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We live in extraordinary times. All around us the old world is crumbling, while the new one struggles to be born. Crises and catastrophes are rocking our planet like never before. Rebellions and revolutions are stirring the system to its very core. And yet, while the tidal...
ROAR Collective
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What are we leaving our children? "Hand Me Downs" asks this question by showing what happens when trash is passed from generation to generation and finally to a baby. It dramatizes what we are doing every day in this country and around the world: Leaving our trash for our...
4 min
Did you know that, wherever you live, it’s almost certain that farm animals are not protected by key aspects of standard prevention-of-cruelty laws? Animal industries are generally exempt in respect of standard procedures that would be punishable by fines or jail terms if...
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This week:
1. The War on Christmas Trees
2. NYE Noise Demos
3. Rote Flora Defense
4. 20 years of Zapatistas
5. RATM - People of the Sun
6. Anarchists come out of the closet
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56 min
Today we look back at 2013. It was a historic year. Edward Snowden exposed how the National Security Agency had built a worldwide surveillance apparatus, while Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking U.S. secret documents to WikiLeaks. Pope Francis urged...
56 min
Today marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up.
Michael Moore
The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.
Russell McLendon
8 min
How would you feel about replacing your lawn with a natural, low-maintenance system that would also give you a bounty of fruits, vegetables and herbs? Écomestible is a young business that specializes in the design and implementation of edible landscapes.
8 min
The news: Norway is well on its way to digitizing every book in its National Library and making them all free to access for any Norwegian citizen. That means hundreds of thousands of books will be available to anyone accessing the collection online with a Norwegian IP address.
Benjamin Cosman
And the grand total is...
Jordan Weissmann
It’s not surprising that many people are uncertain about the dangers of climate change. Much confusion has been created by groups with vested interests, who have successfully utilised sophisticated PR (public relations) techniques to influence public perceptions and opinion.
90 min
This is a French documentary about climate change.
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66 min
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
66 min
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An amazing lecture given by Alan Watts a British philosopher, writer, and speaker. Alan Watts audio courtesy of alanwatts.org Special thanks to Alanna Ketler at Collective Evolution for the kind permission to use one of their documentaries and All other Credit goes to it's...
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Tolson Rendell is a traditional farmer in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland who has been rearing sheep since 1968. For shearing he uses simple tools and methods that he learned as a young boy by watching a community elder by the name of Mrs. Eva George. It usually takes him two...
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The Tchaikovsky Syndrome is a documentary film about the rise of violent homophobia in Russia. It also documents the current Anti-Gay Propaganda Law signed by Vladimir Putin and a range of new anti-gay laws that are currently being proposed by the Russian government (on the...
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61 min
Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does not plow the soil or use prepared compost and yet the condition of the soil in his...
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97 min
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
97 min
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.”
– Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein
44 min
What does it feel like to be poor in the midst of plenty? This heart-wrenching documentary drops us into the middle of a welfare ghetto in high-flying Australia. We hear from the adult world all the time about what poverty is and how to fix it, but this film delves into the...
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87 min
Within Reach explores one couple's pedal-powered search for a place to call home. Mandy and Ryan gave up their jobs, cars, and traditional houses to 'bike-pack' 6500 miles around the USA seeking sustainable community. Rather than looking in a traditional neighborhood, they...
87 min
A 20 year-old man came down with appendicitis in October of this year. He posted the bill on Reddit and it has gone viral. The US
viralnova.com
5 min
From grey to green. With a litle of work and dedication there is a chance of peace ...
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London, May 2009. A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman
46 min
Four Corners asks children what it's like being poor in the midst of plenty. Filmed in Claymore (Sydney, Australia).
46 min
5 min
Actions for future is a teaser for a documentary series from "Sattva-reports" in Taiwan. The reports introduce projects and people working for sustainability in the Vegan Food movement, Permaculture, Spiritual Communities and Yoga/Detox. Find your inspiration!
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2013 seemed to be the year of news bloopers from the embarrassing, crude and hilarious events seen in the crazy year.
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Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.
Sam Pizzigati
100 min
Architect Mark Lakeman provides an enlightening comparison between the structural patterns of indigenous settlement that sustain cultures rich in social connection and cosmic relation, and the Assyrian grid imposed by Rome to subjugate the soul of the village to the...
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The film, narrated by Peter and produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn, features Peter Proctor of New Zealand, the father of bio-dynamic agriculture. The documentary highlights his journey throughout India helping farmers revive their poisoned soil. Various...
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36 min
In our final episode, Unseen War, we change the angle slightly and explore the physical, moral and political invisibility of US drone strikes in Pakistan. We speak to journalists, activists and experts inside and outside of Pakistan about the consequences of the strikes in...
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The Love Mob is: organized acts of Love.
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This article first appeared on the author’s Terrastendo blogging site on 26th March, 2013.
Does the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense that distracts us from practical, science-based policies?
Charles Eisenstein
5 min
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
Are you ready to help change the world and revive the archaic?
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122 min
"The Weight of Chains" is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen...
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Toxic Hot Seat follows a courageous group of firefighters and mothers, journalists and scientists, politicians and activists as they fight to expose a shadowy campaign of deception that left a toxic legacy in our homes and bodies - a campaign so cunning, it's taken nearly 40...
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90 min
Swedish journalists came to the United States to document the anti-war and Black Power movements of the late 60s and early 70s. The Black Power Mixtape combines music, original 16mm footage, and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists, activists...
90 min
Bill McKibben, founder of US-based climate change campaign group 350.org, recently visited Australia for a series of presentations and media appearances. McKibben appears to have been extremely effective in mobilising people around the world, who are demanding meaningful...
I have an interest in the world of insurance, which is a far more comprehensive and intricate industry than suggested by domestic insurers’ multi-policy discounts and the like.
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Enbridge misleads the public about the proposed tanker routes. On December 8th, 2011, Enbridge uploaded this video to the internet, to show everyone the proposed route for the Northern Gateway Pipelines. It's purpose was to show the route of the pipeline, or was it? Many...
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Will you join the movement to unbreak our birth care system in the U.S.?
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79 min
#ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of today's youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture's apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students, parents, and artists all...
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57 min
The one-hour 1998 documentary film, Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free, in its entirety. The film explores the mechanisms of news censorship in the mainstream media. It focuses on the work of Project Censored, an organization founded after the Watergate scandal by...
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'Fractured Country: an Unconventional Invasion' is a new film from Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia) about the risks to communities from invasive gasfields. This is the full version of the documentary.
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The full version of the recently released film from the Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia), 'Undermining Australia: Coal vs Communities' The documentary features the personal stories of Australians whose lives have been changed forever by coal mining. The film was directed by...
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5 min
It would be hard to argue that the environmental movement, which began in earnest in the 1960s, and despite several successes in the 1970s, has failed. Today, the Clean Water Act has been ignored with fracking, Fukushima is releasing millions of gallons of radioactive water...
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The Love Mob is multi-generational movement that promotes love as a lifestyle. This benevolent "mob" began creating organized acts of love with a massive flash mob in Los Angeles dedicated to victims of Sandy Hook last December: (http://youtu.be/EuTp44xwX7A)
After being...
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Prisca Merz
13 min
Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love, explores the growing realization that the dominant systems of power are failing to...
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65 min
Max Keiser is a world renowned economic commentator and gives his breakdown of the history of ‘bubbles’ and how the City continues to game a system to breaking point. He is flanked by Respect MP George Galloway.
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6 min
This is a general overview of how to built a 14x14 solar cabin for under $2000. For complete step-by-step directions, videos, and more project plans including how to install solar power, drill your own well, build a composting toilet and more please visit the Simple Solar...
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52 min
“Hope for Colombia” follows the 10 day Grace Pilgrimage through and around the Colombian capital Bogota in November 2010. It is a portrait of two projects – Tamera, a peace research centre in Portugal which organized the pilgrimage, and the Colombian peace community San José...
52 min
20 min
This short film was produced for the exhibition Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth held at Ivorypress Space in September-October 2010 and it traces Fuller's life and career without leaving aside its tragicomic touch and focusing on the milestones of his work, which paved the way...
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58 min
Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award, this documentary contains footage of Bucky never seen before and never distributed in the U.S. Made for the U.S. Information Agency in 1977 by award-winning filmmaker Robert Snyder and Jaime Snyder. The film contains wonderfully intimate...
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91 min
This 90-minute biography of a fabulously quirky character aired on the PBS series American Masters. The producers found superb archival footage that demonstrated the genius and the iconoclast in Buckminster Fuller—architect, engineer, poet, inventor and philosopher, whose...
91 min
67 min
The film is an invitation for you to lead a richer, happier, more abundant and love-filled life. It is an invitation for you to share what you have learned with those that you care about. It is also an invitation for the healing of planet earth. This film shows you the Sedona...
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Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world s problems. For more than five decades he...
80 min
Give them an apartment first, ask questions later.
Utah has reduced its rate of chronic homelessness by 78 percent over the past eight years, moving 2000 people off the street and putting the state on track to eradicate homelessness altogether by 2015.
How’d they do it? The...
Kerry Drake
21 min
The Peaceful Gathering of Hands is a free and collaborative event to unify diverse groups and individuals working for a more healthy, sustainable, and peaceful city. Please share this video with friends and family!
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3 min
Abby Martin talks about a new Wall Street Journal report that highlights the Veteran's Administration's role in performing forced lobotomies on mentally ill veterans during the late 40s and 50s and highlights other dark human experimentation stains in America's past.
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Ethan Senack,
U.S. PIRG APPLAUDS CFPB CALL FOR GREATER DISCLOSURE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013
Washington, DC — Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Ethan Senack
23 min
SparkTruck: A Maker Journey, tells the story of SparkTruck's inaugural road trip across the United States in the summer of 2012. SparkTruck is a big red truck filled with cutting-edge maker tools, and it goes from school to school teaching kids about design thinking and...
23 min
That they are crass, brash and trashy goes without saying. But there is something in the pictures posted on Rich Kids of Instagram (and highlighted by the Guardian last week(1)) that inspires more than the usual revulsion towards crude displays of opulence. There is a shadow...
George Monbiot
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the mainstream media seems to have...
Paul Buchheit
Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent 'Festival of Making'. She describes her work as "inviting people to fall in love with stuff in a good way". We sat down...
Rob Hopkins
55 min
Prosocial Progress aims to demonstrate how behavioural science can be utilised on a large scale in areas of child development, education and the culture itself in order to bring about sustainability both on a social and environmental level.
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Lots of people say the whole NSA thing isn't a big deal because if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid. Of course, that was before we found out NSA employees were actually using that information to stalk spurned lovers. So humor me. Watch this. At 1:41, they ask...
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This New Zealand film has won 4 international environmental awards - but here in NZ, TV channels refuse to play it. Why? Because if they did, there would be outrage and riots over New Zealand's use of aerially applied 1080 poison. See for yourself ...
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30 min
New Zealand claims to be "Clean, Green and 100% Pure". Therefore, you could be forgiven for thinking the authorities would fight against poisoning water - forest streams and water catchments. But in New Zealand, it's the authorities doing the contaminating, and the people...
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Over the past decade that I have spent trying to get my head around the suicidal trajectory which modern societies seem to be locked into, I have struggled to understand how we turn this thing around. Human decision-making, especially for the really big decisions, is as much...
Roger Boyd
Undergraduates ask me how to keep from getting cynical and demoralized, and my first question is how much mainstream news media they consume each day.
Arlene Goldbard
76 min
STRONG! chronicles an athlete’s struggle to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. Cheryl Haworth defies categories. A 12th generation patriotic American, a visual artist, and, since age 14, America’s top Olympic...
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Cathy Nesbitt discusses "The Wonderful World of Worms: The Unsung Heroes". Imagine worm composting in every home, every business, every school ... In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a...
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Presenting 10 possible future events identified by science as threatening the human race. The world could end at any moment and in the blink of an eye... Life is fragile, cherish it!
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23 min
This new documentary tells the inspiring story of a sustainable agro-forestry community in Trinidad, West Indies, called Fondes Amandes, led by a charismatic Rastafarian woman, Akilah Jaramogi. Three decades ago Akilah settled on a barren, deforested hillside, blighted with...
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An apocalyptic documentary regarding the sorry state of the British Economy and it's colossal debt mountain. Warning: Unpleasant content. If MoneyWeek are to be believed, Britain's love affair with borrowing has put us on a collision course with complete economic, social and...
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78 min
A conservative Iowa housewife's personal and political convictions are severely tested as she seeks answers from the Republican presidential candidates leading up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses. Directed by Grace Lee, educational distribution by GOOD DOCS.
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Lucille and Irja are retired residents of Sunset Hall, a Los Angeles home for the elderly. Residents of Sunset Hall are retired radicals; they have retired from work but not from protesting against injustice. Bitter Lucille considers herself a realist. Wheelchair-bound Irja...
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Hyperinflation Nation starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Tom Woods, Gerald Celente, and others. Prepare now before the US dollar is worthless.
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Will the U.S. economy experience hyperinflation or deflation like Japan?
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The first 12 hours of a U.S. dollar collapse!
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Americans are being setup as sheep to be slaughtered. Prepare for the real economic collapse! This video (especially the beginning) is quite disturbing and is not for the faint of heart (you've been warned).
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The climate change movement needs to be as radical as Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid, said Naomi Klein, speaking to an audience in London today.
Sophie Yeo
55 min
The documentary proves through facts and statistics how hyperinflation in the U.S. is now inevitable and how Americans could soon see the end of entitlement programs they have become dependent on to live and survive.
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The Dollar Bubble starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Marc Faber, Gerald Celente, Jim Rogers, and others. Prepare now for the U.S. dollar collapse.
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End of Liberty exposes from a real life perspective how the U.S. is headed for a complete societal collapse. All Americans are now experiencing countless warning signs on a daily basis that a societal collapse is near.
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Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 "Downsize This!" book tour across the USA. Shot on-the-cheap with a video camera, we once again watch our hero interview the working man at yet another plant closing, while also trying to get past...
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Short film about NYPD's stop and frisk policy including a secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action, and a secret audio recording of a performance evaluation meeting at the NYPD headquarters sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young...
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“We have to nationalize the banks. We have to get rid of the government. We need to have access to the internet seen as a human right. We need to have a new Constitution," said Birgitta Jonsdottir, founder of the Icelandic Pirate Party. Jonsdottir, a lifelong political...
Carl Gibson
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What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.
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Valhalla is a sustainable community hell-bent on inspiring people to be the change they wish to see. Together we can create the beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.
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2013 might have been the most progressive year for animals yet. Highlights: India bans animal testing for cosmetics, LA bans the bullhook, Blackfish happened, so much good stuff. Here's to an even better 2014.
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I know there are a lot of these floating around, but Glass Walls is another great video that shows everything wrong with the meat, egg, and dairy industries in under 15 minutes. Graphic but very, very important.
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What happens when we create a community space for us to find more of ourselves? A look inside a Paradigm Shift London open-minded discussion group.
Help create a Paradigm Shift Community where you are. Explore more, get Involved, and help Share the project...
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We were always told, "If you work hard, things will get better." But many hard-working Canadians have only seen things get worse. Corporate profits soared, but only the rich got richer. The recession took away more jobs and piled up more debt, leaving more people poor or...
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In 2003, Madagascar’s previous president set the objective of increasing the size of the country’s protected areas from 1.7 to 6 million hectares. Ten years after this announcement, the UN programme
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Slam Shell! activists hijack the oil giant Shell's greenwashing event in Berlin with an ingenious prank to remind them that their plan to drill in the Arctic is potentially disastrous for the environment. Holding 'Green' conferences and pretending to support renewable...
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Why are global businesses taking part in #theBIGshift? Find out in this video.
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