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Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)
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Surviving Earth (2014)
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Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
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