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The Plastic Problem 55 min
The Plastic Problem (2019)
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson 12 min
Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson
Sierra Robinson is a seventeen-year-old farmer, homeschooler, and environmental activist from Vancouver Island, BC.
Sierra Robinson
Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection
Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection
Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need...
Center for Nonviolent Communication
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Some people are starting to talk about regenerative cultures as possible pathways towards a thriving future of people unfolding their unique potential within the context of the communities and regions they help to regenerate — cultures that are healthy, resilient and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Ngali Na Mala Jugun (We Belong to This Country) 11 min
Ngali Na Mala Jugun (We Belong to This Country)
Two soulful members of the Bundjalung Tribe in Australia, explain with severity and grace, the nature of their relationship to the Earth, which is about belonging to it rather than owning it.
Alison Leonard
Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
The uprising across Canada in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders shows no sign of stopping. As of February 11, ports, bridges, rail lines, highways and roads have been blockaded across much of the country by solidarity protesters, who have also occupied the...
Joyce Nelson
May The Earth Feel Your Love 6 min
May The Earth Feel Your Love
Sustainable Human
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken 33 min
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken
The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. All the practices and technologies documented in Paul’s best-selling "Drawdown" book are already...
Paul Hawken
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? 50 min
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? (2006)
Over nine months, director Mischa Hedges and his crew traveled the West Coast to learn more about our food system. While interviewing farmers, agricultural experts, nutritionists and activists, Mischa and his team learned that the standard methods of producing food do not...
Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot 6 min
Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot
“Infinite growth on a finite planet is a recipe for catastrophe”
Double Down News
Biomimicry Explained with Drawings & Examples 5 min
Biomimicry Explained with Drawings & Examples
Sustainability Illustrated presents the concept of Biomimicry:
Sustainability Illustrated
The Living Planet View 17 min
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
Charles Eisenstein
Hope Is an Imperative: Sparking an Ecological Design Revolution
Hope Is an Imperative: Sparking an Ecological Design Revolution
While society prepares for the future of a world ravaged by climate change, environmental educator David Orr has spent years writing about how to reverse it. Orr advocates for an ecological design revolution to change how we build homes, grow food and model society, so that...
David Orr, Bioneers
I Study Collapsed Civilizations. Here’s My Advice for a Climate Change Apocalypse.
I Study Collapsed Civilizations. Here’s My Advice for a Climate Change Apocalypse.
I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, social upheaval, or some apocalyptic event. Right now, much of that concern...
Chris Begley
The Promise of Biomimicry 22 min
The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)
The Biomimicry Institute presents a new 20-minute film produced by Tree Media that introduces biomimicry as a way of living for everyday people and as a pathway for design inspired by nature.
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan 16 min
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan is all in on beauty. After photographing sea birds dying by the dozens from consuming bits of plastic, Chris had a revelation: It was time to refocus in his lens on the awesome beauty of the planet.
TEDx Talks
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"
Shareable
Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration
Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration
Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and selfish and destroy our own habitat trying to gain more wealth or more power. If we reach...
Daniel Christian Wahl,
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to...
Michael Lerner
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? 43 min
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)
For well over 400 million years, insects have played an essential role in the evolution of our ecosystem. While many may take them for granted, their extinction could spell catastrophe for the planet at large. Sadly, this scenario is currently playing out across the...
Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom
Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom
[…] have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and do try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to...
Daniel Christian Wahl
The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies
A system worried about global warming and the health impacts of air pollution should stop aiding companies that produce those public threats, writes Niklas Hagelberg.
Niklas Hagelberg
The Core of the Indigenous Worldview 11 min
The Core of the Indigenous Worldview
"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry 6 min
The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry
“There is in fact no significant difference between the mass destruction of warfare and massive destruction of industrial land abuse.” ~ Wendell Berry
Sustainable Human
Signs that Humanity is Returning to Loving a Living Earth 8 min
Signs that Humanity is Returning to Loving a Living Earth
I see a lot of encouraging signs that civilization is returning to an understanding of a living Earth. - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom 25 min
Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom (2016)
Unbroken Grounds explains the critical role food will play in the next frontier of our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. It explores four areas of agriculture that aim to change our relationship to the land and oceans. Most of our food is produced using methods that...
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings 41 min
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
The Sky's Limit: We Need to Stop All New Fossil Fuel Development 3 min
The Sky's Limit: We Need to Stop All New Fossil Fuel Development
The science is settled. No new pipelines, no new permits, no new exploration, no more excuses. We call on world leaders to end all new fossil fuel development and immediately begin to support the managed decline of the fossil fuel industry. #KeepItInTheGround
Oil Change International
DINNER FOR FEW (Short Film) 10 min
DINNER FOR FEW (Short Film)
“Dinner For Few” is an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, "the system" works like a well-oiled machine. It solely feeds the select few who eventually, foolishly consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps from the table. Inevitably, when the...
Nassos Vakalis
The Need to GROW 96 min
The Need to GROW (2019)
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8 year old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization - a renegade farmer struggles to keep his...
Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn 10 min
Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn
Seen as the father of modern day natural farming, Masanobu Fukuoka  (1913-2008) was the author of The One Straw Revolution, a fundamental volume for understanding how human beings can live together with this earth. This three part film series features previously unreleased...
City as Nature
Will We Have to "Make-Do with Less" to Sustain Life? 8 min
Will We Have to "Make-Do with Less" to Sustain Life?
When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at CharlesEisenstein.org/books
Charles Eisenstein
We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively
We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively
How to live a more sustainable life? This question generates a lot of debate that is focused on what individuals can do in order to address problems like climate change. For example, people are encouraged to shop locally, to buy organic food, to install home insulation, or to...
Kris De Decker
Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal
Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal
Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the key backup “renewable” if it otherwise proves impossible to get off of...
Don Fitz
What We've Learned About Climate Change in the Last 30 Years | Bill McKibben 25 min
What We've Learned About Climate Change in the Last 30 Years | Bill McKibben
What lessons can we draw from three decades of struggles to address the existential threat of climate disruption? What do our failures reveal about the flaws of our political system and the economic nihilism of the fossil fuel industry? What strategies are most likely to lead...
Bill McKibben
Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action 50 min
Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)
What happens when people work together to create solutions to the social, economic, and ecological issues we face today?
Thinking Outside the Grid
Thinking Outside the Grid
Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of life. Six hundred thousand gallons of gas could be...
Steven Gorelick
Have Humans Fucked It All Up? - A Deep Ecology Perspective with John Seed 20 min
Have Humans Fucked It All Up? - A Deep Ecology Perspective with John Seed
Humanity is a part of nature and playing our perfect role just like the bees, flowers, sharks and trees. Intelligence with feeling and compassion for our predicament.
Wombat City Studios
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation
Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars to convince the public that they aren't responsible for climate breakdown. Is it a coincidence that climate skeptics believe and share the exact same talking points? - Films For Action
Union of Concerned Scientists
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed 51 min
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
All our knowledge comes from nature and yet nature is a source of many mysteries.
What is ‘Energy Denial’?
What is ‘Energy Denial’?
The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan...
Don Fitz
We Are All Indigenous
We Are All Indigenous
“All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything else.”
Robert Koehler
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien
Fantastic Fungi 80 min
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)
When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Local Futures
The Land for Our Food 34 min
The Land for Our Food
👎Industrial Agriculture:  - Destroys soil  - Produces tons of emissions  - Pollutes water  - Destroys biodiversity
Access to Land Network
Mindful Travel in Ladakh 14 min
Mindful Travel in Ladakh
In the high altitude desert of the Tibetan Plateau, Ladakhi people have carved a living from the mountains for a thousand years. Tourism in Ladakh, first commencing in 1974, has developed into a robust industry with new economic opportunities, yet has also placed growing...
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness)
The Curse of Abundance 69 min
The Curse of Abundance (2019) ($5)
Which come first, people or oil? When money and morality collide, there's only one winner. The Yasuni Park in Ecuador is a haven of biodiversity and home to indigenous tribes. It also holds a third of the country's oil reserves. Ecuador had agreed to keep the oil in the...
Passive House Revolution 45 min
Passive House Revolution (2013) ($3)
Create a Low Energy Home: Join the Passive House Revolution!
How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste 9 min
How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste
To celebrate Plastic Free July we're bringing you the inspiring story of a zero waste/waste free family in Hobart, Australia. Lauren, Oberon, and their kids have found ways to produce almost no rubbish - they've only filled one small jar of waste in two years!
Life With Less Waste
#WeUnite | Accompany farmers Carlo and Hanna as they drive their tractors to Berlin to protest for a better food and farming system. 13 min
#WeUnite | Accompany farmers Carlo and Hanna as they drive their tractors to Berlin to protest for a better food and farming system.
#WeUnite - The 12-minute film ‘We Unite’ is a window into the lives of two organic farmers and the reasons they join the yearly ‘We are Fed-Up’ demonstration in Germany .Along with hundreds of other farmers, they drive their tractors into the heart of Berlin where they unite...
IFOAM - Organics International
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - and What Lies Beyond
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - and What Lies Beyond
An excerpt from a new book by Samuel Alexander and Rupert Read
Samuel Alexander
Feeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green 10 min
Feeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
Do you have complicated feelings about fossil fuels?
Hot Mess 🌎
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
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
Regreening the Planet 49 min
Regreening the Planet (2014)
Regreening the Planet looks at the profit that comes from the recovery of ecosystems in Spain, Egypt and India. Restoring ecosystems does not only generate ecological profit but also economic.
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious...
Richard Heinberg
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch 3 min
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (trailer)
A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013) and...
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words
The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Do Charities work in Africa? 7 min
Do Charities work in Africa?
Back in 2015 the RnB artist Akon grabbed headlines when he claimed that he doesn’t think charities ‘in Africa work’. But was he right?
Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime 47 min
Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)
Damaging the earth is a crime, right? That is what earth´s lawyer Polly Higgins thinks. Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón to fight for ecocide?
Kingsnorth: Portrait of a Recovering Environmentalist 50 min
Kingsnorth: Portrait of a Recovering Environmentalist (2018)
Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A...
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk 16 min
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk
Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
AJ+ Docs
The Sustainable City 16 min
The Sustainable City
Fully Charged spent an amazing day at the Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more...
Fully Charged
So Many Animals Are Going Extinct That It Could Take Earth 10 Million Years to Recover
So Many Animals Are Going Extinct That It Could Take Earth 10 Million Years to Recover
It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
Aylin Woodward
Why These Plankton are Eating Plastic 5 min
Why These Plankton are Eating Plastic
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
Vox
Everything Connects 2 min
Everything Connects (trailer)
14-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores how communities can develop zero waste strategies and looks at building a sustainable lifestyle for today and for future generations.
The Origins of Venezuela's Economic Crisis 12 min
The Origins of Venezuela's Economic Crisis
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say that US sanctions and economic war are to blame for the crisis. Greg Wilpert...
The Real News Network
How 8 European Cities Turned Waste Into a Resource 6 min
How 8 European Cities Turned Waste Into a Resource
The eight UrbanWINS cities are currently implementing pilot actions to prevent and manage waste. These actions are taking into account their urban metabolism data, as well as the discussions and decisions of a wide range of stakeholders who have participated in the online and...
icleieurope
Crisis, Hope, And Permaculture 3 min
Crisis, Hope, And Permaculture (trailer)
Join Geoff Lawton as he explores some of the most pressing issues of our time, soil erosion, climate change, pollution and food security. Learn how we can apply permaculture's ethical design science, to solve these issues whilst meeting all our human needs.
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty 62 min
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of...
Deena Metzger
The Dark Side of Tulum 31 min
The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)
An independent documentary exploring both the beauty and betrayal of Tulum, Mexico - and what can be done to change it. *Available with Spanish subtitles - simply click the CC button on the video player.
Food, Earth, Happiness 20 min
Food, Earth, Happiness
A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York...
City as Nature
A Prayer for 2019
A Prayer for 2019
Or Whatever Number You Choose
Josh Liveright
Wasted Waste 84 min
Wasted Waste (2018)
Watch on Vimeo | 3,6 million kg of food is wasted every day. 870 million people could be fed only with the world’s wasted food (FAO). 800 million people are starving around the world. 1/3 of the food ends up in the trash while 198 000 hectares are used to produce food that is...
Fossil-Free Costa Rica: How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction 12 min
Fossil-Free Costa Rica: How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
As world leaders struggle to agree on a plan to curb global emissions at the U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Democracy Now! looks at Costa Rica’s plan to go fossil-free beginning next year. It will be the first country in the world to decarbonize its economy.
Democracy Now!
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency
Richard Smith
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
How to make simple living go viral.
Julyan Davey
If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer
If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as
Isabella Tree
Who Cares? 93 min
Who Cares? (2013) ($5)
“Just who is changing the world?”
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability 56 min
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living 49 min
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016) ($3)
Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the government’s policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UK’s first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.
Voices of Transition 65 min
Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)
This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Environmentally, socially and psychologically our society is unsustainable. If consumption continues to increase at current rates, by 2050 we will need 3 Earths to sustain us (United Nations, 2015). Socially, income inequality is at the highest level in 50 years in OECD...
Terry Sexton
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal.  This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees?  Do they have souls?  Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
Terry Sexton
Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency 57 min
Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency (2018)
Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature?
1968: a Missed Chance for Socialism
1968: a Missed Chance for Socialism
Precisely 50 years ago, the international anti-imperialistic students’ movement culminated in the uprisings in France. At that time, Dieter Duhm, a psychoanalyst and sociologist, was a spokesman of the “new left” in the German students’ movement and coined the slogan...
Dr. Dieter Duhm
Green Growth Explained 4 min
Green Growth Explained
Green Growth is the big plan to deal with environmental damage while still growing the global economy. Can we trust it? DIY Fact Check >> #PostGrowth
TheRulesOrg
We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life? 3 min
We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?
Every day, we are told that global economic growth will save us. But think about it: How is it possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet? #GrowthOrLife
TheRulesOrg
Politics Decentralized: A New Paradigm of Governance (Jordan Greenhall) 19 min
Politics Decentralized: A New Paradigm of Governance (Jordan Greenhall)
Jordan Greenhall seems to have the gift of second sight. And for Greenhall, the election of Donald Trump is merely a bi-product of profound changes in the nature of how we understand the world and how we relate to each other. The underlying mediating structures of society...
Future Frontiers
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent
PowerTrip: Fracking in the UK 2 min
PowerTrip: Fracking in the UK (trailer)
Watch the entire movie on undercurrents.org. #powertripfilm Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as Fracking. We show what happens beyond the few seconds...
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
Joe Brewer
A Future of Abundance 51 min
A Future of Abundance (2013)
While the world is in crisis, there is a man who thinks the future is as bright as it can be. Peter Diamandis, author of the book Abundance and co-founder of Singularity University, sees how technology can soon provide all basic needs such as energy, clean drinking water and...
Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living 6 min
Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living
"Together with others, I know I can get much further."
GEN Europe
Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective
Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives
SoFA Coop Circle
An Atlas of Real Utopias?
An Atlas of Real Utopias?
Atlas of Utopias is part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation that demonstrate that another world is possible, and already exists.
Sol Trumbo and Nick Buxton
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
The Sustainable Food Trust’s Future of UK Farming conference at Fir Farm this April will feature a pilgrimage from the source of the River Dickler to Hill Barn, hosted by Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust (BPT). Ahead of the conference I decided to j
Bonnie Welch
Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis 100 min
Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis (2018)
The backyard of New South Wales is facing its biggest threat yet – invasive gasfields. Betrayal by governments has meant protectors are fighting to save the things they love. The Pilliga, Great Artesian Basin, Liverpool Plains – all are at risk.
As the Trump Administration Retreats on Climate Change, US Cities Are Moving Forward
As the Trump Administration Retreats on Climate Change, US Cities Are Moving Forward
Despite almost universal scientific consensus that climate change poses a growing threat, President Donald Trump’s recent infrastructure plan makes no mention of the need to build resilience to rising global temperatures. Instead, it actually seeks to weaken environmental...
Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick and Maxwell Palmer
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