The Bloomington (Indiana) Permaculture Guild presents a Winter Film Series

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
a film by the International Society for Ecology and Culture
Monday February 12th

Set deep in the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is one of the highest and driest inhabited places on earth. This is an extremely harsh environment, yet for centuries it was home to a rich and self-sustaining culture. "Life was very simple, but people always had enough, and more than anything they were happy", says Tashi Rabgyas, Ladakh's leading poet, scholar and philosopher.

Then, in the early 1970s, came 'development'. The first roads into the area brought heavily subsidised goods as well as idealised images of western consumer culture - undermining the local economy and eroding cultural self-esteem. The result has been increasing community and family breakdown, unemployment, sprawling urban slums and pollution.
All Films will be shown at the Monroe County Public Library 6:30pm in room 1B.
A discussion session will follow each film.
This film series is co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Living
http://www.simplycsl.org/
& Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE)
http://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
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