This 8-part documentary series discusses creating a more sustainable future. It highlights the environmental destruction occurring and rising inequality. Unexamined assumptions and the illusion of separation from nature are causing problems. However, grassroots movements are growing and solutions exist. Everyone has a role to play through openness, community, and committing to positive change. The future remains unwritten, and hopeful messages are shared about collective actions leading to a just world.

1. A Sustainable Future
Presented By: The Sprouts

2. Episode 1: Welcome
• Mother Earth - The earth, the sky, the universe,
and all time
• Achua elders and shamans visions of great
threat approaching
▫ Reached out to partner with outside world,
creating Pachamama Alliance in 1995
▫ Goal to Change the dream of the North, the
dream of the modern world, who’s dream is
currently unsustainable

3. Bringing forth a
Environmentally sustainable,
spiritually fulfilling,
socially just,
human presence on this planet
Creating Global Citizens

4. Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor
• Eagle represents societies using science and
technology to expand wealth
• Condor represents the spiritually oriented groups who
are deep in touch of natural world and
interconnectedness of the world.
• “ After 500 years, the eagle dominated skies will end,
and the condor and the eagle will fly together.
Integrate both worlds without diminishing their knowledge,
keeping the good, getting rid of the bad

5. Reflection
What are some of the greatest challenges
facing the world today?
What gives you hope?
What are you grateful for?

6. “Welcome” in Review
A great opening video, highlighting the
importance of change and touching upon
some of the topics that will be covered in
further episodes. This part 1, shows various
elements, from the actual in person seminars
themselves, to interactive segments for the
viewer, as well as background story of the
project

7. Episode 2: Where are we?
• Looking through three lenses
▫ Enviroment
▫ Society
▫ Personal and Spiritual

8. Environment
• Industrial revolution caused exponential growth of
human population
• GDP, measurement of success, but does not measure
the loss of natural wealth
• Sustainability - The ability of the current generation to
meet its needs without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet theirs
• An ongoing destruction of or support system

9. Environment - The Tipping Point
• Peak Oil
▫ 2010-2015
▫ After this point, supply will decrease while demand
continues to increase
• Takes 5 Earths to support the North American way of
life
• Mass extinctions are occurring
▫ Lions down 90% in last few decades
▫ 90% of large ocean fish gone

10. Society
• What is a socially just world?
▫ everybody treated equal, everyone has voice, and
everyone has equal access to resources
• Growth of inequality
▫ If Earth was 100 people
⚫ 2 would own 50% of the wealth
⚫ 50 people would share 1% of wealth
⚫ 15 people hungry and malnourished
⚫ 16 have no safe drinking water
⚫ 39 with no basic sanitation
⚫ 15 unable to read

11. Personal & Spiritual
• Levels of happiness on the decline around the world
• Yearning for connections to each other, our world, and
our environment
• Believe more consumption will solve it
▫ It doesnt
Loneliness
• Anguish for what’s occurring around us

12. “Where Are We?” in Review
It was a very eye opening and disheartening episode,
highlight so much destruction and devastation around our
global community, with many people completely unaware
or uncaring about the situation. I hope that more people are
able to watch informative symposiums like this and become
more aware of just how far we are in this self destructive,
unsustainable path.

13. Episode 3- How did we get here?
Unexamined Assumptions.
• Thomas Berry- Cultural Historian and
Cosmologist
▫ Examined the relationship between
humans and the community of life
on earth
▫ Mutually enhancing presence
▫ Western civilization creates a
separation between human world
and natural world.
▫ Industrial age= period of
“technological entrancement”

14. Technological Entrancement
• Current worldview= “trance” that is
dysfunctional, therefore is also
destructive
▫ indigenous people call this trance “
The dream of the modern world”
• Obsession for progress= more
production
▫ no limits
• Actions correlate with our world view,
and often our actions can produce
outcomes that are unpredictable and
unintentional

15. What are Unexamined
Assumptions?
• Unexamined assumption= a
fact taken for granted that drives
a belief and creates an opening
for consequences to show up
▫ ex. more is better, we own
the land we live on, one little
individual can not make a
difference
• Problems that we have today
are results of unexamined
assumptions

16. Who pays?
• The natural world gives us resources to use however
we seem fit, but when humans become massively
present, the game changes.
▫ We try to get the best quality for the cheapest price.
• Who ultimately pays for the products we consume?
▫ Price we pay does not reflect the full cost of making
it.
▫ People who lose natural resource space and lose
clean air are the ones paying.

17. Being a Part of Society
• Thriving to be interdependent
▫ psychologically
▫ spiritually
▫ economically
• Institutionalized Racism
has a cost to every human;
dehumanizing the world
race causes us to “rank” people

18. “I’ll just throw it away”
• Modern society that believes that we have “throw
away” resources.
▫ Careless mindset extends into our relations with
others.
⚫ “Throw away species”
⚫ “Throw away people”- we tend to try and change
those who don’t fit into the system, rather that
changing the system that ensures some people
won’t make it.

19. Where is away?
• Julia Butterfly Hill- Author and Activist
▫ There’s no such thing as “away”
▫ “Everything that is called ‘waste’ or ‘disposable’ is
the ways in which we are saying that it is acceptable
to throw our planet, and its people, away.”
• What we throw away daily:
▫ 137 million aluminum cans
▫ 27 million paper bags
▫ 600 million plastic bottles

20. Snapping Out of the Trance
• In order to get out of the trance, we need to
start questioning these assumptions that we
have been living by.
• “We cannot have peace on the earth unless we
have peace with the earth”-Julia Butterfly Hill
• We need to become aware.
▫ Identifying unexamined assumptions helps
loosen their grip on your life.

21. Episode 3 Summary
In order to start fixing our problems, we need to first
identify them. Unexamined assumptions are causing us
to be destructive to our earth and even to our own kind.
Having “disposable” products is a way of saying that we
are okay with throwing away our planet. We need to
identify these unexamined assumptions and change
them in order to escape the technological entrancement
we are in today.

22. Episode 4- How did we get here?
Illusion of Separation.
• Assumption that “we are
separate”
▫ separation is an illusion
• “inter-be”: it is not possible to
be alone, to be by yourself.
You need other people in
order “to be”, along with other
beings, air, sunshine, water,
animals, ect.

23. All Things are Connected
• Origin of the Universe: all of
creation is connected at both
macro and micro level.
▫ We are related to
everything: plants, birds,
trees, microorganisms, etc.
• The earth wasn't “assembled”
for humans, more so humans
“came out of” the earth. -Brian
Swimme

24. Human Species: Flawed?
• Human beings have been tragically mistaken,
rather than being fundamentally flawed.
▫ There is hope if we wake up from this “trance”
• New story is shaping consciousness on the planet,
becoming unified as a whole.
• Interconnections allow us to re-choose behaviors in
many aspects of our lives.

25. Episode 4 Summary
We need to recognize that we are not alone. We are all
connected, not only with each other, but with the rest of
the planet as well. We need to break the assumption that
we are separate. In order to help solve our problems, we
need to unify; we cannot expect to be successful alone.
We are given a chance to re-choose our behaviors, as
well as a chance to “inter-be”. This assumption affects
us psychologically, emotionally and spiritually in a
harmful way, but can be changed when we open up new
doors through community and connection.

26. Episode 5: What is possible for the
future?
Things seem like they will continue the way
they are going forever, but things are changing
• People are coming together
• The turning of the tide is
happening now

27. History is Unpredictable
Institutional change, rebellion,
and collapse of power happen
all the time, even where it
seems impossible
• Berlin Wall
• Creation of European Union
• Election of Barack Obama
• The end of apartheid
• Australia’s apology to the aborigines
Lesson: good always prevails in a moral universe

28. What is emerging now?
The technology to solve our social and
environmental problems already exists
• It would cost about $200 billion per year to solve all of
our social and environmental problems
▫ That’s ⅓ of the current annual US military budget

29. Triple Bottom-line
For businesses to be successful in the future they will
need to start focusing on the triple bottom-line
• People
• Planet
• Profit
Waste is the product of bad design
• This can be improved
Innovation in food production for sustainability
• Food production emission > transportation
emissions

30. The Largest Social Movement in
Human History
2 million social and environmental justice
organizations have formed worldwide
• Digital revolution connecting everyone
• Everyone is given a voice
• Shared commitment to work towards a world
that works
Creativity
• There’s a connection between mind and
body

31. Episode 5 Summary
It may seem like the way that
things are done now will stay that
way forever, but history has
shown that things are always
changing in favor of good. Right
now, connections are being made
worldwide that could turn the tide
once again. The fight for social and environmental justice has become the
largest social movement in human history and we have the technology to solve
all of the worlds problems. It will still take conection, innovation, and creativity
to achieve our goals.

32. Episode 6: Where do we go from
here? Taking a stand
What is emerging?
• Social media is becoming an important way for
people connect and learn
What part will we play in the future?

33. Home
We only have one planet
to call home so we need to
start being more responsible
The Environment
• Our resources are finite
• We need to live sustainably
Our neighbors
• The people we share the world with aren’t going away
so we need to learn to get along and share

34. Where do we go from here?
• We are reaching our limits
• The earth’s vitality is diminishing
There is a worldwide grassroots movement
for social and environmental justice
• Our part
▫ Our choices now have an impact on
the future

35. Taking a Stand
Everyone has a part to play
Moving ideas from the heart to
head
Creation of a meaningful life
• Puts into practice the belief
in environmental justice,
spiritual fulfillment, and
social justice

36. Commitment
Change becomes a personal journey
Changing your point of view of how you live in
the world gives you a vision for the world
• Having vision opens doors to the future
• You become an agent of change
• The future is transformed

37. Episode 6 Summary
Everyone has responsibility for
taking care of the planet we live on.
The way we live now cannot be
sustained, but by taking a stand,
changing the way we see the world,
and committing to doing our part we
create the possibility of a sustain-
able future.

38. Episode 7: Where Do We Go From
Here? Moving Into Action
• Creating this new dream
• What part do we play?
• What does it mean to take a
stand?
• What can we do individually
and what can we do together
in changing direction of the
human family?

39. Creating This New Dream
You have the power of images to propel you
into this movement, the direction you wish to go
• Media is creating this dream
• If we spend a fraction of time on social media, internet,
or T.V to creating this new dream that is
environmentally sustainable, we could change many
things
• The world is your home, it’s the only one you got.
Cherish it and protect it!
• Learn to share, learn to get along with your neighbors,
they are not going away

40. What Part Do We Play?
The Power of One
• A girl in Alabama wanted to go to the same
school as everyone else
• A guy in East Germany wanted to break free
• A guy from India wanted to raise
consciousness without raising his voice
• A woman traveled the world, giving hope to
those who had none

41. The Power of One
• To protect homes in the Amazon
• To prevent the poaching of the African
mountain gorilla
• To rescue harp seals in Finland
• To care for the environment in our own
backyard
The power of one is the power to
do something (anything)

42. Van Jones - Founder of Green For All
• Take a stand for something
• An authentic stand comes from your heart
• Make a miracle
• When you feel it, you will stand up. Then
others will follow and stand up as well.
• It starts with one “fool” standing up to start a
standing ovation

43. What Does It Mean to Take a
Stand?
We go from having a point of view from the
world to actually having a vision
• Opening up possibilities
• Committed to bringing forth an
environmentally sustainable, spiritually
fulfilling, and socially just human presence
on this planet

44. The Great Transition
What is Emerging Now
Stay Awake
Get Educated
Stay Connected

45. What Can We Individually & What Can We Do
Together in Changing Direction of the Human Family?
• Individual
▫ Changing the way you eat
▫ Recycling
▫ Consuming less
▫ Alternative modes of transportation
• Community
▫ This includes your family, neighbors, friends,
religious groups, social groups
▫ What projects can you introduce there?
▫ How can you get them involved?

46. Episode 7 Summary
Where do we go from here? We start somewhere.
We ask ourselves, who do we want to be? Have
desire for our lives to have meaning. Commit to
bringing forth an environmentally sustainable,
spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence
on this planet. We have to open up possibilities as
individuals and as a community. We must change
now to save this planet for future generations. What
are you passionate about?

47. Episode 8: Closing
• Bringing it all together
• Realizing what You can do

48. Resources
• Stay connected online:
www.awakeningthedreamer.org
• Find “in-person” groups through website
• For the younger crowd: Sister organization-
“The Generation Waking Up”
www.generationwakingup.org
• Find a way to stay connected whether you're
younger or older, with or without internet,
there is always a way.

49. The Shift--”This is where the symposium really starts”
Power is in all of us
The time is Now
Empowerment,
reconnected
We ARE able to do something!!

50. Look To The Future
• We need to look to the future for
opportunities
• We must go far, quickly and this requires a
change of consciousness and change of
commitment
• We are the “Imaginal Cells” of our planet

51. Summary
“Every single one of us can do something to
make a difference”
This is an amazing time to be alive. We should feel blessed
with the opportunity to help create an environmentally
sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human
presence on this planet. No other generation has faced the
challenges or had the extraordinary opportunities that ours
has today. We have the opportunity to live the most
meaningful lives!! LETS DO IT!!