Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker Jim Merkel!
When young military engineer and arms dealer Jim Merkel realizes his work is harming families in less affluent societies, he has an ethical crisis and begins a decades-long journey to make the world a better place. Saving Walden's World follows Jim as he raises Walden, a budding young scientist, and meets powerful women who reshape society to work for all. Far from affluent utopias, Kerala, Cuba, and Slovenia offer women free college, access to contraception, maternity leave, childcare, dentistry and healthcare—services unimaginable in much of Jim’s blue-collar America. And as temperatures soar around the globe, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Co-presented with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
