''Global Gardener'' is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

series Series may refer to: People with the name * Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series * George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Series, the ordered sets used in ...

about the

permaculture Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking. It applies these principle ...

approach to

sustainable agriculture Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs. It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem ser ...

. The series was produced by Julian Russell for the

Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...

; it premiered on Australian television in 1991.

Bill Mollison Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice o ...

, author of ''Permaculture: A Designers' Manual'' (1988), presents the series' four episodes—"In the Tropics", "Dry Lands", "Cool Climates", and "Urban"—each of which addresses the application of permaculture principles in a different environmental context. The series is distributed on DVD and VHS videotape by Bullfrog Films. Before ''Global Gardener'', writer–directors Tony Gailey and Julian Russell made Bill Mollison and permaculture the subject of another documentary film, "

In Grave Danger of Falling Food ''Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems'' is an Australian television series of documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each of the seven films examines the work of a living person who is a r ...

", in which Mollison proposes permaculture as a means to

food security Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World F ...

. The film was transmitted on ABC in Australia in 1989, as the first episode of Gailey and Russell's documentary series '' Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems''.

References

External links

* * 1991 Australian television series debuts 1991 Australian television series endings Australian documentary television films Documentary film series English-language television shows {{Australia-documentary-film-stub