Louie’s Visionary Award Speech
“The mycelium network connects plants and trees to one another to build a community. Communities that are shared economies, not based on greed, but where everybody can flourish,” said Louie Schwartzberg as he accepted the Visionary Award at the 20th annual Maui Film Festival. You can watch more of his speech here.
“We need to take that model from under the ground and bring it above the ground, because that would be a perfect model for how we could live our lives.”
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