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Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, it’s the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship that’s an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...
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...
62 min
[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
Hidden in the depths of the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains is a world few have seen. Complex geology, climatic conditions, and impassibly rugged river canyons have inspired some of the greatest technological feats of history — technology created by life over billions of...
55 min
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…
"Efficacy is the ability to produce a desired result. But are the results we're achieving, the ones we intent? Our intelligence is remaking the world before our eyes. What kind of future do you want to see?"
82 min
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.
31 min
I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...
Suprabha Seshan
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...
20 min
When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.
Jason Hickel
On the great vanishing happening before our eyes
Subhankar Banerjee
Fish are intelligent, sensitive creatures and like many other animals, they explore, travel, socialise, hunt and play. Some species care for their young and use tools as humans do. Fish are sentient animals capable of suffering and feeling pain.
Most fish have highly...
3 min
Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.
Matthew Wallenstein
To Burn or Not to Burn: In Sweden, waste incineration plants convert excess and non-recycled rubbish into energy. The Swedish government classifies this process as recycling, but is this form of waste disposal really sustainable?
27 min
Poachers have decimated the elephant population in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, but Niassa’s rangers are determined to save them from extinction.
15 min
It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to be reduced to net...
George Monbiot
The Monsanto Papers investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, #Roundup.
42 min
Fall leaves are not a nuisance. They’re part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called...
George Monbiot
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
100 celebrities narrate this enlightening documentary that re-examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, ponders our place in the universe, while taking viewers on an epic journey through the history of civilization and beyond. In this compassionate and inspiring...
100 min
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
56 min
“Sacred Earth” by Emmy Award® winning director Jan Nickman is a unique Nature Immersion Experience through the stunning beauty of the Sacred Lands of the American Southwest. White sand deserts, ancient slot canyons and the stunning red rock landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico...
41 min
Future Dreaming is a remarkable documentary that will challenge the way you think about humanity. The film explores the narratives that drive our economic, social and political thinking and offers a new way of understanding the Human Condition.
54 min
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were. From the rubble of the ensuing collapse, a new self is born into a new world.
Charles Eisenstein
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home.
Matt Bertone
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...
65 min
I was just feeling some grief before you came and found me looking out at the water there - birds diving for fish, seals out there - and I just felt such sadness that there are fewer of them than there used to be and someday there may be none. And I thought, “How important is...
5 min
Åsmund Vonheim Seip: In the smiling forests of Pennsylvania, I had the chance to sit down with this beautiful man, Seppi Garrett. Seppi is a body worker, a massage therapist, a permaculturalist—but aren’t we all so much more than what we say we do? And what about the...
6 min
Science all-star team shows how record warm ocean waters made Hurricane Harvey an epic disaster, amped by climate change.
5 min
In summer 1988, James Hansen, NASA's Chief Atmospheric expert, testified before the US Senate, that the "greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now." Succeeding decades have borne him out.
6 min
“You shouldn’t have to convince people to go to paradise,”
--Shelton Johnson, Ranger, Yosemite National Park
9 min
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
4 min
In this video from Spring 2018 in New Zealand, Charles advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach to mitigating climate change. The natural and the material world--the rivers...
5 min
Imagine you are born into a small community in which everyone knows each other. Your parents are valued in the community and are well supported. As a baby and young child, you are often held, carried, or wrapped against your mother or father, and they are very responsive to...
Eric Bowers
Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen
Protecting Country is an independently produced film bringing the voices of the contemporary Adnyamathanha, Gurindji, Tanganekald, Yankunytjatjara Anunga, Mirning, Narunnga Aboriginal Australian people forward who are united in their stand AGAINST the present and planned...
40 min
As part of Raizvanguarda art residency in Gois, Portugal, Evgenia Emets worked on a film interviewing people from the local villages. Inspired by their memories, stories and visions of the forest, she created a series of poems, visual works and an art documentary. This art...
3 min
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
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
29 min
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...
2 min
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
Joe Brewer
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...
51 min
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the sea.
42 min
"Together with others, I know I can get much further."
6 min
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.
100 min
In order to shift the broken meat and dairy system, Greenpeace has one ambitious goal: the reduction of meat and dairy production and consumption by at least 50% by 2050. If left unchecked, agriculture is projected to produce 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the...
2 min
What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced...
Michael Bader
For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory that depression happens due to an imbalance happening outside of your cranium. New York...
6 min
"That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might."
Alex Jensen
Tawai is a word in the language of the Penan people of Borneo. It has to do with the connection they feel to their landscape. “When you first go to the old forest during the fruit season, it’s like when I’m with my mother, I know I can rely on her to breastfeed me. That’s why...
1 min
We are living in a time of turmoil for the Earth. Species extinction, deforestation, climate change, rising sea levels, and many other problems face the planet we call home.
Dr. Barry Taylor
Nilüfer (Turkey) is the winner of the 2017 Transformative Action Award.
4 min
As Europe is going through a crisis that is not solely economical but also a crisis of moral values, millions of European citizens demand a response to a crucial question: is water for the European Union a commercial product or a human right? Until today, the European...
59 min
Matt Bruenig presents a devastating challenge to those who call themselves libertarians, and explains why they have no choice but to deny climate change and other environmental problems.
George Monbiot
Turns out, Greenland isn't just melting from above—it's also melting from below. Eventually, it could raise sea levels by 24 feet. How long until we're all underwater? NASA's OMG mission is trying to find out.
4 min
[Warning: There are some big words here. Not the best words like yours, but big words nonetheless]
Bayo Akomolafe
Dear President Trump,
I am Nigerian, from Nigeria, a shithole non-Norwegian type country in West Africa – widely considered the largest black nation on...
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...
Frances Moore Lappé
Is this an answer to climate change that we're missing? This is a taster for a one-hour documentary coming soon that explores the work of Nick Dunlop and the Climate Parliament.
5 min
Why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why the alternative can actually be beautiful.
Jason Hickel
One man’s quest to have Canada’s largest war memorial erected in Green Cove, Cape Breton, is met with fervent responses from a community that’s divided on the issue. While some fight for the ecological integrity of the park, others are adamant that the project go forward in...
22 min
Black Snake Killaz chronicles the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline from April 2016 through March 2017. The film highlights actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and investigates actions taken by law enforcement, military, and...
120 min
My name's Kevin Latham, and this poem belongs to my 'Developing Minds' range aimed at older kids (as well as really big ones, like myself!). It's my hope that these offerings will inspire creativity and constructive thought amongst young people, whilst encouraging them to...
3 min
My name is Kevin Latham, and this poem belongs to my 'Developing Minds' range aimed at older kids (as well as really big ones, like myself!). It's my hope that these offerings will inspire creativity and constructive thought amongst young people, whilst encouraging them to...
2 min
It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.
Hannah Alexander
'Reflection: A California Fire Story' is a brief dive into the fires that just ripped through much of Northern California. It's an exploration of our relationship to forest and meadow management and how we might remember our role as stewards to prevent such catastrophic burns...
8 min
Adventurmentalism is a 35-minute interpersonal documentary which records a 400-mile kayak expedition from Haines, Alaska to Wrangell, Alaska. This is not a sports film, but rather a personal perspective on suffering from Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder (PTSD) and suicide in...
36 min
Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. Check out https://www.youtube.com/paulstamets
133 min
The other day I dreamed of a catfish being hooked in one of our lines during the 180 days I lived in the boreal forest. One of the reasons why I don't like living in civilization and eating food from the supermarket is that it is extremely easy to forget where food is coming...
Consumerism is ruining our lives and the world, and unless we change our way of living, we're soon going to face the tremendously negative impacts of our consumer behavior.
3 min
The story of a group of pro surfers who have left the international surfing circuit in order to grow organic vegetables at Moy Hill CSA Farm on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.
7 min
Disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes result from a combination of natural hazards and social and human vulnerability. Calling them 'natural disasters' artificially naturalises the harms they cause.
Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, JC Gaillard & Lee Bosher
Ten tiny houses are about to go head-to-head with a giant proposed oil pipeline. In what some area already dubbing the next 'Standing Rock', Kanahus Manuel, an activist of the Secwepemc Nation is spearheading a team of builders and volunteers from all over North America to...
11 min
It is unusual for disasters to garner as much sustained coverage in the media as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have. Authors have been able to explore complex aspects of disasters in more nuanced ways than fleeting public interest generally allows.
Jason von Meding and Heidi Harmon
By putting the evil eye on nature, we take it off the humans who have science in their hands, but hold it behind their backs.
Cynthia Barnett
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
Had we designed cities with nature in mind, we'd see fewer issues around flooding, pollution and excessive heat.
David Suzuki
Chuck Keeney interview on the Battle of Blair Mountain, Mine Wars, "The Matewan Massacre," & the other origin of the term "Rednecks." Watch Plutocracy if you're interested to learn more.
40 min
The North America gallery at the British Museum – which is filled with Indigenous artefacts – is sponsored by JP Morgan, one of the main funders of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yes, that’s the same pipeline that is being forced through Indigenous people’s lands in North...
2 min
The Party for Socialism and Liberation expresses our condolences and solidarity to those who have suffered the loss of loved ones, been injured, or lost their homes and other vital possessions due to the ravages of Hurricane Harvey.
PSL
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of August. The disaster crippled the provinces of Son La, Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Lai Chau, situated within one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country.
The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at Informed Comment wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality.
Juan Cole
Taking direct action against the dirty fossil fuel industry and for a clean energy future, Ende Gelände is a mass action movement focused around Germany's massive lignite mines and associated infrastructure. This video is from the second day of four days of direct action...
2 min
'Kids play with mud. They build sandcastles. It's like building your own little fortress. It's not rocket science.'
Ross and Kathryn decided that they were not going to get into debt buying a big house. Instead, they spent a year building it themselves. They made use of...
2 min
Farming and farmers are the heart of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work. In his latest film HUMAN, this theme takes a central space. In the continuity of this work, and in collaboration with France Agrimer, he goes beyond it with a sensitive film, dedicated to all those men and...
41 min
Director Toby Amies visits Pascal Brault's verdant South of France garden set amid a range of mountains.
5 min
Court ruling "gives hope across the country for people facing the onslaught of oil and gas infrastructure."
Jessica Corbett
In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel asks if economic growth really makes our lives better. He is the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions.
2 min
A film on the illusion of trees...and people.
2 min
Before casting the blame for our environmental ills on countries like China, we would do well to reflect on who is truly responsible.
Alex Jensen
It is increasingly clear that reverting this catastrophic climate crisis requires a deep systemic change to our economic, political and social structures along with the promotion of climate and environmental justice that places people and planet at the core. So what is the...
2 min
This video explains our Ecological Footprint and Earth Overshoot Day with a particular focus on the #movethedate campaign to move back the day of ecological overshoot.
3 min
A rich tale of a young indigenous scientist's struggle for truth between science and tradition as he enters an industry that many feel is threatening his homeland. His complex journey through the inner workings of GMO chemical companies and traditional Hawaiian elders reveals...
61 min
Lancashire County Council and local residents said NO to fracking. The government overturned that decision and allowed fracking firm Cuadrilla to drill at a site on Preston New Road near Blackpool. Now local residents, councillors and concerned citizens are taking direct...
10 min
Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell has reported in upstate New York after he was sentenced to a week behind bars for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant. Cromwell says he’ll also launch a hunger strike. He was one of six activists...
14 min
Lancashire residents and councilors took part in a 13-person lock-on at fracking company Cuadrilla's flagship fracking site at Preston New Road. The action is part of the Rolling Resistance, a month of taking creative action against Cuadrilla and the fracking supply chain...
3 min
A “special” beech tree kept under observation for a whole year by a concealed eye, which never closes. Four seasons unfolding around a crossroad of smells, signals and messages left behind by the extraordinary wildlife of the Apennines. What you see here is just a small part...
3 min
Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...
25 min
Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.
3 min