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My mother died of cancer five years ago. While most of the cells in her body grew and reproduced at a rate that merely kept her alive, there were a few rogue cells that mutated and changed — reprogramming themselves as greedy individuals who cared about nothing except rapid...
Joe Brewer
If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery
Sara Burrows
NEVOAZUL is a magazine about less and more where minimalism, consumerism and sustainability merge with art, literature and culture. Together we can open a debate about how social responsability, sustainable behavior and ethical fashion could make a difference in our future.
Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think.
Natalie Shure
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ― Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein
The rise of people who are diagnosed with mental illnesses, especially children, has been unprecedented. ADHD, ADD, bipolar...
Martijn Schirp
When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...
Judy Wicks
Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on earth where endangered elephants, rhinos, tigers and orangutans coexist in the wild. But they're under threat from illegal palm oil plantations. So environmental activist Rudi Putra is trying to change that, one illegal tree...
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Scientists have warned about the dangers of plastic pollution and microplastics in the environment for a while now. But most people still aren’t convinced of the link between carelessly discarding a water bottle and damage in the seas. After all, plastic in the ocean doesn’t...
Lesley Henderson
The modern era is built on a theory of the Universe as a giant mechanical clock — dead matter with gears and springs.
Joe Brewer
We seem to have forgotten that the human spirit is not satisfied by material progress alone. It’s time for us to reconnect with nature
Fiona Reynolds
'Business leaders who refuse to look into the realities of their own supply chains are misguided and irresponsible.'
Deirdre Fulton
These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself.
Marcie Bianco
Neoliberalism encourages us to treat every aspect of our lives as if it were on sale in a marketplace: is it an anti-spiritual project?
Deborah Grayson and Charlotte Millar
Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You’re not alone… our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being.
Sigmund Fraud
This pop-up shop in one of Bangkok's hippest shopping malls showed consumers the suffering behind every exotic-skins bag, belt, jacket, and pair of gloves or shoes.
2 min
If you haven’t been paying attention, I don’t blame you for at first not believing this. After all, companies go to great lengths to greenwash their image and present themselves as progressive and environmentally responsible, even while they turn your land to deserts and your...
Exposing The Truth
British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth
Nafeez Ahmed
Everyone needs to hear this. The truth about fame from the people who went on that ride and saw where it leads.
6 min
This clip is from the series Mr Robot, in which young anti-social computer programmer Elliot works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their...
1 min
Super Bowl 50 is the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a marketing scheme for...
David Swanson
1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in the last week, been expected--and, at moments, obligated--to respond to them is...
Benji Hart
Immersed in middle class American life, I am the mother of a teenage son and daughter, and I live in a medium sized town outside of Philadelphia. If that conjures images of navigating complex social media relationships, painful negotiating sessions around cash, google...
France passes a new law that bans the use of "excessively skinny" models and puts regulations on airbrushed photos to promote better self-image in women and girls. Some critics in the fashion industry have criticized the law's ambiguous language.
1 min
Advertisers are using several psychological tactics to get us to buy a lot more this holiday season.
3 min
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and...
Chris Hedges
This national retail co-op is doing its part to preserve the spirit of Thanksgiving.
Jim Hightower
Former Walmart executive recounts how he would watch Associates sit in the break room during their lunch hour without eating because they couldn't afford food. Walmart banned management from offering Associates any money to buy lunch. Walmart's corporate philosophy is to "do...
11 min
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
George Monbiot
Everyone hates online ads. But you don’t have to see them anymore. In fact you don’t have to see ads on any website ever. All of you have to do is download AdBlock.
I’m a Youtuber. I don’t make ad revenue when people use Adblock so people are often shocked when I recommend...
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In Borneo, several starving orangutans have been rescued after their forest homes were clear-cut for a palm oil plantation. The rainforest was bulldozed by BGA, a member of the RSPO – the organization issuing the label for sustainable palm oil. Please act now to stop this...
Rainforest Rescue
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
George Monbiot
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min
Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled materials.
8 min
“How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one’s greatness? How much...
Chris Agnos
This is a clip from the 3-part documentary HUMAN. Watch it here. You can watch the full 10 minute interview with José via Part 2.
1 min
In my first year of college, I stopped calling myself an activist.
Kai Cheng Thom
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Daniel Lattier
Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.
Cat Johnson
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Scholar Henry Giroux says America’s current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like ‘the walking dead.’
Bill Moyers and Henry Giroux
Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.
Russell McLendon
This is a clip from The Economics of Happiness. Watch it here (skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)
9 min
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
Heather Stewart
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don't eat. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
18 min
Istanbul is a truly dynamic city, full of paradoxes and historical treasures, with an exploding population of over 20 million people. Its perpetual industrialization spearheaded by the government and the disproportionate financial opportunities available in the city continues...
9 min
Brilliant story about the community of Magdalena Teitipac in Oaxaca, Mexico, who have succeeded in banishing a mining company that intruded on their traditional lands without any previous consultation. They say the key to their success in fighting a major company with state...
5 min
This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost...
50 min
A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use
Lucy Purdy
You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.
Health Perch
An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
Jay Cassano
The power is in your hands.
2 min
We will have to consume less, not more, if we are serious about tackling climate change. So how do businesses like Coca-Cola lure us into forgetting that inconvenient truth?
Stephen Devlin
Trendy clothes are cheaper than ever. That sounds great for the people who buy them, but it's horrible for the people who make them.
17 min
Speech by comedian, campaigner and author of "What The **** is Normal" Francesca Martinez. Part of an event inspired by Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything".
8 min
"The history of wage struggle in Cambodia is a case study for the history of global capitalism as a whole.
4 min
There are many institutions in our culture and society that, for me, highlight the depth of our dysfunctionality and despair. Such institutions express the shocking degree to which a social system of artificially-created human misery has been so successfully naturalised that...
Joel Lazarus
To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.
Michael J. Coren
In China, factory workers live in dorms owned by Walmart - workers pay rent and utilities. If they move out of the dorms to live in a place not connected to Walmart, they still have to pay rent for the dorms. Workers work in factories with poor ventilation. They are told...
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