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A series time lapses filmed around the Exmouth region of North West Australia showing the beauty and the future challenges facing us with the ever looming danger of climate change.
A clip from the Under The Skin podcast with Charles Eisenstein - discussing what might be wrong with the current climate change narrative and why we should be wary of why the powerful are so accepting of it. What's driving this narrative over others? Listen to this entire...
Every year, more than twenty million people – an average of one person every second – are displaced because of climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts, rising sea levels, and storms. They are forced to leave their homes and migrate elsewhere, either temporarily or...
In December 2015 a group of Lancaster climate activists set off to to join up with a mass cycle from London to Paris for the COP21 climate talks. Their intention was to add their voice to the grass roots call for meaningful action now to curb the worrying rise in CO2 levels...
You’ve heard the news about climate breakdown. It’s bad. BUT WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS MESS - if we act now and act together for a #fossilfree Europe....
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.
This is a videoclip about the cycle of nature and how tiny we are as humans in our planet. Everyone who was born  here will be part of this cycle and will be part of it forever , because we are one being.
The homes of orangutans and many other animals in Sumatra are being destroyed.
Science all-star team shows how record warm ocean waters made Hurricane Harvey an epic disaster, amped by climate change.
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.
The small village of Hampi was once the capital of an empire stretching across the whole of Southern India. But with the ancient city's fortifications in ruins, Hampi has little defence against the invading forces of development. In the last 15 years, tourism has grown 75%...
When Andrew Miners first arrived on the Indonesian island village Babitim, he was struck by two things: the tropical paradise surrounding him and the corpses of the mutilated sharks strewn around the beach. Andrew decided to build an eco-diving resort on the island, which is...
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...
European cities are changing. Increasing storms, floods and heat waves are putting citizens’ health and lives at risk as a result of climate change. Human-made disasters such as terrorist attacks used to happen every 5 years in European cities. Now, we are seeing several...
This video responds to those who say carbon emissions are not a problem because "CO2 is plant food" and "the planet is greening". We examine the science of what rising temperatures and climate change will actually mean for global agricultural production.
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
In this interview with the senior editor and founder of The Real News Network, Paul Jay, we examine the threats facing humanity today, Russiagate and what issues independent media outlets should be prioritizing.
RESIN is an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project investigating climate resilience in European cities. Through co-creation between cities and researchers, the project is working on developing practical and applicable tools to support cities in designing and...
This webdoc profiles the efforts of educators, artists, architects, scientists, city planners, and youth organizations from nine countries who are confronting coastal challenges with persistence and imagination. Solutions for climate change.
Climate change is causing catastrophic changes to our planet, but it may be an economic blessing for Russia. As the Arctic ice melts, petroleum and mineral resources are more accessible, shipping lanes are opening up and the frozen Siberian tundra could become arable. In...
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...
"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."
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...
Dombrowski's project 'Tropic Ice' focuses on educating people about the effects of climate change on all continents through her beautiful photographs. "They understood it completely what I wanted to say"
Animated presentation of the RUGGEDISED smart city project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union. It brings together three lighthouse cities: Rotterdam, Glasgow and Umeå and three follower cities: Brno, Gdansk and Parma to test, implement and accelerate...
World travellers, divers and filmmakers of The Jetlagged are setting out to give threatened coral ecosystems a new chance: They build an artificial reef on a Indonesian island paradise with heavily damaged corals. The Biorock structure will be equipped with a special feature...
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...
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.
The Penguin Protectors follows a group of conservationists in Cape Town, South Africa, that are fighting to keep the African penguin species from extinction.
The film imagines what would happen if a person was granted the same privileges extended to corporations - enter Tony Sleaze. Tony is a human representation of a corporation, and we follow him as he acts out some of their most disgraceful behaviours, from dumping toxic waste...
London’s Last Tree Farmer is a short documentary explaining the story of Danny O’Sullivan and his project with his business partner Suraiya. Their company, named Citywood Services, recycles trees that are falling or being cut down and need removing around the capital. This...
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.
More than 100 U.S. House and Senate candidates pledge to move off fossil fuels.
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.
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
Bayou Bridge is another dangerous pipeline from a company that’s shown complete disregard for Indigenous rights, the land and water, and our climate. If approved, the project will run though 11 parishes and cross around 600 acres of wetlands and 700 bodies of water, including...
Language is Art is a movie worth watching. Featuring over 600 people from all walks of life,  this documentary style film presents a creative exploration into issues commonly disregarded by the mainstream media. Topics include free energy, war, revolution, mind control, slave...
There’s a lot of uncertainty around TransCanada’s next move – they’re still expected to make a final decision this month whether to move forward with this pipeline – but one thing is for sure. We’re the biggest obstacle this project will face and no matter what TransCanada...
After uncovering total failure by the U.S. government to meet the needs of communities suffering in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Abby Martin meets the people who filled the void. S
In this second installment of special coverage Hurricane Harvey's aftermath, Abby Martin explores how the petrochemical industry dominates the city and why its low-income, Black and Latino areas are in the highest-risk areas for flooding and pollution, earning them the name...
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace." Wangarai Mathai African Nobel Peace Prize winner.
BP staff were being surprisingly honest about why the company is sponsoring the British Museum's new Scythians exhibition at its press launch this week. Or maybe they weren't really from BP at all...
A visual dance, from the depths of the City to the wildest parts of Patagonia To find out more, go to www.rewildtv.com
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.
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.
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...
Had we designed cities with nature in mind, we'd see fewer issues around flooding, pollution and excessive heat.
40 performers in donald trump masks unveil a new australian flag and hold a mock press conference to wipe out the PARIS AGREEMENT on climate change. Complete footage including aerials of this extraordinary public art performance. At Australia's coal capital, Newcastle, 4th...
Es totalmente irrealista esperar que las naciones en desarrollo se abstengan de una ruta al crecimiento alta en carbono de la cual tantas naciones occidentales se han beneficiado, a menos que los apoyemos en alcanzar un crecimiento verde. – David Cameron
Want a simple way to tell if humanity is taking the threat of global warming seriously? Ask yourself this question: Does Exxon Mobil pay more taxes than at least one U.S. citizen? That’s right. Just one. Right now, the answer is a clear and resounding “No!” because Exxon...
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.
Apparently millennials are more than man-buns, gentrification or an avocado obsession. Millennials, defined as people with birth dates from early 1980s to late 1990s, are leading the sustainable investment surge in the United States. Aligning their personal values with their...
We all can agree that if Earth dies, we die. So why do so many people keep denying climate change and our impact on this planet? Why do we take our time here for granted? Whether it's the food we eat, companies we support, our daily habits or how we vote, we have the power to...
Once-celebrated author and thinker Daniel Pinchbeck can't find an audience for his new book. He has a few ideas why.
Technology has grown with us, side by side, since the dawn of human society. Each time that we've turned to Technology to solve a problem or make us more comfortable, we've been granted a solution. But it turns out that all of the gifts Technology has bestowed on us have come...
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...
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.
It's incredible to think that Rewild is currently standing on the banks of the Beagle Channel, the same one that takes you to the breathtaking landscapes of Antartica. It is amazing to see how some of these creatures are able to live within such cold conditions ... when...
New study, led by James Hansen, is meant to bolster climate kids' case against the federal government
The freedom of these corporations to pollute – and the fixation on a feeble lifestyle response – is no accident. It is the result of an ideological war, waged over the last forty years, against the possibility of collective action. Devastatingly successful, it is not too late...
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...
The economy is much more than a series of transactions: It’s about our relationships, who and what we think we are, and our view on the meaning of life itself. Our current global economy leaves too many of us struggling, and it is harming Earth’s ecosystems.
When Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate deal, the world reacted with outrage. And rightly so: the agreement represents a remarkable achievement in international diplomacy – a breakthrough after 20 years of failed climate negotiations. But as we...
Regenerative agriculture offers a future for the sustainable farming of meat in line with nature’s needs, by using holistic grazing and organic/biodynamic practices and even sequestering carbon in the soil – so important in the fight against climate change. At Mangarara, in...
Regenerative agriculture offers a future for the sustainable farming of meat in line with nature’s needs, by using holistic grazing and organic/biodynamic practices and even sequestering carbon in the soil – so important in the fight against climate change. At Mangarara, in...
Westminster rebel Caroline Lucas, is the first and only Green MP for England & Wales. In an age of disillusionment and mistrust for the ruling elite, she looks from the inside at what's wrong with England's archaic parliamentary system.
In May 2017, a group of Pacific Islanders travelled half way across the world to visit the Canadian tar sands.
An epic, ominous and perhaps life saving radio interview occurs with director, Peter Charles Downey on a small-town country radio station about his new documentary movie, Surviving Earth. Where the trees whisper of humanity’s mass suicide in a valley of depleting resources...
'We move on and we move forward, together'
President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet. The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show...
After humans can change the climate, can we change it back? Climate scientist Josh Willis takes on geoengineering.
Perhaps the most unlikely project we’ve been involved with comes from Dubai. A short film about a new development providing a glimmer of hope from this carbon-heavy Emirate.
Coal based Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) are one of the major sources of air pollution. Capturing the impacts of coal mining and TPPs in and around the central Indian town of Korba, I, as a part of a Greenpeace India team came across some heartbraking stories. While the...
Why keep laying all of our hopes in another planet and imaginary futures? Why not try to save the heaven we already have? Should we go to Mars and realize there is water in Jupiter and then not care again if we dry out that planet as well?
Climate scientist Josh Willis shows you how to fight common strawman arguments that deny climate change.
Eat your peas! It’s the easiest way to fight climate change.
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
There's plenty of serious documentaries on the world's environmental problems. How to Boil a Frog takes a different approach, mixing fast-paced comedy with hard-hitting facts to help make complex subjects both understandable and more engaging. The accompanying study guide...
“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
The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology.
A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.
Unsafe water kills more people than war. I was caught off guard when I heard these statistics. I grew up in a country that lacks in water and is rich in war and I always thought we had it bad. However, in 2017, with all our access to knowledge, there are hundreds of millions...
Adapted from the feature documentary Not Without Us, Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the health, environmental and social impacts of extractive industries on indigenous communities.
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire ation.
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern. It warned that trends in global temperatures raised serious risks of famines, floods and climate refugees. But in the quarter century since, Shell has continued to invest heavily in...
Mundo Calato es el primer proyecto Aero-Visual de esta serie de películas que pretende dar a conocer el Mundo y con él  su valor, su  belleza, su energía, su fuerza, la importancia de la pachamama para que esta pueda ser y sea respetada con sabiduría y conciencia.
On Feb 16th, the London Green Party supported the latest Kings College Climate Emergency protest calling for the university to divest its fossil fuel holdings. Students decorated the front of the university and painted dots, calling for Kings College to 'Join The Dots' and...
Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the world is to get everyone out of extreme poverty and get the richest people to use less fossil...
Noam Chomsky, Charles Eisenstein, Beth Payne from Redneck Revolt, along with many other activists, writers, and scientists (and even Vermin Supreme!) on How to stop the Ecological Crisis we face.
We stood on the ice dunes of the glaciers of Alaska in the midst of a snowy winter. Trekking the slopes of another planet had been on our list for a long time. The silence and majesty of the mountains surrounding us, the bluest ice we had ever seen and the steady rush of ice...
Just west of the Somali border and equally south of Ethiopia's Ogaden, you'll find one of the most brutally harsh regions of open desert within Kenya's vast northern territory, yet it's called home by Sarah and her nomadic tribe the Gabra. Sarah is one of three women featured...
BLACK INSIDE: Three Women’s Voices - is a triptych film created for the United Nations Foundation's - Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, (www.cleancookstoves.org) that lends an intimate perspective to an urgent global public health and environmental threat.
This is a love song like you've never heard before. Join Charles Dance, David Gyasi, Miranda Richardson, Elbow and people across the country in coming together to protect all we hold dear from climate change. Watch, share, #ShowTheLove. Together we can protect the places and...
Impact of Climate Change on Coral Reefs
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...
If the world is going to be successful in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and save our planet, every organisation, company and government will need AidHub.org - Making Impact Count (Please visit https://aidhub.org for more details) Music created and...
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