The cosmos is One interconnected and indivisible Whole. You Are the Cosmos, and All That Is. Therefore, You Are Me!

4 min

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson

85 min

You Are Infinite, You Are Eternal, You Are God. And more importantly You Are Me

Science now confirms what we have always known to be true - that we are literally all one. And this changes everything

Mark Ellison

Compassion & Interbeing | Thich Nhat Hanh

Thích Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. Here, he shares his wisdom on compassion and explains the concept of interbeing. To him, all emotions and experiences deserve the grounds of compassion and need to be treated equally.

3 min

This Short Film Plays Out Like an Epic Movie That Will Shake Your Soul - But the Movie Is Real, and We are The Actors

For next year, we need a resolution capable of confronting the crisis we face, and making a future worth fighting for.

6 min

Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future

Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done

Angus Hervey

A Basic Income for All!

There is enough wealth for all of us. What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security? How could a basic income change our lives? Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?

49 min

100% Possible - Clean, Safe, Renewable Energy

What if Steve Jobs had given up on the iPhone – how would you be reading this now?! More importantly, what would our world be like if MLK hadn't had a dream, or Gandhi never stood up? In December 2015 world leaders will meet for the world's biggest climate summit. It's time...

2 min

Do You Have Time to Love?

The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

That's What He Said: Women

It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss how they relate to women, adding a much needed male point of view to the discussion surrounding...

7 min

Robots Stealing My Jobs

Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated

7 min

6 Big European Cities With Plans to Go Car-Free

Oslo is the latest major metro to put pedestrians first in some central districts.

Eric Jaffe

10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income

The simplest most effective solution to poverty.

3 min

submedia.Tv: Behind the Scenes

We live in crazy times. A veritable clusterfuck of austerity, riots, and repression is playing out amidst a backdrop of growing inequality and global ecological collapse. In this era of uncertainty, we believe that independent media can play a crucial role in helping people...

4 min

10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"

Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...

Daniel Lattier

The 30 Second Habit with a Lifelong Impact

There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months...

Robyn Scott

A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Democratic Socialism

In response to Jeremy Corbyn's 'Standing to Deliver' plan "for a fairer and more successful Britain," Jeremy Gilbert suggests an additional 10 things to plug some of the holes in Corbyn's plan, making it a more relevant and robust radical plan for 21st Century Britain and...

Jeremy Gilbert

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her culture. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways...

2 min

Help People Cross Borders

A German initiative, named after those who smuggled people from East to West Berlin, is encouraging people to give lifts in their cars to migrants in order to help them cross European borders. Although this is technically illegal, there is a moral imperative to this act of...

3 min

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ... the Europeans Embracing Migrants

Away from the xenophobic hysteria aimed at desperate immigrants are people taking steps to help newcomers and promote the good things they bring

Various

Capitalism Is Failing, and It's Time to Panic

The neoliberalist capitalist model has resulted in civil wars and economic disaster, and it’s only going to get worse. Unless, Paul Mason argues, we take advantage of the technological revolution we are living through and create a postcapitalist sharing society. If we let...

4 min

Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition

Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the “other’s” humanity, we ascribe to all of them ugly characteristics that somehow justify treating...

Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis

This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'

Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened

Paul Kingsnorth

How to be a Peace Officer

What would it take to turn police officers who abuse their power into protectors of the peace?

9 min

Transition From Caterpillar to Butterfly as Analogy for Social Change

An exceprt from Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview in which Dr. Bruce Lipton talks about the fractal nature of reality and compares the current global awakening and the evolution of humanity to imaginal cells in a dying caterpillar.

4 min

A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally

Emotions can cloud our rational decision-making. By adopting the perspective of an outside advisor, psychologist Dan Ariely says we can inject some rationality into our cognitive processes. Ariely's new book is titled Irrationally Yours.

2 min

The Case for a "Jazz Revolution" Against Corporate Capitalism

Bottom up? Top down? Improvisation is the key to a middle way.

Keith Harrington

5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice

From the 23rd to the 26th of February of 1998, grassroots movements of all continents met in Geneva to launch a worldwide coordination network of resistance to the global market, a new alliance of struggle and solidarity called Peoples' Global Action against 'free' trade and...

People's Global Action

If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble

We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.

Samuel Alexander

UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business

A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use

Lucy Purdy

Hacking Planned Obsolescence Through the Art of Repairing Not Replacing

At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices. Founder Sepp Eisenriegler tirelessly initiates networks, projects, and cafés—all dedicated to the art of fixing things.

Ute Scheub

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the...

25 min

A Charter for Democracy

Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go? Three years after the groundbreaking revolutionary ruptures of 2011, violent repression and media invisibility have relegated these thriving movements to a grey area. The perception seems to shift between mainstream...

Guerrilla Translation

Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained

Happy Basic Income Day? May 1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about demanding ‘more jobs’ or higher wages," the official Basic Income Day website explains. "Labor Day should be about...

Dylan Matthews

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Films For Action

Anarchy Lives: Rojava

There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have taken...

8 min

What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning?

Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their own learning. No school bell, no year levels. Students take part in the staff selection process and...

15 min

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

This series of six short films look beyond hierarchy at two approaches to self-organisation. Traditionally, many of us are used to having someone at the top, but times are changing and we are seeing a paradigm shift in how people organise. There are now needs and desires to...

74 min

The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens?

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and...

6 min

The Unlikely Librarian

A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.

4 min

Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times

Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local...

23 min

Small-Scale Farmers Cool the Planet

Fair World Project's new 17-minute documentary highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate crisis through regenerative organic agriculture.

17 min

Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time

On this final episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin, discusses the power of grassroots activism in getting the FCC to uphold net neutrality. Abby then speaks with Eugene Puryear, Organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, about effective activism as it relates to issues from...

27 min

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

In a recent semi-documentary film called Garbage, a toxic waste disposal engineer was asked how we can stop engulfing the world in our poisons. His answer was, "We'd have to remove everybody from the face of the earth, because humans GENERATE toxic waste, whether it be...

Daniel Quinn

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

Contrary to popular opinion, Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the 19th century, the mere fact of evolution had been around for a long time, and most thinkers of the time were perfectly content to leave it at that. The absence of a...

Daniel Quinn

Abby Martin Exposes Obama's SOTU Double Speak | Brainwash Update

Abby Martin discusses the hypocritical and misleading foreign policy claims made during the State of the Union.

4 min

#BlackLivesMatter: Tactics, Class Warfare, and the Legacy of Racism

Special Panel Discussion on Racism, Poverty and the Future of Ferguson.

28 min

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Alan Heeks explores the pathways that can take us from the ‘old story’ of addictive materialism into a new, creative and regenerative post-industrial society.

Alan Heeks

Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

Our current democratic models are crumbling and outdated. We need to make something more real and meaningful. Activist and politician Birgitta Jónsdóttir points to how it might be done.

Birgitta Jonsdottir

FairCoop: Virus of Cooperation Infects a New economy

The ‘Robin Hood of the Banks’ strikes again. This time the aim is to create a worldwide cooperative to develop and expand a new economy of the commons.

Pablo Prieto and Enric Duran

Zapatista (1999)

With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.

55 min

Why You Should Break Rules - In 30 Seconds

A woman’s place is in the home. Marriage is between a man and a woman. These are rules that we have consciously or unconsciously written for our society. We worry too much about what happens when we break the rules. Here's why we should do the opposite!

1 min

Malala. One Girl. Among many

Girls from around the world recite the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to campaign for education as part of Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign.

3 min

"Forgiveness Is Liberating": Desmond Tutu On Healing A Nation's Racist Past

Editors Note: Last week, YES! magazine published an article by Fania Davis, director of a restorative justice center and sister of civil rights activist Angela Davis, called “This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right...

Desmond Tutu

Everything Is Connected

The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.

George Monbiot

Whatever is Privilege?

Whatever is Privilege? - Why the caption on the picture is bollocks, from someone who is a white male who once said those words.

Class unity

Why Immigration Reform Is Useless Without Ending the Drug War

Abby Martin speaks with Eugene Puryear, organizer with the ANSWER coalition about President Obama's executive action on immigration reform and how this will impact the millions of undocumented people in the US.

8 min

Wanderers

Wanderers is a short science fiction film by Erik Wernquist - a digital artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden. The film is a vision of our humanity's future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on...

3 min

The Oldest Living Things in the World: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy

What a 13,000-year-old eucalyptus tree reveals about the meaning of human life.

Maria Popova

They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity

Let me tell you a story about how the world began. I promise you the story is not completely false.

Adebayo Akomolafe

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