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Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!
Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food! 
48 min · 8,070 views · 4 stars
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
Tour Janet and Richard’s quarter acre for an example of what’s possible in suburbia. Their front yard of edible plants also provides habitat for birds and insects. The backyard radiates out from an herb and kitchen garden to vegetable beds and containers; 25 fruit and nut...
27 min · 7,437 views · 2.8 stars
From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory
From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory (2021)
On the grounds of the permaculture laboratory Peintnerhof in the middle of Carinthia (Austria), pigs dig through the earth and prepare the formerly compacted soil piece by piece for a new, more diverse planting. For example, classic fruit trees are allowed to flourish next to...
9 min · 9,210 views · 4.7 stars
Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons
Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons
The City Food Commons shares the story of Roimata Food Commons, an urban food forest initiative driven by Ōtautahi Christchurch local Michael Reynolds. The aim of the project is to empower the community to co-create space in a public park, reviving the notion of the Commons...
13 min · 437 views · 5 stars
Numen: The Nature of Plants
Numen: The Nature of Plants (2009) (trailer)
Numen is about the healing power of plants and the natural world. Featuring stunning footage of medicinal plants and moving interviews with leading herbalists, doctors, ecologists and others, Numen provides a vision of healthcare rooted in the traditions of herbal medicine...
5 min · 16,438 views · 5 stars
Numen: The Nature of Plants (Action Guide)
Numen: The Nature of Plants (Action Guide)
There is a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet and in books exploring different aspects of issues raised in the film.
Films For Action · 9,457 views · 5 stars
2013: Hope or Despair?
2013: Hope or Despair?
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” – Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein · 3,082 views · 5 stars
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of...
82 min · 41,513 views · 4.4 stars
The News Media Is Selling You Out
The News Media Is Selling You Out
The news media is in the pocket of a major industry. 
25 min · 1,616 views · 5 stars
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it seems that the lab-made drugs we have become so dependent...
Sophia Daoudi · 4,902 views · 4.5 stars
5 Ways To Take Charge of Your Health ~ Naturally
5 Ways To Take Charge of Your Health ~ Naturally
Looking to take charge of your health? Wondering where to begin? There is so much information out there about what foods to eat or not to eat, about what and how to exercise, about what herbs and supplements to take or not. Social Media has only made the abundance of how...
Ann Armbrecht · 3,411 views · 5 stars
We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth
We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh · 64,512 views · 4.8 stars
Tractors, Ritual Baths, and Dismantling Racism: Welcome to Black and Latino Farmers Immersion
Tractors, Ritual Baths, and Dismantling Racism: Welcome to Black and Latino Farmers Immersion
"Land is the only real wealth in this country and if we don't own any we'll be out of the picture."
Leah Penniman · 762 views · 4 stars
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner · 24,300 views · unrated
Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!
Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!
Ripping out your lawn and planting kale and peppers won’t just lead to great stir-fry — a new study finds it could make major contributions to fighting climate change, too.
Nathanael Johnson · 13,921 views · 5 stars
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration
As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.
36 min · 8,869 views · unrated
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Marty Kaplan · 1,563 views · unrated
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein · 5,544 views · 5 stars
The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us
The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us
From the San and the Kogi: Value community and cooperation; we are part of the world, not separate from it. One of the oldest cultures on Earth is that of the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in the northern parts of South Africa. The exclamation point in their name...
Thom Hartmann · 19,009 views · 4.5 stars
You can’t Google it and get it back: Why the death of tribal languages matters
You can’t Google it and get it back: Why the death of tribal languages matters
“You say laughter and I say larfter,” sang Louis Armstrong. The difference is subtle. Across the world, however, from the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal peoples say it in 4,000 entirely different ways. Sadly, no one now says “laughter” in Eyak, a language from the Gulf of...
Joanna Eede · 5,359 views · 5 stars
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.
Tory Field and Beverly Bell · 7,413 views · 4.5 stars
Bring a Farm Back to Life
Bring a Farm Back to Life (2022)
Help us to get our sixth site – Maesgwyn Isaf -  up and running. With your support we can make this farm ready to welcome new entrant farmers to work this land in an agroecological way, building on the legacy of Jenn and Stuart Carter who gifted this farm to us. Maesgwyn...
2 min · 2,313 views · 4.5 stars
The Power of Disposable Time
The Power of Disposable Time
In a recent article called “Coronavirus Requires a Collective Response” by professor David Harvey, I was struck by the timeliness of his argument. Harvey quoted Karl Marx a bunch but I’m going to simply paraphrase. Marx claimed that any major project to change the world will...
Josh Liveright · 1,874 views · 4 stars
Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People
Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People
We know that television's numbing effect is an unhealthy side-effect of our modern world, however Jenny Nazak argues that we individually have the power to incite people to goodness using the bounty of multimedia platforms available to each and every one of...
Jenny Nazak · 6,828 views · 5 stars
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield · 7,336 views · 5 stars
Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities
Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities
Rather than waiting for society to all agree how we need to live in a different way, by focusing here in the suburban household, people can actually get on with making changes… a lot can happen right where people are. – David Holmgren, co-founder of Permacu
Chip Richards · 28,927 views · 4.8 stars
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Flowers In the Rain Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
Jeannine Parvati Baker · 880 views · 5 stars
Next Gen Farming Without Soil and 90% Less Water
Next Gen Farming Without Soil and 90% Less Water
Aeroponics grows fruits and vegetables faster, cheaper and better. 
12 min · 1,897 views · unrated
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews · 8,951 views · 5 stars
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Itʼs a cool spring day in Merville, BC as Moss Dance, sole proprietor of Ripple Farm, unfurls irrigation lines along tightly spaced rows of lettuces. Itʼs early in the season, but there are already fresh greens, radishes and onions ready to harvest for the weekly farmersʼ market.
Nicole Shaw · 2,010 views · 5 stars
"Wiped off The Map" The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify A War on Iran
"Wiped off The Map" The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify A War on Iran
Global Research Editor’s Note
Arash Norouzi · 3,642 views · unrated
From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
1. Green Worker Cooperative’s Co-op Academy?, The Bronx, N.Y. Ideas for co-ops may flourish, but few people understand exactly how to make theirs real. The Co-op Academy is providing answers. Founded four years ago by Omar Freilla (who recently made Ebony magazine’s list...
Claudia Rowe · 3,711 views · 4 stars
Anchoring Wealth: How Cities can Address Climate Change, Boost the Green Economy AND Tackle Population Growth
Anchoring Wealth: How Cities can Address Climate Change, Boost the Green Economy AND Tackle Population Growth
In Brief: There will be at least 100 million more Americans by 2050, and likely 150 million more. Yet the cities that will house them are so spatially and economically unstable that it is impossible to do much beyond superficial sustainability planning. One solution is to...
Gar Alperovitz, Thad Williamson, Steve Dubb · 7,290 views · 5 stars
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Building a lifeboat culture is about taking action and preparing communities to be sustainable and functional in the face of a global, national or regional economic and environmental collapse. Unless we rapidly move through the stages of climate grief, from paralysis to...
Andrew Willner · 998 views · 5 stars
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
“Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,648 views · 5 stars
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
This is the first chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Howard Zinn · 27,090 views · 4.8 stars
Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together
Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together
When I was seven, I was given an Apple Macintosh in the hope that Mavis Beacon would teach me how to touch type. It was an unreasonable expectation, for I was actually more interested in escaping to the fantasy lands of computer games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Lode...
Donnie Maclurcan · 3,167 views · 4 stars
The True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart
The True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart
The true sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance...
Mohammed Mesbahi · 540 views · 4.5 stars