certain
The Odyssey: An Ancient Story with Modern Implications | BONUS EPISODE (opens the original)
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As people who were willing to drive 3.5 hours one-way to see The Odyssey projected on 70mm IMAX, it’s safe to say we are fans of Christopher Nolan and we love the art of cinema. In this bonus episode with Alex Leff of Human Nature Odyssey, we discuss Nolan’s latest epic and all of the implications that his surprising retelling has today. We discuss the importance of myth and storytelling, and the need for us to engage consciously with stories. We ask, what is the line between adaptation and appr
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