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Fat Head 105 min
Fat Head (2009)
While most people saw the documentary Super Size Me as an expose of the fast food industry, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton saw it as a dare: He'd show that you could lose weight on a diet of burgers and fries.
29,539 views · 80%
Seeds of Freedom 30 min
Seeds of Freedom (2012)
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.
28,911 views · 90%
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
This is the first chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Howard Zinn · 27,917 views · 96%
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny 33 min
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union, the health food store, environmental coops and the kindergarden.
21,158 views · 75%
Is Greed All That's Wrong with Capitalism?
Is Greed All That's Wrong with Capitalism?
Is greed all that's wrong with capitalism? No. It is not enough to attack capitalists for being greedy, although this is a common tactic. I hope to explain why in this short essay.
James Herod · 16,618 views · 100%
The Story of Bottled Water 8 min
The Story of Bottled Water
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five...
The Story of Stuff Project · 13,006 views · 94%
The Plastic Cow 34 min
The Plastic Cow (2012)
A 34-minute documentary about animal rights, the film looks at the impact of our almost complete dependence on plastic bags, which we use and discard carelessly every day, often to dispose our garbage and kitchen waste.
12,862 views · 75%
Elizabeth Warren: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class 58 min
Elizabeth Warren: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
If the average family of four in 1970 had only one income earner, how is it that the two-income family of today has more debt?  Using data from the U.S. Commerce Department, distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren analyzes expenses and income of an average American family...
University of California Television (UCTV) · 12,855 views · 88%
The Meatrix 10 min
The Meatrix
Take the red pill and watch the critically-acclaimed, award-winning first episode of The Meatrix Trilogy. Join Meo as he goes on a journey into the "real world" to see the horrific truth of what’s really going on with the food we eat today. Topics covered are industrial...
mediathatmatters · 12,648 views · 89%
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about...
Vandana Shiva · 11,850 views · 100%
The Secret of Enough
The Secret of Enough
First, the truth If you are naked, cold, and hungry, and somehow you get shelter, clothing, and food, you will feel better. Providing for these necessities creates a qualitative change in life, and could even be said to, in some ways, produce “happiness.” You feel...
Thom Hartmann · 10,146 views · 91%
23 Laws from Other Countries the US Should Consider Adopting
23 Laws from Other Countries the US Should Consider Adopting
Traveling is a great way to learn about other cultures and ways of thinking. While most of our encounters with a host country’s legal system usually revolve around visas and Customs offices, there is a much broader and underlying set of laws that guides the flow of daily...
Svene Berlein · 9,769 views · 100%
Big Idea: Ecocity Economics
Big Idea: Ecocity Economics
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 · 8,979 views · 100%
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden! 48 min
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!
Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food!
8,515 views · 75%
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability 28 min
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability
Tour Scott McGuire's "White Sage Gardens" in the back yard of his rental home -- a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, "How might a household produce and preserve a significant portion of its own food supply?" Composting, a water-conserving greenhouse...
peakmoment · 8,167 views · 75%
Greening the Desert 5 min
Greening the Desert
They laughed and said it couldn't be done... but sure enough, a group of permaculturist's were able to turn an area of desert into a lush garden that could support food and plants, using permaculture principles established over the last several decades. This film explains how...
permares · 8,149 views · 88%
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
In most state legislatures today, "off the wall" has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual.
Jim Hightower · 6,117 views · 75%
15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)
15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)
Films For Action · 5,994 views · 75%
How Congress Has Been Robbing Low-Wage US Workers since 1968 4 min
How Congress Has Been Robbing Low-Wage US Workers since 1968
Not many Americans know that the value of the minimum wage has dropped significantly since its peak in 1968. One could have bought a grocery basket full of food with only one hour’s worth of minimum wage work in 1968 (working out to $10.75 in 2014 dollars) . Today, one would...
TIME · 5,537 views · 75%
BriarPatch Co-op - Building for the New Century 28 min
BriarPatch Co-op - Building for the New Century
Manager Paul Harton welcomes us to the newly-built BriarPatch Co-op Natural Foods Community Market. It's built to qualify for LEED™ certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and incorporates innovative design throughout. Architect Jeff Gold shows...
peakmoment · 4,992 views · 50%
Meats: A Health Hierarchy
Meats: A Health Hierarchy
In case you've not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can.
James Hamblin · 4,867 views · 75%
Propeller Sustainability Series, "SHELTER: Part 1" 5 min
Propeller Sustainability Series, "SHELTER: Part 1"
In a new video series on sustainability, filmmaker Alexia Prichard focuses on shelter, food, water, waste & community. In this first installment we meet architect and author Sarah Susanka (the "Not So Big House" series) to learn about the true meaning of "home."
Alexia Prichard · 4,826 views · unrated
Sustainable Connections - Transforming a Community Through Local Business 28 min
Sustainable Connections - Transforming a Community Through Local Business
Michelle Long shows us how a highly successful local independent business network has transformed Bellingham, WA, while inspiring other communities. From an initial "Think Local First" program, they have expanded to business peer mentoring, and support for local food...
peakmoment · 4,697 views · unrated
Development in the Ecological Age
Development in the Ecological Age
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,427 views · 100%
Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy
Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy
Building A Solidarity Economy Under the cooperative model, workers own the business, reducing injustice because they have a stake in the community and because an individual will find it hard to exploit oneself. Workers often buy into their jobs (upfront or amortized), vote...
Sebastian A.B. · 4,127 views · 100%
Bringing It Home: a Documentary about Industrial Hemp (trailer) 3 min
Bringing It Home: a Documentary about Industrial Hemp (trailer)
Hemp is a misunderstood plant with compelling benefits for healthy homes, food, farmers, job creation and our environment. Industrial hemp is non-psychoactive and grown in thirty other nations but currently U.S. farmers are prohibited from this economic opportunity.
4,047 views · 88%
Community Responses to Peak Oil 27 min
Community Responses to Peak Oil
Peak oil educator and author Richard Heinberg discusses what communities can do to prepare for peak oil. He covers transportation, including a novel ride-sharing scheme, assessing municipal vulnerabilities, local food and energy production, as well as the Hirsch report's...
peakmoment · 3,994 views · unrated
Monsanto Hates Democracy
Monsanto Hates Democracy
Monsanto hates democracy because democracy doesn't work for Monsanto. Nine out of 10 of us want to know where Monsanto's been hiding the GMOs in our food and  most of us wouldn't eat those GMOs if we knew where they were. If everything in this country were decided...
Alexis Baden-Mayer · 3,615 views · 75%
How to Create Abundant Cities
How to Create Abundant Cities
Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having enough, of contests over who gets the most of the scarce resources available, then aiming for...
Wolfgang Hoeschele · 3,584 views · 100%
McDonald's Accidentally Served Up a Minimum Wage "McManifesto"
McDonald's Accidentally Served Up a Minimum Wage "McManifesto"
Marie Antoinette, meet Ronald McDonald. A lot
Richard Eskow · 2,862 views · 75%
An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization
An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization
The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type of economy where the operating rules of the system require maximization of profits at any...
Karl North · 2,819 views · unrated
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.
Bruce E. Levine · 1,146,702 views · 91%
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.
Marilyn Wedge · 201,693 views · 95%
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil 52 min
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people...
93,729 views · 97%
Vegucated 76 min
Vegucated (2010)
Vegucated follows three people who, for six weeks, adopt a vegan diet and a new way of thinking about food. A FilmBuff Presentation.
37,964 views · 88%
They Say You Are What You Eat, In This Case It's A Pissed Off Talking Sausage 2 min
They Say You Are What You Eat, In This Case It's A Pissed Off Talking Sausage
A hungry young man gets served some serious food for thought when a sausage starts telling his dramatic life story. What he hears will change his life forever.
mercyforanimals · 33,080 views · 75%
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn is the author of many works including The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond Civilization. His first book,
Daniel Quinn · 31,190 views · 92%
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman · 27,708 views · 95%
No Enemies
No Enemies
Without communication, no real understanding can be possible. But be sure that you can communicate with yourself first. If you cannot communicate with yourself, how do you expect to communicate with another person? Love is the same. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love...
Thich Nhat Hanh · 26,410 views · 67%
McLibel 2 min
McLibel (trailer)
Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are...
22,984 views · 85%
The Next Industrial Revolution 54 min
The Next Industrial Revolution (2002)
Chris Bedford and Shelley Morhaim made this award winning 56 minute long film on the sustainability revolution in materials and manufacturing. "The Next Industrial Revolution" tells the story of architect William McDonough's and chemist Michael Braungart's work to redesign...
16,501 views · 42%
In This Epic Moment of Eco-Social Disruption, The World Is Seeing a Revolutionary Transformation
In This Epic Moment of Eco-Social Disruption, The World Is Seeing a Revolutionary Transformation
In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
Kenny Ausubel · 13,767 views · 100%
Sugar: The Bitter Truth 90 min
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
University of California Television (UCTV) · 13,353 views · 88%
Root-Solution: Building the Ecocity 7 min
Root-Solution: Building the Ecocity
Richard Register discusses the concept of the Ecocity: an Ecocity is a human settlement that enables its residents to live a good quality of life while using minimal natural resources. It is threaded with natural habitat corridors, to foster biodiversity and to give residents...
파워볼캡틴63 · 11,044 views · 56%
The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada 22 min
The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada
In the words of filmmaker Tom Shadyac, "The shift is hitting the fan." We're experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation. This awkward 'tween state marks the end of pre-history - the sunset of an ecologically illiterate civilization. Like a baby being born, a new...
Biggest Ideas · 10,596 views · 54%
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (trailer) 1 min
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (trailer)
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people...
9,802 views · 100%
The Revolution Has Begun. "The Shift Hits the Fan"
The Revolution Has Begun. "The Shift Hits the Fan"
The Bottleneck. The Great Disruption. Peak Everything. The Great Turning.
Kenny Ausubel · 9,774 views · 100%
Seeds of Sovereignty 36 min
Seeds of Sovereignty (2013)
As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film tells the story of how African farming communities and organisations are reviving traditional seed diversity across the continent, and resisting mounting corporate...
7,791 views · 83%
Our Seeds 56 min
Our Seeds (2008)
"Our Seeds" addresses the problems of globalised food based on hybrids that require pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. The film shows how individuals and small groups have solved these problems. A celebration of the seed keepers that stand at the source of humanity's...
6,095 views · 75%
Calm Before the Storm 27 min
Calm Before the Storm
Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, “how far down the staircase of...
peakmoment · 5,875 views · unrated
Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired 10 min
Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired
A perfect example of both, why you can't trust big news organizations to tell you the truth, and why you should stick to organic food whenever possible. This clip is taken from the film "The Corporation". An excellent piece showing the systematic problems with corporations in...
kidwave1 · 5,849 views · 88%
Inner Climate Change 11 min
Inner Climate Change
How do we change? How do we adapt our lifestyles to become resilient to the changes we are facing today?
Sattva reports · 5,177 views · 94%
GMO OMG (trailer) 2 min
GMO OMG (trailer)
Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity's most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds.
5,125 views · 83%
FBI Calls Half of Populace with 9/11 Doubts Potential Terrorists
FBI Calls Half of Populace with 9/11 Doubts Potential Terrorists
The FBI is instructing local police departments and "communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a circular released to local police departments.   The circular thus adds 9/11 official story...
Ralph Lopez · 5,113 views · 88%
The Authoritarianism Of Elizabeth Warren
The Authoritarianism Of Elizabeth Warren
Throughout the US government “shutdown,” Democratic politicians have compared their Republican rivals to “anarchists” and argued that the “shutdown” proves government necessary. A recent speech by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Senate floor exemplifies this trend.
Nathan Goodman · 4,724 views · 75%
Annual Income of Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over
Annual Income of Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over
Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels.
Oxfam · 4,599 views · 100%
Face It, Your Politics Are Boring As F-ck
Face It, Your Politics Are Boring As F-ck
You know it's true. Otherwise, why does everyone cringe when you say the word? Why has attendance at your discussion group meetings fallen to an all-time low? Why has the oppressed masses not come to its senses and joined you in your fight for world liberation?
Nadia C. · 4,524 views · 94%
Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation
Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation
October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France -- Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here we go! I think I’ve got it?”  The plastic pitch of a...
laronceblog · 4,481 views · 100%
Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
Photo: A mural by the artist Banksy along Regent’s Canal in London. (Flickr/Matt Brown) I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense. And it wasn’t until I was out...
Yotam Marom · 4,180 views · 75%
Government of Occupation 2 min
Government of Occupation
Is it the end? END:CIV is a film that examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen...
subMedia · 4,091 views · unrated
How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World
How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World
CREATING COMMUNITY: (Above) Chris O’Donnell, 24, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, takes a break at the Occupy Wall Street encampment. The kitchen has been serving free meals to as many as 1,000 people a day. (Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales)   “Who is ready to defend our park?” the...
Nicholas Powers · 4,089 views · unrated
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Gary Chartier · 4,044 views · 75%
The Test of a Civilization 5 min
The Test of a Civilization
Acadamy award winner James Cromwell of L.A. Confidential, The Longest Yard, and many other movies, explains that animal testing is cruel and counter-productive.This video takes us through just a small observation of the surface of animal testing through a number of facilities...
julie3782 · 3,601 views · 75%
Grow Heathrow: Residents Resisting Eviction Over 3rd Runway 4 min
Grow Heathrow: Residents Resisting Eviction Over 3rd Runway
On March 1st 2010 Transition Heathrow members swooped on an abandoned market garden site in Sipson; one of the villages to be completely tarmacked to make way for a third runway at Heathrow.
Sean Richard · 3,255 views · 81%
If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change
If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change
I  first met nature writer and philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore in 2004. I had already dog-eared my copy of her first collection of essays,Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, when she came through town to read from her next book, Holdfast: At Home in the...
Mary DeMocker · 3,068 views · unrated
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the mainstream media seems to have...
Paul Buchheit · 2,323 views · 100%
Who Knew that Seoul was a Leader in the Sharing Economy?
Who Knew that Seoul was a Leader in the Sharing Economy?
Did you know that Seoul, South Korea is one of the world’s key sites for post-growth economic re-development? No? Neither did I, until I saw for myself.   I was pleased to be invited to give the keynote address at a conference titled “Reshaping the Way We Live,” put on by...
Richard Heinberg · 1,785 views · 75%
How Money Shapes the World...
How Money Shapes the World...
“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. They are not dependent on us. We are dependent on them. They are not an interruption in our work. They are the purpose of it. They are not outsiders in our business. They are a part of it. We are not doing them a...
Michael Beecher · 1,331 views · 100%
Place-based Everywhere: Lessons from Flood Wall Street
Place-based Everywhere: Lessons from Flood Wall Street
The arrests at the end of Flood Wall Street may have been the only reason the mainstream media paid attention to the several thousand people who parked themselves next to the Charging Bull for the better part of eight hours. But, although no station covered it, what happened...
Kristen Steele · 1,185 views · unrated
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary
Deep Ecology Hub · 544,235 views · 82%
John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End
John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves".  As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and...
John Pilger · 407,053 views · 96%
Forks Over Knives 96 min
Forks Over Knives (2011) ($4)
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are...
99,010 views · 79%
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012
2012 was another big year for break-out films in the social change genre. With most of the bases covered for all of the major problems we're facing, more and more films this year focused on the solutions side of the equation, giving a voice to the uplifting stories of people...
Tim Hjersted · 81,978 views · 100%
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture 90 min
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)
FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. It is a sprawling film, shot on location...
68,399 views · 84%
10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy
10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy
A Way to Achieve Global Human Happiness Without Destroying the Planet
Ashish Kothari · 54,062 views · 79%
Labor Day Is a Scam To Keep You Poor and Miserable Forever
Labor Day Is a Scam To Keep You Poor and Miserable Forever
Labor Day is a complete rip-off. Labor isn't celebrated at all—instead, a single day's break from labor is celebrated. You might think this is a stupid thing to care about, because Labor Day is really just about getting drunk in your yard, again. But that's actually evidence...
Ken Layne · 44,902 views · 100%
END:CIV 75 min
END:CIV (2011)
Directed by Franklin Lopez, END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.
38,878 views · 88%
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out if you wanted to. Government-controlled schooling didn't eliminate dumbness - in fact, we...
John Taylor Gatto · 36,797 views · 100%
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy 118 min
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)
This is a powerful 10-part compilation that (in important ways) pulls aside the veil of Official myths and Lies about "freedom", "democracy", and “human rights” being the basis of U.S. foreign policy.
Frank Dorrel · 36,002 views · 96%
Sizing up the Tiny House Movement
Sizing up the Tiny House Movement
A growing number of people are choosing to shun the conventional option of a foundation, mortgage and spare room in favour of a house the size of the average suburban garage. So what exactly is a tiny house, why is it so appealing, and what is it like to actually live in one?
Steph Wetherell · 33,605 views · 100%
Back to Eden: Simple Sustainable Solutions 104 min
Back to Eden: Simple Sustainable Solutions (2011)
After years of back-breaking toil in ground ravaged by the effects of man-made growing systems, Paul Gautschi has discovered a taste of what God intended for mankind in the garden of Eden. Some of the vital issues facing agriculture today include soil preparation...
24,307 views · 92%
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Films For Action · 20,694 views · 92%
How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter
How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter
The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.
Russell McLendon · 19,263 views · 100%
Please Get My Kids Nothing for Christmas
Please Get My Kids Nothing for Christmas
Dear family and friends,
Greg Hanscom · 17,815 views · 88%
"They Take Our Jobs!" - Aviva Chomsky on 21 Myths about Immigration 60 min
"They Take Our Jobs!" - Aviva Chomsky on 21 Myths about Immigration
Aviva Chomsky's 2007 book "They Take Our Jobs!" provides a careful analysis of the overheated rhetoric around immigration policy in the United States, debunking the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's debate.Here are 8 of the 21:
AustinActivistArchiv · 17,660 views · 75%
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006. Before we look at the d
Mike P. Sinn · 17,280 views · 100%
Unwasted: The Future Of Business On Earth 54 min
Unwasted: The Future Of Business On Earth (2011)
Unwasted presents the alluring ideal of zero waste as a key element of the sustainable business model. While some may shake their heads thinking this an impossible task, it’s worth remembering that mankind had a zero waste lifestyle up until about 100 years ago. There were no...
16,576 views · 72%
5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth
5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth
From left to right: Starhawk, Julia Butterfly Hill, Majora Carter, Vandana Shiva, and Patricia Gualinga. August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained the right to vote, 95 years ago. In honor of women’s equality, we present 5 fearless women...
Rachael Steineckert · 16,162 views · 97%
Salmon Confidential 69 min
Salmon Confidential (2013)
Salmon Confidential is a film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for dangerous European salmon viruses associated with salmon farming worldwide, a chain of events is...
14,613 views · 95%
The Emotional World of Farm Animals 56 min
The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2004)
The Emotional World of Farm Animals is a delightful documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often just viewed as food.
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David versus Monsanto 65 min
David versus Monsanto (2009) ($2)
Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few days later, representatives of a...
14,387 views · 92%
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: an Intro to Hunter-Gatherer Economics
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: an Intro to Hunter-Gatherer Economics
Richard B. Lee · 14,042 views · 75%
10 Ways To Make Positive Change In The World
10 Ways To Make Positive Change In The World
How can I make a positive difference in the world? Where do I start? Which of the overwhelming number of urgent global issues should I focus my attention on first? These are questions most of us have asked ourselves at some point, but although being an active citizen can...
Sophie McAdam · 12,631 views · 92%
Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'
Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'
Update 8/6, a clarification. The below article's quotes were taken a bit out of context: http://www.rt.com/news/bolivia-coca-cola-ban-770/
RT · 12,074 views · 100%
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
"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 · 11,981 views · 100%
Life Running Out of Control 59 min
Life Running Out of Control (2004)
In the mid 1980s, scientists unlocked the genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything seemed possible! There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases would be vanquished and poverty wiped out. But twenty years on the situation looks very different...
11,403 views · 88%
Disaster by Design? What's Wrong with the "Thrive" Movement
Disaster by Design? What's Wrong with the "Thrive" Movement
Thrive is the name of a controversial film that asks, and attempts to answer, some of the deepest questions about the nature of the human condition and what is thwarting our chances to prosper. Lavishly funded, it features appealing imagery, beautiful music, and interviews...
John Robbins · 10,941 views · 100%
Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
A note of clarification: The "left" in left libertarian in the title exists to distinguish the solutions this article presents from the right-learning associations most people have of American libertarianism. If you're only used to reading
Kevin Carson · 9,742 views · 72%
A Libertarian Socialist Critique of the "Libertarian" Party & Ron Paul
A Libertarian Socialist Critique of the "Libertarian" Party & Ron Paul
The word “libertarian” is becoming an increasingly popular descriptor of political ideology in the US, though many in the US incorrectly associate libertarianism only with the capitalist Libertarian Party. Historically libertarianism was a term used most commonly by...
Brian Ellis · 8,998 views · 100%
"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten
"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten
If we all treat one another with the best principles of human relationships, it is analogous to complying with Nature's biophysical principles by taking responsibility for our own behavior.
Chris Maser · 8,723 views · 100%
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