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Make The Serengeti Great Again | Resource Scarcity, Demagogues and How Creativity Can Trump Hate
Make The Serengeti Great Again | Resource Scarcity, Demagogues and How Creativity Can Trump Hate (2017)
A Familiar Tale of Resource Scarcity, Demagogues, and How Creativity Can Trump Hate A quick, original, illustrated allegory that pokes at the demagogues we’ve got with an inclusive message promoting positivity during the 2016 Inauguration. It's read by ABC's Quinn Marcus.
5 min
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
I recall a Buddhist parable involving a stick that appears from a distance to be a snake, causing fear to rise in the perceiver. As the perception shifts upon closer examination, the fear subsides and the relieved hiker continues down the path. Understanding and awareness...
Jim Tull
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)
The future of our children, our health, and our society, will depend on how we meet the defining social challenge of our time: developing a quality, comprehensive education system. The conflicts over policy and resources have become commonplace - sowing division rather than...
69 min
Does It Look Like an Elephant?
Does It Look Like an Elephant?
A while back I wrote and recorded this spoken word poem. This is the way I feel about the world today. Believe it or not but comparing the world with an elephant seemed like the only option! It's time to zoom out and see the entire picture.
2 min
Twelve Things To Remember After The US Election, From Front Line Organizers
Twelve Things To Remember After The US Election, From Front Line Organizers
When you find yourself in a suddenly darkened room, what do you do?   Some rush blindly to where they think the door might be.  Others stand still, let their eyes get adjusted to the different environment, re-orient themselves, then cautiously and sensitively, move...
Bill Quigley
Where Does Compassion Really Come From?
Where Does Compassion Really Come From?
Can compassion be learned? The answer is yes! Sometimes, all it takes is truly paying attention to the people around us. Visit happify.com for guided meditations and fun activities to help you build compassion for yourself and others. 
2 min
To the Youth a Day After the Election: Another World Is Possible
To the Youth a Day After the Election: Another World Is Possible
Dear Youth,
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Maria Popova
I Lived in a 38-Person Co-Op in San Francisco, and so Can You
I Lived in a 38-Person Co-Op in San Francisco, and so Can You
The joy and practice of learning to share
Tommy Alexander
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
In the 1990s an unusual encounter took place in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In plant rituals, shamans of the Achuar, a tribe living in pristine forest that had never been in touch with Western civilization, received the warning that the “white man” would try to invade their lands...
Martin Winiecki
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save Our Lives
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save Our Lives
“Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away,” Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi wrote in a personal blog post over a decade ago. “Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house... Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise... Being poor is six dollars short on the...
Matt Stannard
Abolish ALL Prisons, Private and Public
Abolish ALL Prisons, Private and Public
As momentum continues to grow against the colossal U.S. imprisonment system, the need for strategic targets is crucial, yet we are seeing an overbearing focus on private prisons. We are in a moment when reforms that appear to be “progressive” can actually entrench the...
Critical Resistance
On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities
On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities
One of the things I've been reflecting on a lot lately is the importance of holding simultaneous realities in our hearts and awareness at the same time. When it comes to ending the violence and divisions of racism, nationalism, and other historical conflicts, I see many...
Tim Hjersted
Caleb Stephens: This Is How Solidarity Lives
Caleb Stephens: This Is How Solidarity Lives
Powerful! Caleb Stephens speaking before the Sisters With A Purpose march for justice in Lawrence, KS - 7.22.16. This is how solidarity lives.
7 min
It's The Damn Police
It's The Damn Police
From an early age Blacks are socialized to live defensively and to absorb the mental body blows that come from the day-to-day indignities that are hoisted upon us by the very people who are hired to uphold ‘the law’ but instead engage in lawlessness.
Walter Fields
Is This - the Love Journey? Is This the Only One?
Is This - the Love Journey? Is This the Only One?
You meet them, you get to know them, you date them, you learn about them. You have sex with them. Finally, you love them. You live with them. You marry them. You have kids with them. You grow old with them. Is this, the love journey? Is it the only one?
Tim Hjersted
Blame - an Inquiry Into Why We Separate
Blame - an Inquiry Into Why We Separate
Allow me to share a few personal anecdotes… My dear aunt recently passed away from bone cancer at just 60. To make sense of her passing, I went through a period of blaming the doctors, her Christian Science background (which doesn’t believe in medicine), my aunt for not...
Chelsea Rustrum
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
Finding and connecting with your soul tribe is more important than ever—not just for connection but also to thrive in our modern society
Al Jeffery
Let's Build a Boat (A Metaphor for the Great Transition)
Let's Build a Boat (A Metaphor for the Great Transition)
Let’s jump off the train and build a boat.
Tim Bennet
The Struggle Against Compassionate Bigotry
The Struggle Against Compassionate Bigotry
Ever heard the term "compassionate bigotry"? Learn what it is in this powerful talk, featuring Tai Amri Spann-Wilson and Caleb Stephens at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lawrence, Kansas - August 7th 2016. Part 2 is the poem "Healing" by Adam Lawrence Dyer, spoken...
45 min
Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?
Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?
In the vast emptiness of space there are an unimaginable number of galaxies, each galaxy containing billions upon billions of stars. Looking at one galaxy we find an average star that hosts eight unassuming planets – four gas orbs, and four rock orbs. But one of these planets...
Rua Lupa
Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade
Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade
Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.
Michael Phillips
Why Being Lonely Is Crucial for Survival
Why Being Lonely Is Crucial for Survival
We all know it sucks to be lonely, but is it actually essential for our survival? Here's more on why loneliness might be a good thing.
4 min
Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture
Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture (2016)
Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.
96 min
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
José Martín
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...
15 min
Alone Through Iran - One Woman's Incredible 1144 Mile Journey, on Foot
Alone Through Iran - One Woman's Incredible 1144 Mile Journey, on Foot
This is a teaser trailer for a feature documentary about Kristina Paltén, a lone Swedish woman, who wanted to challange her own and other's prejudices against islam by running across Iran.
5 min
Cultivating Empathy for the NEXT Crisis
Cultivating Empathy for the NEXT Crisis
A central question for this moment in history is how do we collectively navigate a crescendoing wave of crises and move toward planetary resilience and thriving?
Joe Brewer
The Four Mantras of True Presence
The Four Mantras of True Presence
These simple mantras can help us overcome suffering
Thich Nhat Hanh
Post-Brexit Visions of The Possible: It's Time to Imagine a New European Community
Post-Brexit Visions of The Possible: It's Time to Imagine a New European Community
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...
Martin Winiecki
7 Traits of People Who Are Great at Relationships
7 Traits of People Who Are Great at Relationships
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Starre Vartan
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
One of the most important skills we can teach our kids is empathy. Empathy is the ability to see and value what another person is feeling or experiencing. When we see someone in pain and feel that response in our own gut, that’s empathy. When we see someone crying tears of...
Steve Palmer
15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
Expert tips to manage your frustration and get past toxic thinking.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
6 Better Ways to Deal With Conflicts in Your Relationship
6 Better Ways to Deal With Conflicts in Your Relationship
Intimate relationships bring up intense feelings. Conflict with a partner can feel destabilizing, and make it difficult to be articulate and openly expressive. Many people try to avoid conflict through a variety of maneuvers—pretending to always agree, being aggressively...
Laura D. Miller
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
1. The first Pride was a police riot. We hold Pride each summer to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. At the time, most states had laws banning LGBT people from assembling in groups. Despite being illegal, the mob opened LGBT bars to profit off of the open...
Meg Ten Eyck
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.
Meryn Callander
5 Tips for People Who Feel Like They're "Living Alone in a World of Wounds"
5 Tips for People Who Feel Like They're "Living Alone in a World of Wounds"
Profound ecologist and writer, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), once said: “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and...
Jennifer Conner
Building a Local Peace Economy: We Have the Power
Building a Local Peace Economy: We Have the Power
When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...
Judy Wicks
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
Beth Berry
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
Here’s how I work: I’m extremely friendly and respectful to those who obey the laws of common decency when interacting with others.
Crystal Jackson
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy
Dahr Jamail
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson
5 Great Ways to Expand Your World When Traveling
5 Great Ways to Expand Your World When Traveling
Take them as inspiration, accept them as challenges or follow them as rules. Just remember that the world is open to those with an open mind.
Momondo
People Were Moved to Tears After Taking the DNA Journey
People Were Moved to Tears After Taking the DNA Journey
It's easy to think there are more things dividing us than uniting us. But we actually have much more in common with other nationalities than you'd think.
5 min
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
A Simpler Way follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group built tiny houses, planted veggie gardens, practised simple living, and learned how to live in community.
79 min
The Cosmic Mass: A Modern Ritual for a Vibrant New and Ancient Way of Living
The Cosmic Mass: A Modern Ritual for a Vibrant New and Ancient Way of Living
Imagine a Sunday gathering that feels like a real celebration and inspires you in a deeply authentic way. Imagine dancing (and sweating!) your prayers, rather than sitting on benches & being preached at. Imagine experiencing your inner connection to the Divine, touching your...
4 min
How to Find Your Power (Your Ability to Make a Difference in the World) - And Avoid Abusing It
How to Find Your Power (Your Ability to Make a Difference in the World) - And Avoid Abusing It
For the past twenty years, I have been carrying out experiments to find out how power is distributed in groups. I have infiltrated college dorms and children’s summer camps to document who rises in power. I have brought entire sororities and fraternities into the lab...
Dacher Keltner
What a Strange Way of Life
What a Strange Way of Life (2015) (trailer)
This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its own coins, the Eco; and finally, the self-sustaining community Tamera also in Portugal. The...
2 min
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?...
David Bollier
How to Bootstrap a Bossless Organization in 3 Easy Steps
How to Bootstrap a Bossless Organization in 3 Easy Steps
My first impression at OuiShare Fest was a weird utopian blockchain mania: a poorly understood but massively hyped technology that will somehow fix all our social, political, and economic inequities. As I got to know some of the people here though, I started to see through...
Richard D. Bartlett
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
I’m dealing with massive cognitive dissonance right now. Multiple, contradictory beliefs and perceptions inhabit my mind, each compelling on its own terms. How do I choose?
Charles Eisenstein
5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities
5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities
It is a sunny April Saturday and I’m running late to an event. This itself is not remarkable – but this time it is because the street I’m looking for in Lambeth is not marked on my map. When I find the launch for Switched On London, I discover I’m not the only one puzzled by...
Fanny Malinen
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence
We can all feel it — the mental disease of late-stage capitalism is causing widespread depression, an epidemic of suicides, chronic feelings of guilt and shame, and a general malaise of powerlessness.
Joe Brewer
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner
Amid Election Chaos, Communities Show Where the Real Power Is
Amid Election Chaos, Communities Show Where the Real Power Is
In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
Sarah van Gelder
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: 911
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: 911
Emergency call centers are in desperate need of funding and new technology. Until we upgrade our 911 system, we should at least create more informative PSA's. 
16 min
One Day in Tamera
One Day in Tamera (2016)
This short documentary is about the self sustaining community of Tamera, Portugal. In the film we speak with the residents of the community, who tell us how they made that originally dry land available for living, how they started organic agriculture, how they use biogas and...
23 min
Street Life: Faces Uncovered
Street Life: Faces Uncovered (2016)
Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.
41 min
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
With the largest evacuation in the history of the province of Alberta displacing nearly 100 000 people as large sections of Fort McMurray burn to the ground in the middle of a spring heat wave, it’s only natural for people affected to ask “why?” Why is this happening? What...
Nicholas Ellan