How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?

The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it. As a budding cultural ecologist...

Sarah Levine

Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food

How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.

Vandana Shiva

10 Ways Truly Happy Couples Argue Differently

1. They aren’t going to just throw down. Instead, they’re committed to helping one another overcome problems and conflicts. Simply being mad at the person won’t resolve anything. 2. They focus on the problem, not its embodiment. They keep in mind that a relationship is...

Higher Perspective

Of Mindfulness, Meditation and Other Aliases

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Rishi Miranhshah

A Simple Guide to 10 Personal Care Products You Can Make at Home

You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.

Health Perch

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Audacious Mic Takeover by “Millionaires for Wealthcare” Present Award to Senator at Republican Event

Perhaps you recall Republican state Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Tenn.), apparently unfamiliar with camera phones, getting caught on film calling an uninsured activist in Tennessee an “a-hole.” Gardenhire had

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Nature Therapy: Forestry with Natural Sounds

Nature Therapy is a video project to bring the serenity of the natural world into the home or healing environment to provide a more tranquil experience.

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7 Ways to Support Friends When They're Mentally Unwell

Most of us will experience a mental health difficulty like depression, anxiety or addiction during our lives. And at some point, most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell.

Meg John Barker

Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us

Is there a belief about the Universe or about ourselves that causes all of the conflict in the world?

Chris Agnos

The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things

You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.

Jay Cassano

Five Reasons Why You Never Want to Be rich

If you’re suffering from ‘affluenza’ it’s time to recognize that you’re sick.

Darrin Drda

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he’s a boy is when he’s told to 'be a man,'” —Joe Ehrmann, coach and former NFL player If we are honest with ourselves, we have long known that masculinity kills men, in ways both myriad and measurable. While...

Kali Holloway

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes

Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures

Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan

Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

GMO OMG (2014) ($3)

GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system...

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The More a Society Coerces Its People, the Greater the Chance of Mental Illness

Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness. This reality has been buried, not surprisingly, by...

Bruce E. Levine

Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog (2015)

A controversial film by celebrity journalist Chai Jing investigating China's air pollution problems. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumor in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air...

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Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation

There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources — particularly coal. That coal is what's burned to provide much of the Southwest with...

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When Another Person Makes You Suffer, It Is because He Suffers Deeply Within Himself

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Saddhamala

How America's Culture of Shame Is a Killer for Boys

Put an end to shaming by doing one beautifully simple thing.

Mark Greene

Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch

Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.

Mark Greene

The Secrets of Sugar (2013)

We've heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff may be making more of us fat and sick.

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Understanding The Peace Code In The Human Brain

Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow – or fail to grow – according to how we are nurtured. Robin Grille cites several examples...

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That Sugar Film (2014)

THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining...

102 min

Violence Is a Preventable Brain Disorder

‘Think of a world without war, a world of social justice, a world of ecological sustainability.’ This is how Robin Grille starts his talk at TEDX Pittwater. Robin is a psychologist, author, educator and advocate for children who is not alone in his dream for a better world...

Jacob Devaney

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco

Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas.

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Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Perhaps you should; because they certainly are. But will the changes mean generations plagued with attention disorders and poor social skills or will it boost creativity?

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors

Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues with that.

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Mutiny of the Soul

Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is unfolding on the planet today, and highly significant for the light they shed on the transition from an old world to a new.

Charles Eisenstein

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Dr. Gabor Maté explains why it is that our culture makes so many of us unhappy, unkind to one another, miserable, alienated from ourselves, etc. Watch the full interview in Part 2.

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Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors...

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

Unacceptable Levels (trailer)

Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his...

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An Anarchist Response to Ebola

Anarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one? This article provides an...

Carwil Bjork-James with Chuck Munson

Diet: The Disease of Our Generation

64% of people in the UK are overweight or obese eating calorie dense but nutritionally empty food that is considered the norm, or even healthy, in today’s society.

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Origins (2014)

This is a movie about how we have left the natural connection to the planet. The movie investigates how this has happened, the incredible amounts of pollutants that we are exposed to, even as a fetus, and the technology that can help resolve these challenges over time. In...

101 min

We Don't Need #BandAid30 - African Musicians Made A Song Already

Bob Geldof is going to put out another Band Aid single, another rehash of the grotesque “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” with slightly altered lyrics. We’ve written about the problematic politics of such songs in detail before. Bim Adewunmi

Africa is a Country

How the Prison-Industrial Complex Kills People For Profit

Failing to provide sick prisoners with needed care turns out to be pretty good for Corizon's profits.

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The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD

One psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.

Angus Chen and Mythili Rao

The Sacred Science (2011)

The Sacred Science is a groundbreaking documentary that captures an unprecedented glimpse into the ancient healing practices of the Amazon rainforest’s medicine men, or shamans, whose unique knowledge of indigenous plants and rituals is threatened by deforestation...

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Pinkwashing: Make Your Drilling Rig Less Carcinogenic, Paint It Pink!

Sometimes you just can't make this shit up. Fossil fuel frackers Baker Hughes have teamed up with breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen to "end breast cancer forever". How? By painting 1,000 of their drill heads pink and donating $100,000 to the charity. Strangely there is no...

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OverCriminalized (2014)

It's simple. Diversion programs work better than incarceration - for everyone.

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Inner Climate Change

How do we change? How do we adapt our lifestyles to become resilient to the changes we are facing today?

11 min

Navajo Nation Sacrificed for US Nuclear Obsession

Abby Martin talks about a $500 million settlement between the government and Navajo nation over destruction of tribal land due to uranium mining and how this amount will do nothing to alleviate the pain and suffering caused by this industry.

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Lessons Of Darkness (trailer)

Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Herzog, as much a daredevil as a documentarian, took his small crew in a...

6 min

Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored

Eric Rusch

A Celebrity Death, Addiction, and the Media - Dr. Gabor Maté

It is always big news when a celebrity is stricken dead by a substance overdose. What never makes the news is why such tragedies happen.

Dr. Gabor Maté

Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most...

30 min

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

If everyone watched this it could transform the world.

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This Animation Explores the Shocking Environmental Impact of a Meat Heavy Diet

This is not sustainable.

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What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the root causes of addiction and how to deal with them.

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Rewind The Future

This viral public awareness video has a powerful and heart-tugging message about the consequences of our eating and lifestyle habits - dating back to our first years of life.

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An Abortion Rights Battle Bigger Than Texas | Sunsara Taylor Interview [ATV 013]

Episode breakdown Part 1: (00:26) Why I support The Abortion Rights Freedom Ride Part 2: (04:00) What Did Stop Patriarchy learn from the 2013 Freedom Ride? Part 3: (05:25) From Roe V. Wade until today, how did we loose so much ground?

30 min

The Problem With Living Your Life on Facebook

Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really? Interestingly, a scientific study recently backed up excactly what this video illustrates. Not that we really needed any proof. I think just about everyone that spends time...

2 min

60 Positive Things You Can Do in 60 Seconds

It doesn't take much to create a brighter day. In fact, it takes only sixty seconds!

Amanda Froelich

The Real Reason You're Circumcised

If you're not Jewish, and you're circumcised, you need to watch this video.

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Terrícolas (2003) - Earthlings

Dado que todos habitamos La Tierra, todos somos considerados terrícolas. No hay sexismo, racismo ni especismo en el término terrícola y abarca a todos y cada uno de nosotros, de sangre caliente o fría, mamífero, vertebrado, ave, reptil, anfibio, pez o humano. Los humanos por...

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Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week's Worth of Their Trash

The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That’s more than double the amount produced in 1960, and it’s50 percent more than the amount p

Jordan G. Teicher

Meats: A Health Hierarchy

In case you've not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can.

James Hamblin

18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to

Julianne Ross

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