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Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm!
Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm!
From our fellow change agents at United Earth….
6 min
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...
Daniel Christian Wahl
15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System
15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System
Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...
Films For Action
Cybersecurity for the People
Cybersecurity for the People
Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance that you...
3 min
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do it fix it.
Leah Penniman
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (2015)
Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most...
22 min
Most Colleges Prepare Us For a Future That Feels Wrong. Wouldn't It Be Amazing If Alternatives Were Widely Flourishing?
Most Colleges Prepare Us For a Future That Feels Wrong. Wouldn't It Be Amazing If Alternatives Were Widely Flourishing?
When I graduated from high school in 1985, college was the unquestionable next step for an intelligent, middle-class or upper-middle class young person. I entered an elite school not out of any particular ambition, but because the story that surrounded me said that this is...
Charles Eisenstein
We the People 2.0
We the People 2.0
We the People is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utillizes both original footage as well as found footage to describe a profound change in thinking at the grassroots level. The story unfolds through the eyes of rural people who have...
91 min
How to Boil a Frog
How to Boil a Frog (2010)
There's plenty of serious documentaries on the world's environmental problems. How to Boil a Frog takes a different approach, mixing fast-paced comedy with hard-hitting facts to help make complex subjects both understandable and more engaging. The accompanying study guide...
53 min
Real Value
Real Value (2013)
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
70 min
Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy Away from Disaster
Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy Away from Disaster
If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global...
Samuel Alexander
Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and...
Otto Scharmer
It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage
It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage
It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. It’s time to raise it for all Americans.
Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only)
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)
“Without question, this is absolutely the best and most creative film on the future of humanity and the environment”. — Paul HawkenWhat if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that...
120 min
Nature's Solution to the Water Crisis
Nature's Solution to the Water Crisis
How can we support this natural solution to ensure there is water for future generations?
2 min
Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.
Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.
We can do so much better than this.
Tim Hjersted
New Technology Brings Star Wars-Style Desert Moisture Farming a Step Closer
New Technology Brings Star Wars-Style Desert Moisture Farming a Step Closer
Luke Skywalker wasn’t just a farmer. In the original 1977 Star Wars film, the lead character was desperate to leave his home planet of Tatooine, where his family farmed moisture from the atmosphere using devices called “vaporators”. In the planet’s hot and dry desert...
Amin Al-Habaibeh
Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis
Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis
As we have entered a new century we face great crises both in society and in the natural world. Today we are not only still witnessing poverty, hunger and devastating wars: enormous environmental dislocations even threaten the stability of the planetary climate and vital...
Eirik Eiglad
If Workers Take Power
If Workers Take Power
– Instead of the small class of capitalists controlling society, we can make our own decisions about work and social life.
Stephanie McMillan
Decriminalize Immigration, Free Movement for All!
Decriminalize Immigration, Free Movement for All!
The United States recently experienced its first wave of large-scale anti-immigration raids following the election of Donald Trump, who made the mass deportation of “illegal” immigrants a central part of his campaign. Although ICE officials claim that these raids targeted...
James C. Wilson
The House of the Nobodies — Where Everyone Is Welcome
The House of the Nobodies — Where Everyone Is Welcome
La Casa de los Ningunos is an experimental community in the Bolivian capital city of La Paz, 12,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains. In a recent piece on the Casa, Sian Cowman explained the inspiration for the name, which also elegantly describes the Casa’s mission, “…Los...
Planet Local
Overworked? Underpaid?
Overworked? Underpaid?
We’re all feeling the squeeze.  What can we do? ORGANIZE!
Workers Power
60 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth
60 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth
Pachamama, our dear Mother Earth, is 4.5 billion years old. She is home to an estimated 8.7 million species of life! This wondrous web of relationships is truly a gift to be a part of, and we can thank our growing and evolving Mother Earth for the eyes and mind we have to...
Films For Action
The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right
The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right
We live in a world dominated by the principle of private property. Once indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, the land was surveyed, subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. From high above, continents now appear as an endless property patchwork of green and...
Julian Brave Noisecat
Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope on. 1. Hope can co-exist with other feelings. Grief and hope can co-exist. Fear and hope...
Abby Brockman
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
It has been said that we’re living through “The Age of Loneliness.” Loneliness is “epidemic” among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the num
Planet Local
The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living
The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living
The Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC) was set up to address the lack of affordable sites for ecological land-based livelihoods in England. There is an enormous disconnect between the combined cost of land and rural housing, and the income that is usually derived from...
5 min
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly
A universal basic income (UBI) – an idea in which the government replaces all other forms of monetary assistance (welfare, social security, etc.) with yearly stipend – has enormous potential to radically transform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...
Chris Agnos
21 Theses for a People's Ecology
21 Theses for a People's Ecology
The “21 Theses,” dated July 2014 and published in November 2015, marked the birth of the Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris. In May 2016 I had the opportunity to ask Patrick Farbiaz, one of its founders, what the cooperative meant by social ecology. He explained that it...
Janet Biehl and The Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris
Ho’oponopono for Earth Day
Ho’oponopono for Earth Day
The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love
Jacob Devaney
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy.  These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly...
60 min
Finding Inner Peace Through Meditation with Filmmaker David Lynch
Finding Inner Peace Through Meditation with Filmmaker David Lynch
In “Finding Inner Peace,” David Lynch describes how his personal experience with meditation helped him to deal with anxiety, fear, and depression and taught him how to tap into the root source of creativity and bliss.
6 min
A Hacker Explains the Best Way to Browse the Internet Anonymously
A Hacker Explains the Best Way to Browse the Internet Anonymously
While it may seem difficult these days to remain anonymous online, it's not impossible. We spoke with Kevin Mitnick, author of "The Art of Invisibility," who told us the one tool you should be using if you want to protect your identity. 
2 min
Surviving Economic War in Venezuela - People Are Doing It For Themselves
Surviving Economic War in Venezuela - People Are Doing It For Themselves
Rebel Diaz went to Venezuela last month, where U.S. corporate interests are waging a devastating economic war on the Venezuelan people. In the face of hyperinflation and food shortages, groups of young people are coming together to create collective alternatives for survival,
5 min
The Edible Bus Stop: Community Gardens From Neglected Sites
The Edible Bus Stop: Community Gardens From Neglected Sites
The Edible Bus Stop transforms neglected sites across London's bus network into valuable community growing spaces. Originating as a guerilla garden project adjacent to a bus stop in South London, we transform once-forgotten spaces into thriving neighbourhood hubs that are...
2 min
THE BIG IDEA (Basic Income Guarantee)
THE BIG IDEA (Basic Income Guarantee) (trailer)
Hi, I’m Matt Orfalea and for 3 years I’ve been writing and making videos about the BIG idea of a Basic Income Guarantee (aka Universal Basic Income) 
3 min
Every Town Needs a Remakery
Every Town Needs a Remakery
The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things. There’s a big vision behind it: “we want to generate a repair...
Jeremy Williams
Tamera - Taste of a New Culture
Tamera - Taste of a New Culture
Tamera is an extraordinary intentional community in Portugal. A model for regional autonomy in energy and food, it is focused on creating a truly peaceful society, working harmoniously with nature. This short film looks at the many projects that have transformed the arid...
52 min
America's Greatest Enemy Is Our Own Self-Defeating Division
America's Greatest Enemy Is Our Own Self-Defeating Division
"Capitalism is Evil!" "No, socialism is Evil!" "You must love oligarchy!" "You must love communism!" Sound familiar? That's what passes for "debate" these days- beating each other over the head with divisive labels and any extreme straw-man arguments handy. Ideas become...
Michael Emero
How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City
How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City
Have you noticed all the cuts being made to your city budget? To schools and libraries, fire fighters and social services, and other public spending? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? Soon, you may have that chance.
Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner
Nine Legendary Activists Share Lessons On How To Win Social Change
Nine Legendary Activists Share Lessons On How To Win Social Change
Whether it's 1966 or 2016, one thing that hasn't changed much is how people organise and campaign for social and political advancement. Amidst rising political and social division, newsPeeks spoke with Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Devon Thomas, Angela Phillips, Erin...
15 min
Why Popular Assemblies Sweeping the Country Are Building Blocks of the Resistance
Why Popular Assemblies Sweeping the Country Are Building Blocks of the Resistance
From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.
Sarah Lazare
Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss
Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss
"So much in society we are bombarded with a competitive approach and it is about reimagining that and reworking it!" A glimpse into the working lives of people from the Leeds Bread Co-op who can't imagine having a boss and are bringing the values of democracy, equality and...
3 min
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld
Common Sense Revisited: the Activism of Kindness
Common Sense Revisited: the Activism of Kindness
Everything we do in life serves as an example to someone, whether anyone involved is even consciously aware of it. Whatever these people (be it ourselves, co-workers, kids, family, even strangers) perceive as our mentality and motives becomes recorded and spread quite like a...
Michael Emero
From Sanctuary City to Liberated City
From Sanctuary City to Liberated City
In just one week, with several strokes of a pen, Trump unleashed upon the working class in the U.S. an attack not seen in decades. From his attack on the flawed Affordable Care Act to the banning of immigrants from Muslim countries to the explicit targeting of “sanctuary...
Frank Lara
Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model
Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model
Humanity stands at a crossroads. Now, more than ever, history calls for a grassroots democracy at a global scale. If we look carefully, all the tools are at hand.
Eleanor Finley
This Is How to Stop Demagogues and Extremists: Rebuild Community
This Is How to Stop Demagogues and Extremists: Rebuild Community
All together now.
George Monbiot
How Gift Economies Align With Our Natural Desires
How Gift Economies Align With Our Natural Desires
All living beings share one thing in common. Each man, woman, child, bird, bee, and dog – all have just one life. For every living being, life begins and ends. We are all here for a very short time. Most of us live a life preoccupied by work, earning a living, being on time...
Chris Agnos
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier
A 2-minute introduction to the global-to-local argument.
2 min
Union Co-Operatives: What They Are and Why We Need Them
Union Co-Operatives: What They Are and Why We Need Them
Neoliberal policies contribute to alienation, disempowerment and non-unionised jobs, but a new model for unions could break the vicious circle, argues Simon Taylor.
Simon Taylor
Live Before You Die
Live Before You Die
Travelling the length of the country and back again with a pair of horses and gypsy caravan, Live Before You Die is the ultimate horse-drawn road movie, following a band of Travellers with handcarts, goats, donkeys and ponies along green lanes to the fairs and festivals of...
6 min
Regenerative Agriculture: Our Best Shot at Cooling the Planet?
Regenerative Agriculture: Our Best Shot at Cooling the Planet?
It’s getting hot out there. For a stretch of 16 months running through August 2016, new global temperature records were set every month.[1] Ice cover in the Arctic sea hit a new low this past summer, at 525,000 square miles less than normal.[2] And apparently we’re not doing...
Jason Hickel
We Are All Stepping Into a Broken Future
We Are All Stepping Into a Broken Future
Your feelings of pain and uncertainty are real. The world is now in a time of darkness. Shadows are all around us. It can be very confusing and painful. But it may reassure you to know that feeling pain and confusion is a sign that you are awake. Humanity is now in the...
Joe Brewer
Challenger - Voices From the Street
Challenger - Voices From the Street
A group of street people in Austin, TX edit, write, and distribute their own newspaper as a way to help get them off the street. The Challenger Street Newspaper improves their lives by helping them to earn a living in an environment where job opportunities are virtually...
28 min
The Inevitable Future of Human Connection
The Inevitable Future of Human Connection
A new socioeconomic order is inevitably taking shape. The future is human connection.
4 min
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Compassionate activism is activism that is rooted in an underlying compassion for all beings. It is an activism that resists the strong urge we all face to dehumanize our opponents, as they often do to us, and we often do to them. This collection of articles and videos...
Tim Hjersted
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms
In this series of 5 short films we visit five farms where incredible things sprout. From growing massive, 100-pound vegetables to giving injured animals another chance, these are the finest farms around. 
12 min
Twelve Things To Remember After The US Election, From Front Line Organizers
Twelve Things To Remember After The US Election, From Front Line Organizers
When you find yourself in a suddenly darkened room, what do you do?   Some rush blindly to where they think the door might be.  Others stand still, let their eyes get adjusted to the different environment, re-orient themselves, then cautiously and sensitively, move...
Bill Quigley