Pope Francis: The Encyclical (trailer)

If you’re like me and eagerly anticipating Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change—due out Thursday, June 18—stop what you’re doing and watch this.

2 min

6 Destructive Ideas Perpetuated in Western Culture

Since the day you emerged into this bizarre, sparkling universe, you’ve been conditioned to think in certain ways.

Jordan Bates

Denali - Celebrating the Love of a Canine Companion

There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend, especially when they've supported you through your darkest times. This is poigniant jouney, through good times and bad, featuring Ben Moon and his canine companion Denali.

7 min

It's the Planet Stupid!: Capitalism and The Destruction of the Commons

There is a war going on right now between those who are working to protect the commons and the hard-core capitalists, who are working to privatize our economy, culture, ecology, environment and government.

John Atcheson

Don't Cash Crop On My Cornrows - A Crash Discourse on Black Culture.

Amandla Stenberg, 16, knows one or two things about racism and the entertainment industry. Several years ago, when Amandla was cast as Rue in the first installment of The Hunger Games,many people had issues with the fact that she’s black, even though, in the book series, the...

4 min

We Need a Sexual Revolution in the Middle East

'Let's face it, the Arab Spring failed women. They are no closer to liberation than before the uprisings.' Mona Eltahawy, who was beaten and sexually assaulted by Egyptian riot police in 2011, argues that feminism is a vital movement wherever you are - both 'over here' and...

4 min

Be Bored and See What's Inside

Comedian, Aaron Barschak, once said that all you need for creativity is a certain level of boredom, and some alcohol. The latter we have plenty of but with the technological advancements at our disposal, I wonder if we are no longer able to feel bored?

Jamie Newell

5 Ways Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Protesters

Let's say that tomorrow you are elected Secret Ruler of the USA, a position that gives you total power over the government, economy, and the culture at large -- everything that hippies refer to as "the system." Now, your first job is to not get beheaded by rioting peasants...

David Wong

A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change

"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."

Bill Kilby

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 Disease of Being Busy

I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.”

Omid Safi

10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal

When you take a moment and look around at the world, things can appear pretty messed up. Take 5 or 10 minutes and watch the 6 o’clock news. Chances are, the entire time, all you are going to see is war, conflict, death, illness, etc. Sure, this is part of the mainstream...

Joe Martino

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

Forget Facebook, Abandon Instagram, Move To A Village

People who live in a traditional village — that means a community of about 150 people — are far better off than the rest of us.

Diane Cole

10 Life Hacks to Help You Cut Plastic Out of the Picture

Plastic is so ubiquitous that it can be found in or associated with nearly every tangible item in existence. Just think about how many different things you used today that either were plastic or came packaged in plastic, you&rsquo

Kate Good

These 25 Examples of Male Privilege from a Trans Guy's Perspective Really Prove the Point

Quite a bit changed for me over the first couple of years I started testosterone.

James St. James

Incredible Array of Reactions as Animals See Themselves in a Mirror

French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre travelled to Gabon with his wife and set up a mirror in several locations in order to capture animals walking by. Their vastly varied responses to their reflections are fascinating. You can see longer clips of what he found on his...

2 min

12 of The Best Environmental Photographs of 2015

Environmental photography is fast becoming one of the most powerful ways to call attention to issues about our planet, be it melting ice caps, city-leveling earthquakes or the innate beauty of our natural surroundings. Now the Royal Geographical Society is bringing together...

Kate Lismore

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

The most difficult challenge facing humanity is not devising solutions to the energy crisis or climate crisis; rather, it is bringing stories or narratives of the human journey into our collective awareness that empower us to look beyond a future of great adversity and to see...

Duane Elgin

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

We talk of love as if it were just one thing: in fact, it’s two very different moves, Loving and Being Loved. You start to grow up when you stop focusing on the latter and get involved with the former.

2 min

Validation Is the Missing Ingredient to a More Sustainable World

I went through a recent awakening where I realized that something very important has been missing throughout my entire life.

Chris Agnos

Save Copyright Reform!

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1 min

The Small Habit That Could Save the World

Most of us were taught as children never to talk to strangers. At face value this is bad life advice — we can never know people we never talk to. But we know it’s only meant to arm children with a basic skepticism about unknown people, so that they’re less likely to accept a...

David Cain

How Mainstream Is Bernie Sanders?

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination, has trouble being taken seriously by the corporate media, what with him being a democratic socialist and all. If you go to Google News and put in his name, you get headlines about him being...

Juan Cole

People Make Anti-Logos To Urge Sponsors To Withdraw From Qatar 2022 World Cup

FIFA's decision to hold the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is drawing more and more criticism as more and more allegations of everything from bribery and financial mismanagement to slavery and deadly work conditions pile up. 900 workers have died during construction for the...

Dovas

No Shit Study: Scientists Show Conspiracy Theorists Will Believe Anything

NASA faked the moon landings, HIV was made by the government, and Elvis ain’t dead. Further fueled by “reliable evidence” on the Internet, these conspiracy theories can be added to and expanded upon for years, even decades in the case of the supposed UFO landings of Roswell...

3 min

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

This series of six short films look beyond hierarchy at two approaches to self-organisation. Traditionally, many of us are used to having someone at the top, but times are changing and we are seeing a paradigm shift in how people organise. There are now needs and desires to...

74 min

Comedy Sketch Shows Deep-Seated Sexism in Advertising

This is a clip from the BBC comedy series 'That Mitchell and Webb look' satirises sexism in advertising.

1 min

Early Men and Women Were Equal, Say scientists

Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture

Hannah Devlin

The Woman Who Chose to Plant Corn

Not long ago, a Diné (Navajo) friend of mine, Lyla June Johnston, sent me a one-line email: “I am not going to Harvard… I am going to plant corn.”

Charles Eisenstein

How Equal Do We Want the World to Be? You'd Be surprised

The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.

9 min

Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction

Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate change have been ‘woefully inadequate.’...

Steve Taylor Ph.D.

How Values Work

Following decades of research and hundreds of cross-cultural studies, psychologists have identified a number of consistently-occurring human values.

Common Cause

The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens?

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and...

6 min

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

1. Most people are motivated primarily by self-interest. As a creative community organizer, you are always trying to figure out people’s common self-interest, the glue that binds political organizations and movements.

Si Kahn

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Part III of The Bloom “New Ways of The Sacred” looks at how Transformational Festivals are venues for an active engagement with ancient, universal themes of MYTHOS, RITUAL and THE SACRED, exploring ways which both honor the traditional, while reflecting our unprecedented...

70 min

The Game of Thrones Guide to UK Elections (with the Real Jon Snow)

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow (he knows something) explains the UK general election using what we understand best: Game of Thrones.

5 min

Racism Is Real

The Baltimore Uprising is a symptom of a much larger problem!

3 min

Terence McKenna: Reclaim Your Mind

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 -- April 3, 2000) was a modern philosopher, whose main interest was psychedelics and their role in society and existence beyond the physical body"

2 min

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

Part II of The Bloom explores how Transformational Festivals have become incubators and spaces for “Practicing The New World”, where the festivals are produced using a model of CO-CREATION, utilizing an ethos of PARTICIPATION to create these remarkable realities and MODELLING...

51 min

Films For Action & The Bloom: Transformational Festivals Panel - "Practicing The New World"

Transformational Festivals Panel for “Practicing The New World” LIVE at 7:00pm April 29th following the LIVE MASS VIEWING of THE BLOOM PART II

60 min

The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled

A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiabl

Charles Eisenstein

Breath of Life (2015) ($4)

Spectacularly photographed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii, Breath of Life travels the globe in search of the truth behind what appears to be a looming environmental catastrophe. Everyone is telling us how we are destroying our world. BREATH OF LIFE is a film...

82 min

Watch a Giant Suction Tube Gobble Up The Earth In This Brilliant Video about Our Economy

Modern production is based on extraction from the planet, and modern finance is based on extraction from the many for the benefit of the very few. What would a new economy look like and how can we rethink our relationship to resources, work and culture? Those are some of the...

7 min

How To Make Stencil Posters and Banners

Art has the power to move our imaginations and bodies, transforming the emotional and physical spaces we share. It has the power to build and transform social relations and to bring about equity and justice.

6 min

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

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.

30 min

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

Anita Sarkeesian: "What I Couldn't Say"

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.

5 min

The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next

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."

4 min

The Hunting Ground (trailer)

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...

2 min

Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let's Start by Ditching "It"

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

Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times

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...

23 min

PLANETARY (2015) ($1)

We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a...

81 min

25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male

Many women have courageously spoken out about how they experience alienation and harassment in gaming. Despite this fact, too many male gamers still dismiss the issue as "no big deal" and insist that there isn’t really a problem. One of the luxuries of being a member of a...

5 min

This Is What Humanity's Impact On The Planet Looks Like

A new photo book from conservation experts aims to shine a light on humanity's impact on the planet and convince people to think about their contribution. Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot includes photos and essays exploring man's complicated relationship with the...

James Gerken

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who...

Marc Brightman

After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza

In response to graffiti artist Banksy's Gaza tourist video, the Gaza Parkour team show us what real life is like there and their dreams beyond the border. To the sounds of Palestine's biggest female hip-hop artist, Shadia Mansour, join Abdallah AlQassab and the rest of the...

2 min

Love Has No Labels

While the vast majority of Americans consider themselves unprejudiced, many of us unintentionally make snap judgments about people based on what we see—whether it’s race, age, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability. This may be a significant reason many people in the U.S...

3 min

The Problem With Judgement

Many people have little trouble confessing to being hard on themselves, to being “my own worst critic” or to being a perfectionist. They are, after all, merely confessing to something that our culture upholds as a virtue: the struggle against the self. People are generally...

Charles Eisenstein

Does the Supreme Leader Truly Love Our Land Mass? A Funny Satire About Corporate, Mass Media Humans

Tom Tomorrow

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