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This is a documentary about getting out into the natural world and learning from the wisdom of land and people - focusing on how rewilding our perception might be the catalyst for the changes we wish to see in the world.
45 min
Yesterday undercover police cracked down on anyone questioning the sponsors of a corporate "Solutions 21" event in Paris. The action was supported by Corporate Europe Observatory, Les Amis de la Terre France, Attac France (Officiel), Climate Justice Action, JEDIs, Solidaire...
10 min
Cop 21 - a brief intro - filmed by REAL MEDIA.
3 min
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
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
George Monbiot
Some sea creatures are so new to us, they don't even have names.
2 min
We named ourselves "Homo Sapiens," meaning "wise man," but would real wisdom lead to the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth?
5 min
Since 2009, the Unist'ot'en clan and its supporters have occupied a camp that is blocking proposed oil and gas pipelines in northern British Columbia, Canada. In the summer of 2015, oil company workers regularly attempted to enter the indigenous group's territory, and a...
11 min
In Borneo, several starving orangutans have been rescued after their forest homes were clear-cut for a palm oil plantation. The rainforest was bulldozed by BGA, a member of the RSPO – the organization issuing the label for sustainable palm oil. Please act now to stop this...
Rainforest Rescue
More than a dozen are feared dead, with scores missing, after a tailings owned by some of the biggest mining companies in the world burst
Sarah Lazare
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
It is the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell.
3 min
Climate change continues to have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable communities around the globe, including migrants and communities of color -- people who are typically marginalized in our society. CultureStrike, in collaboration withJustseeds Artists’...
3 min
Could this tidal lagoon project in Wales be the future of sustainable energy?
2 min
Massive forest fires have engulfed Indonesia for several months, and produce more daily CO2 emissions than
Jeff Conant
When news broke that Rupert Murdoch, evil overlord of Fox News, had purchased National Geographic, it sent shockwaves of panic through thinking individuals everywhere. After all, National Geographic has traditionally been one of the most well-known sources of scientific...
John Prager
Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
18 min
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
George Monbiot
Bolivia's national contribution to the COP 21 describes capitalism as "a system of death" that has to be destroyed to protect humanity and Mother Earth. EurActiv France reports.
Cécile Barbière translated by Samuel White
A love letter to wilderness, this short video celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1964 U.S. Wilderness Act in stunning images and excerpts of poetry and words from Edward Abbey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir and Wallace Stegner.
3 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
As early as the 1970's the word ' Sahel ', a word that describes that bleak land between the Sahara desert and the wet forest of tropical Africa , had become synonymous with famine and poverty.
65 min
The average American eats 80.6 pounds of beef very year. Since farming cattle is water and land-intensive—and responsible for between 18 and 51 percent of greenhouse gas emissions—companies like Beyond Meat are racing to diversify protein sources that will feed the world's...
8 min
Kahnawake Mohawks made good on their promise to escalate actions, by blocking train traffic for over an hour, since Montreal’s mayor hasn’t canceled the scheduled 8 billion litre raw sewage water dump.
2 min
Can worms solve our planet's plastic problem?
1 min
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a scientist, ecologist and wri
Words: Rachel Carson - Illustrated by Zen Pencils
In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat.
Bhutan — nestled in the Himalayas between India...
Natasha Geiling
A decade-long battle over a proposed pipeline is helping shape the Canadian national election even as a historic legal case may make or break the development. First Nations are playing a central role. First proposed in 2004, the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was planned...
5 min
Fermi's Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse are among the subjects discussed in this feature length documentary on the environmental crisis. Interviewees include Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Derrick Jensen, Peter D. Ward, Jill Stein, Bill Patzert, Guy McPherson...
84 min
An ecological community in the Bolivian Amazon is revealed: Candelaria Madidi Ecologico. By protecting one of the most biodiverse places in the world, they aim to create an alternative model of a society.
41 min
It upends common sense in many ways, but new research highlights how animal populations can thrive... when humans go away
Jon Queally
If the ocean dies, we all die. Why?
Paul Watson
Theres an island named Maui in the South Pacific that boast world class views, recreation, and climate. The climate on the island is perfect for agriculture and grows some of the best coffee in the world. Industrial farming on the island has recently put these ecosystems at...
12 min
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love
I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein
The model takes the idea of farm-to-table to the next level.
Joseph Erbentraut
While we marvel at Nasa’s discoveries, we destroy our irreplaceable natural resources – so we can buy pre-peeled bananas and smartphones for dogs
George Monbiot
Land of corn is a documentary film about four environmental and land rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras who work in an extremely dangerous environment and risk their lives, their freedom and the safety of their families because of the work they do...
25 min
In the 1990's the Nuxalk Nation engaged in a campaign of direct action, to stop logging on their traditional lands, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Nuxalk Hereditary Chief Qwatsinas, was at the forefront of this struggle.
3 min
Streaming giant Netflix recently launched Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a 90-minute documentary financed via the crowd-funding site Indiegogo and executive-produced by Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio. It is the latest in a short line of factual features...
Alison Homewood
The Unist’ot’en 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
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
3 min
A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.
8 min
Beautifully edited by Roen Horn this slice of natural wonder is set to the music of Karen O.
2 min
Retracing rare earth elements, which are widely used in high end electronics and green technologies, to their origins. The film, developed with photographer Toby Smith, documents their voyage from container ships and ports, wholesalers and factories, back to the banks of a...
2 min
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
18 min
On this episode we present Juã and Rômulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of a good agriculture.
15 min
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
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...
5 min
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin
If you live amongst society today it’s 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...
Rob Greenfield
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
69 min
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Gavin Foster
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Andrea Germanos
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 Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at 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
Humanity, after taking over the driver’s seat of evolution, has crashed it into the brick wall of industrial civilization.
Arun Gupta
Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.
Russell McLendon
A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds on his proposal to set aside half the Earth for the preservation of biodiversity.
The famous biologist and...
William Lynn