Saving Walden’s World’ to Screen in Brookline MA
· Coolidge Corner Theatre · Brookline
Film

What kind of world are we leaving for the next generation? In a time of mounting climate anxiety and geopolitical uncertainty, it is easy to feel that the system is failing. But while the headlines focus on extraction and conflict, there is a Plan B being engineered by communities in the places you'd least expect, and a Maine filmmaker went looking for it. Mothers Out Front Jamaica Plain, Mothers Out Front Brookline, Mothers Out Front Newton, Elders for Climate Action - Mass Chapter, and Climate Action Brookline are proud to present a special community screening of Saving Walden's World on Monday, November 16, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline, Massachusetts. This film follows Jim Merkel's personal journey from a former military engineer to a father raising his son, Walden, on an off-grid homestead in Maine. Jim traveled to Kerala, Cuba, and…
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