Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

For young people not raised on the land, getting into farming can seem daunting. Even for people who have worked on farms before, it is easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed when it comes to starting a farm of one’s own.

45 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.

36 min

The Land for Our Food

👎Industrial Agriculture: - Destroys soil - Produces tons of emissions - Pollutes water - Destroys biodiversity

34 min

The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.

Ronnie Cummins

#WeUnite | Accompany farmers Carlo and Hanna as they drive their tractors to Berlin to protest for a better food and farming system.

#WeUnite - The 12-minute film ‘We Unite’ is a window into the lives of two organic farmers and the reasons they join the yearly ‘We are Fed-Up’ demonstration in Germany .Along with hundreds of other farmers, they drive their tractors into the heart of Berlin where they unite...

13 min

The Farms of the Future

Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...

Isabel Marlens

The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet

The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.

Michaela Haas

So Close to America: Undocumented Farm Workers & The Myth of The 'Free Ride'

Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.

24 min

Insane Trade!

The way trade works in the global economy can be insane – it wastes resources, worsens climate change, and undermines the livelihoods of millions of small-scale producers worldwide. Yet it is an almost unavoidable consequence of de-regulatory ‘free trade’ agreements and the...

3 min

Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”

I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a...

Anja Lyngbaek

Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico

Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up to unfettered corporate investment and...

Alex Jensen

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...

62 min

The Big FAT Lie (2018)

"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixon’s film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...

87 min

The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness

The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…

Patrick Lydon

Food, Earth, Happiness (2019)

A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York...

20 min

Wasted Waste (2018)

3,6 million kg of food is wasted every day. 870 million people could be fed only with the world’s wasted food (FAO). 800 million people are starving around the world. 1/3 of the food ends up in the trash while 198 000 hectares are used to produce food that is never consumed.

84 min

Prepare To Be Amazed By Fish

Fish are intelligent, sensitive creatures and like many other animals, they explore, travel, socialise, hunt and play. Some species care for their young and use tools as humans do. Fish are sentient animals capable of suffering and feeling pain. Most fish have highly...

3 min

To Restore Our Soils, Feed the Microbes

Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.

Matthew Wallenstein

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Slaughterhouse - What The Meat Industry Hides (2017)

With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouse is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence...

40 min

Dominion (2018)

Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways...

120 min

If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer

Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as

Isabella Tree

This Restaurant Takeout Service Swaps Styrofoam for Sustainable

After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she decided to focus on small-scale...

5 min

Voices of Transition (2012)

This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...

65 min

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours. In this series we’ll be diving deep into some amazing properties designed using permaculture principals, with the aim of giving you inspiration and ideas on how to apply these solutions in your own life. In...

15 min

Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!

Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen

Dollar General Is Putting Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business

Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including Footlocker, J. Crew and Macy’s that are shrinking their brick-and-mortar operations. But one...

7 min

Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs

The Sustainable Food Trust’s Future of UK Farming conference at Fir Farm this April will feature a pilgrimage from the source of the River Dickler to Hill Barn, hosted by Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust (BPT). Ahead of the conference I decided to

Bonnie Welch

3 Kids are on a Mission to Fix the Global Meat Crisis, Fast!

In order to shift the broken meat and dairy system, Greenpeace has one ambitious goal: the reduction of meat and dairy production and consumption by at least 50% by 2050. If left unchecked, agriculture is projected to produce 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the...

2 min

Farming for a Small Planet

People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...

Frances Moore Lappé

Opposition to GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral

The pro-and anti-GMO positions will remain polarized until larger questions about the future of food production are addressed.

Charles Eisenstein

We All Live off the Land

The other day I dreamed of a catfish being hooked in one of our lines during the 180 days I lived in the boreal forest. One of the reasons why I don't like living in civilization and eating food from the supermarket is that it is extremely easy to forget where food is coming...

Juan Pablo Quinonez

What The Health (2017)

What the Health is the groundbreaking follow-up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.

91 min

Meet the Pro Surfers Who Put Down Roots in Ireland to Grow Organic Food for the Community

The story of a group of pro surfers who have left the international surfing circuit in order to grow organic vegetables at Moy Hill CSA Farm on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.

7 min

Humans and The Land - A Celebration of Those Who Feed The World

Farming and farmers are the heart of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work. In his latest film HUMAN, this theme takes a central space. In the continuity of this work, and in collaboration with France Agrimer, he goes beyond it with a sensitive film, dedicated to all those men and...

41 min

Food Cooperatives and Garlic

Cooperatives are businesses owned by the people who use their services. Many communities look to their local food co-ops as a way to maintain greater control over their food. Garlic is isolated as just one of many foods that can communicate the importance of retail food...

5 min

Island Earth (2017)

A rich tale of a young indigenous scientist's struggle for truth between science and tradition as he enters an industry that many feel is threatening his homeland. His complex journey through the inner workings of GMO chemical companies and traditional Hawaiian elders reveals...

61 min

How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World

Countries like Yemen, Chad and South Sudan have been devastated by famine and starvation in recent years, with millions of people suffering despite a global surplus of food. But the problem is not a lack of resources - they are starving due to the effects of unending Western...

Eric Draitser

The Invisible Vegan (trailer)

The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African-American community, foregrounding the health and wellness possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diets and lifestyle choices. Over the past...

5 min

How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans

“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”

Julian Cola

A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature

Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.

3 min

Zero Waste Shops Are Opening All Over Europe

Zero Waste Shops are opening all over Europe. Dozens have opened and many more are coming. Each Zero Waste shop is unique. In Zurich, Switzerland, FOIFI launched 2 months ago and is making a huge splash. FOFI is both a bulk grocery store and café. You fill reusable containers...

1 min

Be the Change in the Messed up World - Rob Greenfield at Tedx

Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the “Trash Me” campaign he ran in New York in 2016, are meant to awaken our consciousness on the...

18 min

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015)

Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...

115 min

Want to Get “Back to the Land?” You’re Not Alone

Each generation has had one common desire: to live a more honest, ethical life of self-sufficiency and oneness with nature.

Nancy Matsumoto

Stop the Greedy Clown!

We can't let huge corporations continue to underpay our friends and families! Today, May 23, is the day before their annual shareholder meeting-- where they make the key decisions that will impact workers across the nation for the next year. Make sure McDonald's hears you...

1 min

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje discuss the issues with the supermarket system and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing.

6 min

Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change...

13 min

Tackling Food Waste Would Help Mitigate Climate Change

Eat your peas! It’s the easiest way to fight climate change.

9 min

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

Five Ways the Meat on Your Plate Is Killing the Planet

When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat less meat.

Francis Vergunst, Julian Savulescu

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

Beyond Compost: 5 Ways to Get Your Soil Ready This Spring

The key to a great garden? Good dirt. Here’s how you can grow your own.

Peter D'Auria and Miles Schneiderman

Dairy Is F**king Scary! - The Industry Explained in 5 Minutes

Dairy is scary. Please share this video with anyone and everyone who still thinks dairy is just fine!

5 min

Meet The Woman Rescuing Fruit and Feeding Her Community

Meet Nita Kurmins GilsoMeet Nita Kurmins Gilson, the woman bringing fresh fruit to thousands of San Diegans in need. In 2009, Nita learned that 1 in 6 people in her county were going to bed hungry. She also saw an abundance of fresh produce going to waste all over the city...

2 min

Existing Is Resisting - How Farmers Are Resisting GM Crops

This animation illustrates the myriad practices of everyday resistance that have to be carried out by non-GM producers to try and avoid the spread of genetically modified (GM) maize and the burdens of GM contamination. It is based on the academic paper: Herrero, A....

5 min

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

In the small town of Oxford, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. Their business Urban Gardener aims to build resilience and food security in their local community.

5 min

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

Angela Davis on Veganism as Part of a Revolutionary Perspective

In this discussion with Grace Lee Boggs, Angela Davis talks about being vegan and what she believes being responsible towards other sentient beings entails in regards to our food choices.

4 min

Shocking Conditions Revealed on Free Range Turkey Farm in England

An Animal Aid video exposé, featuring undercover footage from a free-range and RSPCA-assured farm, operated by Bernard Matthews - one of the UK's largest turkey producers - reveals animals with bloodied and infected head wounds. The footage also shows a dead bird, and a dying...

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