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Moloch in Paris “Whose Love Is Endless Oil and Stone!”
Moloch in Paris “Whose Love Is Endless Oil and Stone!”
COP21, or the more technocratic sounding twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) if you prefer, is manifestly not about the...
Mark Kernan
Wakan Tanka Trailer - Documentary About Climate Change - Elders Connecting With Youth
Wakan Tanka Trailer - Documentary About Climate Change - Elders Connecting With Youth (trailer)
Wakan Tanka, meaning in the First Nation Lakota Sioux language 'Great Spirit' is a powerful documentary that interweaves the voices of respected global elders with a captivating fictional story, to engage youth on stewardship of our shared planet Earth.
4 min
Apocalyptic Capitalism
Apocalyptic Capitalism
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and...
Chris Hedges
Polar Bears X Joshua Allen Harris
Polar Bears X Joshua Allen Harris
Joshua Allen Harris en las calles de NY - Fight Global Warming
1 min
Are the Paris Climate Talks Bullsh!T? - Valhalla Sits Down With Dr. Vandana Shiva at COP21
Are the Paris Climate Talks Bullsh!T? - Valhalla Sits Down With Dr. Vandana Shiva at COP21
Traditionally the climate talks have been a lot of talk and very little action... We sat down with world renowned environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva to discuss what she thinks, you'll be surprised what that is...
25 min
Cancer Patient Gives Homeless Mom Gift of a Lifetime
Cancer Patient Gives Homeless Mom Gift of a Lifetime
"Brice Royer had stomach cancer. A mother who was living in a shelter offered to help him cook. He turned her down and instead, surprised her with a huge gift. Now he's spreading even more kindness." - CBC News.
3 min
Rethinking Capitalism : Foraging & Sustainability
Rethinking Capitalism : Foraging & Sustainability
Anima Rising visited 20+ intentional communities, eco-villages, and small co-operative farms on America's East Coast, learning about sustainability, community, and ways of thinking and living differently. In this clip, Brad talks about foraging, capitalism, fossil fuels...
9 min
What if you could change the world thanks to business?
What if you could change the world thanks to business?
While business can affect society negatively with extreme faults to the enviroment and unfair inequalities, it also can be the best way to improve the world : everyday social entrepreneurs change the world thanks to business and lead us to ask ourselves : what if you could...
5 min
Airpocalypse Sets off Orange Alert in China
Airpocalypse Sets off Orange Alert in China
As world leaders gather in Paris for the climate-change summit, smog has blanketed an area of China the size of Spain, raising the pollution alert to "orange" for the first time this year.
1 min
Coping Out: What Will It Take to Overcome the Environmental Movement's Impasse?
Coping Out: What Will It Take to Overcome the Environmental Movement's Impasse?
The activist part of me is pissed off at the French government for banning the protest marches that planned to target the UN Climate Change conference (known as the COP21) in Paris this December. It would have been amazing to see thousands of people taking to the streets...
Nicholas Beuret
Earthrise - Take the Power Back
Earthrise - Take the Power Back
How ordinary people are mobilising to disrupt the fossil fuel industry and redirecting investment.
25 min
2015 - Year of the Firestorm.
2015 - Year of the Firestorm.
"2015 - Year of the Firestorm" is a montage of this scorchingly hellish year. Wildfires, heatwaves, and other environmental catastrophes, placed alongside Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire".
5 min
COP 21: the peaceful protests in Paris you did not see on the news today.
COP 21: the peaceful protests in Paris you did not see on the news today.
Demonstrations are prohibited so protestors hold hands along Boulvard Voltaire. A video by Michael Chanan.
2 min
Take the Red Pill - An Open Letter
Take the Red Pill - An Open Letter
In the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix, protagonist Neo is offered two choices: Take the blue pill and return to an illusion or take the red pill and see ‘just how deep the rabbit hole goes’. You are offered the same choice every day, though the fantasies of Lewis...
TakeTheRedPill
Rap Battle of Nature - North Pole Vs South Pole (Climate change music video)
Rap Battle of Nature - North Pole Vs South Pole (Climate change music video)
Climate change music video: Cool polar bears and penguins wanting to stay 'cool'. High time to take things very very seriously, but that does not mean humor cannot be used to do so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxElxcjntE (recorded using only solar energy).
3 min
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
The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Silence
The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Silence
In the wake of Monday night’s direct attack on #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in Minneapolis at a protest against the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, I feel compelled to share some thoughts.
Annie Leonard
COP 21: Climate Science and the Free Market (Trailer)
COP 21: Climate Science and the Free Market (Trailer)
A short trailer for our upcoming films on climate change in the build up to the Paris COP 21 talks and protests. Use HD.
1 min
10 Shocking Facts Showing How Companies Are Still Trashing Indonesia's Rainforests
10 Shocking Facts Showing How Companies Are Still Trashing Indonesia's Rainforests
For months, forest fires raged across Indonesia bringing the world's attention to the country's devastating forest destruction. Both people and orang-utans were endangered as the fires raged and a thick, choking haze swept across Southeast Asia. These forest fires were a...
Danielle Boobyer
SOS - A Call to Save Forests in Southern US from Being Burned in EU Power Stations
SOS - A Call to Save Forests in Southern US from Being Burned in EU Power Stations
Southern US forests are being chopped down and burned to generate electricity in Europe. You can help! Send an SOS to Save Our Southern forests.
2 min
The Elephant in Paris - Guns and Greenhouse Gases
The Elephant in Paris - Guns and Greenhouse Gases
"As the Paris climate talks take the global stage, it’s time to draw attention to the military elephant in our room and demand that adaptation to climate change is led by principles of human rights and solidarity, rather than militarism and corporate profits."
Nick Buxton
Outdated Politics In a Time of Global Crisis
Outdated Politics In a Time of Global Crisis
Complex societies require complex politics, which again require a highly educated public. We have neither. We have simpleton politicians, half of which claim to hate government, and a corporate media news circus that breaks everything down to the lowest common denominator.
Joey Engebak
On 'D12', We Will Draw Our Red Lines in Paris
On 'D12', We Will Draw Our Red Lines in Paris
John Jordan writes on the climate justice movement's call for mass disobedience in Paris on 12 December, and beyond
John Jordan
Huntington Beach Ca.
Huntington Beach Ca.
Inspired by a contest for Current TV called 60 sec.to save the Environment.
60 min
Climate Change Warriors: We Are the Storm!
Climate Change Warriors: We Are the Storm!
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
BREAKING! President Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline
BREAKING! President Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama killed a Canadian energy giant's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring the proposed project wouldn't serve U.S. national interests and would have undercut America's global leadership on climate change. The...
8 min
Madagascar's Scars
Madagascar's Scars (2015)
MadagaSCARS is a poignant five minute flash animation created by Camille Wainer (www.camillewainer.com) in collaboration with the Lemur Conservation Foundation (www.lemurreserve.org) that captures the urgent environmental and social issues that threaten the future of wildlife...
5 min
Indonesia's Palm Oil Fires: Interview With Friends of the Earth Indonesia
Indonesia's Palm Oil Fires: Interview With Friends of the Earth Indonesia
Massive forest fires have engulfed Indonesia for several months, and produce more daily CO2 emissions than 
Jeff Conant
Activists Crash BP-Sponsored Day of the Dead Party
Activists Crash BP-Sponsored Day of the Dead Party
Day of the Dead sponsored by... BP and the Mexican Government. Did the British Museum have an irony bypass?
3 min
A Line in the Sand
A Line in the Sand
Coal ash is the toxic waste created by coal-fired power plants and it is polluting communities all across America. This is the story of one of those places, La Belle, PA.
5 min
Help Change the Story at the Paris Climate Talks
Help Change the Story at the Paris Climate Talks
  The UN climate talks in Paris (COP21) are right around the corner
New Internationalist
'We Will Stand for Ourselves': Global Movement Stakes Claim for COP21
'We Will Stand for Ourselves': Global Movement Stakes Claim for COP21
'The Paris moment will be defined not by what happens in the negotiating halls, but in the streets of Paris and around the world.'
Deirdre Fulton
Bolivia: 'For a Lasting Solution to the Climate Crisis We Must Destroy Capitalism'
Bolivia: 'For a Lasting Solution to the Climate Crisis We Must Destroy Capitalism'
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
The Environmental Litmus Test
The Environmental Litmus Test (2015)
The Environmental Litmus Test is a short film exploring some of the key issues relating to the UN Climate meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). It is a passionate plea for each and every one of us to get involved, The Environmental Litmus Test is a clarion call to action.
17 min
Paris Climate Summit: Not Saving the World
Paris Climate Summit: Not Saving the World
Alex Scrivener explores why excessive optimism in the run up to the coming summit in Paris ignores the voices of those most affected by climate change
Alex Scrivener
9 Years
9 Years (2015)
Having done nothing to seriously address the causes of over population, co2 emissions, as well as other planet destroying factors. We have passed the point of no return.
4 min
3 Reasons Why the Paris Climate Talks Should Put the Migrant Crisis at the Top of Its Agenda
3 Reasons Why the Paris Climate Talks Should Put the Migrant Crisis at the Top of Its Agenda
The negotiations should strongly consider how climate change affects the migrant crisis, argues New Internationalist Digital Editor Chris Spannos. The recent images from Europe and the Middle East of people fleeing war and persecution has shocked the world in both horror...
6 min
On Fracking
On Fracking
This film is about the impact of fracking on communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Vera Scroggins is a filmmaker who documents the impacts of fracking on her local community in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Stout is Professor of Biology at Wheeling...
13 min
Fossil Free UTAS Student Occupation
Fossil Free UTAS Student Occupation (2015)
Students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the administration area of the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart from 1:30pm on Wednesday the 14th of October, 2015. They are refusing to leave until the University commits to divesting from the fossil fuel industry before...
1 min
The Cross of the Moment
The Cross of the Moment (2015)
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
Top 20 Most Vulnerable Countries Call for a Robin Hood Tax to Help Fight Climate Change
Top 20 Most Vulnerable Countries Call for a Robin Hood Tax to Help Fight Climate Change
On the weekend, the world’s finance ministers met in Lima, Peru, to decide where they’re going to get the money for the climate response. The world’s richest countries have promised to raise $100bn to help poorer countries deal with climate change.
Robin
Why Spirit Matters
Why Spirit Matters
Devamrita Swami, a Yale graduate and world travelling monk, explains why he believes we need to establish a wisdom society, a society permeated with a spiritual culture, in order to solve humanity's problems.
3 min
Not Without Us - Indiegogo Campaign
Not Without Us - Indiegogo Campaign (trailer)
"Not Without Us" follows seven multi-generational, grassroots activists from around the world as they head to Paris this December 2015 for the 21st session of United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the COP 21.
3 min
Climate Games - Nature Defending Itself
Climate Games - Nature Defending Itself
The Climate Games are where action-adventure meets actual change. Anyone can play this real-time, real-world game and turn Paris and the world into a giant, direct action playing field for climate justice. We have everything to play for – but time is running out. #ClimateGames
1 min
Conscientious Compassion: A Buddhist's View on Climate Change, Social Justice, and Saving the World
Conscientious Compassion: A Buddhist's View on Climate Change, Social Justice, and Saving the World
American scholar and Theravada monk Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi might not receive the same high-profile press coverage as the Roman Catholic Church’s charismatic standard-bearer Pope Francis, but it is becoming evident to Buddhism watchers and commentators that his message is...
Raymond Lam
The Precious Opportunity of Climate Change
The Precious Opportunity of Climate Change
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
A Climate Of Change
A Climate Of Change (2014)
Director Ray Kocur leads you through a thorough (and accessible) study of current climate change research, speaking with a dozen of Canada's foremost climate scientists as well as historians and civil rights activists to gain perspectives on the past, present and future of...
71 min
As 'This Changes Everything' Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
As 'This Changes Everything' Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
'People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,' says film's director Avi Lewis
Jon Queally
Nnimmo Bassey: Award-Winning African Climate Activist
Nnimmo Bassey: Award-Winning African Climate Activist
NNIMMO BASSEY: award-winning African climate activist and poet: please help us make a film about his work and how it connects with austerity, refugees and our wider realities.
15 min
Big Oil Has Pulled off a Classic Bait and Switch Move in the Arctic
Big Oil Has Pulled off a Classic Bait and Switch Move in the Arctic
Suzanne
Scott Crow on the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Scott Crow on the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
On this special episode of dentontimes.life for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we speak to Texas activist, author, and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective scott crow. After traveling to New Orleans to help his friends impacted by the devastating storm...
45 min
Episode 10: Ecology or Catastrophe (Murray Bookchin and the Rojava Revolution)
Episode 10: Ecology or Catastrophe (Murray Bookchin and the Rojava Revolution)
On this episode of dentontimes.life, we speak with Janet Biehl, author of the biography 'Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin'. Topics include Murray Bookchin's influence on the US and international Left, Janet's travels to Kurdistan (Turkey and Syria), the...
59 min
Energy East - A Threat to Our climate
Energy East - A Threat to Our climate
The planned Energy East pipeline threatens to lock us into decades of soaring emissions from expanding the tar sands. It would lead to emissions that equal adding 7 million cars to Canada's roads. Take action here.
1 min
Burnaby Mountain Documentary Trailer #2
Burnaby Mountain Documentary Trailer #2 (trailer)
First public screening: September or October 2015 Twitter: @BurnabyMtnDoco #BurnabyMountainDoco #Kmface #cdnpoli #bcpoli
1 min
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
The Change - C4C Special Prize (Subtitulos en español)
The Change - C4C Special Prize (Subtitulos en español)
Danag y muchas otras ciudades en Vietnam Central están altamente vulnerables al calentamiento global. Los tifónes, inundaciones y sus pautas imprevisibles han causado graves consecuencias en la vida de las personas, sobre todo a los jóvenes.Este cortometraje narra dos...
10 min
Tinau (My Mother) - C4C Special Prize (Subtitulos en español)
Tinau (My Mother) - C4C Special Prize (Subtitulos en español)
Los cientificos predicen que Kiribati, una isla remota en el Pacífico central, puede desaparecer por el aumento del nivel del mar en los próximos 50 años. Por ello una nación enfrenta un futuro con incertidumbre. "Tinau" es un retrato familiar intimista de una madre de...
9 min
Balud - Jury Special Award (Subtitulos en español)
Balud - Jury Special Award (Subtitulos en español)
"Balud" es una palabra en dialecto filipino que significa "olas". Este cortometraje experimental es una respuesta al tifón Yolanda (nombre internacional: Hayan), lo cual tragó mi ciudad natal Tacloban en el pasado Noviembre de 2013. A mi família, amigos y compañeros que se...
15 min
Facing the Flood - 2nd Prize 14-17 Years (Subtitulos en español)
Facing the Flood - 2nd Prize 14-17 Years (Subtitulos en español)
La situación al sur del casquete polar de Groenlandia se está deteriorando. El calentamiento global de la Tierra parece afectar a esta área más que a ninguna otra en el mundo. Las temperaturas han empezado a fluctuar y los habitantes nativos ven que su cultura se empieza a...
8 min
The Violin Player - 1st Prize 14-17 Years (Subtitulos en español)
The Violin Player - 1st Prize 14-17 Years (Subtitulos en español)
Se trata de una película de animación sobre un violinista tocando en un teatro. Al cerrar sus ojos, él encuentra todo en el mundo a derretirse. Después de una ejecución loca, el violinista abre sus ojos sobre una realidade inesperada.
3 min