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The uprising in response to George Floyds murder by a Minneapolis police officer this week has led to predictable calls to condemn looting. But the real looting in our society comes from the military, the police, the pharmaceutical companies, private equity, the landlords...
Peter Gowan
Joe Brewer is a complexity researcher and evangelist for the field of culture design. The spoken audio is from a Kosmos Live podcast, "on cultural design and midwifing a new era".
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The American media landscape can be pretty depressing for those with leftist sensibilities, butit's better than it was five years ago! Over the last two decades, a surge of support for leftist thought has culminated in a vibrant new batch of leftist media. From podcasts to...
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A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
41 min
Progressive International Council member Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley explore the dimensions of Europe's biodiversity crisis and how the Green New Deal can address it.
Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley
A goal without a plan is just a wish.Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and regions thatclaimto be working...
Richard Heinberg
The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects.
Degrowth Editorial Team
A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her village in Leh, Ladakh, by phone from Delhi. Around that time, the news of rising infections from the novel coronavirus coming in from...
Padma Rigzin
Three students challenge outdated economics by debating with their professor about the nature of humankind, with rap and puppetry. This animated film is a collaboration between economist Kate Raworth, puppet designer Emma Powell and song writer Simon Panrucker. The critique...
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The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Aragorn Eloff
The other day I was amused to read a critique ofThe Coronationin which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein
There's a whole lot of bickering and name-calling in American politics, but modern politicians have a lot more in common than you might realize. In this episode,Second Thought takes a look at just how skewed the American political spectrum is.
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Theres a video out there that claims to show a scientist being silenced by the government. I keep seeing people share it while saying things like What do you think of this? or I dont know if this is right, but its worth listening to. If you want to learn more but are wary of...
Beth Skwarecki
In this video essay, we look at how climate change is causing a decrease in biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity is a measure of the variety and variability of life, and climate change is causing the decline of biodiversity in numerous ecosystems via extreme weather...
9 min
"Bernie Blackout" Director Pat McGee Interview. Thanks to Pat McGee!- Matt Orfalea
57 min
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...
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Realism and utopia are often seen as opposite poles. Realism, it is thought, is concerned with what is and utopia is concerned with our wishes about what we would like to be. However, once we fully examine the issue we can see that this way of thinking is mistaken. A properly...
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The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. Edward O. Wilson
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There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix. The answers to metaphysical questionsand indeed political questions, personal questionsare usually less important than the process that the question launches. Here we explore the...
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For the past few weeks, Ive been writing down my hurts and disappointments, my losses. Since the pandemic began, all the plans Id made, all the things Id finally given myself permission to get excited about, to invest money and energy in, to do what I wanted have been canceled.
Anthony Rella
So, was the film Planet of the Humans a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, expos of its assertion that,The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete?
Craig Collins
They say anxiety is us weaving conspiracy theories about ourselves.
But what if those feelings are already there, and we are actually telling stories to support them?
We weave stories to try to explain how something inhuman and awful could happen to us. We also need people...
Justice Bartlett
Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.
8 min
Marine Corps infantryman turned anti-war activist John Motter tells Abby Martin the hidden reality of the endless Afghanistan War.
25 min
What would it cost to wipe out everybodys student loans? The answer may surprise you.
Sparky Abraham
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AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in public services. Today, the forces best placed to exploit the coronavirus pandemic are...
Alex Doherty
We have a story to tell youand it's a new story. We are being called by children everywhere to begin seeing the world from their eyes and telling a new story about the better world our hearts know is possible. We, all of us, in the WorldSummit movement are already creating...
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A bedtime story of how it started, and why hindsights 2020 byProbably Tomfoolery.
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If we stop to listen to the forests, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us about community resilience, about cooperation, about finding strength in differences and about how to live in the present. Perhaps they would also remind us of all the things we have in...
4 min
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant
We are in the time of THE GREAT PAUSE.Wheremight we collectively go next?
14 min
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
The divide between the haves and the have nots has been highlighted by the impacts of the pandemic.[1]For those able to work online with a spacious and secure home base, and some financial resources to ride out the pandemic, life has mostly been tolerable. Consumption has...
David Holmgren
After a struggle to get back home to Australia and two weeks in quarantine before reaching Zaytuna, Geoff enjoys an early morning, and he takes us on a walk to some special spots around the property. Possum (the dog) waits on the speed bump that sends water to Paradise Dam...
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Permaculture designer Andrew Faust presents a clear outline forachievingenergy independence with 100% renewable technologies in the New York bioregion.
8 min
Learn how to become more regionally resilient withbioregional economics and ecological city design.
35 min
Why Biogas and on-site fuels are inherently superior and appropriate for heating and domestic hot water and why electricity should be reserved for certain tasks that can be run by solar on-site.
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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type of life they may have lived. It connects us with our bodies and senses, inviting us to feel...
Bruce Parry
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down why "corporate social responsibility" is a total farce, and explains why corporations can never be trusted to do the right thing on their own.
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Recent data out of New York City shows a large number of people with COVID-19 have largely been staying home. Governor Andrew Cuomo called this a surprise. But capitalism is forcing working-class people to spread the virus. A socialist doctor from New York explains the...
Click Part 2 to watch Rebel Bass' video about renewable energy.
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Misadventures in Corporate Media | Jeff Cohen Interview Had fun speaking with Jeff Cohen about the 5 media filters "Manufacturing Consent" and his own misadventures in cable news. Jeff wrote the book Cable News Confidential about his misadventures in Corporate Media. He...
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George Monbiot exposes the billionaire class.
6 min
Why are real, meaningful apologies so few and far between? What have we internalized about the meaning of apologizing?
Teri Lynn
The Twelve tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe who gather at the United Nations in New York to create a unique ritual for Humankind and planet Earth. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through...
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We each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society. - Nicholas Christakis
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This is the final in a series on Planet of the Humans. The other posts are here:
Ketan Joshi
There is worse ahead. In acceptance, hope is transformed into energy for the unimaginable.
For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially whats happening in my state, California: a quiet revolution awkwardly named community choice...
Peter Kalmus
GREENWASHING has become such a commonlyused phrase that it's starting to lose its meaning in the increasinglynoisy stream of information we all receiveevery second of every day via Social Media. Is it even still a thing or have big corporations finally started to tell us the...
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On the 50th Anniversary of the first-ever Earth Day, Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore released a documentary film free on You Tube. The film is called Planet of the Humans, and it proved quite popular. This week Just Have a Think reviews the movie and considers its implications...
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Proud to be a producer on this epic new documentary, "Bernie Blackout" on Vice. Premieres 5/13 at 8pm. Check it out! - Matt Orfalea
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Instead of lambasting yesteryears renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
Kate Aronoff
"This sweeping documentary takes us in and under the waters of the Salish Sea, while more fully understanding the threats posed by the Trans Mountain (Ex- Kinder Morgan) pipeline expansion
88 min
When was I diving on Glover's Reef Atoll recently, off the Belize mainland, I could not help but notice the large amount of plastics washed up on the shoreline.
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"In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery. - Arthur Martine
As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.
Marina Martinez
Building a lifeboat culture is about taking action andpreparing communities to be sustainable and functional in the face of a global, national or regional economic and environmental collapse.
Unless we rapidly move through the stages of climate grief, from paralysis to...
Andrew Willner