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Climate change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up
Climate change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up
If climate change sceptics have a coherent explanation for the events we are witnessing, it's time they held an international conference and told us what they believe Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth...
Henry Porter · 4 stars
To Reduce the Climate Change Impact of Your House, Follow This Checklist
To Reduce the Climate Change Impact of Your House, Follow This Checklist
Because climate change is caused by the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when fossil fuels like coal and oil are burned, saving energy is an important way to slow and even stop the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere. Most people can save the most energy by reducing the amount of...
Diane MacEachern · 4 stars
'New Normals' of the Climate Crisis Demand a New Economy
'New Normals' of the Climate Crisis Demand a New Economy
The Post Carbon Institute released a new
Eco Watch · 4 stars
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction (2003)
Throughout the history of evolution five great catastrophes have affected the Earth's surface. After them, life had to re-organize itself with the surviving species. Today, 27.000 species disappear each year, a figure equal or higher than the one which devastated the Earth...
51 min · 4 stars
Jeff Rubin at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009
Jeff Rubin at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009
Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada's top economists based on a number of successful predictions including the housing bust of the early 90s and...
45 min · 4 stars
A Convenient Solution
A Convenient Solution
A short film about climate change, energy and nuclear power. If you're confused about whether we need nuclear power to stop climate change, take nine minutes of your time to watch this new film from Green Peace UK. It doesn't just explain why nuclear power can't stop climate...
9 min · 4 stars
Greensumption: The Answer To Our Prayers
Greensumption: The Answer To Our Prayers
A spoof praising the marvelous wonders of consuming green to help fight climate change.
4 min · 4 stars
Coal Action Heats Up Capitol
Coal Action Heats Up Capitol
Global warming is lighting a fire on todays campuses, and this weekend thousands of students will come to D.C. to rally, lobby, and get arrested for a clean energy economy. ANP talks with young activists about why this issue inspires their generation, and we hear from...
5 min · 4 stars
A Victory in the Fight Against Keystone XL
A Victory in the Fight Against Keystone XL
Let this video electrify you, and let it electrify your friends. We didn't just win against a pipeline--we won back the deep sense that when we rise up together, we can change the future. Against impossible odds. Against the biggest most profitable polluters on the planet. We...
4 min · 4 stars
SAVE THE DELAWARE
SAVE THE DELAWARE
This is an urgent call to the fans of GASLAND and to the fracking movement across the nation, please act now to Save the Delaware River. On November 21st, the Delaware River Basin commission will vote on a plan to allow 20,000 gas wells in the Delaware River basin. We need...
5 min · 4 stars
A Link between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never.
A Link between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never.
An op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
4 min · 4 stars
Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future (trailer)
Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future (trailer)
In the digital age, half our electricity still comes from coal. DIRTY BUSINESS is a documentary that reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. Guided by Rolling...
3 min · 4 stars
Revenge of the Electric Car (trailer)
Revenge of the Electric Car (trailer)
In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is back... with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the...
2 min · 4 stars
How to Repair the World
How to Repair the World
Are you worried about climate change? What if we could actually do something really effective right now to halt it? In this short 3 minute film, WeForest shows how permaculture, and more broadly, preserving, expanding, and re-growing the world's forests may be the "first...
3 min · 3.6 stars
Tar Sands Pipelines: the Dirtiest Oil on Earth
Tar Sands Pipelines: the Dirtiest Oil on Earth
The Sierra Club Beyond Oil Campaign aims to block the most dangerous oil projects (Keystone XL, Enbridge Gateway, Trailbreaker pipelines) and revoke the oil industry's license to operate above the law and interfere with our transition to a clean energy future. Narrated by...
2 min · 4 stars
Stop Subsidies for Palm Oil Power Stations in Britain
Stop Subsidies for Palm Oil Power Stations in Britain
Sumatran Orangutan Society · 4 stars
Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Climate Denial Thinktanks
Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Climate Denial Thinktanks
Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned.
Suzanne Goldenberg · 4 stars
Sacha Baron Cohen Finally Reveals His Greatest Character to Date: Lord Monckton
Sacha Baron Cohen Finally Reveals His Greatest Character to Date: Lord Monckton
Sometimes satire is the best weapon. Craig Reucassel interviews comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen in character as his latest creation: climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton.
4 min · 4 stars
Clean, safe, cheap, abundant thorium energy
Clean, safe, cheap, abundant thorium energy
Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR
Gordon McDowell · 4 stars
Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can...
18 min · 4 stars
LFTR in 5 Minutes: Thorium Remix 2011: An Energy Solution
LFTR in 5 Minutes: Thorium Remix 2011: An Energy Solution
Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal...
120 min · 4 stars
16 More Years of Global Warming
16 More Years of Global Warming
Human greenhouse gas emissions have continued to warm the planet over the past 16 years. However, a persistent myth has emerged in the mainstream media challenging this.  Denial of this fact may have been the favorite climate contrarian myth of 2012, first invented by
Kevin C · 4 stars
An ill Wind: The Secret Threat of Coal Ash
An ill Wind: The Secret Threat of Coal Ash
The Moapa River Indian Reservation, tribal home of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, sits about 30 miles north of Las Vegas and about 300 yards from the coal ash ponds and landfills of the Reid Gardner Power Station. Coal ash is the toxic ash and sludge left at the end of the coal...
8 min · 4 stars
Cari Hutan - In Search of Forest
Cari Hutan - In Search of Forest (2011)
According to several NGO's "Cari Hutan - In Search of Forest" is one of the most informative, educative, yet entertaining documentaries ever made about the subject of deforestation in Indonesia.  “Cari Hutan” is, above all, a road movie that takes the audience on a journey...
75 min · 4 stars
What is Black Carbon?
What is Black Carbon?
Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and it's totally preventable. We already have the technology to avoid producing it; it's just a matter of using it. For more information, go to...
2 min · 4 stars
Save Lives. Stop Coal Ash Pollution
Save Lives. Stop Coal Ash Pollution
TAKE ACTION ON COAL ASH PROBLEMS: http://earthjustice.org/coalashaction 
Earthjustice · 4 stars
Carbon Markets: Trading with our Future
Carbon Markets: Trading with our Future
Carbon Markets: Trading with our Future offers a rare and damning glimpse into the collapsing markets from the vantage of some of the leading architects and designers of climate finance. 
20 min · 4 stars
Occupy KwaMashu - Shack Dwellers Evicted Ahead of UN Climate Conference
Occupy KwaMashu - Shack Dwellers Evicted Ahead of UN Climate Conference
Just days before the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban South Africa (COP17) residents of KwaMashu Above (an area north of Durban) had their houses destroyed and all their possessions and food stolen from them in an unlawful eviction. There were told by local officials...
2 min · 4 stars
The Age Of Consequences
The Age Of Consequences (2021)
An examination of the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity and migration through the lens of national security and global stability.
66 min · 4 stars
My Name Is Blue
My Name Is Blue (2023)
Humans and sea turtles in the Mediterranean. A story about coexistence.
35 min · 4 stars
Frontier: The Story of the First Americans
Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)
Having survived centuries of genocide, Native Americans are now on the frontlines of the final struggle for planetary survival. This film tells the untold story of history's deadliest holocaust, and of an enduring resistance to colonial domination.
53 min · 4 stars
Awakening of the Soil (Toprağın Uyanışı)
Awakening of the Soil (Toprağın Uyanışı) (2021)
"Awakening of the Soil" is a compelling 42-minute documentary that follows the transformative journey of Barbaros, a skeptical farmer from Edirne, Turkey as he discovers the world of regenerative agriculture with the guidance of his friend, Begonia. Together, they embark on a...
42 min · 4 stars
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts...
92 min · 3.5 stars
32,000 Leading Scientists Signed a Petition Against Climate Change?
32,000 Leading Scientists Signed a Petition Against Climate Change?
Is That Really True? Well, no....But to get to the bottom of this claim, we'll have to go back in history, and meet someone who really was, at one time, a leading scientist...
10 min · 3.5 stars
The Sustainable City
The Sustainable City (2017)
Fully Charged spent an amazing day at the Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more...
16 min · 3.8 stars
Confusing Them With Our Joy
Confusing Them With Our Joy (2018) (trailer)
2018-2019 fundraising trailer for the latest Cloudcatcher Media extravaganza! Support the Chuffed fundraiser at https://chuffed.org/project/confusing or get more info at http://www.confusingthemwithourjoy.com
3 min · 3.8 stars
The Search for Isolation Quotient of the Collective Development | Twocircles.Net
The Search for Isolation Quotient of the Collective Development | Twocircles.Net
Society at large today, is caught up with too many ideas. Confusion and complexity are part of any diverse society like India, as someone said, as long as there is confusion and complexity we debate, we evolve and we are democratic. But what worries one is the process of...
Rajaraman · 3.5 stars
The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change
The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change
Is climate change a moral issue? We know that Al Gore thinks so. Former Clinton administration climate negotiator Don Brown expanded upon this idea at a panel on ethics at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development sponsored by the Baha'i faith. In his eleven minute...
11 min · 3.5 stars
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber (2008)
State of the Forest is a hard-hitting report on the condition of Indonesia’s rainforest today. Still in the production phase, the film is presented above in 8 parts. Use the playlist button next to the play button to watch parts 2 through 8.Through “a mixture of voices from...
36 min · 3.5 stars
Overpopulation: The Multiplier Factor in Every Problem
Overpopulation: The Multiplier Factor in Every Problem
There are many ways to save the environment. This short video offers a simple but often overlooked solution to solving many problems at the same time.
4 min · 3.5 stars
Global Cooling: In the 70s, They said there'd be an Ice Age
Global Cooling: In the 70s, They said there'd be an Ice Age
Everyone has a favorite decade, and for Climate deniers, that decade has got to be, the 70s. Yes, the decade of disco, kung fu, and watergate. Because in the 70's, Deniers will tell you, All climate scientists believed an ice age was coming. This short presentation addresses...
9 min · 3.5 stars
Typhoon Haiyan: Yeb Sano's emotional plea at COP19
Typhoon Haiyan: Yeb Sano's emotional plea at COP19
The Philippines' Chief Negotiator Yeb Sano opened the UN climate talks with an impassioned plea for urgent action and announcing a hunger strike in solidarity for the victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan.
7 min · 3.5 stars
Pequeño
Pequeño
Pequeño is a quest around Mexico city looking for alternatives to live in a less aggressive way.
11 min · 3.5 stars
The Climate Game
The Climate Game
Quick and reactive documentary done in 7 days, investigates the connection between our individual actions and climate change.
9 min · 3.5 stars
Bruce Parker: Why I Support a Carbon Tax
Bruce Parker: Why I Support a Carbon Tax
Bruce Parker is a small business owner from Alexandria, VA. He's concerned about climate change, and he joined Citizens Climate Lobby to do something about it. Bruce explains why he thinks a carbon tax is the best policy for our economy, our health, and our planet. Visit...
2 min · 3.5 stars
Aiming at Roots of Climate Chaos, 'Flood Wall Street' Targets Capitalism Itself
Aiming at Roots of Climate Chaos, 'Flood Wall Street' Targets Capitalism Itself
Ahead of UN summit, organizers of direct action say the planetary crisis of global warming 'is a result of an economic system that is based on endless extraction, endless growth, and ceaseless exploitation of the earth and people.' What does climate change have to do...
Sarah Lazare · 3.5 stars
The Price of Carbon
The Price of Carbon
We are all paying the price of carbon pollution. It's time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction. Narrated by Reggie Watts.
2 min · 3.3 stars
These Candidates for US Congress Want to Win in 2018 on a Platform of Decisive Climate Action
These Candidates for US Congress Want to Win in 2018 on a Platform of Decisive Climate Action
More than 100 U.S. House and Senate candidates pledge to move off fossil fuels.
Wenonah Hauter · 3.5 stars
The Ferguson Effect
The Ferguson Effect
This week we bring you black and brown power worldwide as peeps from Manila to Chicago fight the powers that be. In the Philippines, anti-capitalist warriors told APEC leaders to pack up and get the fuck out of dodge, while comrades in Minneapolis took a page from the...
19 min · 3.3 stars
Five Myths in the Fight against Climate Change
Five Myths in the Fight against Climate Change
With so much misinformation about climate change about, New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy debunks 5 myths about the climate crisis that are doing the rounds. These myths are a dangerous distraction from the task at hand.
2 min · 3.5 stars
How Green is Greenpeace?
How Green is Greenpeace?
Donate to Greenpeace: https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/contribute/greenpeace-main
5 min · 3.5 stars
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet
At times it can be overwhelming to contemplate the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, from the climate crisis to biodiversity loss. The hurdles in the way of a sustainable future can sometimes feel insurmountable - but each of us is capable of making a difference.
63 min · 3.5 stars
What is Project 3.5? | Extinction Rebellion UK
What is Project 3.5? | Extinction Rebellion UK
We’ve got a plan, it’s called Project 3.5 The idea is a simple one: To build a movement that’s too big for the government and the fossil fuel industry to ignore, and to do it one door at a time.
11 min · 3.5 stars
The Secret Life of Beef
The Secret Life of Beef
How does eating beef contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions that are hastening climate change? Why does meat production have serious impacts on our soil, air, and water?
7 min · 3.2 stars
6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation
6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation
Overview I. Intro II. The problems ——#1. Misrepresenting ——
Ben Wehrman · 3.2 stars
No Snowflake
No Snowflake (2015)
The drastic consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. The face of the world is changing, because of us.
28 min · 3.2 stars
Climate Change in the Arctic
Climate Change in the Arctic
This year could well become the warmest on record. And nowhere has felt the effects more than the Arctic. Science Editor Tom Clarke has been to Norway's Svalbard islands in the high Arctic to see the changes firsthand. 
6 min · 3.2 stars
Climate Change: No Trace of Doubt
Climate Change: No Trace of Doubt
Climate change is probably the most serious problem humanity is currently facing, yet it is repeatedly ignored by the general population, as well as world governments. It is crucial that we start taking it seriously, before it's too late. In this short video, Elena Krasnova...
8 min · unrated
Anti-BP performers bring 40-foot sea monster into British Museum
Anti-BP performers bring 40-foot sea monster into British Museum
Driving disastrous climate change while sponsoring an exhibition called 'Sunken Cities'? Could BP be any more shameless?
3 min · unrated
Climate Stories NC
Climate Stories NC
Climate Stories NC seeks to capture the voices of North Carolinians whose lives have been affected by changes in the climate. These are their stories.
4 min · unrated