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Jim Carrey - Dream up a Good Life 2 min
Jim Carrey - Dream up a Good Life
Truly Inspiring speech by Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey
Making This Small Change Will Make a Profound Difference to Your Day 4 min
Making This Small Change Will Make a Profound Difference to Your Day
“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from...
Uplifting Content by Ione Butler
5 Articles Pointing the Way Toward a Post-Capitalist World
5 Articles Pointing the Way Toward a Post-Capitalist World
Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...
Andrew Butler
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
Can Love Stories Change the World?
Can Love Stories Change the World?
Sharing tales of love is good for our souls, and allows us to be vulnerable with each other, writes Matt Hopwood. In his life changing journey of emotional exploration, he traveled over 1,500 miles in search of stories of the heart. He found them in abundance, along with...
Matt Hopwood
The News Is Center Right 2 min
The News Is Center Right
The notion of the "liberal media" hides the fact that most corporate media isn't concerned about presenting a diversity of left-perspectives. That's because the media doesn't actually have a liberal agenda. It has a corporate agenda and it serves corporate profit and the...
Cinco Dedos Peliculas
Postcards From a Horizontal World
Postcards From a Horizontal World
New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life.
Marina Sitrin
90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways
90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways
The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world and to other humans, but we take this story for granted. We don't even see it as a story...
Tim Hjersted
Work Through Creative Blocks With Beginner's Mind
Work Through Creative Blocks With Beginner's Mind
“I don’t know anything.”
Jory Mackay
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living 170 min
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic...
UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees w
Tim Hjersted
Consumerism Lies at the Heart of Our School System's Educational Purpose
Consumerism Lies at the Heart of Our School System's Educational Purpose
A stream-of-consciousness reflection on the state of school, civilization, capitalism and the way we live our lives.
Tim Hjersted
Bureaucracy in the Workplace: Emergence, Morality, and Implications
Bureaucracy in the Workplace: Emergence, Morality, and Implications
I know, the “b” word is a drag, if not a complete mystery, for most of us. It’s a word few attempt to spell, let alone re-imagine. Yet aside from a number of outliers, most companies today continue to embrace a bureaucratic structure of operation. While it’s hard to dispute...
Zhivko Illeieff
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
For most of human history — several thousand generations of it, what historians curiously label "pre-history" — human societies lived with a basic sense of cultural relativity. What worked for one people didn't have to work for another. There was no universal template.
Tim Hjersted
Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression
Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression
In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on to an understanding of the class nature of...
Hannah Sell
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress 3 min
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.  It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
GNH Centre Bhutan
We Are Made for These Times: A Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times
We Are Made for These Times: A Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Get Involved When It's None of Your Business
Get Involved When It's None of Your Business
Working in a retail job, you think you’ve become accustomed to bad behavior on the part of children as well as parents. But you are appalled to see a mother use an umbrella to spank a small boy. Will intervening threaten the child or endanger your job?
Laura Grace Weldon
"The World Is My Country" Shows Origin of Yasiin Bey's World Passport 8 min
"The World Is My Country" Shows Origin of Yasiin Bey's World Passport
This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.
Arthur Kanegis
Nigerians Are Building Fireproof, Bulletproof, and Eco-Friendly Homes With Plastic Bottles and Mud
Nigerians Are Building Fireproof, Bulletproof, and Eco-Friendly Homes With Plastic Bottles and Mud
These colorful homes are bulletproof, fireproof, and can withstand earthquakes. They also maintain a comfortable temperature, produce zero carbon emissions, and are powered by solar and methane gas from recycled waste.
Amanda Froelich
Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA 10 min
Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."
Ron Finley
You Are Me 4 min
You Are Me
The cosmos is One interconnected and indivisible Whole. You Are the Cosmos, and All That Is. Therefore, You Are Me!
You Are Me
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson 85 min
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos
You Are Infinite, You Are Eternal, You Are God. And more importantly You Are Me
You Are Infinite, You Are Eternal, You Are God. And more importantly You Are Me
Science now confirms what we have always known to be true - that we are literally all one. And this changes everything
Mark Ellison
Compassion & Interbeing | Thich Nhat Hanh 3 min
Compassion & Interbeing | Thich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. Here, he shares his wisdom on compassion and explains the concept of interbeing. To him, all emotions and experiences deserve the grounds of compassion and need to be treated equally.
Sofia Surreal
This Short Film Plays Out Like an Epic Movie That Will Shake Your Soul - But the Movie Is Real, and We are The Actors 6 min
This Short Film Plays Out Like an Epic Movie That Will Shake Your Soul - But the Movie Is Real, and We are The Actors
For next year, we need a resolution capable of confronting the crisis we face, and making a future worth fighting for.
Woodbine NYC
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done
Angus Hervey
A Basic Income for All! 49 min
A Basic Income for All!
There is enough wealth for all of us.  What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security?  How could a basic income change our lives? Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?
100% Possible - Clean, Safe, Renewable Energy 2 min
100% Possible - Clean, Safe, Renewable Energy
What if Steve Jobs had given up on the iPhone – how would you be reading this now?! More importantly, what would our world be like if MLK hadn't had a dream, or Gandhi never stood up?  In December 2015 world leaders will meet for the world's biggest climate summit. It's time...
Don't Panic London
Do You Have Time to Love?
Do You Have Time to Love?
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
That's What He Said: Women 7 min
That's What He Said: Women
It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss how they relate to women, adding a much needed male point of view to the discussion surrounding...
That’s What He Said
Robots Stealing My Jobs 7 min
Robots Stealing My Jobs
Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated
Every Job I’ve Ever Had Will Be Automated
6 Big European Cities With Plans to Go Car-Free
6 Big European Cities With Plans to Go Car-Free
Oslo is the latest major metro to put pedestrians first in some central districts.
Eric Jaffe
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income 3 min
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
Matt Orfalea
submedia.Tv: Behind the Scenes 4 min
submedia.Tv: Behind the Scenes
We live in crazy times. A veritable clusterfuck of austerity, riots, and repression is playing out amidst a backdrop of growing inequality and global ecological collapse. In this era of uncertainty, we believe that independent media can play a crucial role in helping people...
sub.Media
10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"
10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Daniel Lattier
The 30 Second Habit with a Lifelong Impact
The 30 Second Habit with a Lifelong Impact
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months...
Robyn Scott
A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Democratic Socialism
A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Democratic Socialism
In response to Jeremy Corbyn's  'Standing to Deliver' plan "for a fairer and more successful Britain," Jeremy Gilbert suggests an additional 10 things to plug some of the holes in Corbyn's plan, making it a more relevant and robust radical plan for 21st Century Britain and...
Jeremy Gilbert
Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists 2 min
Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists
At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her culture. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways...
Global Oneness Project
Help People Cross Borders 3 min
Help People Cross Borders
A German initiative, named after those who smuggled people from East to West Berlin, is encouraging people to give lifts in their cars to migrants in order to help them cross European borders. Although this is technically illegal, there is a moral imperative to this act of...
Peng! Consulting
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ... the Europeans Embracing Migrants
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ... the Europeans Embracing Migrants
Away from the xenophobic hysteria aimed at desperate immigrants are people taking steps to help newcomers and promote the good things they bring
Various
Capitalism Is Failing, and It's Time to Panic 4 min
Capitalism Is Failing, and It's Time to Panic
The neoliberalist capitalist model has resulted in civil wars and economic disaster, and it’s only going to get worse. Unless, Paul Mason argues, we take advantage of the technological revolution we are living through and create a postcapitalist sharing society. If we let...
Comment is Free
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition
Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the “other’s” humanity, we ascribe to all of them ugly characteristics that somehow justify treating...
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Paul Kingsnorth
How to be a Peace Officer 9 min
How to be a Peace Officer
What would it take to turn police officers who abuse their power into protectors of the peace?
Matthew Cooke
Transition From Caterpillar to Butterfly as Analogy for Social Change 4 min
Transition From Caterpillar to Butterfly as Analogy for Social Change
An exceprt from Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview in which Dr. Bruce Lipton talks about the fractal nature of reality and compares the current global awakening and the evolution of humanity to imaginal cells in a dying caterpillar.
James Dearden Bush
A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally 2 min
A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally
Emotions can cloud our rational decision-making. By adopting the perspective of an outside advisor, psychologist Dan Ariely says we can inject some rationality into our cognitive processes. Ariely's new book is titled Irrationally Yours.
Big Think
The Case for a "Jazz Revolution" Against Corporate Capitalism
The Case for a "Jazz Revolution" Against Corporate Capitalism
Bottom up? Top down? Improvisation is the key to a middle way.
Keith Harrington
5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice
5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice
From the 23rd to the 26th of February of 1998, grassroots movements of all continents met in Geneva to launch a worldwide coordination network of resistance to the global market, a new alliance of struggle and solidarity called Peoples' Global Action against 'free' trade and...
People's Global Action
If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.
Samuel Alexander
UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business
UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business
A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use
Lucy Purdy
Hacking Planned Obsolescence Through the Art of Repairing Not Replacing
Hacking Planned Obsolescence Through the Art of Repairing Not Replacing
At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices. Founder Sepp Eisenriegler tirelessly initiates networks, projects, and cafés—all dedicated to the art of fixing things.
Ute Scheub
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone 25 min
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)
The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the...
A Charter for Democracy
A Charter for Democracy
Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go? Three years after the groundbreaking revolutionary ruptures of 2011, violent repression and media invisibility have relegated these thriving movements to a grey area. The perception seems to shift between mainstream...
Guerrilla Translation
Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained
Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained
Happy Basic Income Day? May 1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about demanding ‘more jobs’ or higher wages," the official Basic Income Day website explains. "Labor Day should be about...
Dylan Matthews
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
Tim Hjersted
Anarchy Lives: Rojava 8 min
Anarchy Lives: Rojava
There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have taken...
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning? 15 min
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning?
Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their own learning. No school bell, no year levels. Students take part in the staff selection process and...
TEDxMelbourne
Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy 74 min
Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy
This series of six short films look beyond hierarchy at two approaches to self-organisation. Traditionally, many of us are used to having someone at the top, but times are changing and we are seeing a paradigm shift in how people organise. There are now needs and desires to...
The Beyond Hierarchy Project
The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens? 6 min
The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens?
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The Unlikely Librarian 4 min
The Unlikely Librarian
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Our Better World
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times 23 min
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times
Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local...
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness)
Small-Scale Farmers Cool the Planet 17 min
Small-Scale Farmers Cool the Planet
Fair World Project's new 17-minute documentary highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate crisis through regenerative organic agriculture.
Fair World Project
Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time 27 min
Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time
On this final episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin, discusses the power of grassroots activism in getting the FCC to uphold net neutrality. Abby then speaks with Eugene Puryear, Organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, about effective activism as it relates to issues from...
The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction
The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction
In a recent semi-documentary film called Garbage, a toxic waste disposal engineer was asked how we can stop engulfing the world in our poisons. His answer was, "We'd have to remove everybody from the face of the earth, because humans GENERATE toxic waste, whether it be...
Daniel Quinn
Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?
Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?
"The world is a sacred place, and humanity belongs in such a world."
Daniel Quinn
#BlackLivesMatter: Tactics, Class Warfare, and the Legacy of Racism 28 min
#BlackLivesMatter: Tactics, Class Warfare, and the Legacy of Racism
Special Panel Discussion on Racism, Poverty and the Future of Ferguson.
The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world
The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world
Alan Heeks explores the pathways that can take us from the ‘old story’ of addictive materialism into a new, creative and regenerative post-industrial society.
Alan Heeks
Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era
Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era
Our current democratic models are crumbling and outdated. We need to make something more real and meaningful. Activist and politician Birgitta Jónsdóttir points to how it might be done.
Birgitta Jonsdottir
FairCoop: Virus of Cooperation Infects a New economy
FairCoop: Virus of Cooperation Infects a New economy
The ‘Robin Hood of the Banks’ strikes again. This time the aim is to create a worldwide cooperative to develop and expand a new economy of the commons.
Pablo Prieto and Enric Duran
Zapatista 55 min
Zapatista (1999)
With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.
Why You Should Break Rules - In 30 Seconds 1 min
Why You Should Break Rules - In 30 Seconds
A woman’s place is in the home. Marriage is between a man and a woman. These are rules that we have consciously or unconsciously written for our society. We worry too much about what happens when we break the rules. Here's why we should do the opposite!
ft. Alfred Blake
Malala. One Girl. Among many 3 min
Malala. One Girl. Among many
Girls from around the world recite the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to campaign for education as part of Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign.
Plan International
"Forgiveness Is Liberating": Desmond Tutu On Healing A Nation's Racist Past
"Forgiveness Is Liberating": Desmond Tutu On Healing A Nation's Racist Past
Editors Note: Last week, YES! magazine published an article by Fania Davis, director of a restorative justice center and sister of civil rights activist Angela Davis, called “This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right...
Desmond Tutu
Everything Is Connected
Everything Is Connected
The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.
George Monbiot
Whatever is Privilege?
Whatever is Privilege?
Whatever is Privilege? - Why the caption on the picture is bollocks, from someone who is a white male who once said those words.
Class unity
Why Immigration Reform Is Useless Without Ending the Drug War 8 min
Why Immigration Reform Is Useless Without Ending the Drug War
Abby Martin speaks with Eugene Puryear, organizer with the ANSWER coalition about President Obama's executive action on immigration reform and how this will impact the millions of undocumented people in the US.
Wanderers 3 min
Wanderers
Wanderers is a short science fiction film by Erik Wernquist - a digital artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden. The film is a vision of our humanity's future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on...
Erik Wernquist
The Oldest Living Things in the World: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
The Oldest Living Things in the World: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
What a 13,000-year-old eucalyptus tree reveals about the meaning of human life.
Maria Popova
They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity
They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity
Let me tell you a story about how the world began. I promise you the story is not completely false.
Adebayo Akomolafe
The Top Censored Stories of 2014 | Interview with Mickey Huff 14 min
The Top Censored Stories of 2014 | Interview with Mickey Huff
Abby Martin interviews, Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, about some of the top 25 censored stories of 2014, covering everything from the lack of police brutality statistics to the impact of ocean acidification.
Interview with Mickey Huff
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
There’s a wonderful phrase for how capitalism works in the real world (I’m not sure who first came up with it, but I associate it with Noam Chomsky): “The socialization of risk and cost, and the privatization of profit.”
Kevin Carson
Taking Down the Daily Show with Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein 17 min
Taking Down the Daily Show with Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein
Abby Martin interviews co-founders of Citizen Radio and authors of the new book, #NEWSFAIL, Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein, about the biggest flaws in corporate comedy news and why topics like feminism and climate change are covered so poorly by cable news.
Happidrome: The Kurdish Fight For Anarchy
Happidrome: The Kurdish Fight For Anarchy
In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No-one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them. But the moment you look into what the Kurds are fighting for - what you discover is...
Adam Curtis
Basic Income FAQ
Basic Income FAQ
What's basic income?"A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement" (src).What are the benefits of basic income?Benefits include, in no particular order:Eliminates the "unemployment trap". Under...
Reddit Wiki
Human Universe: From Apeman To Spaceman 60 min
Human Universe: From Apeman To Spaceman ($2)
Beginning in Ethiopia, Professor Brian Cox discovers how the universe played a key role in our ascent from apeman to spaceman by driving the expansion of our brains. But big brains alone did not get us to space. To reveal what did, Brian heads out of Africa to the ancient...
Greening the Desert 7 min
Greening the Desert
Synopsis
Reelmedia
Common Mythconceptions: World's Most Contagious Falsehoods
Common Mythconceptions: World's Most Contagious Falsehoods
A fun infographic on common myths and misconceptions from the book Knowledge is Beautiful. Click the infographic for a scalable full-size image.
David McCandless
Why Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy Would Be More Enjoyable and Prosperous Than Today's Infinite Growth Economy
Why Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy Would Be More Enjoyable and Prosperous Than Today's Infinite Growth Economy
What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow forever.
Samuel Alexander
There’s Power in How We Think about Things
There’s Power in How We Think about Things
When you walk or drive down a city street, what you are seeing all around you are manifestations of thoughts. Every building began as an idea in somebody’s mind. Somebody acquired the land. Somebody designed the house. Somebody had the idea to organize people together to...
Thom Hartmann
The Premises of Endgame
The Premises of Endgame
These premises appear at the beginning of Endgame, Derrick Jensen's seminal critique of civilization.
Derrick Jensen
No Masters: Hierarchy and Anarchy
No Masters: Hierarchy and Anarchy
This is an extract from CrimethInc's seminal book Days of War, Nights of Love.
CrimethInc
Neil Turok - The Universe Within 8 min
Neil Turok - The Universe Within
"My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved."
Some of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas Explained in an Amazing Animation 3 min
Some of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas Explained in an Amazing Animation
No time to read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe?
Guardian Animations
Intersectionality: What It Is and Why It's Important
Intersectionality: What It Is and Why It's Important
Wikipedia describes intersectionality as "the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination". We prefer this explanation from the perspective of a stripey blue triangle...
Miriam Dobson
Wealth Illusion, Structural Violence & The Fear of Truth 30 min
Wealth Illusion, Structural Violence & The Fear of Truth
Abby Martin interviews the creator of the Zeitgeist Movement, Peter Joseph, covering everything from the upcoming Zeitgeist Festival in Los Angeles on October 4th to economic and societal solutions to global problems ranging from environmental destruction to mass inequality.
Commercialisation: The Antithesis of Sharing
Commercialisation: The Antithesis of Sharing
The danger is not commercialisation per se but our constant identification with its inner and outer manifestation, in which humanity’s intelligence is led in the opposite direction from nature and spiritual evolution. What is evil, anyway, if not our identification with...
Mohammed Mesbahi
Uniting the People of the world
Uniting the People of the world
The time has come when we must demonstrate in our millions not against this or that, but rather for who we are * * * At this time of economic turmoil it can be difficult to perceive for oneself how the principle of sharing is a solution to world problems, and this is...
Mohammed Mesbahi
Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking 9 min
Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking." Carl Sagan
About Time - The Case For A 21 Hour Working Week 4 min
About Time - The Case For A 21 Hour Working Week
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and...
New Economics Foundation
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