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Could this tidal lagoon project in Wales be the future of sustainable energy?
2 min
Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
18 min
Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.
12 min
The build of a $420 tiny house almost entirely made from recycled materials. The house is 6.25 square meters and includes a loft with a bed.
4 min
"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace."
"Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope? Where are you, wise women covered in wounds? Where are you?"
4 min
If the ocean dies, we all die. Why?
Paul Watson
300 million farmers is a whole lot of famers. India is their home, making it the country with the largest number of small-scale food growers in the world. Most of these farmers own less than 2 acres of land and are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising input costs...
6 min
Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled materials.
8 min
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
5 min
We are in the process of burning ourselves and many of the beings on Earth right out of existence. Overwhelming. Unbelievable. Wildly inconvenient. Weirdly difficult to take in. But true. We are.
David Goldstein
First of all I would like to remind you if I may, this is not an intellectual entertainment nor some kind of romantic ideological rubbish. We are dealing with our daily life, with our relationship with each other, and also what is happening in the world, and the turmoil, the...
J. Krishnamurti
'People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,' says film's director Avi Lewis
Jon Queally
Two years ago when he was 14, my son Matthew grew six inches. Last year he only grew two inches, and this year he has only grown half an inch. Should I be worried?
Charles Eisenstein
A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The 1 acre property has been developed into a productive permaculture farm that is currently feeding around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas...
13 min
The Unistoten camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, is front and centre in a global battle for climate and energy justice.
Since 2011 they have been maintaining a check-point controlling access through their territory to stop government and industry plans to build...
24 min
In the end, the lesson our culture needs to learn is simple. But before any meaningful change can happen in our world, we need to learn that lesson.
4 min
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
3 min
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about whats possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
18 min
On this episode we present Ju and Rmulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of a good agriculture.
15 min
'This is our sacred duty to those this country harmed in the past, to those suffering needlessly in the present and to all who have a right to a bright and safe future.'
Naomi Klein and David Suzuki and Leonard Cohen and Ellen Page and Donald Sutherland
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn,elected by a landslideSaturday to lead Britains Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his countrys political establishment...
Chris Hedges
Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
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Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. Its what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial (read why here...
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POC21is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015.100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy.Their ultimate goal: Overcome our...
4 min
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
If you live amongst society today its nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation. How much is largely up to you. There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so Ive...
Rob Greenfield
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
It has been amazing for me to return the the White Crow Farm. Six years ago I moved to this land to reconnect with my roots, and to start to use my skills in media to tell the story of the important work happening on the land. That project would one day turn into Over Grow...
2 min
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
7 min
This article proposes a new concept of biocultural rights that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes...
Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nations tribal government earlier this monthat their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
This summer, seismic blasting in Arctic waters is being conducted on behalf of companies like Shell, looking for oil beneath the seabed. Blasts from 16 massive airguns are emitted every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these blasts are 8 times louder than a jumbo...
1 min
Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday; or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons; or that dancing around a fire...
11 min
A rich and imersive nine part series looking at all aspects of living with the land. Produced byPermaculturemagazine andPermaculture Peoplethe films explore successful permaculture projects across a range of topics, such as large-scale, regenerative agriculture, forest...
50 min
Communities in Senegal, Colombia, Jamaica, Palestine and Egypt are experimenting with more sustainable ways of living
Anna Leach
Its all a bit overwhelming, isnt it? Inequality is rising, and services are being cut to those who most need them. Our eco-system is teetering on the edge, and oil companies are controlling the climate agenda. Multinationals are booming off the labour of the poorest, racism...
No Longer Powerless
This is a clip fromThe Economics of Happiness. Watch it here(skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)
9 min
Momenta is a film and movement founded to educate, raise awareness, and activate communities to stop all proposed coal exports in the Pacific Northwest. We are dedicated to rethinking fossil fuels, their impact on climate and environment, and accelerating the clean energy...
38 min
For more information visit the official web site: thevenusproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/TheVenusProjectGlobal
4 min
Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Cant live with it, cantright at this momentlive without it. But its on everyones mind.
Margaret E. Atwood
INA (pronounced "eye-nah") means "That Which Feeds Us" in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai - and of island Earth.
That may sound like an outstanding claim, but as...
22 min
'With this decision, President Obama has given Shell an open invitation to turn the Chukchi Sea into an energy sacrifice zone,' said Marissa Knodel of Friends of the Earth
Sarah Lazare
Alihuen means Big Tree in the language of the indigenous Mapuche peoples of Chile. When Jeroen decided to settle in the rural Chepu province of Chiloe with his wife Grecia, this name was not taken lightly, for the farmland which it would represent has undertaken massive...
31 min
Horrendous inequity whereby a few hundred people possess half of Earths wealth as more than one billion live on less than $1.50/day is evil incarnate and will kill us all The human family will only avert biosphere collapse if we choose to live more simply, share more with...
Dr. Glen Barry
For two weeks in March 2015, a film crew was given exclusive access to the Horizon-1 high-tech experimental community, which has been in development since 2006 via an undisclosed location in Western Europe. This film captures the opinions and perspectives of several project...
15 min
Should we eat meat? Thats the big question, which for this series Im asking three different ways: in terms of environmental sustainability, morality, and practicality.
Nathanael Johnson
A young family has won its epic battle to live in a real-life hobbit house after defeating an attempt by planners to bulldoze it.
1 min
This is a special edition of the Fishbones climate change animation, dedicated to the occassion of the International Climate Top in Paris 2015 -- otherwise known as COP21. Fishbones is an animated short explaining the most fundamental thing you need to know about what climate...
1 min
The best news for a good Anthropocene is that the human brain is a master at learning and relearning and that rewiring takes place all the time. Until old age, learning processes can cancel out old habits. Addictive and behavioral pitfalls can be replaced with new ways of living.
Christian Schwägerl
This knowledge isn't supposed to make us afraid - it's meant to stir our hearts into action - to give us the fire that we can use to save everything we love.
3 min
The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, Were fucked.
Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen
Cities are the biggest thing we create. But when we talk about sustainability, there is still surprisingly little discussion about how our cities are designed as a whole.
4 min
It's official: the planet is entering a "sixth great extinction" that even the most conservative estimates show is killing off species at rates far higher than the previous five mass die-offsand humanity is both at fault...and at risk.
A joint study by scientists from...
Nadia Prupis
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would needfour or five planet Earthsto sustain us.
Samuel Alexander
BetweenTues 23rd and Fri 26th JuneLancashire County Council is scheduled to be considering applications for2 new fracking test siteson the Fylde Peninsular near Blackpool. We have been here before with the last attempt in Januaryending in far
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Our current Western worldview is based on never-ending development, an emphasis on the rights of the individual...
Jocelyn Mercado
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Coal pollution is the single biggest driver of climate change on the planet. It's causing more and more extreme weather and pushing the world's poorest people into poverty and hunger. If we keep burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now, climate change could push 50 million...
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