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Migrants seeking a better life in Europe have died by the thousands in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while fleeing poverty and bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
David Sim
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As we assess the current state of our world and consider together the elements that are essential to a ‘just transition’, and ultimately, a just economy, we are called to consider four goals: to decommodify nature, reimagine work, liberate knowledge and democratize wealth...
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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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In this clip of Larry King Now, Terry Crews on his new book, "Manhood", and why connecting with his feminine side was the key to his masculinity.
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In the past the amount of money in the economy was the main driver of inflation. But now in a world where everything is connected, external factors have a much greater influence on inflation.
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The general election is here, and once again the parties are all over us like a rash, promising that they will fix things. But you don’t have to be an anarchist to know that nothing changes, whoever gets in. This is why politicians are keen on new methods such as postal...
Anarchist Federation
It is said that if a modern, successful corporation were a type of person, it would be a psychopath.
With this in mind, Jason Louv assesses ‘Patient Monsanto’
An Evaluation of
Jason Louv
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The Bloom Part I looks at the “Fundamental Frequencies” of the Transformational Festival experience—how they immerse participants in a world of INSPIRATION, restoring a deeply felt sense of CONNECTION, and supporting processes of HEALING for those involved.
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I must follow on from my interpretation of ego as the root cause of climate change. On a spiritual level that may well be so, but what other more tangible explanations are there for this horrific destruction of our planet and species? A phenomenon we are almost paralysed to...
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Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
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What really is climate change if not a reflection of our grandiloquent ego? Day by day, year by year we destroy our one viable, habitable planet. What possibly could be the reason for such absurdity? Certainly the decisions we make in this moment are what effectively create...
There are three main components that make up ADHD and in varying degrees I can see these being applied to a vast majority of humans growing up in today’s toxic culture.
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Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when...
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Wall Street is responsible for a lot, but one of its least known crimes is it's worst. The more powerful a financial industry gets, the worse it is for the region it is based in. Wall Street killed the Empire State, and this video shows how it happened...
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Texas saved $2 billion for taxpayers by cutting prison spending while making the state safer. If they can do it here, they can do it anywhere!
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While Orange Is The New Black, Transparent, and Glee have made strides, GLAAD's Nick Adams tells Larry King that too often trans characters are not shown in a positive light.
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Ever been told to "man up"? Mark Greene has something to say about that, and gives some advice to his own son while he's at it. What other expectations do people assign to you?
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TransCanada's Energy East pipeline plan is all about exporting oil. It is not a made-in-Canada energy solution. Up to 90 per cent of Energy East's oil would be exported unrefined. As an export pipeline, it won't create many permanent jobs or have lasting economic benefits to...
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This is "Symphony of the Soil (French subtitles)" by Lily Films on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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I sometimes wonder if satire has reached a nadir in Britain because British society has itself become a parody of itself. The
Frankie Boyle
MINISINK, N.Y.—The affable, soft-spoken dairy farmer stood outside his 70-stall milking barn on his 230-acre family farm. When his father started farming there in 1950 were about 800 dairy farms in New York state’s Orange County. Only 39 survive. Small, traditional farms have bee
Chris Hedges
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For inventors, patents are an essential protection against theft. But when patent trolls abuse the system by stockpiling patents and threatening lawsuits, businesses are forced to shell out tons of money.
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Ines is a Haitian businesswoman and mother of twin girls, Dina & Dini. Ines and her daughters, along with the other characters throughout the film, showcase one of the common lifestyles for Haitian women and children.
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This is a profile on James Erbense, age 14, who became our second cinematographer. This video highlights his footage on what he finds beautiful around his neighborhood.
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The Sun columnist's violent words about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean are indefensible. They should be condemned as hate speech.
Refugees in Lampedusa, Italy. Image:
Des Freedman
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
When 64-year-old Vietnam vet John Constantino burned himself to death on the DC Mall in October of 2013 I couldn’t stop thinking about this man and his act. Who was he? What compelled him? What was his life’s story? What were his political views, his life’s station, etc? I...
Thirty Three and a Third
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Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces.
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The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the religious group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and military between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The group was suspected of weapons violations and a search and arrest warrant...
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George Monbiot argues that the more time children spend in the classroom, the worse they do at school because our narrow education system only rewards a particular skill set. He says that when you take failing pupils to the countryside, they often thrive – yet funding for...
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Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and single biggest carbon emitter in the UK, and is now also the biggest biomass power station in the world. In return for trashing forests and digging up communities, Drax is receiving massive subsidies when it should have been...
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Evicted and Abandoned is a global investigation that reveals how the World Bank Group, the powerful development lender committed to ending poverty, has regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting vulnerable populations.
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Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas — must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first...
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Richard Heinberg explores how — in our economy, the environment, and energy production — we may well be hitting the point of diminishing returns. When previous societies have hit similar limits, they often doubled-down by attempting ever more complex interventions to keep...
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Lately, we’ve been talking about the techniques of manipulation used by the government and mass media, regarding the privatization of public education, and all public benefits.
In these first months of legislature, the better part of this manipulation has been aimed at...
Soy Pública
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Talking about the most intimate fears and insecurities, accusations of "playing the gender card", "first-world problems", jokes made 'too soon' - why are some topics still too hard to talk about, & what are women losing by keeping them to themselves.
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Richard Van Wickler, superintendent of Cheshire County Department of Corrections in Keene, New Hampshire, describes his awakening to the failure of the war on drugs. SUBSCRIBE to Brave New Films and WATCH MORE of this series.
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The framework agreement that the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran's pathways to building a nuclear bomb is barely a week old, yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a "bad deal."
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California's ignoring the elephant in the room when it comes to water usage — or rather, the cow.
Ameena Schelling
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The Kindness Offensive was started in August 2008, when four guys (David Goodfellow, Benny Crane and James Hunter) asked members of the public on Hampstead Heath what random acts of kindness they would like done for them.
"I think that many of us alive today, have kindness...
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Despite the wishes of the country, and even some members of his own family, Jeb Bush seems to be running for President in 2016. This video briefly outlines why that's a terrible idea.
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Wham! Bash! Pow! The superheroes battling to save legal aid. An animated superhero adventure film pitting three audacious lawyers against the justice minister, Chris Grayling. This satirical take on the government cuts to legal aid features the voices of Joanna Lumley, Simon...
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Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar, wind power, or even natural gas or oil, but coal.
Andreas Malm
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding of all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us.
Paul Hoggett
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Following a 9 month long international screening run, the independent UK documentary The Fourth Estate is now online for all to view, download, and share for free.
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Nobody likes the IRS. But recent budget and staff cuts have made it increasingly difficult for the department to do its very important job. Don't take our word for it. Ask Michael Bolton.
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Dr. Nick Siegler, Technology Manager for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, tells Larry King that there are over 200 billion planets in our galaxy alone. He also says that the odds are “so high” that life exists on at least one of these planets.
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Eyes Wide Open writer Eduardo Galeano take us on a journey through today’s Latin America. After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power.
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Four friends embark on a 10,000km journey to find the nomadic tribes of Mongolia. They plan to honour their traditions, learn from their wisdom, and tell the world about their endangered way of living. But with four people in an old army truck, it's not going to be easy.
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What do you think when someone says “I’m not a feminist?” They might not mean what you think. If you identify as a feminist, check out some of the reasons people don’t.
Ronnie Ritchie
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In an effort to reprogram the video gaming industry, many outspoken critics have faced horrifying backlash and threats.
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As mainstream politics moves to the centre, what has happened to the beating heart of the left? Zoe Williams takes a road trip in search of 21st-century socialists.
Rosie Rogers, political adviser f
Zoe Williams
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Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models-"the next system."
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The Emperor's New Clothes trailer - a film by Michael Winterbottom with Russell Brand. Milton Friedman once said that every crisis was an opportunity.
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Jornada de Muralísmo en Conmemoración al Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora, en la población La Pincoya, Marzo del 2014.
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"We Love Being Lakota" is the first in a series of videos and texts from our documentary project "The Native and the Refugee", connecting the struggles taking place on Indian reservations in the United States with those in Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East. In...
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We've all heard of EuroVision. But there's another song that’s being sung across Europe - the peoples' chants of protest against Europe's austerity measures. Today we'll hear some of the leading and loudest voices in this competition, such as Greece, Spain and Ireland, who...
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The Full Movie: http://www.geofflawton.com
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A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in late-2011 may have provided a glimpse into our social and political future, if Millennials have anything to say about it. During the height of the Occupy movement, and following the collapse of the latest capitalist Ponzi scheme...
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In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the...
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From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they...
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Through first-hand testimony The Bliss of Ignorance investigates South Africa's complex relationship with one of the country's most abundant resources: coal.
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In 10 years, Los Angeles plans to reduce per capita water use by 22.5 percent. It will no longer get any of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. It will turn public library lawns into urban gardens and lay out rain barrels like a city full of survivalist...
Heather Smith
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“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.” - Polly Higgins
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TravelHelpful.com joined Villa Kitty on Bali to help make a video about their work with their Balinese cats. During our two weeks there we helped them socialize their cats and helping out with other tasks that needed attention in the shelter. Animal welfare is not regarded as...
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Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:30pm "Basic Economic Changes Today: Within and Beyond Capitalism" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan Co-sponsored by Democracy at...
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There are many different ways of living on this planet, who's to say their way is best?
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The media would have you believe that it’s simply an accident that 85 people now own more than half the world’s wealth. It’s time to blow their cover.
This essay is excerpted from Matt Kennard’s new book, The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. th
Matt Kennard
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Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Wednesday that, in the wake of a video showing a South Carolina police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man, young people should keep their cameras turned on police.
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Calling the natural world “it” absolves us of moral responsibility and opens the door to exploitation. Here's what we can say instead.
Singing whales, talking trees, dancing bees, birds who make art, fish who navigate, plants who learn and remember. We are surrounded by...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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You may have heard all about the Israeli illegal settlements or even seen many images of them. But do you really know anything about how settlements effect Palestinian lives. Well in 60 seconds you will.
Friends of Al-aqsa a British non-profit NGO campaigning to defend the...
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Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local...
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Larry King Now guest host Meghan McCain talks about dating in the age of Tinder with 'Awkward' star Greer Grammar.
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Last week Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a miscarrying a baby. The case may be an outlier, but it tells us a lot about the politics of abortion, and the perils of legislating morality...
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Utah Phillips presents the story of America in conflict between labor and wealth and reveals a vision of hope built on solidarity of the working class.
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Artist James Leadbitter has created his idea of the ideal asylum - a optimistic vision of what he calls a "safe place to go mad". The project, called Madlove, A Designer Asylum, started with a series of workshops that aimed to gather ideas from people with personal and...
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If you have a question in your mind and what to look for an answer online, here are some tips that will be helpful in finding accurate answers to your questions.
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Fair World Project's new 17-minute documentary highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate crisis through regenerative organic agriculture.
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While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The group, which allowed ANIMAL to exclusively document the installation on the condition that we hide their identities, hauled the...
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There are very few government checks on what America's sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
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Marie Luz lives in the Boca Parimanu native community and goes each year to harvest Brazil nuts with her sons. This short documentary talks about her life as a brazil nut gatherer.
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A happy memory for my long journey in angola, ENJOY!
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Stunning footage from filmmakers Dave and Jennene Riggs filmed using a remote controlled quadcopter off Esperance, along south Western Australia's beautiful coastline. Huge pods of bottlenose dolphins cruise the shoreline and surf the crystal clear turquoise waves. "Such...
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The dogmatic criticism of popular struggles for autonomy in Chiapas and Rojava reveals a colonial mentality that should be stamped out of our movement.
Photo: comrades from the Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF)
Petar Stanchev
Hey everyone, after two years planning, developing and taking our sweet time to get this ready, we are excited to announce the launch of our pay-per-view (PPV) section of the website. This section will feature films hosted by Vimeo, Youtube and others as well as our own...
Among activists one often finds an aversion to even thinking about money. Associating it with the opponent — who has lots of it — they try to do without money themselves. Often, for as long as they can, they try to organize and resist without it, until burning out, quitting...
Nathan Schneider
In a better world, there’d be no reason to write this. In that world, plastic bags would be outlawed, rednecks would voluntarily stop driving those obnoxious Ford F-350s and the yogis in yuppie neighborhoods would stop believing that a hybrid SUV could save the planet. But...
Darren Fleet and Stefanie Krasnow
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On this episode of Larry King Now, ‘The Balanced Blonde’ blogger Jordan Younger describes in detail her battle with the Orthorexia eating disorder and when she came to the realization that her strict vegan diet was actually unhealthy.
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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion is an award-winning human rights film that explores the challenges we face living in a world of 7 billion. It tells the story of Beth, an American mother and child's right activist, and her journey to understand how overpopulation is impacting...
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Franchesca Ramsey, aka Chescaleigh, teams up with Kat Blaque to create a truly lovely animated film that breaks down privilege. Chescalaigh says "I really wanted something short and easy to digest that would appeal to lots of different people and make this seemingly tough...
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"Unmanned" investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror, the lives of individuals, and U.S. foreign policy.
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On this episode of Larry King Now, prominent NRA attorney Chuck Michel discusses with Larry King why he believes many gun control laws are ineffective.
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The Non-Profits are outrunning the For-Profits! In this inspiring, short, but to-the-point interview Donnie Maclurcan from Australia speaks not only about why non-profits are out-competing for-profit organizations, but also why this form of business is a model for a truly...
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After completing his second journey around the world, this time with the Gaian Road Team, Clinton was asked what he would tell young people. This is what he said, "Doing what you are supposed to do is not going to deliver your life to you. The way to deliver your life is...
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This is an excerpt of a talk given 6 March 2015 by Clinton and Marion Callahan at UFA Fabrik in Berlin, organized by Marina Deeken of www.liquid-talk.de. The talk was titled "Living Rather Than Surviving: getting out of the stranglehold of patterns and blocks." 53 people...
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Nestle is one of the world's largest and most profitable corporations... but at what cost? Here the Chairman (formally CEO) Peter Brabeck clearly states the beliefs which drive his business and underlie global capitalism. He calls the idea that water should be a human right...
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This video if from a lecture/ workshop series I organized and I was given the option of approaching sustainability from any angle. I decided on addressing it with the words I'd never heard from any other environmentalist in my life time. March 13th, 2015 Vancouver, BC...
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Is our culture a sewer? Some people think that we've fallen far from some past ideal. They're fooling themselves. This video tells you why, and along the way manages to defend Kim and Kanye, reality TV, Kathy Ireland and Ryan Gosling.
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