Culture

My favourite films (text credits below to Far Out magazine), include the following:

All That Jazz (to follow)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

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Karl-Erik Sveiby on aboriginal cultures:

• Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People
• The First Leadership? The non-hierarchical model of the Australian Aborigines
• Aboriginal Principles for Sustainability
• Keep All Alive!. An Aboriginal model for Sustainability
• Nhunggabarra Knowledge Painting and story.

Dollar Street is a powerful and fascinating site, showing how people really live around the world. Dollar Street is a project from Gapminder, the foundation set up by the late, great Hans Rosling, who died a year ago from pancreatic cancer, aged only 68. He is missed.

Of Mice and Men - redux?  Chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession can have in our day and age might suggest so, yet the blooming sunflower might suggest too that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper puts it so lyrically, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

Man such sunflowers constantly emerge, displaying a wide variety of proposed "antidotes to the pessimism of the post-crisis world". If you'd like to hear constructive suggestions for our way ahead economically, you could also listen to the following podcasts: