Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions.

20 min · 5 stars

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change

How corporations convinced the public to blame themselves rather than the 100 companies most responsible.

7 min · 5 stars

The Farms of the Future

Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...

Isabel Marlens · 5 stars

Climate Change in the Age of the Resistance

It should be no secret that I love The Dark Crystal, and have since I was a small child in the '80's. I've always found the journey to discover a path to heal what is broken, without destroying "evil," but by unifying the dark and the light within us. It's just art though...

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan · 5 stars

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?

7 min · 5 stars

Fracked - Award Winning Short Film by Antony Stone

A little girl is thrust into a dystopian future caused by over fracking the earth. A farming family is disrupted by fracking. Lily, the farmers young daughter eavesdrops as her parents argue. John, her father sets explosives at the fracking pad. Lily, caught in the explosion...

28 min · 5 stars

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 · 5 stars

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 · 5 stars

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 · 5 stars

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt)

This is an edited excerpt the feature length documentary This Changes Everything.

10 min · 4.6 stars

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative...

85 min · 4.4 stars

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the...

2 min · 4.4 stars

Climate Science in 1956: A Blast from the Past

Many climate deniers still seem to think global warming was invented by Al Gore, in 2006. As this recently uncovered recording from 1956 shows, the outlines of climate change science have been clear for many decades.

10 min · 4.7 stars

The End of Suburbia (2004)

"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of "The End...

52 min · 4.7 stars

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June...

Bill McKibben · 4.7 stars

The Yes Men Are Revolting (trailer)

7 min · 4.7 stars

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Climate of Doubt explores how a movement mobilized to undermine public acceptance of the scientific consensus on global warming.

54 min · 4.7 stars

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after...

2 min · 4.7 stars

"It's Cold Outside. So Global Warming Must Not Be Happening."

"I looked outside, and it was snowing, therefore, there is no climate change." If that's what passes for rational thought in your social group, you owe it to yourself to watch this edition of Climate Denial Crock of the Week.

6 min · 4.7 stars

You Are Being Lied to About CO2

Does breathing really make global warming worse? Is the C02 being emitted by human activity (measured in parts per million) too small to have an impact on the climate? And do conservatives really think CO2 is safe because it doesn't cause cancer? All this and more is...

7 min · 4.7 stars

The Koch Brothers & Their Amazing Climate Change Denial Machine

A short animation detailing the effort of billionaires oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation that threatens their profits. By pouring money into bogus scientific studies and funding third parties such as Think Tanks...

3 min · 4.7 stars

If somebody tells you that young people don’t care about the planet’s future, tell them to watch This

In June, 2013, over 500 young leaders converged in Istanbul for Global Power Shift -- an unprecedented gathering designed to scale up the climate movement worldwide. Now it's time for Phase 2.

2 min · 4.7 stars

Capitalism Will Save the Planet

Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:

15 min · 4.7 stars

Overheating and Fed Up, Brother Earth Delivers One Final PSA to the People of the World

Climate change is fucking up Brother Earth's atmosphere, and he's not feeling it. Feat. Boots Riley and Josh Healey.

4 min · 4.5 stars

This Changes Fuck All

This week we take on the NGO led spectacle called the people's climate march plus a look at Peru's spectacular resistance against a copper mine, and the call from the east to disrupt oil extraction and infrastructure. On the music break, Ontario based hiphop group Flowtilla...

16 min · 4.7 stars

Pope Francis: The Encyclical (trailer)

If you’re like me and eagerly anticipating Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change—due out Thursday, June 18—stop what you’re doing and watch this.

2 min · 4.7 stars

How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?

The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it. As a budding cultural ecologist...

Sarah Levine · 4.7 stars

ONE PLANET Featuring Joel McKerrow

Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...

5 min · 4.5 stars

Bolivia: 'For a Lasting Solution to the Climate Crisis We Must Destroy Capitalism'

Bolivia's national contribution to the COP 21 describes capitalism as "a system of death" that has to be destroyed to protect humanity and Mother Earth. EurActiv France reports.

Cécile Barbière translated by Samuel White · 4.7 stars

Pick It Up

Kerstin woke up every day before the sun came up. Waiting for the dawn near some rocks, she puts gloves and walked the same stretch of beach picking up garbage. After an hour, she cleaned the 200 meters of beach. He ended sad and frustrated to see such indifference of human...

3 min · 4.7 stars

How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World

Countries like Yemen, Chad and South Sudan have been devastated by famine and starvation in recent years, with millions of people suffering despite a global surplus of food. But the problem is not a lack of resources - they are starving due to the effects of unending Western...

Eric Draitser · 4.7 stars

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies – and they are mostly guys – have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction...

Jordan Engel · 4.7 stars

The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.

Ronnie Cummins · 4.7 stars

Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe

In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohr’s scientific theory of quantum indeterminacy, Deleuze’s musings about ‘assemblages’ and ‘rhizomes’, and contemporary concerns...

20 min · 4.7 stars

Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden

“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack...

John Halstead · 4.7 stars

Yes Men Pull Off Chamber Of Commerce Hoax On Climate Change

Political performance artists, The Yes Men, have taken credit for today's prank, in which they posed as Chamber of Commerce officials pushing for comprehensive climate change legislation. In a statement from the group offered hours after a fake press conference was held at...

6 min · 4.5 stars

Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green.

22 min · 4.5 stars

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.

76 min · 4.5 stars

The Race to Save the World (trailer)

The Race to Save the World is seeking funding on Kickstarter. Help them capture the dedication and sacrifice made by four scientists in their struggle to update society to 21st century energy sources.

5 min · 4.5 stars

Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth"

No Logo author Naomi Klein says we must revolutionise our working lives if we are to combat climate change and save the free world...

Naomi Klein · 4.5 stars

Pope's Climate Letter Is a Radical Attack on the Logic of the Market

What makes Pope Francis and his 183-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies. While the Argentina-born pope is a...

Steffen Böhm · 4.5 stars

Obama's Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change

It should be a scandal that leftists-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – not Obama who is the first president to be at war everyday of his eight years, who is waging seven wars at present, who dropped three bombs an hour, 24 hours a day, the entire...

Stansfield Smith · 4.5 stars

Jane Goodall - Mother Earth

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

6 min · 4.5 stars

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

A film on Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change. The effects and risks of climate change are compelling young people the world round to call upon radical system change as the only solution to avoid a catastrophic collapse. This film studies the role economic growth has...

48 min · 4.3 stars

The Pentagon Is The World’s Largest & Most Dangerous Climate Criminal. It's the Elephant In The Room

There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even seen. This agreement to ignore the elephant is now the accepted basis of all international negotiations on climate change. It is well understood by every possible measurement that the...

Sara Flounders · 4.8 stars

Explosive Intervention by Pope Francis Set to Transform Climate Change Debate

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?

John Vidal · 4.8 stars

Why We Fight for the Living World: It's About Love

In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.

George Monbiot · 4.8 stars

Fossil Free UTAS Student Occupation (2015)

Students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the administration area of the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart from 1:30pm on Wednesday the 14th of October, 2015. They are refusing to leave until the University commits to divesting from the fossil fuel industry before...

1 min · 4.8 stars

Act Now, Urges Study, or Planet Faces 10,000+ Years of Adverse Climate Change

"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."

Lauren McCauley · 4.8 stars

Days of Revolt: Coping With Reality

In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews climate change activist Tim DeChristopher about the deadly failure of industrial world to confront the effects of climate change. The two discuss how climate change has, and continues to trigger social tension and...

28 min · 4.8 stars

A Message of Solidarity from Tamera Peace Research Center to Standing Rock

In the name of humaneness, we express our gratitude to the courageous water and land protectors at Standing Rock. This camp of Sioux and many other First Nation people, accompanied by activists from across all camps is a true light of hope in a world that has lost any...

Martin Winiecki · 4.8 stars

Houston, Harvey, and and a Hot Ocean

Science all-star team shows how record warm ocean waters made Hurricane Harvey an epic disaster, amped by climate change.

5 min · 4.8 stars

The Living Planet View

"The overarching theme of Climate: A New Story, the book that I wrote, is really the living planet view of the world." - Charles Eisenstein

17 min · 4.8 stars

We Have Met the Environment, and It Is Us

Clearly, we have a catastrophic problem on our hands. But climate change isn’t it. In fact, climate change isn’t a problem at all – to be precise, climate change is merely a very acute symptom of a much, much larger matrix of problems that, if left undiagnosed, will rapidly...

Alyce Santoro · 4.5 stars

Sea Change: We All Live Downstream

SeaChange Flotilla is a participatory voyage down the Hudson River in a fleet of full-scale paper boats, charting a course from upstate New York to New York City in a convergence of art and activism to coincide with the meeting of world leaders at the United Nations Climate...

5 min · 4.5 stars

Blind Spot (2008)

What if all of the expectations you have about the future are wrong?

86 min · 4.3 stars

How Companies Make Us Forget We Need to Consume Less to Stop Climate Change

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 · 4.5 stars

We're Headed For a Cliff, But It's Not Too Late to Change Course

What’s your vision for a just and equitable 2050? Add your voice: http://changethecourse.org‪

4 min · 4.5 stars

Climate Activists Shut Down Open Cast Coal Mine: Here And No Further

On 15 August 1500 people took part in a daring act of civil disobedience to shut down Europe's biggest source of CO2 emissions. Around 1000 people successfully entered the coal mine and all of the diggers in the pit were brought to a standstill.

3 min · 4.5 stars

Banking Nature (2015)

Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell “nature credits.” Companies whose actions destroy...

87 min · 4.5 stars

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