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A look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements, from Our Changing Climate.
5 min
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability would look like.
15 min
Inspired by a Charles Eisenstein essay, crafted by Tonika Todorova and narrated by Charles.
36 min
Bestselling author and anthropologist Wade Davis addresses The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's 2017 College of Fellows dinner, held November 16, 2017 at the Canadian Museum of History.
18 min
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.
3 min
Janine Benyus reveals the natural intelligence found in the patterns and designs of nature all around us. We live in a competent, brilliant planet and are surrounded by genius with perfect timing and coordination, all without top down laws and policies. The organisms have all...
15 min
A meditative, absorbing, intricately-edited short film about the crisis of belonging, the high price of progress, and the return journey home, as told by author/philosopher Charles Eisenstein.
It Tethers the Masculine Powers to Life, Directs them Toward Love, and Keeps Them Grounded in Beauty.
Charles Eisenstein
19 min
Follow the journey of a Game~B pioneer who—with the help of the three stewards—awakens to the realization that she must find her tribe and prevent humanity's current path toward self-termination by playing a new game.
9 min
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
Inhabitants is an inspiring documentary about the work many of our indigenous relatives are doing today to restore our world.
Tim Hjersted
5 min
What if we imagine a more hopeful future?
47 min
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
46 min
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.
60 min
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.
4 min
The BedZED eco-village is a sustainable housing development based in London, UK. Going Green went to the eco-village to see both the green building design and the sustainable community.
51 min
Planet Local shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
39 min
“This beautiful film is the perfect antidote to the cynical narrative that says people are inherently selfish... This film will melt your heart. Guaranteed.”
– Rob Hopkins, author; co-founder Transition Network
25 min
With 150 trees sprouting across 5 floors of terraces, balconies, and roof gardens, apartment complex "25 Verde" in Italy rises like a giant treehouse, a forest-building ecosystem combining geothermal energy, water reuse, and natural cooling.
44 min
The Third Harmony tells the story of nonviolence, humanity’s greatest (and most overlooked) resource.
"I am exhilarated and grateful to the filmmakers for bringing forth such a fine gift for the future of life on Earth. Hurray! and deep bows." - Joanna Macy, deep ecologist...
11 min
This is a clip from The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013). Watch the full documentary here.
120 min
Imagine growing up with the dream seeds of a wise grandmother, whose inner knowing is distilled within her stories, myths, and songs. These messages serve as a map for you and the future generations. Find your way in the world. Bring out your gifts. Connect with your true...
60 min
What can we do, when time is running out? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has a revolutionary proposal for facing the Climate Crisis. “The way out is in,” he states. “The way out of climate change is inside each of us.” His invitation is to stop: to stop running and to take a good...
3 min
This video is part of a series called "Seeding the Field: 30 Years of Transformative Solutions," which celebrates some of the best moments of the Bioneers conference through the last 30 years. Founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, who organized these brilliant lectures...
9 min
Deep ecologist Joanna Macy describes the Shambala Warrior Prophecy from Buddhist Tibet, expressed as a metaphor for inspiration into environmental and humanitarian activism.
10 min
Jon Jondai shares his life story of trying to find success in the city only to turn around and come back home to live a life of freedom.
5 min
Can you see the absurdity of our world? Can you imagine another society?
45 min
Can indigenous thinking save the world? Tyson Yunkaporta's new book 'Sand Talk' explores this question and is making a big impact.
In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine forested foothills of Eastern Australia’s Great Dividing Range. As we drove down Darkwood, the single road into the Thora, Kit told us...
63 min
Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator. Her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago. She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.
Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, covering an area nearly the size of Britain. Only today, it isn’t so wet. After a summer of drought, catastrophic fires are raging that have devastated 2.4 million hectares of land already this year. (That’s more than...
Charles Eisenstein
165 min
InterReflections is an experimental, mixed genre narrative feature film by Peter Joseph, adapted from his book The New Human Rights Movement. The ambitious, nearly 3 hour work challenges not only contemporary thinking about society, it challenges the very art of filmmaking...
30 min
Transformation Diaries is a platform for the questions of our times. From love, sexuality and social organization, all the way to our relation to the biosphere and the metaphysical, we explore the underlying sets of beliefs and assumptions at the wellspring of culture —...
After decades on the defensive, the left has once again started to embrace positive visions of the future.
Corinna Burkhart, Nina Treu, and Matthias Schmelzer
Over the past two weeks, our “Building a Police-Free Future: Frequently-Asked Questions” zine has been shared tens of thousands of times. That zine is a great first step, but it’s also only 1000 words long! We know people still have questions, especially when it comes to some...
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As community leaders calling for less funding for police and more funding for alternative community safety measures, we were glad to see the Star Tribune Editorial Board reflecting on the relationship between police and public safety a few weeks ago (“Defunding cops is not...
Tony Williams, Leilah Abdennabi and Sheila Nezhad
29 min
COMMUNITIES OF HOPE is a film born from a quest to discover a regenerative culture.
Redirect it to emergency response programs that don’t kill black people.
Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us what’s important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature. Shouldn’t those things be the pillars around which our societies are organised? The virus...
Laura Basu
The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects.
Degrowth Editorial Team
14 min
We are in the time of THE GREAT PAUSE. Where might we collectively go next?
75 min
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the voices of these elders, offering an unprecedented insight into their knowledge, traditions and...
31 min
In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...
20 min
Solidarity - an amply applied term these days. A comprehensive and infinite word that in the realm of politics nowadays mostly comprises a rather narrow understanding, that seems to mainly refer to ‘us’ rather than ‘them’. Time to take a step back and re-discover the root...
"It’s time to design a global society that fits the biological and material constraints of earth and also fits the psychological, cultural, and developmental needs of diverse peoples worldwide."
Armando Davila
I've struggled to make sense of what is going on. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I don’t know what is happening. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. In this essay, I...
13 min
As the world rushes toward the brink of biospheric collapse, many people are now looking to traditional Indigenous wisdom for guidance on how to live sustainably.
5 min
"For the first time in history, humanity has a story that has the potential to unite us all. As we embody the natural impulse of evolution within us, we create a powerful field connecting cocreators worldwide in a unique self symphony of human genius, innovation and synergy...
20 min
The old paradigm of separateness, patriarchal anthropocentrism, religious monopolies, and the dictatorship of the ego, among other guiding threads, have brought humanity and planetary living systems to the brink of collapse. To aspire to a possible future, it is essential to...
Yes there is fear.
Richard Hendrick
10 min
In this video we examine how fear can be used as a tool to manipulate others, and how those in positions of power, past and present, have effectively used fear to control certain aspects of society. =================================================== Support us on Patreon...
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Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...
A Feminist Future
Love, Peace and the Interconnection of All Life
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
8 min
What would America's heartland be like, 10 years after we pass a Green New Deal?
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
The following text is a translation of Marian Díez‘s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation
"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."
Jon Queally
6 min
In this excerpt from LOVE SCHOOL, author and visionary Charles Eisenstein speaks to the importance of surrounding ourselves with a supportive community that can give us the courage we need to step into the unknown, into new ways of being.
10 min
The beliefs and stories that we hold are not the result of an independent choice by the neo-liberal separate self choosing from the marketplace of ideas. Belief is a collective function. The echo chamber effect can operate both ways. - Charles Eisenstein
It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.
Marjorie Kelly
The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it.
Innovating...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Some people are starting to talk about regenerative cultures as possible pathways towards a thriving future of people unfolding their unique potential within the context of the communities and regions they help to regenerate — cultures that are healthy, resilient and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
5 min
Sign up to host a launch party: https://www.actionnetwork.org/forms/our-plan-to-win-the-gnd-2020-launch-parties
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its goals. Rather, it is essentially a very pragmatic approach that begins not with a “system”...
Martin Oetting
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The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. All the practices and technologies documented in Paul’s best-selling "Drawdown" book are already...
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I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, social upheaval, or some apocalyptic event. Right now, much of that concern...
Chris Begley
22 min
The Biomimicry Institute presents a new 20-minute film produced by Tree Media that introduces biomimicry as a way of living for everyday people and as a pathway for design inspired by nature.
18 min
In the face of economic, social, and ecological breakdown, the inevitable transition is comming. And what it requires from us is beyond the realms of 'activism'.
We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"
Shareable
55 min
Timothy Scott Bennett director of the film What A Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire and author of the novel All of The Above shares his thoughts on the works of Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, The Story of B, Beyond Civilization and other novels.
We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to...
Michael Lerner
Our communities cannot be safe within a system that fights harm with greater harm.
Tanya Watkins
[…] have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and do try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to...
Daniel Christian Wahl
13 min
"What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works." - Charles Eisenstein
8 min
"I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein
11 min
"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
8 min
I see a lot of encouraging signs that civilization is returning to an understanding of a living Earth. - Charles Eisenstein
25 min
Unbroken Grounds explains the critical role food will play in the next frontier of our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. It explores four areas of agriculture that aim to change our relationship to the land and oceans. Most of our food is produced using methods that...
41 min
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
22 min
Indigenous peoples worldwide honor plants, not only as our sustainers, but as our oldest teachers who share teachings of generosity, creativity, sustainability and joy. By their living examples, plants spur our imaginations of how we might live. By braiding indigenous...
How we build a better world in the face of climate catastrophe and social collapse.
8 min
When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at CharlesEisenstein.org/books
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Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the...
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Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.
36 min
As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.
8 min
Carpe Diem - Seize the day. While every day might not be good, there is always something good in every day. Life is filled with adventures and experiences. Life is about living. Find what drives you. Find what motivates you to get up every morning. Make every last second count.
9 min
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We’ve come a long way together, thanks to your donations and the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. We’ve built a truly independent non-profit & bilingual media network, which does not rely on advertisements and state or corporate...
26 min
A short film by the creators of A Quest for Meaning, inspired by Arnaud Desjardins, which plunges us into the themes of spirituality and self-knowledge.
71 min
“Going around New Zealand making a film … like that's not gonna get you anywhere, that's irrational, impractical, unrealistic…”
14 min
Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, a Traditional Maori Elder, Leader Creation, and a Tohuna, addresses the Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19th.
47 min
What is wrong with the EU and why does the EU need a new vision? Is the EU new vision to become a republic? Or what can we still expect from the EU?
Jack Harmsworth from We Own It makes the case for why the UK must learn from its European neighbours and take back control of privatised industries.
Jack Harmsworth
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?
Ruth Gordon