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Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
17 min · 1,648 views · 5 stars
CANDiGRAM is the video log of a Love Activist... If loving ourselves is so important for the health and happiness of our children, our friends, the world, what can we do when we find it seems impossible?
11 min · 97 views · unrated
Bhutan, a small country enshrined in the Himalaya's leads the way in the pursuit of holistic, inclusive and truly environmentally sustainable development. This commitment emanates from the visionary statement in the early 1970s, of His Majesty, the Fourth King of Bhutan...
12 min · 16,944 views · 4.6 stars
Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in every human society. This video is a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species.
5 min · 5,801 views · 4.5 stars
Every Black Friday, for 24 hours, millions of people around the world will celebrate in a moratorium on consumer spending. Choosing, instead, to take a step back and reflect on what is really important to us. No more marketing mind-games; no more "possessions =...
1 min · 4,467 views · 5 stars
Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love, explores the growing realization that the dominant systems of power are failing to...
13 min · 3,332 views · 5 stars
“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
Maria Popova · 16,908 views · 5 stars
Instead of buying the items she coveted, this artist made paintings of them. Here’s what she learned after a year of not shopping.
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn · 10,522 views · 4 stars
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and...
42 min · 736 views · unrated
Pavlina Tcherneva discusses her plan for a job guarantee program to reduce American unemployment.
11 min · 813 views · unrated
‘Free-market’ economics has been dominant for a generation and what is the result? The world economy is in crisis, the banks are casinos for the super-rich, public services are being sold to profiteers and the gap between rich and poor has become a chasm.
A new economics is...
48 min · 100 views · unrated
A video about animals embodying once thought human exclusive emotions like love, grief, happiness, joy and anger. We grant them way too little in their capacity to feel. This video nicely refutes and challenges common misconceptions that humans are unique in their diversity...
2 min · 11,418 views · 4 stars
"To be born with the capacity to not worry about your basic needs is often misunderstood by not having to defend any injustices. To live in this bubble is a poor excuse to permit aggression to the less fortunate and that is a current reality."
Pilar MaloV ·
151 views · unrated
"What is keeping us from thriving?" asks the new movie, Thrive. The answer it gives is "the global elite," the people who control the financial system that in turn controls everything else. Operating through the power institutions of our society, this elite pursues a...
Charles Eisenstein · 11,762 views · 5 stars
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The resulting...
85 min · 55,561 views · 4.5 stars
"Imagine what it would be like if, instead of branding us by our brains or looks, our schools and televisions described the divinity and greatness inside each one of us, and taught us the means to realize it. If, instead of idolizing wealth and fame, showed us the usefulness...
15 min · 9,705 views · 4 stars
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You...
2 min · 23,339 views · 4.2 stars
Love of stuff will make you unhappy: You know this, and in case you forget, there is probably, somewhere, some version of A Christmas Carol playing on television right now to remind you. But in a release from the American Psychological Association, psychology professor Tim...
Melissa Dahl · 3,779 views · 4 stars
Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey · 3,615 views · unrated
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country's mission to put happiness before economic...
19 min · 41 views · unrated
The end of growth will come one day, perhaps very soon, whether we’re ready or not. If we plan for and manage it, we could well wind up with greater well-being.
Richard Heinberg · 4,787 views · unrated
Americans think it's normal to hate their jobs. Let us introduce you to the Danish concept of arbejdsglæde. It means happiness at work. Here's how Danish offices make sure it's happening.
Alexander Kjerulf · 40,748 views · 5 stars
The danger is not commercialisation per se but our constant identification with its inner and outer manifestation, in which humanity’s intelligence is led in the opposite direction from nature and spiritual evolution.
What is evil, anyway, if not our identification with...
Mohammed Mesbahi · 6,383 views · 5 stars
During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an expanding middle class, and a few people were getting fabulously rich. Development seemed to be...
David Korten · 3,424 views · 5 stars
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh · 64,986 views · 4.8 stars
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
Heather Stewart · 5,496 views · 4.8 stars
Have you ever felt yourself a slave to a particular feeling, unable to get beyond a negative emotional state, even when you try to? Why does this happen? How can we gain control over our emotions so as to lead happier and more productive lives?
The inner personality of a...
Vedanta Institute Los Angeles · 569 views · unrated
'Leap' is a feature documentary about the possibility and process of upgrading your thoughtware: what it takes, how it goes. 'Leap' follows the lives of 5 people from different walks of life as they take a leap of faith and transform their lives through the power of...
3 min · 172 views · unrated
The path to happiness and health begins with compassion. Try telling that to TV journalist Mike Wilson, who only believes in one thing – Mike Wilson. But when rookie reporter Katie Dawkins uncovers new and intriguing medical research, Mike must dig deep into his past and...
2 min · 204 views · unrated
Despite India's rapid economic growth, child malnutrition rates have not witnessed big improvements. As part of its CSR efforts, the Tata group, through Tata Motors, partnered with grass root organisations to try and address malnutrition which damages the physical and...
4 min · 129 views · unrated
The increasingly unscrupulous propaganda machine of radical corporate capitalism is warping our humanity and driving us to destroy what is closest to our hearts, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker. The last hope of defeating this evil might lie in the strategic use...
John F. Schumaker · 9,486 views · 5 stars
Being truly happy isn't some gift or new toy you're given (though many people confuse the two). It's not the moment all your perceived negatives are resolved, nor a state of perpetually chasing fading thrills. Like anything in life, happiness is a skill that grows only when...
Michael Emero ·
269 views · unrated
Action for Happiness is a movement for positive social change. We're bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone.
For fifty years we've aimed relentlessly at higher incomes. But despite being much...
1 min · 5,357 views · 4.3 stars
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.
David Cain · 4,208,779 views · 4.8 stars
Many people believe in the power of positive thinking but personally I believe it’s overrated and is not enough to create a fundamental and lasting change in someone.
In this video I share my passion/frustration at the way in which people expect to be
5 min · 219 views · unrated
Most children in our society protest going to school. Am I telling you something new?
Peter Gray · 30,337 views · 5 stars
In the depths of Our being, there is so much Greatness, that it is sometimes very hard to entertain the notion that the expression of this Greatness, can sometimes be scrutinized and seen as insufficient by the standards of others. This becomes Our concern during the state...
A heavily consumer-based culture requires an element of dissatisfaction in the people. It also requires fear. When people are not happy, they tend to look for something to fix it. To fix it, they usually look for an external solution, like a new purchase or a new experience...
Adam Oakley ·
150 views · unrated
Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 7:30pm "The Economics of a New Year" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
85 min · 162 views · unrated
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 · 12,142 views · 5 stars
Beauty in Darkness is a documentary of four short stories portraying difficult situations that people in Gumaca are suffering from, a typical scenario of a dark reality occurring in different parts of the world.
aileenca ·
1,737 views · unrated
Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use up Earth's limited resources, but they are less happy and...
5 min · 87,669 views · 4.8 stars
Sound Clips of George Carlin with a beautiful dance by our fellow earthlings, the birds.
4 min · 7,168 views · 3.9 stars
Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up! examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho's and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. Through examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street, the film shows how the same...
2 min · 9,163 views · 4.2 stars
This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by...
5 min · 28,715 views · 4.4 stars
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...
85 min · 1,551 views · 4.5 stars
If we live in a city with little or no 'ecology' around us, where on earth do we start to make an 'ecological' lifestyle? This very short film brings us into the minds of natural farmers in Japan and the United States, discovering how city dwellers can begin to live with more...
8 min · 3,905 views · 5 stars
With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family...
Anja Lyngbaek · 7,505 views · 4.5 stars
Clive de Carle presents a brief overview of the secrets of being healthy in an age of illness.
37 min · 35 views · unrated
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.
Films For Action ·
400,361 views · 5 stars
People are waking up.
They're getting involved.
They're saying, "Not another day! This is where I mark the line."
Their desire to change the world is turning from simple wishful thinking on Monday mornings into tangible action.
The thoughts they used to have only occasionally...
Tim Hjersted ·
22,818 views · 4.9 stars
HAPPINESS IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH TRUE LOVE. True love has the power to heal and transform the situation around us and bring a deep meaning to our lives. There are people who understand the nature of true love and how to generate and nurture it. The teachings on love given by...
Thich Nhat Hanh · 62,352 views · 5 stars
In mid-November of 2016, I was a Water Protector at Standing Rock. At first my goal was to play investigative journalist; documenting then writing about every detail for my article readers and online followers. However, by the time I actually got there, all my goals had changed.
Michael Emero ·
4,025 views · 5 stars
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson · 5,195 views · unrated
What is so refreshing about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is that they recognise the inherent tension between economic development and the ecology of our planet. Or so it seems. The preamble affirms that “planet Earth and its ecosystems are our home” and underscores...
Jason Hickel · 7,355 views · unrated
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,463 views · 4 stars
You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more. If we do our job well, the economy thrives; if for some reason we fail
Richard Heinberg · 3,446 views · 4 stars
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and...
Michael Kitson · 2,852 views · unrated
The ongoing economic crisis that began with the unraveling of wildly inflated real estate prices and the Wall Street derivatives bubble in 2007 and the crash into near depression in October of 2008 resulted in trillions of dollars of public bail out money for banks and...
Richard Register · 8,795 views · 5 stars
Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard is asking for people to be more compassionate toward animals.
2 min · 5,660 views · 5 stars