Earth Keepers

We’ve heard the problems, now here’s some environmental solutions

Sylvie Van Brabant / Canada / 2009 / 83 min

The film could have been called: An Operation Manual for Planet Earth, EcoRevolution, The Great Hope or Problem Planet: Earthbound Solutions. It’s called Earth Keepers. We meet the young Québécois activist Mikael Rioux who founded Échofête, Quebec’s first environmental festival; the iconic Christian de Laet, Ashok Khosla, the charismatic president of Development Alternatives, the largest alternative development NGO in the world; as well as Karl-Henrik Robèrt, the brilliant Swedish oncologist turned sustainable development guru.

We also get a chance to look at the innovative projects of John Todd, the ecological designer whom MIT hailed as one of the 35 most significant inventors of the 21st century. His companion, Nancy Jack Todd, talks about the origins of their avant-garde “New Alchemy” movement. We travel to Zurich, the heart of international finance, with the humanist economist Peter Koenig; we meet Marilyn Melhmann, the driving force behind the Global Action Plan; and we listen to a heart-to-heart conversation with Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement.

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Awards & Festivals

Festivals:
2009, Official Selection, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
2009, IDFA Competition for Feature- Length Documentary, International Documentary Film Festival

Awards:
2009, Winner, Best Canadian Long Form Film, Planet in Focus Festival

Film site & Reviews

» official site

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» Development Alternatives Group

» Global Action Plan

» The Green Belt Movement