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The People's Fight: How We Halt the Climate Crisis
The People's Fight: How We Halt the Climate Crisis
The world’s scientists have made it all too clear: our earth is overheating. It’s bad, but we can still make changes that could be the difference between life and death for tens of millions of people. We need to take power away from the fossil fuel industry that created the...
4 min
Plastic Truth
Plastic Truth (2021)
What really happens to your recycling.
2 min
The Fossil Fuel Fight
The Fossil Fuel Fight (2020)
Fossil fuels on their way out? Hah! The skeleton CEO at the Fossil Fuels AGM will tell you the truth: even after Covid 19 they're still booming.
6 min
The Age of Social Murder
The Age of Social Murder
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
Chris Hedges
Jane Goodall - Pandemic
Jane Goodall - Pandemic
“It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic.” Jane Goodall
4 min
From North to South
From North to South (2021)
From North to South embarks to small island states from the North Sea to the South Pacific which belong to the lowest producers of CO2, yet are the ones most affected by climate change and rising sea levels. Three destinations that share the same longitude, the same threat...
18 min
Nina Turner: I Am an Angry-Ass Black Woman. I'm Mad!
Nina Turner: I Am an Angry-Ass Black Woman. I'm Mad! (2021)
And if you're not mad too...
2 min
Meat Heat
Meat Heat (2020)
How our cruel meat production burns fossil fuels, forests and the planet.
3 min
More Of Everything - A Film about Swedish Forestry
More Of Everything - A Film about Swedish Forestry (2021)
The Swedish forestry model is promoted as a success story, promising both climate change mitigation and safeguarding of biodiversity, but is this really true?
60 min
Changing the World is SIMPOL
Changing the World is SIMPOL (2021)
Ever wondered why governments aren't acting fast enough on climate and other global problems? Ever wondered what you can do? Sign on to the SIMPOL campaign at:
5 min
Honor the Earth
Honor the Earth
A Short Film by Tara Coyote
TaraC
Rebel For Life, A Powerful Story about Our Ultimate Challenge: To Protect Life on Earth
Rebel For Life, A Powerful Story about Our Ultimate Challenge: To Protect Life on Earth (2020)
Rebel for Life is a truly engaging story about a young hospital doctor who has turned into a radical climate activist. Dr. Vishal Chauhan, son of Indian immigrants, was working as a hospital doctor in the UK. Understanding that the Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis he makes a...
70 min
The Way Out: Facing the Climate Crisis
The Way Out: Facing the Climate Crisis (2018)
What can we do, when time is running out? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has a revolutionary proposal for facing the Climate Crisis. “The way out is in,” he states. “The way out of climate change is inside each of us.” His invitation is to stop: to stop running and to take a good...
60 min
FRANKENSKIES
FRANKENSKIES (2017)
FrankenSkies is an 80 minute social change documentary regarding the Solar Geoengineering/Chemtrail agenda that affects every living being on earth. The struggle of bringing awareness to this subject, despite the obstacles of a socially engineered populace and the military...
82 min
How 100% Clean Energy Could Power Our Cities and Towns
How 100% Clean Energy Could Power Our Cities and Towns
Grist built this tiny model town to show what it would look like if we tried to transition to 100% clean energy. In the real world, it’s even more difficult. Staff reporter Shannon Osaka wrote about what it really means when cities say they’re going ‘100 percent renewable.’
6 min
Economics of Cyberpunk 2077 | How to Resist the Mega-Corp [Video Essay]
Economics of Cyberpunk 2077 | How to Resist the Mega-Corp [Video Essay] (2021)
Mini-review and analysis of the game and theory behind it. I put a lot of love into this video because it covers two of my favourite things; Cyberpunk aesthetics and economics.
28 min
Halting Hades: the Moral Imperative
Halting Hades: the Moral Imperative (2017)
Filmmaker, Scott Danville creates a film, Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative, documenting the the science, politics, and economics of the world's most important issue, climate change, and the factors that will lead to a revolution through the intersection of science and...
63 min
The Crucial Role of Activism in the Apocalyptic Age -- Captain Paul Watson
The Crucial Role of Activism in the Apocalyptic Age -- Captain Paul Watson (2020)
Captain Paul Watson discusses the vital role of creative and flexible activism in order to counter the growing assault on nature.
37 min
Net Zero Climate Plans, Explained
Net Zero Climate Plans, Explained
The past year has seen an explosion in the number of companies announcing they are now “net-zero” or “carbon neutral,” or at least plan to be in the next 30 years. Unilever, Uber, and Facebook are just a few of the recent additions to the club, and even major oil companies...
4 min
Deforestation Affects Everything
Deforestation Affects Everything (2020)
This is "Deforestation Affects Everything," a short film created for Climate Reality that sets out the issue of Deforestation.
4 min
Disconnections
Disconnections (2020)
Disconnections explores the ways in which human society is disconnected psychologically from animals, the natural world and other humans. Interviews with River Eno, an author and environmental activist; and Dr. Harriet Fraad, a socialist activist and psychotherapist; focus on...
14 min
Roots and Fruits of Police - Animated Children's Book
Roots and Fruits of Police - Animated Children's Book (2020)
Roots and Fruits of Police - Animated Children's Book
12 min
MARCHANDO
MARCHANDO (2015)
Cumbre de los pueblos frente al cambio climático 2014
20 min
How America Can Leave Fossil Fuels Behind, In One Chart
How America Can Leave Fossil Fuels Behind, In One Chart
VOX talked to physicist and engineer Saul Griffith, who takes us through his incredibly detailed road map for how the US could actually walk away from fossil fuels in the next 30 years.
12 min
The Last and Most Important Advice I Will Ever Give | Dr. Meyer Hillman
The Last and Most Important Advice I Will Ever Give | Dr. Meyer Hillman
89-year-old social scientist Dr. Mayer Hillman explains the source of climate change and what must be done.
8 min
Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France
Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France
Can you see the absurdity of our world? Can you imagine another society?
5 min
Are coral dying?
Are coral dying?
Are coral dying?
10 min
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
2014 Book Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Michael Hoexter
Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
Narrator/Director: Brian McManus Co-Director: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Research: Stephanie Sammann (https://www.stephanie-sammann.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) 
13 min
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything
Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restoring the degraded...
9 min
Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years | Short Film Showcase
Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years | Short Film Showcase
The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase: http://bit.ly/ShortFilmShowcase...
6 min
Hope in a Changing Climate - by John D. Liu
Hope in a Changing Climate - by John D. Liu (2009)
Hope in a Changing Climate optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large, decimated eco-systems can be restored, the BBC World documentary reveals success stories from Ethiopia, Rwanda and China which prove that bringing large areas back from...
30 min
The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert. قصة مشروع البيضاء
The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert. قصة مشروع البيضاء
The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in...
20 min
Return to Eden : ONLINE PREMIERE
Return to Eden : ONLINE PREMIERE
Return To Eden - It’s all about coming home. When Natural and human interests impinge on each other and over-regulation disturbs our biological balance. important questions arise. Do we belong to nature or does nature belongs to us? A thought-provoking story in which...
106 min
What to Do When the World is on Fire
What to Do When the World is on Fire
In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine forested foothills of Eastern Australia’s Great Dividing Range. As we drove down Darkwood, the single road into the Thora, Kit told us...
Henry Coleman
World on Fire
World on Fire
Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, covering an area nearly the size of Britain. Only today, it isn’t so wet. After a summer of drought, catastrophic fires are raging that have devastated 2.4 million hectares of land already this year. (That’s more...
Charles Eisenstein
Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film...
3 min
Australia on Fire | Full Documentary
Australia on Fire | Full Documentary
Australia on Fire: Australia's deadliest fire season claimed the lives of 33 people, over 1 billion animals, destroyed over 300 homes and burnt 12 million hectares. These are the devastating stories of Australians waking up to the destruction to their homes and property...
57 min
Dive Tierra Bomba Dive
Dive Tierra Bomba Dive
 
10 min
It's Okay to Panic
It's Okay to Panic (2020)
​"It’s Okay to Panic" is a nostalgic portrait of 62-year-old Professor Szymon Malinowski, Director of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Warsaw, who worries that climate change may cause human civilisation to collapse in the coming decades. A career educator...
59 min
Crazy Times: Themes of precariousness in our current apocalyptic climate and a call to unity in the form of an animated genesis myth
Crazy Times: Themes of precariousness in our current apocalyptic climate and a call to unity in the form of an animated genesis myth
It's Crazy Times. (*Explicit lyrics)
2 min
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)
The film scratches the niggling itch that is lurking in many of our brains about the extinction of planetary systems that seems to be going on all around us, and the dawning realisation that something has to be done.
57 min
United National Antiwar Coalition(UNAC) 2020 - panel 1- Rise Against Militarism, Racism and the Climate Crisis
United National Antiwar Coalition(UNAC) 2020 - panel 1- Rise Against Militarism, Racism and the Climate Crisis
UNAC Conference 2020 Rise Against Militarism, Racism and the Climate Crisis Building Power Together A National Conference, Hosted by The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
148 min
Youth On Strike!
Youth On Strike! (2020)
In March 2019 Australian students defied calls to stay in school and went on strike for climate change action. One month out 12 students starting vlogging everything, this is their story. In March 2019 over 150,000 Australian students went on strike to demand climate change...
17 min
Richard Heinberg: Storytelling Beyond 'Planet of the Humans'
Richard Heinberg: Storytelling Beyond 'Planet of the Humans'
SolarFest Trustee Dave Conna and Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, enjoy a wide-ranging conversation that starts with their shared disappointment in the recent Michael Moore movie (including the use of grossly outdated, misleading information about...
69 min
Selene Aswell - Community Building
Selene Aswell - Community Building
Selene explores building community using a needs based regenerative culture approach, highlighting the importance of shared purpose, agreements and feedback loops. Filmed at the International Nonviolent Communication eCaravan in-line event July 2020.
9 min
David Attenborough - For All Nature
David Attenborough - For All Nature
“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” Sir David Attenborough
5 min
Windbag of Aeolus - Ασκός του Αιόλου
Windbag of Aeolus - Ασκός του Αιόλου
The bad side of alternative energy in Greece.
84 min
TEXTILE MOUNTAIN | The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste [2020]
TEXTILE MOUNTAIN | The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste [2020]
  Europeans throw away 2 million tonnes of textiles each year. Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned. Many of us donate our unwanted clothes to charity shops & clothing collection banks - but do we really know what happens to...
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India's Water Revolution #2: The Biggest Permaculture Project on Earth! with the Paani Foundation
India's Water Revolution #2: The Biggest Permaculture Project on Earth! with the Paani Foundation
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition. We tour the village of Velu, in Maharashtra, who won the 2016 competition to install the most amount of water harvesting structures in a 45 day...
12 min
India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition. We tour the village of Garavadi, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019 competition to install the most amount of water harvesting structures in...
10 min
This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
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
Women Are The Answer
Women Are The Answer (trailer)
Population growth has been left out of the climate debate because it is considered controversial, yet it is one of the most important factors.
91 min
Immuto (Change)
Immuto (Change)
Immuto (Change), is a response to the climate emergency and global environmental collapse.
45 min
Le pouvoir de demain – Documentaire
Le pouvoir de demain – Documentaire
Des activistes locaux de Gaza, d'Allemagne et de Colombie défient la dépendance aux combustibles fossiles et les structures du pouvoir dans leur lutte pour la justice sociale et climatique. Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and...
77 min
Tomorrow's Power
Tomorrow's Power (2019)
Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
77 min
La ruée vers le carbone – Documentaire
La ruée vers le carbone – Documentaire
Des habitants de la forêt pluviale, dont le mode de vie traditionnel est gravement menacé aux paysans assassinés par douzaines, en passant par la brusque disparition des moyens de subsistance des recycleurs de déchets, « La ruée vers le carbone » traverse quatre continents et...
85 min
The Carbon Rush
The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)
From indigenous rain forest dwellers having their way of life completely threatened, to dozens of Campesinos assassinated, to the livelihood of waste pickers at landfills taken away, THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and brings us up close to projects working...
2 min
How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)
How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)
A video essay by Second Thought. 
8 min
Competenzkistan
Competenzkistan
Competenzkistan completa una trilogia in videomorphing iniziata nel 2008 con "Liechtenstein" e che al tempo raggiunse in poche ore le 50mila visualizzazioni grazie al blog di Grillo. Successivamente un videoclip più breve "C'è del 'nuovo'... che Avanza" (uno sfottò ai governi...
7 min