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Every day, dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs.

“Going Local” is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world — our ecosystems, our societies and ourselves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future. This film features Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, and Samdhong Rinpoche!

Come learn how economic globalization is affecting us and communities everywhere . . . and discover how localization is emerging as the path towards a sustainable future. Discussion will follow.

GrowthBusters is a documentary film that asks the most critical question of our time: How do we become a sustainable civilization? Ready for a paradigm shift? Don’t miss this film!

Money and Lifeis a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis, not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected. An optimistic film steeped in appreciation for human ingenuity, Money and Life does not dictate answers.