Books & Films
Inspiration
Welcome to the Edge of Chaos 2.0 Where Change is a Way of Life by John Cleveland, Joann Neuroth, and Peter Plastrik
Field Notes from System Change by Chris Brookfield
Cache Creating Natural Economies by Spencer Beebe
It's Not Any House You Know New Myths for a Changing Planet by Spencer Beebe
Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody
Bioregional Financing Facilities by Samantha Power and Leon Seefeld
Salmon Without Rivers by Jim Lichatowich
A Story as Sharp as a Knife by Robert Bringhurst
The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steve Johnson
Film
Mosaic: The Salmon Wilderness of Bristol Bay, Alaska
University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program
“Filmed over the course of the summer and fall of 2021, Jason Ching and Professor Daniel Schindler from the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program recently released a short film on the salmon habitats of southwest Alaska. Mosaic: The Salmon Wilderness of Bristol Bay, Alaska showcases the region’s pristine streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands and how they sustain its vast sockeye salmon runs.”
Safe Enough
Zephyr Visuals
Teenagers from diverse backgrounds gather each summer on an island in Southeast Alaska. Through a collage of deeply intimate portraits, Safe Enough reveals how pursuing art in a safe and inclusive space fosters vulnerability, authenticity and truth. Ultimately, the film inspires the question: what kind of healing and evolution is possible if we do not hide who we truly are?
Undammed
Patagonia Films
After witnessing a massive fish kill on her ancestral home waters, Yurok tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis dedicated her life to reversing the generations-long destruction wrought by the Klamath River dams. Undammed follows her journey to free the Klamath, from testifying before Congress to passing down fishing traditions within her young family. Now that the Klamath dams are finally coming down, she remains confident that the future of her tribe is bright. “It’s not a test,” Bowers Cordalis says of the largest dam-removal project in US history. “It will work.” Help restore the Klamath River by supporting Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group.
this film is about a sauna…
Taliesin Black-Brown
This simple story of coming together to build a sauna is a remembrance of community. A community that includes the many generations and the more than human world — strengthened by the sweat of building and using a sauna.