A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

A New Story For Humanity presents a beautifully and sensitively woven tapestry of the rich diversity that is the human family. Featuring interviews on the essential topics of our time: from cosmology to ecology, from ancient wisdom to current thinking, from leadership to...

102 min

For First Time Ever, a Majority of People Identify as 'Global Citizens'

People around the world are increasingly identifying as global citizens, according to a new BBC poll that shines a light on changing attitudes about immigration, inequality, and different economic realities. Among all 18 countries where public opinion research firm

Nadia Prupis

Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting

Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we speak of training horses. Our manner of...

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)

The defiant women who returned to the radioactive exclusion zone soon after the disaster share their tales of survival.

48 min

Reversing The Mississippi (trailer)

REVERSING THE MISSISSIPPI is a documentary about a genius technologist and a rebel educator, two pioneers from opposite spectrums with one goal in common: Build a sustainable community. Can two men driven by determination overcome global challenges to change the world?

4 min

In Defence of Life (2016)

In Defence of Life follows the struggles and triumphs of four communities resisting large-scale mining projects in Colombia, the Philippines, South Africa and Romania. Courageous environmental and human rights defenders from these communities describe how they have suffered...

33 min

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

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

Love: Development of self first priority. Toxic love: Obsession with relationship.

Light Shifter

Plant The Seed (2016)

Watch the 6th graders at Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Queens, NY transform an unused piece of their campus into a beautiful permaculture garden.

12 min

Regenerative Response to Crisis: Blueprint Meeting at Tamera August 2015

The Blueprint project is an integrated response system especially applicable in emergency situations. The model includes permaculture practices, solar and biogas energy usage, natural building methods and water harvesting structures. We only offer what we use ourselves – for...

20 min

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

If we do not initiate the young they will burn down the village to feel the heat. - African Proverb The villages are burning. Worldwide. An estimated $500 billion is spent yearly on teen dysfunctions in the U.S. alone: drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy and STDs...

11 min

Kind is the New Cool

When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...

Charles Eisenstein

Catastrophic Failure: The Biggest Disaster in Brazil's Mining History (2016)

In November 2015, 50 million cubic metres of waste was unleashed after a tailings dam collapsed in the Gualaxo River Valley. This report investigates what is being named the biggest disaster in Brazil's mining history. A horror mudslide swept through the towns and villages...

43 min

How to Deal With Difficult People

It all comes back to you and the power you have to choose how you want to respond.

19 min

We Will Dance with Mountains: Writing as an Ally of Emergence

The times are urgent; let us slow down. Bayo Akomolafe calls a virtual community to gather round the prospects of a deeper revolution, a different politics of shared cultivation, as a response to the troubling challenges of our time.

Adebayo Akomolafe

Your Friend Is Dying and You're Reading Poetry?

A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.

4 min

A New Ideal: Why We Need to Reject Being "Realistic" About the Status Quo and Be Idealists

One of the most important passages in my book Engines of Domination, pages 260-262

Mark Corske

Nomadic Community Gardens

Nomadic Community Gardens breathe life into disused parts of cities, which become places where nature and community thrive. This short film shows one such project near Brick Lane in East London.

7 min

Remember How They Were There For Us

A father and son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them.

4 min

The Song of Grandmother Cricket

When nature is exploited it's time for the people to come together. When an old woman comes around, she brings with her a song and the rain that follows. At first the villagers welcome her but when the rains turn to floods she is turned away. Grandmother Cricket aka Abeula...

11 min

If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance!

We began with rhythm. From the beating of our mother’s heart to the first kick in our mother’s womb. We were born to move. ‘We Came To Dance’ combines this rhythm that we all share, with the rhythm of music, dance and an epic piece of spoken word that unravels over the...

3 min

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

The Gift of Presence

“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot

Evelyn Rennich

Festival Museo Libre (2015)

A short documentary about a graffiti festival organized by a group of young artists who live in the periphery of the megacity Bogotá. With an annual graffiti festival they try to change the negative image of their barrio, stigmatized as a dangerous and violent place.

23 min

California Police Officer Shoots a Man Climbing Out of Car Wreck

Paradise, California Police Officer Patrick Feaster shot an unarmed man who was climbing out of a car wreck. The victim, who was allegedly drunk driving, may be paralyzed due to the gunshot, but Feaster won't face criminal charges.

1 min

Near-Extinct Amazonian Tribe so Connected With Nature They Reportedly Breastfeed Animals

A photographer has claimed he witnessed a close-to-extinction Amazonian tribe breastfeed their pets until the animals are fully grown.The Awa tribe reside in the forests of eastern Brazil, and face a possible end to their culture, due to European colonists who have enslaved...

ninemsn

The ISIS Trap - Will You Fall Into It?

ISIS has a pretty black-and-white view of the world. Either you're with them, or you're with people they consider infidels. But what about people in the middle? ISIS has a plan for them.

1 min

Seeing Beauty: a Necessary Skill for the Future

And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything? And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life?

Eleanor Young

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

The build of a $420 tiny house almost entirely made from recycled materials. The house is 6.25 square meters and includes a loft with a bed.

4 min

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace." "Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope? Where are you, wise women covered in wounds? Where are you?"

4 min

Changing Tides (2015)

Changing Tides follows the organization Warm Current, a surf non-profit that works with underserved youth on the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States. By bringing kids into the frigid water to learn surfing, they also teach them a healthy lifestyle that can impact...

13 min

A Father's Open Letter to His Son About the Power of Love

In the first of a series on what #BlackMenLove, a dad tells his son that love is one of the most powerful emotions we have because it inspires us to give our all for those we care about.

Shaka Senghor

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Mental Health

John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn't.

12 min

Time to Reframe the Old Narratives About Race in America

Toxic ideas about people of color can be hard to shake, but looking at those ideas from a different perspective reveals positive truths.

Trabian Shorters

Maximum Creativity at Minimum Wage

If we are willing to work minimum wage at a dumb job that kills our soul, why not do our art instead, charge minimum wage or $10 an hour for it, gain a following and increase the prices as the art's popularity grows. This plan worked for me, I was tired of my sewing business...

6 min

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."

5 min

Margaret Heffernan: Why It's Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work

Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built...

15 min

Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)

A timely and emotional debut documentary that celebrates Hawaii's most cherished social values, Ola challenges us to rethink what it means to be healthy. Ola (Hawaiian for "life" or "well being") explores the widespread social factors that affect our ability to create...

69 min

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness

Jonathan Davis

I'm a Fucking Panther (2014)

Biskopsgården in Göteborg, Sweden, has suffered several shootings resulting in deaths.

89 min

Stereotypes: A Short Film about Labeling People

A very short but shocking film about the stereotypes we live with everyday in our society.

2 min

The Cleveland Model: How the Evergreen Cooperatives Build Community Wealth

Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most.

4 min

Shifting the Logic of Collective Action: As Systems Collapse, Citizens Rise

As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...

Otto Scharmer

Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe In, and What's Wrong with Libertarians

"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none."

Michael S. Wilson and Noam Chomsky

Judge Less, Accept More, and Restore Your Happiness

“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy

Patricia Tashiro

Dear Activists, Maybe It's Time to Admit That We've Got It All Wrong

“The first step in the revolution is eye contact.” - Alicen Grey

Mickey Z.

Central Banks Nervous as Alternative Currency with David Bowie's Face Goes Viral

One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the corporate-government banking systems and central bank notes.

John Vibes

Human (2015)

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?

382 min

When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts (2006) (trailer)

This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.

3 min

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

The most powerful stories may be the ones we tell ourselves, says Brené Brown. But beware—they're usually fiction.

Brené Brown

Five Eco Villages Around The World

Communities in Senegal, Colombia, Jamaica, Palestine and Egypt are experimenting with more sustainable ways of living

Anna Leach

Rising Rents are Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Cities

With this film, I'm trying to tell a wider story about what is happening to my city through the inspiring words and passion of Vanessa Garrett, owner of Food For Thought in Covent Garden, London. I first visited the restaurant with my mother in the 80's and it has remained...

8 min

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

This is a clip from The Economics of Happiness. Watch it here (skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)

9 min

The Anarchist Ideal Summed Up Beautifully in 7 Minutes

This 7-minute clip from Engines of Domination discusses the abolition of armed central authority and what kind of world that would make possible -- a world of peaceful voluntary communities thriving in harmony with their habitat.

7 min

Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty

Two years ago, I was hired as a campaign coordinator for a community initiative in South L.A. I got the job because I’d been an organizer for labor unions, and I was eager and thrilled. I’d be coordinating The Belong Campaign, part

Melissa Chadburn

'Hobbit House' Family Succeed in Quest to save Home from Bulldozers

A young family has won its epic battle to live in a real-life “hobbit house” after defeating an attempt by planners to bulldoze it.

1 min

Building For Belonging: Why City Planning Must Focus on Ending Social Isolation

Previous generations of architects thought of how architecture could interpret the world, but I think now is the time to think of how architecture can change the world. We architects can assume that role and make a real difference in how people live and behave. – Giancarlo...

Kim Samuel

And Dreams Shall Take Revenge (trailer)

In January 2015 Syriza became the first radical left government in modern Europe. In July its people rejected financial regime change with a resounding No! vote in the referendum. Our cameras were there, from the first election rally to the government HQ on referendum night...

3 min

What Is Community Wealth Building?

Traditional economic development wastes billions of dollars of taxpayer money to subsidize the profit of corporations with no loyalty to the communities who foot the bill. But there's an alternative: community wealth building, which focuses on building collaborative...

6 min

How a White Supremacist Became a Civil Rights Activist

The story of a KKK leader’s transformation shows us that we need not live forever with the kind of violence we saw in Charleston this month.

Araz Hachadourian

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