Emma and Sophie Thompson Cook Up a Plan to Stop Fracking

Part 1: Emma Thompson and sister Sophie have hatched a plan to take on the fracking industry. Their idea's a little mischievous, so it's all hush-hush for now. But soon all will be revealed soon.

3 min

No Nukes Taiwan 台灣反核運動

"No Co-operation 停止運轉! No-Delay 不要拖延! No-Nukes 立即廢核!"

60 min

How Salmon Feed the Forests

Each year, immense schools of migrating salmon bring nutrients from the ocean to Pacific Northwest rivers—literally feeding the trees. Here’s where humans come in.

Jennifer Luxton and Stephen Miller

Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story

It’s true; musicians can be a catalyst for social change! Watch the inspiring story about the first Permaculture Action Tour, with music producer The Polish Ambassador, that covered over 9,000 miles though 33 cities and 19 states, from San Francisco to New York City...

72 min

Days of Revolt: Letting Go of the World

In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who directed the new film "How to Let Go of the World". The two discuss the catastrophe of climate change, and the role of art and culture in helping us embrace what climate can't change.

26 min

Taiwan Tree-Huggers 台灣環保最前線

Trees, water & land are dear, they can be given up for money 水土樹木誠可貴, 但為圖利皆可拋！

60 min

"Global Elite's Theater": Paris Deal Is Mere Starting Point for Climate Justice

Provisions in COP21 deal 'are not enough to avoid a pathway towards a 3°C world,' warns Oxfam

Deirdre Fulton

守護東海岸反美麗灣

Land, water & trees are dear. They can be given up for money 水土樹木誠可貴, 但為有利可圖, 在所不惜！

60 min

Carbon Omissions: 3 Lies The UK Government Has Been Telling about Its Response to Climate Change

A new animation about consumption, climate change and wellbeing by PIRC, George Monbiot and Leo Murray. For more info, see: http://carbonomissions.org.uk

3 min

No Planet for Optimists: Coastal Flooding May Come Sooner and Bigger Than We Think

Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding...

Pete Dolack

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn't Just Her Corporate Cash. It's Her Corporate Worldview.

Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.

Naomi Klein

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

New Film: '8 Days @ COP21'

'8 days @ COP21' is the work of filmmaker Emilio Mula travelling to Paris with Rob Hopkins. It captures those days last December when the climate negotiations took place in Paris, and the experiences of some of the Transitioners who were there.

NU project

Water Is Life. Don't Undermine It

This vibrant animation from The Gaia Foundation and animator Ben Pearce takes us on two very different journeys through the water cycle. One shows the life-giving nature of water for everything from forests to frogs. The other reveals the ways in which mining is damaging the...

5 min

Is Miami Beach Doomed?

Miami Beach could be underwater this century. The sea level around the tourist paradise has risen steadily in recent decades and flooding in the streets has become more frequent and severe. Most of the city sits just four to five feet above sea level, and on a foundation of...

8 min

Sustainable Brothers and Sisters - a Day in the Langa Community ♥♥♥

The SBS team activates consciousness at festivals around South Africa - including Rocking the Daises, We Love Summer & Up the Creek. The network aims to inspire ACTION in environmental and social issues within South Africa. One of the campaigns - "dont be a fool, carpool!"...

1 min

Climate Coalition Vows 'Peaceful, Escalated' Actions Until 'We Break Free From Fossil Fuels'

'For years, communities on the front lines have led that struggle, and this May we can join them.'

Nika Knight

Inside Germany's Most Harmful Energy Source

The Rhineland region of Germany has more CO2 pollution than any part of Europe due to its many coal mines. That's why climate activists organized the largest protest against coal production that Germany has ever seen. To find out why we are still using such harmful energy...

20 min

Why Heathrow 13 Verdict Could Lead to More Radical Climate Activism, Not Less

The so-called “Heathrow 13” Plane Stupid climate activists have been given suspended prison sentences for trespassing on the airport’s runway. The case – and the decision of the judge to hand down custodial sentences at all, even if they were suspended – illustrates the way...

Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty

Heathrow 13: The UK’s First Climate Prisoners?

On Wednesday, 24th February, thirteen individuals who blockaded a runway to protest against expanding Heathrow airport are likely to be sent to prison, which would make them the first climate activists to receive a prison sentence in the UK.

3 min

White Canada Has a Black History

Goood morning slaves! This week we bring you, "White Canada has a Black History" In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new year. Also street battles in Athens, where anarchists and...

20 min

We Have Never Been Here Before - Performance.

Video of Performance Premiere at Berliner Festspiele, July 4th 2016.

68 min

Underwater Sculptures Are Helping Rebuild Our Ocean's Coral Reefs

Sculptor Jason diCaires Taylor creates underwater botanical gardens made of inert stone not only for our viewing pleasure but to help rebuild our dying coral reefs.

2 min

Special Event: an Evening With the Yes Men

Green Film Fest invites you to join us for this special event to meet The Yes Men (Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum) and see their latest film The Yes Men Are Revolting.

Green Film Fest

DOUBLESPEAK- A Film About Climate Change

Doublespeak highlights the contradictory actions of President Obama and the British Prime Minister, David Cameron when it comes to addressing the urgent threat of climate change. The film uses archive footage from speeches and news reports to paint a picture of how...

4 min

SUV Taggers (trailer)

Trailer for SUV TAGGERS, an award-winning, festival favorite short film (4:25). Two 'bad boy' environmentalists with a sense of humor place embarrassing but truthful bumper stickers on highly polluting, dangerous SUVS in the malls of California. A great discussion starter for...

1 min

Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order

Bill McKibben

Act Now, Urges Study, or Planet Faces 10,000+ Years of Adverse Climate Change

"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."

Lauren McCauley

Paris State of Emergency (2016) Medialien

Activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures, a look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris.

20 min

I Wish for You... Jeremy Irons is a Grandfather With A Beautiful Message for His Granddaughter

'War Horse' author Michael Morpurgo and actors Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake have joined forces to make a powerful new 5 minute film especially for you. Please watch and share.

5 min

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Vs. the Climate

As people around the world march against the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Sierra Club's Ilana Solomon breaks down how the trade agreement will affect the fight against climate change.

2 min

Hey, Now Would Be a Great Time for a Carbon Tax

Wow, the price of oil is still low as hell. Oil company earnings are terrible. Consumer prices at the pump are super cheap. Oh, that remind me, you know what we could use right now?

Hamilton Nolan

Pick It Up

Kerstin woke up every day before the sun came up. Waiting for the dawn near some rocks, she puts gloves and walked the same stretch of beach picking up garbage. After an hour, she cleaned the 200 meters of beach. He ended sad and frustrated to see such indifference of human...

3 min

I'm Proud of My Daughter and the Other Brave Heathrow Protesters

Plane Stupid’s trespass was a red flag to politicians: to claim you can have a booming aviation-based economy and cut emissions is a cowardly deception

Tim Sanderson

Human Extinction by 2030

Scientists have been warning about Arctic methane for many years. They've not been listened to, and now it's to late. We are experiencing the beginning of a runaway greenhouse effect. It will result in the extinction of 80% of all life on Earth by 2030, including humans.

40 min

George Monbiot Meets David Attenborough: 'Environmentalism Is a Duty, Not an Interest'

Sir David Attenborough tells George Monbiot that the British public is better informed about the environment than ever before, in part thanks to television. He discusses his new programme on the titanosaur – a subset of dinosaurs that can reach 37m in length. He also talks...

5 min

Open Up Your Eyes (2016)

This 11 minute video manages to be informative, satirical, and poetic as it covers serious issues that affect all of humanity. It offers simple solutions to government and corporate involvement in unconstitutionally drugging the American people via the air we breathe and the...

11 min

Decade Zero #1

Decade Zero #1 is the first of a series of short fictional documentary films that blend utopia and apocalypse, the present and the future, the real and the imagined.

3 min

Time to Cycle - London to Paris for COP21

Time To Cycle was an organised mass cycle ride from London to Paris in December 2015. The plan was to arrive in Paris for the end of the climate talks, COP21. The aim was to do this sustainably and to connect a variety of people along the way, thus uniting people, sharing...

10 min

The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil

The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil's strong-arm reach--its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.

29 min

We're All Fcuked (2016)

Are you willing to accept the challenge?

1 min

Think Mangrove Forests

Why are mangroves so important? How are they under threat? And what can we do to help protect them? This short video sets out to answer those questions, using photographs from all around the tropics, encouraging participation and to help spread awareness of the mangrove forest.

2 min

Case Is Made for Earth's New Anthropocene Epoch

An international scientific panel believes that the Earth has entered a new geological age. The team, which has been tasked with defining the so-called Anthropocene, says humanity's impacts on Earth will be visible in sediments and rocks millions of years into the future. The...

2 min

The Future of Climate Change (2016)

Will anyone listen? I doubt it. 😢

4 min

part ii. Lawsuit + Injunction - Burnaby Mountain Resistance

Part 2 of the 'Burnaby Mountain Resistance: How It Went Down' documentary series.

10 min

RUNNING AGAINST PIPELINES

On December 4th 2015, Enbridge's began pumping tar sands crude on its 40 year old line 9 pipeline. On the same day, 22 year old Rachel Thevenard, began an 800 km run, through the route of the pipeline, to bring awareness, about the dangers of Line 9.

1 min

Bad Weather Everywhere This Holiday Season

The U.S. suffered its fair share of tumultuous weather conditions this year, as did many other parts of the world.

1 min

Unstoppable California Gas Leak Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill

Methane gas continues spewing, unchecked, into the air over southern California from a fractured well to an underground storage site — at such an alarming rate that low-flying planes have necessarily been diverted by the FAA, lest internal combustion engines meet highly...

Claire Bernish

Paris D12: Red Lines - a Memento for the Movement

The energy and the imagination on display in Paris on D12 was breathtaking. This is our hommage to the organizers and all the people who went, as well as our way of sharing the experience with those who couldn't come. This is a movement on the rise.

5 min

System Change Not Climate Change

The greatest challenges of our time is to end unjust distribution in the world and to fight climate change. What is stopping us? And what can YOU do to make a difference?

7 min

Not Your Climate Movement

This we bring you a recap of the COP21 climate clusterfuck in Paris, with Jim Hansen's reaction to the historic non-agreement and 350.org's condemnation of comrades who defied the protest ban. Over in Greece we look at the yearly riots that commemorate the police murder of...

14 min

Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home Recap (90 Sec)

Watch a short recap of the breathtaking art projection at the #Vatican, on St. Peter's Basilica.

2 min

COP21 Is Over but the Marshall Islands Are Still Sinking

The #COP21 climate agreement may have been made, but the Marshall Islands' existence is still being threatened by climate change. Governments agreed to keep the rise in temperatures below 3.6° Fahrenheit pre-industrial levels, which is .9° off of what the Marshall Islands...

1 min

WAYS TO WATER (trailer)

Set in the sweltering global warming heat on downtown Toronto, WAYS TO WATER is a dramatic short film that explores the metaphysics of water and human relationships - drawing heavily from the research of Dr. Masaru Emoto. Emoto believed water to hold a memory, and conducted...

2 min

Activists in Paris Take the Streets to Have the Last Word

D12 in Paris. This is just the beginning, and a beautiful beginning it was. Watch:

1 min

Blind Focus on Carbon Reduction Could Be "Green" Movement's Achilles Heel

I'm in Paris now, preparing to speak tonight about climate change. It is a parallel venue, not mainstream, called Place 2 B, but even here I am afraid my message is going to be controversial. You see, I think there are deep problems with the standard climate change narrative...

Charles Eisenstein

No Oceans, No Life. No Blue, No Green - Valhalla Interviews Sylvia Earle at #Earthtoparis

One of the most overlooked and scary facts surrounding the issue of climate change and environmental destruction lies under the sea... Our oceans are being destroyed and overfished in a way that is SERIOUSLY alarming to say the least.

4 min

Dams Contribute to Global Warming

Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a "clean and green" source of electricity by international financial institutions, national governments and other actors. They greatly benefit from instruments meant to address climate change, including carbon credits under...

7 min

The Living Forest: the Amazonian Tribespeople Who Sailed Down the Seine

The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the 'living forest', where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris...

9 min

Oil Fuels War and Terrorists Like Isis. The Climate Movement Can Bring Peace

We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil

Rebecca Solnit

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