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Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property 52 min
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...
Media Education Foundation
Nonviolence Means... a Visionary Poster Series by Campaign Nonviolence & Rosie Davila
Nonviolence Means... a Visionary Poster Series by Campaign Nonviolence & Rosie Davila
In all 50 states and around the world, Campaign Nonviolence has been building a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. We share skills and tools with which people can practice nonviolence toward themselves, one another...
Campaign Nonviolence, Rosie Davila
Advertising & The End of The World 47 min
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Sut Jhally
We Need A Library Economy 27 min
We Need A Library Economy
The library has been a long-standing institution in our society, but what if we applied its philosophy more broadly? Let's imagine what it would mean to realize the possibilities of this proto-socialist concept and reintroduce free access to the commons through a library...
Andrewism
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
Capitalism hasn't malfunctioned, been corrupted or gone astray. Its core mechanisms are working exactly as intended. What we call corporate or crony capitalism is just late-stage capitalism, come to fruition, Miki Kashtan argues.
Miki Kashtan
The Myth of Normal: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture 42 min
The Myth of Normal: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, just out, called "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture."
Democracy Now!
Feminine Wisdom: Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater 70 min
Feminine Wisdom: Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater
In a culture dominated by abstract, male-skewed "sense-making" discussions, this 70 minute Rebel Wisdom conversation with Schuyler Brown, Samantha Sweetwater and David Fuller uncovers what's missing: the embodied, relational wisdom women bring to processing our fractured world.
Rebel Wisdom
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life 60 min
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
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.
Stephen R. Kellert
It Wasn't an Apple! 5 min
It Wasn't an Apple!
For thousands of years, we have misinterpreted the foundational story of the world's three most dominant religions. Where did we go wrong, and what does it really mean?
You Are Me
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution 51 min
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Planet Local shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects! 13 min
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects!
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison reveals his picks for the 5 most epic Earth healing projects in the world.
Andrew Millison
Wild Family — A Film About Parenting 98 min
Wild Family — A Film About Parenting (2015)
Eight-months pregnant with their third child, the parents of preschoolers trail blaze across the U.S.A., cameras firing. They record the stories of 40 wild families, exploring new ways to raise kids. Through outdoor adventures and in-depth interviews, their findings reveal a...
Cabe Lindsay
A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems 9 min
A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems
Many people think, “There always has been war and there always will be war.” But scientific evidence shows that some societies have successfully shunned war by creating peace systems.
Sustainable Human
The Wisdom To Survive 55 min
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Climate change is here. Will we have the wisdom to survive? The film features thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics, and spirituality. The focus: how we can live creatively and even joyfully in the face of this catastrophe, and how can we act to...
John Ankele
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future 91 min
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. An intimate exploration of real-life gift economies, it’s a reflection on the creative...
Robin McKenna
The Myth Of Upward Mobility 15 min
The Myth Of Upward Mobility
In this video, Second Though revisits the idea of "meritocracy" and explores the misguided belief that the United States is anywhere close to a "fair competition" where everyone has "equal opportunity."
Second Thought
4 False Beliefs that Society is Built On | Dr. Bruce Lipton 18 min
4 False Beliefs that Society is Built On | Dr. Bruce Lipton
Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as...
After Skool
Envy | ContraPoints 109 min
Envy | ContraPoints
Starting at the surface with celebrity gossip, then spiraling into the inferno of the human psyche. Virgil, get me out of here.
ContraPoints
THE CON 3 min
THE CON (trailer)
The American Dream Dies Where Power Lies From writer/director Eric Vaughan, producer Patrick Lovell and executive producer Adam Bronfman, The Con is an in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making,  Who did it, why it happened and how our...
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition 35 min
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
"When today's stories of crushing greed and endless growth have come to an end, what, then, will be the new stories?"
Old Dog Documentaries
Permaculture Is a Way of Thinking | Andrew Faust 11 min
Permaculture Is a Way of Thinking | Andrew Faust
This is a clip from The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013). Watch the full documentary here.
Nina Turner: I Am an Angry-Ass Black Woman. I'm Mad! 2 min
Nina Turner: I Am an Angry-Ass Black Woman. I'm Mad!
And if you're not mad too...
GOODNIGHT PRODUCTIONS
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement 53 min
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)
Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia indigenous communities have viewed themselves as part of nature.
Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity 11 min
Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity
Tamera is an ecovillage situated in the south of Portugal. It is a holistic peace research and education center exploring different ways of being and living on this planet. With two hundred people currently residing there, Tamera has become an iconic space of experimentation...
The Great Relation
The Minimalists: Less Is Now 2 min
The Minimalists: Less Is Now (trailer)
They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less. Directed by Matt D'Avella.
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things 78 min
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)
How might your life be better with less? MINIMALISM takes the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a...
Chain Reactions 10 min
Chain Reactions
Is it possible to get into college if you’ve never been through the traditional k-12 school system? That’s one of the questions I explore in my new film Self-Taught.
Self-Taught Movie
Both And
Both And
A Direct Route to Feeling and Experience
Josh Liveright
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? 84 min
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
From Executive Producer Mark Ruffalo comes the world’s first documentary film on the Rights of Nature Movement, a “Paradigm Shifting” story where the 'Rights of Nature' has become ‘capitalism’s one true opponent.’
Joshua B. Pribanic
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi 63 min
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi
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.
Rebel Wisdom
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm 3 min
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm (trailer)
INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the...
Is Universal Basic Income The Future? 12 min
Is Universal Basic Income The Future?
Imagine a future in which every person was afforded the basics of life. How would this change our society? Is UBI the future? – Second Thought
Second Thought
The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor – A Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty
The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor – A Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty
Invest in people, not prisons.
Tim Hjersted
Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control 89 min
Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control
Are long, drawn-out consensus processes the only alternative to a rigid, hierarchical decision making model that reinforces unhealthy power dynamics? Trainer, facilitator and writer Miki Kashtan offers her powerful framework of Convergent Facilitation, which is a model of...
East Point Peace Academy
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe 29 min
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
COMMUNITIES OF HOPE is a film born from a quest to discover a regenerative culture.
Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption 8 min
Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption
Learn more at: https://utopiacornucopia.org/
The Final Draft Book Writing Bootcamp
Thomas Berry: The New Story 41 min
Thomas Berry: The New Story
A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978 monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
zegneg
Nobody Takes the Renewable Energy Transition Seriously
Nobody Takes the Renewable Energy Transition Seriously
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and regions that claim to be...
Richard Heinberg
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic Lessons for 2020 85 min
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic Lessons for 2020
Despite low unemployment rates and a rising stock market, 3 out of 4 economists are expecting a recession by 2021. We are already facing a #crisisofpoverty and economic precarity, where 140 million people are poor or low-income, the costs of living are going up and the...
The People's Forum NYC
Realism and Utopia 6 min
Realism and Utopia
Realism and utopia are often seen as opposite poles. Realism, it is thought, is concerned with what is and utopia is concerned with our wishes about what we would like to be. However, once we fully examine the issue we can see that this way of thinking is mistaken. A properly...
Theory And Practice
A Rally Cry For A New World 6 min
A Rally Cry For A New World
JOIN US. This is what we think and believe to be true. If you feel inspired by this video please share it. I love you.
NVRLND Tribe
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in public services. Today, the forces best placed to exploit the coronavirus pandemic are...
Alex Doherty
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Introducing the Wire International - A Response to Media Oligarchy
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant
Normal Was Killing Us
Normal Was Killing Us
The first crisis point of the COVID-19 disaster was figuring out how to respond, after being caught flat-footed, to the immediate health threat. Now that the death curve in many places has begun to flatten and the scope of economic disaster is hitting home, we are approaching...
Cylvia Hayes
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
"The writing is on the wall: Powerdown is inevitable. If we want any hope of achieving it peacefully, we’ve got to start shifting — minds and physical infrastructure — today."
Joanne Poyourow
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
With regular life on pause, we have a chance to stop and question the path we are taking at the deepest level.
Jason Angell
What Happens in November
What Happens in November
In the fall of 2009, I interviewed a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz ghetto. As a young girl, she had seen her whole family lined up and executed by a Nazi firing squad in a spray of machine gun fire, alongside hundreds of the people she had grown up with.
Matthew R. Bishop
Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden
Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack...
John Halstead
Psyched Out: Documentary on Psychedelics, Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine 84 min
Psyched Out: Documentary on Psychedelics, Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine
Natural Health enthusiast and founder of Elemental Wellness Studio in Toronto, Giovanni Bartolomeo invites you to enjoy his latest project, Psyched Out, a documentary film centered around the healing effects of plant medicines like Ayahuasca and Psilocybin.
Gio Bartolomeo
What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together 7 min
What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together
Unaddressed childhood trauma changes how we respond to the world and when triggered, we make choices that sometimes have devastating consequences including domestic violence, addiction, murder and prison.
Fritzi Horstman
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
As the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded across our globalised world, I found myself unsure of priorities in this time of pivotal change, even though I had been tracking information about Wuhan since January. Not because I didn’t know that a global pandemic of this scale was...
David Holmgren
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.
UBI.Earth
A World With a $24 Minimum Wage
A World With a $24 Minimum Wage
If worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year today.
Dean Baker
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners 77 min
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Through the stories of six extraordinary individuals, Self-Taught explores what self-directed education means to them and the impact it has had on their lives, ambitions, work and beliefs.
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
Since April 1 in some parts of the world is a traditional day for playing tricks and elaborate jokes (mostly on one’s friends), I found myself musing about the world I would like to see and had some fun taking about five minutes to jot down the following list (without...
John Foran
Building the New America
Building the New America
I: The American Reality America was founded on a dream. It was a dream that all people, from all the war-torn and disease-ridden corners of the earth, could come to this new-age Promised Land and build a common future side-by-side. It was half history, and half mythology...
Matthew R. Bishop
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? 61 min
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Opening with a powerful ‘deep time’ perspective, from the beginning of the Earth to our present moment, BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's new film recognises the fundamental unsustainability of today’s society and dares to ask the big question: What will follow?
No New Normal
No New Normal
“May you live in interesting times." A curse once assigned Chinese origin, now thought to be apocryphal, is deceptively mild until you realize you have no resistance to a novel, viral load of interestingness. We feel like we can’t blink, yet our eyelids are getting very...
Stacco Troncoso
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency
The COVID-19 public health crisis is rapidly devolving into a vast, multi-faceted crisis of social reproduction with no end in sight. How can we seize this moment to build dual power?
Woodbine
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
No Return to Normal: For a Post-Pandemic Liberation
Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?
Max Haiven
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
A Debt Jubilee Is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but...
Michael Hudson
Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
This bears repeating: Humans are not inherently toxic, sinfl or destructive. Humanity is not a cancer.
Tim Hjersted
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The Coronavirus Rehearsal: Can Capitalism Survive The Coronavirus?
The coronavirus shutdown as a dress rehearsal for the reformation of late-capitalism to allow climate repair.
Eamonn Kelly
Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It 9 min
Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks.
The Intercept
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down 11 min
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.
Academy of Ideas
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 780 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
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.
David Oyster
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
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
Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal 8 min
Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal
What would America's heartland be like, 10 years after we pass a Green New Deal?
Sunrise Movement
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
"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
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
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
The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein 7 min
The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein
With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?
Sustainable Human
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion
Attention is like a spotlight—whatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert
The End of the Corporation?
The End of the Corporation?
It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.
Marjorie Kelly
Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson 12 min
Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson
Sierra Robinson is a seventeen-year-old farmer, homeschooler, and environmental activist from Vancouver Island, BC.
Sierra Robinson
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
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
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?" - Initiatives of Change International
Rob Corcoran
Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan 31 min
Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan's new book "How To Change Your Mind" surveys the highly controversial terrain of the renaissance of both the science and popular usage of psychedelic substances. As one of our most brilliant and clear-eyed explorers of such topics as plant intelligence and how...
Bioneers
One Nation 31 min
One Nation (2020)
The future of the political party is here. Welcome to the OneNation Party (USA). Our Purpose is...
The Promise of Biomimicry 22 min
The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)
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.
Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism 18 min
Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism
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'.
TheRulesOrg
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"
Shareable
The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael 55 min
The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael
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.
Local Future
Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom
Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom
[…] 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
How Much Good Can One Person Really Do? 21 min
How Much Good Can One Person Really Do?
One of the reasons the world is in the state that it is, is because everybody mortgages what is really pulling at their heart to do something abstract. For the thing that they think they have to do for the numbers to work out. - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin 11 min
The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin
“Empathy is the opposite of utopia - the exact opposite.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin
Sustainable Human
The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari 7 min
The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari
“You are not a machine with broken parts. You are a human being with unmet needs.” ~ Johann Hari
Sustainable Human
Signs that Humanity is Returning to Loving a Living Earth 8 min
Signs that Humanity is Returning to Loving a Living Earth
I see a lot of encouraging signs that civilization is returning to an understanding of a living Earth. - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom 25 min
Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom (2016)
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...
Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom - It’s Time to Embrace the Shamanistic side of Christmas 6 min
Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom - It’s Time to Embrace the Shamanistic side of Christmas
It’s the holiday season, and I’m thinking of mushrooms. The hallucinogenic Amanita muscaria to be exact — a red-and-white toadstool mushroom — most closely associated with fairy tales. At first glance, Amanita muscaria and the Christmas holiday appear to be an unlikely duo...
Matthew Salton
The Dirty Secret of Capitalism -- and a New Way Forward / Nick Hanauer 18 min
The Dirty Secret of Capitalism -- and a New Way Forward / Nick Hanauer
Rising inequality and growing political instability are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory, says entrepreneur Nick Hanauer. In a visionary talk, he dismantles the mantra that "greed is good" -- an idea he describes as not only morally corrosive, but also...
Nick Hanauer
Spiritually Incorrect 88 min
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Told through the life of Alan Clements, Spiritually Incorrect shatters numerous light-washed sacred cows of the spiritual movement and explores sustainability from an inner perspective - showing how we can escape the trap of spiritual narcissism and heal from trauma with...
Peter Charles Downey
MLK's Last Sermon | 4 Days Before His Assassination 3 min
MLK's Last Sermon | 4 Days Before His Assassination
Matt Orfalea
Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness
Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness
Believing otherwise corrodes us, corrodes freedom, and corrodes the world we live in
Chloé Valdary
A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan 44 min
A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan (2019)
Produced by S.O.U.L. Documentary, this is a film on the life’s work of late, legendary visionary Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project. The movie features never before seen archival footage and the inspirational last interview of his life.
Fantastic Fungi 80 min
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)
When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement 56 min
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...
Spencer MacDonald
Right to Own: Giving Workers a Chance to Buy their Workplaces 2 min
Right to Own: Giving Workers a Chance to Buy their Workplaces
Too often, when businesses are sold, workers pay the price. Our new policy proposal would guarantee workers a right of first refusal, giving them a chance to bring their workplaces under democratic ownership. Learn more at: https://thenextsystem.org/rto
The Next System Project
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides
André Spicer
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