26 min

The Straight Poop on Sustainable Farming

Innovative farmer Joel Salatin says sustainable agriculture requires both perennials (like native grasses) and herbivores (like cattle) to build soil. Mimicking patterns from nature, this maverick Virginia farmer rotates cattle followed by chickens into short-term pasture...

peakmoment · 5,042 views · unrated

2 min

How You Can Save Over 1,200 Gallons of Water Per Day

Thirsty? So is everyone else. We're headed for a water shortage. Here's how simple daily choices can reduce your water use. A GOOD Transparency video.

GOOD · 4,929 views · 65%

2 min

The Next Time You Consider Whether Your Server Is 'Worth' A Tip, Remember This Clip

There is so much going on behind the scenes for people who work at restaurants, no matter where you live. The reality for many of these workers can be unpleasant or even downright scary. Below the clip is a link to the book with stories like these, told in rich detail. Go...

Sekou Luke · 4,679 views · 92%

8 min

Seed Act

Seed Act is a short film about how different people and organisations get hands on for seed sovereignty, to protect life, biodiversity and the production of healthy seeds, in a world which is increasingly regulated and suffocated by seed acts, legislations limiting what has...

4,055 views · 75%

Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?

Imagine an international mega-deal. The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees to farm the now-deforested land using organic methods, and the...

Jonathan Latham · 3,050 views · 100%

57 min

Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (2006)

About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers...

16,565 views · 79%

3 min

This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction

Not only have these two artists solved the greatest existential question facing modern society (paper or plastic?), they did it while singing a mind-blowing parody of Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind." My hat is off to them. - Tim Hjersted

Ben Zolno · 19,314 views · 100%

Grayson: Walmart is 'the largest recipient of public aid in the country'

Representative-elect Alan Grayson (D-FL) said Monday that he will put mega-retailer Walmart squarely in his sights during the next Congress for the company’s liberal use of public assistance programs to supplement their workers’ wages.

Stephen C. Webster · 3,772 views · unrated

When Will Ordinary People Rise Up?

Public uprisings and mass occupations have become a significant force for change on the world stage since 2011, as evidenced in the Middle East revolutions and Occupy protests across North America and Europe. This essay explores the nature of this new social actor, which can...

Adam Parsons · 3,316 views · 81%

The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy

Disambiguation: According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Any sensible person can recognize immediately that neither human beings nor resources...

Crimethinc · 3,388 views · 100%

Workers Demand Livable Wage in Hundred-City Strike

Low wage fast food employees across the country are joining forces Thursday, taking to the streets to say: "Low pay is not okay."

Lauren McCauley · 2,372 views · 75%

60 min

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Never before in history have so many people relied on so few for the basic essentials of life.

29,789 views · 100%

99 min

Supermarket Secrets (2007)

How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialize in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore...

21,311 views · 75%

Uniting the People of the world

The time has come when we must demonstrate in our millions not against this or that, but rather for who we are * * * At this time of economic turmoil it can be difficult to perceive for oneself how the principle of sharing is a solution to world problems, and this is...

Mohammed Mesbahi · 4,225 views · 94%

109 min

The World According to Monsanto (2008)

A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

39,638 views · 78%

The Secret to Being as Radical as We Want to Be is to Finance the Revolution Ourselves

Gandhi understood that the key to freeing India was to transform his fellow citizens into economically productive agents by spinning their own cloth and taking their own salt from the sea.

Michael Shuman · 12,708 views · 100%

From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy

1. Green Worker Cooperative’s Co-op Academy?, The Bronx, N.Y.Ideas for co-ops may flourish, but few people understand exactly how to make theirs real. The Co-op Academy is providing answers. Founded four years ago by Omar Freilla (who recently made Ebony magazine’s list of...

Claudia Rowe · 4,009 views · 75%

Why Riot?

Two years ago in Seattle, on May 1st, 2012, roughly four to five hundred people engaged in the largest riot the city had seen in more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of property were destroyed[i], a minor state of emergency was declared, and the next day’s...

Phil A. Neel · 1,362 views · 75%

65 min

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...

Local Futures · 394,373 views · 94%

3 min

DIVE! Living Off America's Waste (trailer)

Inspired by a curiosity about our country's careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles'...

29,687 views · 77%

92 min

A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009) ($2)

A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as mini Chernobyls.

24,084 views · 93%

The River of Vision: "If the World Is Saved It Won't Be Saved by Old Minds With New Programs."

Part 1: The River of Vision

Timothy S. Bennett · 19,539 views · 100%

2 min

There You Go!

Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.

Survival International · 16,993 views · 100%

6 min

The GMO Film Project

THE GMO FILM PROJECT tells the story of a father's discovery of GMOs through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto's gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake of January 2010...

13,974 views · 92%

48 min

Plasticized (2011)

PLASTICIZED is an intimate account of a first-hand journey aboard the Sea Dragon with the 5 Gyres Institute on the very first scientific expedition, focused on plastic waste, through the centre of the South Atlantic Ocean. An eye-opening story about the institute's global...

13,654 views · 58%

2 min

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?

In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...

Slate · 12,619 views · 100%

10 Reasons That Eco-Conscious People Are Happier and Live More Enjoyable Lives

An increasing foundation of scientific research shows a significant linkage between personal well being and environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. This is not coincidence; it is a profound truth of crucial importance in the quest to create sustainable societies...

Matt Mellen · 12,309 views · 100%

6 min

Veggie Propaganda

Veggie Propaganda is a quirky, sing-song animation that puts a spotlight on animals, our relationship with them and their rights. It explores childhood myths about animals vs. the reality of their lives in a human-centered world, where our food really comes from and how by...

Kristen Palana · 10,726 views · 88%

The Global Transition Tipping Point Has Arrived - Vive la Révolution

A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up. Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new

Nafeez Ahmed · 10,442 views · 100%

8 min

Freegans: Creative Living Outside of Capitalism

In this episode of Subculture Club we meet a few Freegans in New York City and learn about their strategies for practical living. We explore why they take limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.

thethrashlab · 10,262 views · 67%

2 min

AMAZING! Orangutan Asks Girl for Help in Sign Language

Rainforests are being destroyed for palm oil and pushing the last wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. At Rainforest Action Network our goal is to collect 60,600 photo petitions - that's one person for each orangutan remaining in the wild. TAKE ACTION TODAY TO STAND...

Rainforest Action Network · 9,706 views · 88%

7 min

Climate Change: Lord Monckton Rap-Battles Al Gore

Rap News EP3: Al Gore finally accepts Lord Monckton's challenge to a highly uncivilized debate over the issue of anthropogenic climate change, as the Copenhagen Climate Conference - aka COP15 - approached and faded.

Lord Monckton rap-battles Al Gore · 7,500 views · 100%

5 min

Meat Free Mondays: A Way to Challenge Factory Farming

Factory farming is a huge problem. But the solution is simple, if you'll join us. Watch this short 2 minute video to see how...

Animals Australia · 5,985 views · 95%

2 min

FRESH! (trailer)

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental...

5,915 views · 100%

48 min

Permaculture Trio: Forest Gardening, Edible Landscapes & Urban Permaculture

This video consists of three mini-documentaries about permaculture: 1. (0:12) FOREST GARDENING with Robert Hart Find out loads about what forest gardening is, and how to make your own! 2. (15:55) PLANTS FOR A FUTURE with Ken Fern Second is an amazing case study about...

5,350 views · 88%

11 min

What Came Before: Meet Someone You'll Never Forget

Get ready to meet someone you'll never forget. See the incredible rescue, and the shocking reality of what came before. Produced by Seth Webster for Farm Sanctuary.

Farm Sanctuary · 5,266 views · 94%

8 min

Australia Has $16 Minimum Wage and is the Only Rich Country to Dodge the Global Recession

Australia has $16/hour minimum wage-more than twice the US-and its economy is growing faster and boasts far lower unemployment.

The Real News Network · 4,837 views · 75%

7 min

Greening the Desert

Synopsis

Reelmedia · 4,716 views · 97%

Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence

If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice...

Rebecca Solnit · 2,055 views · unrated

100 min

Super Size Me (2004)

"Super Size Me" is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days...

36,163 views · 66%

3 min

Hungry For Change (trailer)

Learn what you should really be eating. Straight facts about the disturbing reality that is our way of eating and living. Food like products that contain zero or next to zero nutritional value. We are a society of overfed and undernourished people who are seemingly oblivious...

26,400 views · 82%

2 min

Ingreedients (trailer)

In the documentary film "Ingreedients", registered nurse and filmmaker, David Burton, discovers an alarming connection between diet and illness while investigating trans fats and hydrogenated oils in America's food supply. Do you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is?...

17,472 views · 62%

89 min

Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World (2005)

Excellent documentary showing how dangerous Aspartame - an artificial sweetener in most diet products - is to human health. From its history, to its effects this video is enough to shock anyone into really looking at their food labels next time they shop. Aspartame is a toxic...

15,777 views · 75%

3 min

Backwards Hamburger

Our FAST FOOD NATION exposed. Before you take another bite, you must see this movie. Take action at BackwardsHamburger.com... then get the full story on the big screen with Fast Food Nation, the movie. Of course, for the fullest, "completest" story on the subject, see the...

Free Range · 12,460 views · 75%

58 min

Land Rush (2012)

In 2008, the world’s food system began to fall apart. However, threatened with hunger, rich countries have started buying up and leasing fertile tracts of the developing world.

11,128 views · 71%

Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity

At a conference a couple weeks ago an activist who does work in Africa recounted an encounter she had with the minister of agriculture of a certain African country. The minister spoke with excitement about the high-tech agricultural technologies he was bringing into the...

Charles Eisenstein · 8,952 views · 88%

4 min

Guerrilla Composting - How its Done!

With a humorous spirit, The Urban Farming Guys present: How to use guerrilla tactics to get several tons of free compost (BLACK GOLD) with very little effort. For several years now, this rag-tag team of urban permaculture entrepreneurs have been baking up the finest compost...

TheUrbanFarmingGuys · 7,686 views · 75%

86 min

Farmageddon (2011)

Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided...

7,277 views · 88%

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic...

Andrew Gavin Marshall · 5,879 views · 100%

4 min

The Mouth Revolution

We are fed up with the garbage we eat! The mouths are angry. The mouths are demanding real food - organic food - NOW! The Mouth revolution Begins! Viva la mouthalucion!

TheMouthRevolution · 5,842 views · 75%

3 min

Is Junk Media Making You Sick???

Media junk food is mind pollution. As waves of erratic, mindless info-toxins increasingly lay siege to a battered mental landscape, our mental pores become clogged, cluttering our capacity to think and to feel empathy. And so we find today that Junk Media is to our mental...

Free Press · 5,047 views · 75%

28 min

Boulder County Going Local!

Michael Brownlee didn't stop after creating the Boulder Valley Relocalization group. He's catalyzing Boulder County's Going Local! campaign, encouraging residents to buy local first, eat and grow local food, create local energy and local currency. The community will celebrate...

peakmoment · 4,256 views · unrated

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

The Transition movement is a loose network of thousands of communities (ranging from favelas in Brazil to Japanese towns; from rural villages in England to Transition Los Angeles) unified in their drive to devise and implement positive solutions that build local resilience...

Shaun Chamberlin · 2,867 views · 100%

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all incentive to work, they are repeating dogmas that are as old as the invention of capitalism...

Yasha Levine · 687,726 views · 92%

Whose Consumption Is Killing the planet?

It's not the impoverished billions, and it's not the majority of American consumers, either.

Ragina Johnson and Michael Ware · 29,677 views · 76%

Four Things You Can Do to Defend Organic Against the GMO Alfalfa Threat

Members of the sustainable food movement are furious and, frankly, we have a right to be. Last month's decision by the USDA to fully deregulate GE alfalfa isn't just a minor skirmish in a long and exhausting battle. It threatens the existence of organic farming and...

Films For Action · 14,990 views · 75%

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for fighting - neighborhoods, workplaces, and households - that I believe will not only...

James Herod · 11,887 views · 75%

7 min

The Singapore Vertical-Farms That Herald An Agricultural Revolution

In Singapore, the challenge of feeding a growing population is pushing the concept of urban farming to new heights. A super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for 5 million residents. "Can we supply enough

Journeyman Pictures · 10,647 views · 100%

Green Capitalism: The God That Failed

The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.

Richard Smith · 8,943 views · 100%

Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All

Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble...

Chris Hedges · 7,450 views · 100%

The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us

We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an...

Richard Heinberg · 5,734 views · 75%

America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane

As an American expat living in the European Union, I’ve started to see America from a different perspective.

Democrats Ramshield · 5,603 views · 100%

Peak Oil F.A.Q.

Thanks and Disclaimer: This F.A.Q. is taken from "Life After The Oil Crash, compiled by Matt Savinar," which is no longer online. We are aware that the solutions of L.A.T.O.C. are more "self-sufficiency"oriented, rather than with building solidarity and community, which we...

Matt Savinar · 5,105 views · 75%

Just Eat It: Big Money Spends Millions to Convince Washington It's None of Our Business What We Put In Our Mouths

9 November 2013: A disheartening but predictable loss for GMO labelling in Washington, where Monsanto, DuPont and other big corporate interests jumped in and spent millions, sometimes evidently illegally, to defeat Initiative 522 to label groceries containing genetically...

Abby Zimet · 3,663 views · unrated

How Much is Organic Certification Worth?

The organic farming industry is booming. Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its federal organic certification program in 2002, the number of organic farms has more than doubled. U.S. organic food sales have also grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $31.5 billion in...

Abbie Fentress Swanson · 3,297 views · unrated

87 min

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

The Crisis of Civilization investigates how global crises like ecological disasters, financial meltdowns, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism, and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

72,801 views · 94%

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

An irony of modern life is that, in spite of spectacular increases in material abundance and centuries of technological progress, hunter-gatherers, people who have lived with almost no material possessions, have enjoyed lives in many ways as satisfying and rewarding as lives...

John Gowdy · 44,763 views · 96%

30 min

Perma Kultcha (2010)

This 30-minute documentary focuses on Permaculture and Organic Farming in South Africa and what it can do to transform society at a grass roots level, to create sustainable lives for individuals, communities and South Africa as a whole.

32,962 views · 86%

37 min

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial...

27,860 views · 90%

20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy

The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most Americans.

It's Our Economy · 16,695 views · 100%

31 min

Making the Connection: How a Vegan Diet Can Benefit Us and The World

Food, fitness, nutrition, global food security, farming, the environment, animals, ethics - have you made the connection?

The Vegan Society · 11,222 views · 88%

18 min

Shane Collins: Peak Oil, Drugs & Crime

During a talk at the Urban Green Fair in Brockwell Park, south London Green Party Member Shane Collins discusses the need for government and social shifts in order to adapt to a changing world where oil levels are diminishing and drug crimes are still destroying communities.

myndzcommunity · 7,577 views · 75%

14 min

The Love Police: Royal Wedding Megaphone Special

Meeting Jesus Christ on Easter SundayMeeting Satan on Easter MondayOut and about in Cambridge with Jon from We Are Change Birmingham and showing Associated Press how we do things - of course they edited down the interview for maximum drama and juxtapositionSee the AP piece...

Charles Veitch · 4,217 views · 42%

Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home

In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not through "free market" economics, technological innovation, supply and demand...

LocalOrg · 4,150 views · 75%

FDA Says Chicken Meat Contains Small Amounts of Arsenic

After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes...

Mike Adams · 3,815 views · unrated

Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together

When I was seven, I was given an Apple Macintosh in the hope that Mavis Beacon would teach me how to touch type. It was an unreasonable expectation, for I was actually more interested in escaping to the fantasy lands of computer games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Lode...

Donnie Maclurcan · 3,260 views · 75%

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that

Daniel Quinn · 342,957 views · 97%

95 min

Earthlings (2005)

EARTHLINGS is a feature-length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers."

301,249 views · 94%

162 min

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a feature-length documentary by Peter Joseph that argues for a global transition away from our current monetary-based economic system toward a more sustainable and equitable model known as a Resource-Based Economy.

Peter Joseph · 121,541 views · 93%

91 min

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

Religion aside for a moment, there’s a terrible addiction that has swept across this country, and it’s one of the nation’s best kept secrets. Mostly everyone will tell you that it’s a really bad thing, but nobody can seem to stop doing it. And it doesn’t come cheap, nearly...

61,267 views · 87%

70 min

The Globalisation Tapes (2003)

If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. A...

14,874 views · 75%

45 min

Christie Walk: A Piece Of Ecocity (2011)

A Piece of Ecocity is an inspiring 2-part film about one of the only inner-city eco-housing projects in the world. It is a great example of what could be possible everywhere.

13,661 views · 100%

35 min

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

In the midst of our nation's commercialized food system, a small family farm fights for a sustainable future by growing food, growing relationships and growing communities.

12,599 views · 83%

Why Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy Would Be More Enjoyable and Prosperous Than Today's Infinite Growth Economy

What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow forever.

Samuel Alexander · 11,405 views · 100%

2 min

In Organic We Trust (2013) (trailer)

We can no longer stomach our food system. It's killing more and more Americans and costing billions in healthcare. 78% of Americans eat organic food, because they think it's healthier. But is organic really better for us or just a marketing scam?

9,148 views · 88%

What's Happening in Egypt is a Precursor to a Global War Between the World's Elites and the Poor

Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives of impoverished believers. The careful rituals of washing before prayers in the mosque, the strict moral code, along with the understanding that life...

Chris Hedges · 8,375 views · 75%

Where Are Workers Most Underpaid: Apple, Walmart or McDonald's?

A study determined that due to low wages and employee's reliance on government subsidies, a typical Walmart store costs taxpayers over $1.7 million per year, or about $5,815 per employee. Apple, Walmart and McDonald's are among the largest corporate employers...

Paul Buchheit · 7,779 views · 75%

From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See

Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...

Tim Hjersted · 6,130 views · 50%

Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty'

Critics cite irony of annual report filing: 'This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty'

Lauren McCauley · 5,679 views · 75%

33 min

Win7 Economics: Restoring Natural Order as If People Mattered | Gary Hirshberg

If we can make radical changes in how we think about our relationship to nature and economic growth, we will see restored, vibrant ecosystems and healthy, prosperous farmers, cows, consumers, employees, investors and future children. So says the iconic food entrepreneur Gary...

Gary Hirshberg · 5,642 views · 67%

How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life

An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development

Vandana Shiva · 4,075 views · unrated

5 min

Seeds Of Hope (trailer)

Seeds of Hope, produced, directed and edited by Danny Miller (Turning the Canoe, Changing Tides) is a documentary that explores the food and agriculture industry in Hawai'i and problems resulting from land use, importing foods and GMO test sites. For more information about...

3,277 views · 75%

Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'

Cuts to food stamps and jobless benefits predictable result of 'neoliberal assault' on American people As Congress decides this week whether to re-institute emergency jobless benefits for millions of Americans and closes in on negotiations for a Farm Bill that could see...

Jacob Chamberlain · 2,187 views · 88%

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."

Tim Hjersted · 278,626 views · 94%

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

The disparity between what the average worker earns and what CEOs take home is staggering — and it makes clear that the 99% does, in fact, need a raise. But while fighting for a $15 minimum wage is important, we also have to recognize that raising the minimum wage alone...

Tim Hjersted · 224,987 views · 99%

Modern Schools Stole Our Common Sense—Here's How We Take It Back

Long before we could vote, we learned to sit still, follow directions, and ignore the world outside the classroom window. This slowly dimmed the wild common sense we needed to fight corporate rule and reclaim our world, but it's not too late to reclaim what was lost.

Carol Black · 208,444 views · 96%

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

A century ago, industrialists like Andrew Carnegie believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. They left us with an ideological legacy that says the corporate economy, in which wealth concentrates in the hands of a few, produces...

Eric Michael Johnson · 177,510 views · 95%

7 min

This Woman Gets No Applause...Why? They Are Too Creeped Out...

Think you aren't being fooled by advertising tricks? Take a look at this so-called expert revealing food marketing's secret weapon. No amount of marketing makes factory farming acceptable. You can stop the spin at http://www.ciwf.org.uk/truth

Compassion in World Farming · 158,487 views · 98%

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

No person or group of people is ever one thing. Inside each of us are a thousand diverse aspects - evolving dimensions.

Tim Hjersted · 93,077 views · 96%

From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See

Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...

Tim Hjersted · 47,554 views · 92%

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