105 min

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and...

4 min

Nilüfer Uses Neighbourhood Committees to Increase Civic Action

Nilüfer (Turkey) is the winner of the 2017 Transformative Action Award.

icleieurope

28 min

Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein

Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.

Science and Nonduality

85 min

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

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 way.

4 min

Greenland Melting from Below

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.

Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica

Chasing economic growth gains us nothing but global warming. We should follow the lead of tiny Costa Rica, where life expectancy is soaring

Jason Hickel

5 min

Energy Internet (trailer)

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.

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world.

Films For Action

What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?

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.

Jeremy Lent

2 min

Keystone XL: This Isn't Over

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...

350.org

3 min

'WASTELANDERS' - Eco-poem for kids (and bigger people!)

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...

2 min

'SLICK' - Eco-poem for kids (and bigger people!)

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...

133 min

Joe Rogan Interviews Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. Check out https://www.youtube.com/paulstamets

PowerfulJRE

Environmental Crisis and Inner Crisis Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Reflections on Global Grace Day 2017

Sabine Lichtenfels

Why Natural Disasters Aren’t All That Natural

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

You Pay More Taxes Than Exxon Mobil

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...

Joe Brewer

2 min

Beautiful Powerful Direct Action for a Clean Energy Future

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...

Ende Gelände

2 min

This Stunning Home, Built of Mud, Connects the Inside with the Outside

'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...

Reflections of Life

This Cool Desert House Made from Plastic Bottles Tackles Two Problems in One

An engineer in Algeria has developed an ingenious new house building technique on a desert refugee camp. He wanted to build a home for his grandmother that would beat the heat and sandstorms, and plastic bottles were readily available. Filled with sand and straw and encased...

Jeremy Williams

Stokes Croft: The Saga of One British Neighbourhood Reveals the Perverse Injustices of Gentrification

Nowhere is the sharp injustice of gentrification so grossly demonstrated as in Stokes Croft. With its world renowned street art and buzzing local scene, this area is the main fount of culture and creativity, which has propelled the city of Bristol to international fame. For...

Fabian Frenzel and Armin Beverungen

5 min

Food Cooperatives and Garlic

Cooperatives are businesses owned by the people who use their services. Many communities look to their local food co-ops as a way to maintain greater control over their food. Garlic is isolated as just one of many foods that can communicate the importance of retail food...

2 min

What Did You Do? Short Film with Poetry About Climate Change

Ben Yau

3 min

Earth Overshoot Day Explained

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.

Sustainability Illustrated

61 min

Island Earth (2017) ($10)

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...

Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk.

We're not all ready to have the same conversation, but perhaps that's a good place to start

Richard Heinberg

10 min

Month of Rolling Resistance Reclaims Power From Dirty Frackers

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...

Dissent Is Beautiful

Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals

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...

Martin Lukacs

60 min

The Urbal Fix: Creating Truly Sustainable Cities

A solution-oriented film about creating sustainable and democratic cities.

Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?

Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.

Dr. Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk

3 min

Councilors Take Direct Action Against Fracking, "You've Left Us No Choice"

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...

Reclaim the Power

180 min

Think Resilience

This is the first six videos of a series of 22 short videos that explore the interrelated crises of the twenty-first century, and what we as citizens, students, and community leaders can do to respond to them. The videos can be watched individually (and will be released...

Post Carbon Institute

How to Create Democratic and Ecological Cities

For the past few months we have published a series of posts on New Compass introducing social ecology, discussing possible future environmental scenarios, studying the crisis of capitalis

Jonathan Korsár and Svante Malmström

12 min

Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling

Oil companies estimate that 100 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the south of England. But a new breed of activists is opposing any drilling. Claire Marshall has been living with some of the protesters, who built a large wooden fort on a proposed drill site at Leith Hill in...

BBC Stories

5 min

Girl Who Silenced the World (25 Yrs Later) - Youtube

Full speech transcript https://medium.com/p/77bcb3746378

Matt Orfalea

New 'Instantly Rechargeable' Battery Deals a Fatal Blow to Fossil Fuels

Purdue researchers have developed a flow battery that would allow electric cars to be recharged instantly at stations like conventional cars are. The technology is clean, safe, and cheap.

Karla Lant

Berlin Residents Pool Their Money to Buy City’s Electricity Grid

Returning power — and profit — to the people.

Natalie Holmes

95 min

Surviving Earth (2014)

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...

Wombat City Studios

53 min

Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia

Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...

4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul

Plus 11 other key ideas to living well as an activist

Drew Serres

5 min

The Australian Coal Mine That Could Wreck the Great Barrier Reef

Both sides of politics are burning political capital to approve a massive coal mine with a poor business case, run by a questionable company, in a dying industry. We've got one question - why?

The Undercurrent

6 min

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje discuss the issues with the supermarket system and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing.

The Future of Food

Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!

The ‘Santiago Theory of Cognition’ proposed by the Chilean biologists and neuroscientists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela offers a scientific way of understanding the process by which living systems engage in ‘autopoiesis’ (self-creating or self-generating) through...

Daniel Christian Wahl

5 min

Just Fix It: Showing up

What does it take to create change in a world in desperate need of it? Mike Prather explains the story of the dust mitigation and ‘restoration’ of the Owens Dry Lake.

Forrest Pound

Community Repair: Pop-Up Alternatives to a Throwaway Society

A not-so-quiet repair revolution is taking place in communities across Britain. Consumers, fed up with having to throw away broken phones, toasters and other appliances, are instead meeting to learn how to repair them and to extend the lifetime of their products. These repair...

Christine Cole, Alex Gnanapragasam

3 min

The Scottish Start-Up Making Roads with Waste Plastic

Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building roads this way.

BBC News

4 min

The Bentley Effect (trailer)

The extraordinary tale of a community who defied the gas juggernaut. Filmed over five years, The Bentley Effect documents the highs and lows of the battle to keep a unique part of Australia gasfield-free. This timely story of a community’s heroic stand shows how strategic...

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution

A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...

Daniel Christian Wahl

Nikola Tesla's Visions of the Future

The ONE secret that Nikola Tesla wrested from nature on that fateful day in a Budapest park was the design for his most famous and important invention: the Alternating Current Induction Motor. Before Tesla’s breakthrough, all electricity and motors used a direct current...

Gavin Aung Than

23 min

Following the Route of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through 3 States

After Trump's revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, some communities along its route are getting ready to fight back. Others see a promise kept by the US president to 'make America great again'. The Guardian drove along the proposed route of the pipeline, through three...

The Guardian

22 min

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most...

Tree+

53 min

How to Boil a Frog (2010)

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...

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow. I hasten to say that I do not understand these rules as predictions; I am not interested in...

Wendell Berry

120 min

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)

What if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that shake our world?

Mélanie Laurent

6 min

You Can't Have Infinite Growth On A Finite Planet

"Our economy is based on a crazy idea - the crazy idea being that we're gonna have infinite growth on a finite planet." - Paul Guilding

Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth

Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...

Daphne Dupont-Nivet, Anouk Ruhaak, Marije Schuurs, Emiel Woutersen

6 min

Jane Goodall - Mother Earth

“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

80 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth

Pachamama, our dear Mother Earth, is 4.5 billion years old. She is home to an estimated 8.7 million species of life! This wondrous web of relationships is truly a gift to be a part of, and we can thank our growing and evolving Mother Earth for the eyes and mind we have to...

Films For Action

60 min

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy. These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly...

Beyond Compost: 5 Ways to Get Your Soil Ready This Spring

The key to a great garden? Good dirt. Here’s how you can grow your own.

Peter D'Auria and Miles Schneiderman

18 min

Watching The Birth of a Dugout Canoe is Meditative and Deeply Satisfying

This is a documentary movie uncovering the difficult and time consuming process of making traditional expanded dugout canoe using mostly traditional hand tools and techniques.

Northmen

Break the Chain - Fortnight of Action Against Fracking Supply Chain Begins

Campaigners block access to quarry supplying material to fracking industry, calling on suppliers to 'break the chain' that enables fracking against the wishes of locals.

Andrew Butler

2 min

The Edible Bus Stop: Community Gardens From Neglected Sites

The Edible Bus Stop transforms neglected sites across London's bus network into valuable community growing spaces. Originating as a guerilla garden project adjacent to a bus stop in South London, we transform once-forgotten spaces into thriving neighbourhood hubs that are...

Room60

'Disaster': Trump Administration Signs off on Keystone XL Pipeline

'Donald Trump only cares about making his special interest pals richer even though our children will inherit a world ravaged by climate change'

Nika Knight

Every Town Needs a Remakery

The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things.

Jeremy Williams

52 min

Tamera - Taste of a New Culture

Tamera is an extraordinary intentional community in Portugal. A model for regional autonomy in energy and food, it is focused on creating a truly peaceful society, working harmoniously with nature. This short film looks at the many projects that have transformed the arid...

daywalker

22 min

Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland

Fukushima residents are grappling with a choice: return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.

Journeyman Pictures

52 min

Belo Monte: After the Flood (2016)

Belo Monte: After the Flood is a new film directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate, and produced with International Rivers, Amazon Watch and Cultures of Resistance.

Todd Southgate

11 min

Moving the Giants - An Urgent Plan to Save the Planet

David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...

The Story Group

2 min

Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago

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...

The Guardian

5 min

Existing Is Resisting - How Farmers Are Resisting GM Crops

This animation illustrates the myriad practices of everyday resistance that have to be carried out by non-GM producers to try and avoid the spread of genetically modified (GM) maize and the burdens of GM contamination. It is based on the academic paper: Herrero, A....

The Agri/Cultures Project

The Venus Project Plans to Bring Humanity to the Next Stage of Social Evolution. Here's How.

The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture. The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where technology and science are applied to redesigning our social system with the prime concern being...

Daniel Araya with Roxanne Meadows

DAPL Opponents Vow to 'Rise' From Ashes of Oceti Sakowin and Keep Fighting

'They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started,' Dallas Goldtooth declared

Lauren McCauley

7 min

Meet the Earthship

Outside of Taos, New Mexico, you'll find a community of people living in off-grid homes made of garbage. The homes are called Earthships and were invented by Michael Reynolds. We went to Taos to check them out.

6 min

Pricey Bargains: How Economics Hides The True Cost of Consumerism

Climate change, species extinction, pollution and poverty: The world seems to be going down the drain! There are many reasons for these problems. One reason of particular importance is rooted deep in our economic system. This video explains it. What's your opinion about that?...

edeos- digital education GmbH

Brace for the Financial Crash of 2018

80% of the world’s oil has already peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy

Nafeez Ahmed

99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Year

Our media feeds are echo chambers. And those echo chambers don’t just reflect our political beliefs; they reflect our feelings about human progress. Bad news can be a bubble too

Angus Hervey

18 min

The Future of Cities

Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some of ways cities are changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he couldn't visit he crowdsourced footage from residents. This film is made in collaboration with The...

Oscar Boyson

60 min

Where Do You Draw the Line? (2016)

Why is the Ecuadorian government proposing to extract oil in an area frequently classified by ecologists as one of the most bio-diverse rainforest regions left intact on earth? Featuring music and narration from Daddy G of Massive Attack this documentary film tells the story...

5 min

We Save Land - Short Animation

A heartwarming story of a young child whose adventures in the rolling open spaces of their home come to an abrupt halt, due to over-development and urban sprawl. With this eye-catching and thought-provoking short animated film, Summit Land Conservancy and LoveLove Films hope...

Summit Land Conservancy

3 min

UK's Largest Anti-Fracking Gathering Held in Manchester

An estimated two thousand people marched through the center of Manchester in what was probably the largest ever anti-fracking gathering ever seen in the United Kingdom. Activist converged on the city from Lancashire, Yorkshire, London, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

Undercurrents Media

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

If we want to escape from the wetiko disease of our current capitalist culture, we need a credible concept for a new nonviolent global society and for transforming the old matrix of fear and violence into a new matrix of trust, compassion and cooperation.

Martin Winiecki

1 min

What If We Turned Every Window Into a Power Source?

Transparent solar cell tech could transform our buildings - and make the world more sustainable.

Mic

13 min

Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat

A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is next for this new science and the public perception of this interesting field of research.

Prosocial Progress Foundation

10 Ways You Can Help the Standing Rock Sioux Fight the Dakota Access Pipeline

Cannon Ball, ND – While many Americans passively support the Standing Rock Sioux’s fight to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, aside from showing up in Cannon Ball, North Dakota (which many simply can’t do) – to actively participate in the protests – most...

Jay Syrmopoulos

9 min

Ash and Oil: Tar Sands and The Costliest Natural Disaster in Canadian History

Fort McMurray residents were forced to flee a huge wildfire that destroyed much of their city in Canada's Alberta province in May 2016. About 88,000 residents were evacuated from the oil-rich region during the fire, the costliest natural disaster in Canada's history.

The Guardian

The Anthropocene Is Here: Humanity Has Pushed Earth Into a New Epoch

The epoch is thought to have begun in the 1950s, when human activity set global systems on a different trajectory

Deirdre Fulton

14 min

Mesmerising Video of Tiled Roof Hut Built Entirely from Materials Found in the Forest

I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is not a...

Primitive Technology

3 min

This Off Grid Handmade Island is One of the Most Amazing Homes in the World

Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.

Great Big Story

2 min

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Jaureguiberry's elementary school is giving kids in Uruguay a first-hand look at environmental sustainability. The school was built with recycled materials, and students grow indoor and outdoor edible gardens.

AJ+

25 min

Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield

The series documents Rob Greenfield's off the grid bike ride across America on a bamboo bicycle where he practiced sustainable living to the extreme. In 4,700 miles of cycling he used just 160 gallons of water, burned less than one gallon of gas, never turned on a light...

Food: Local

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Charles Eisenstein is one of the first people I heard talk about the "new story," synthesizing a diverse movement that has been emerging for the last several decades. When I go back far enough, I first heard about these ideas from reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn when I was...

Tim Hjersted

96 min

Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture (2016) ($5)

Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.

7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy

One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...

Tim Hjersted

A magazine for a better future

NEVOAZUL is a magazine about less and more where minimalism, consumerism and sustainability merge with art, literature and culture. Together we can open a debate about how social responsability, sustainable behavior and ethical fashion could make a difference in our future.

Inês Pinto

15 min

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...

TEDxMileHigh

3 min

After Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History, This River Is Thriving

Conservationists can now point to the largest dam removal project in the U.S. as a success story. The ecosystem of Washington's Elwha River has been thriving since the removal of its hydroelectric dam system. Recent surveys show dramatic recovery, especially in the near shore...

National Geographic

31 min

Seeing the Forest (2015)

This documentary tells the story of how a national forest service evolved from seeing trees as its primary resource, to seeing the forest whole.

6 min

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa all live in a tiny 20sqm off grid cabin on a property on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Instead of paying rent, they share the work of looking after the land with the owners and both families share in the farm's abundant produce.

Happen Films