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7 Inspiring Quotes by Aldo Leopold
7 Inspiring Quotes by Aldo Leopold
Let's tip our hats to the ecologist who defined wilderness.
Starre Vartan
Joanna Macy: The Courage to See, the Power to Choose 62 min
Joanna Macy: The Courage to See, the Power to Choose
Non-stop war-making, climate chaos, lost harvests, poisoned seas and bodies, refugees in the millions pouring over borders while millions of Americans are locked in prison... How do we relate to such immensities of suffering?
Naropa University
How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
When European settlers first came to North America, they assumed they were looking at "untouched" nature. Sure, there were native peoples, but history tells us they didn't value the skills or knowledge of the existing civilizations too highly. The fertile landscapes they were...
Sami Grover
When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves
When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves
Growing up in southern England and Wales, we always lived close to the woods, streams, and hills of the nearby countryside. The towns were built to be dense and tight, so it was relatively easy to walk out of the buildings and away from traffic into a land of kingfishers...
Guy Dauncey
How Big Oil Conquered the World 71 min
How Big Oil Conquered the World
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who...
corbettreport
Our Bodies Don't Need Meat. So Why Can't We Give It Up?
Our Bodies Don't Need Meat. So Why Can't We Give It Up?
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that all grain must go to people rather than animals. Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband. What would happen then?
Nathanael Johnson
What's Happening to the Fireflies?
What's Happening to the Fireflies?
Noticing fewer fireflies? You’re not alone.
Melissa Breyer
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...
Tommy Lehe
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
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
A five-month-old baby is lying in his mother's arms. He is close to sleep, then wakes and begins to cry. His mother tells him that he should stop being a naughty boy, and that she will be cross with him if he doesn't sleep.
Robin Grille and Beth Macgregor
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change 2 min
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (trailer)
Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known.
No Single Project Is the Magic Acorn: How All Our Efforts are Working Together
No Single Project Is the Magic Acorn: How All Our Efforts are Working Together
My interview with Tiziano Bonini has ben published in Italian at Che Fara. Here is the English version:
John Thackara and Tiziano Bonini
A Different Way to Die: the Story of a Natural Burial
A Different Way to Die: the Story of a Natural Burial
Tristan knew the end was near when his dad turned yellow.
Katie Herzog
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity 79 min
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.
We Are All Related: Working Together to Fight Fossil Fuels
We Are All Related: Working Together to Fight Fossil Fuels
As I write this, I’ve just returned from seeing my niece’s newborn baby girl. As I gazed into her eyes, I said a silent prayer hoping we can find a way to shift the systems of government and business that have allowed the sacred system of life to become so out of balance that...
Pennie Opal Plant
We Should Look Beyond Economics and Open Our Eyes to Beauty
We Should Look Beyond Economics and Open Our Eyes to Beauty
We seem to have forgotten that the human spirit is not satisfied by material progress alone. It’s time for us to reconnect with nature
Fiona Reynolds
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species 104 min
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)
United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.
What a Strange Way of Life 2 min
What a Strange Way of Life (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...
The Boiling Pot of 2016
The Boiling Pot of 2016
On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper...
Richard Heinberg
Infographic: The Heart of the Amazon Faces a Serious Threat. Here's What You Need to Know
Infographic: The Heart of the Amazon Faces a Serious Threat. Here's What You Need to Know
The Tapajós River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in the entire Brazilian Amazon. But this river in the heart of the rainforest and the people and ecosystems that depend on it face a serious threat.
Alia Lassal
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
Hope and Burnout in the Anthropocene
Hope and Burnout in the Anthropocene
To build a lasting movement for climate justice, activists must decouple hope from victory and confront their fatigue head-on
Forrest Watkins
Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next
Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next
“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great...
Joanna Macy
Why Spirituality Is the Key to a More Visionary Politics
Why Spirituality Is the Key to a More Visionary Politics
Progressive renewal lies in a deep recognition that we are not choosing our current lives.
Ronan Harrington
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
Solving a Problem That Has Not Been Named
Solving a Problem That Has Not Been Named
Many changes happening around us remain unclear. We need better names and stories for them.
Joe Brewer
Judge a System by the Health of Its Children
Judge a System by the Health of Its Children
On Globalization and The Costs of Exporting the American Dream
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick
Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate
Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick
Who Is Creating the Future Nobody Wants?
Who Is Creating the Future Nobody Wants?
Here’s an amazing fact: It’s 2016 and humanity is collectively moving toward a future that nobody wants. We are literally going somewhere that will hurt every single one of us. Mass extinctions are terrible things. Impoverished societies create the conditions for radical...
Joe Brewer
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to preserve the environment, while also cultivating happiness in its human population. In fact, the...
Carolanne Wright
8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization
8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization
There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.” —...
John Fullerton
How The Tremendous Changes In Our Society Mirrors The Evolution of the Butterfly 4 min
How The Tremendous Changes In Our Society Mirrors The Evolution of the Butterfly
Renowned Cellular Biologist and author, Bruce Lipton, says the tremendous changes happening in the world today are like a late stage caterpillar. The creature has eaten its full and is now ready for its old self to die and be born anew.
Abraham Heisler
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
'Status Quo': Shell Spews Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Oil Into Gulf of Mexico in Latest Spill
'Status Quo': Shell Spews Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Oil Into Gulf of Mexico in Latest Spill
'This spill shows why there is a new and vibrant movement in the Gulf of Mexico for no new drilling'
Nika Knight
One Day in Tamera 23 min
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...
Pennies Make Pounds 10 min
Pennies Make Pounds
With a house that was starting to wear down and energy bills that were going up, Dawn McInnes recognized she and her two sons were living on the edge of fuel poverty.
The Energy Action Project
The Cardboard House That Can Be Assembled in a Day and Last a Lifetime 1 min
The Cardboard House That Can Be Assembled in a Day and Last a Lifetime
Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices. Named Wikkelhouse, which translates from Dutch as Wrap House, the completed prototype comprises a series of...
reno2you.com
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free 41 min
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
Why the Economy Should Stop Growing-And Just Grow Up
Why the Economy Should Stop Growing-And Just Grow Up
“How do we grow the economy?” is an obsolete question. Local initiatives across the world are looking for maturity instead as they rebuild caring, place-based communities and economies.
David Korten
A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World 3 min
A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (trailer)
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...
Climate Change Crisis (Bernie Sanders Vs Hillary Clinton) 4 min
Climate Change Crisis (Bernie Sanders Vs Hillary Clinton)
What are Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton going to do about Climate Change? We are under attack, and the attack is coming from climate change. Al Gore warns Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton of the the danger of burning fossil fuels at Senate Environmental Committee...
Matt Orfalea
Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story 72 min
Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story
It’s true; musicians can be a catalyst for social change!  Watch the inspiring story about the first Permaculture Action Tour, with music producer The Polish Ambassador, that covered over 9,000 miles though 33 cities and 19 states, from San Francisco to New York City...
Days of Revolt: Letting Go of the World 26 min
Days of Revolt: Letting Go of the World
In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who directed the new film "How to Let Go of the World". The two discuss the catastrophe of climate change, and the role of art and culture in helping us embrace what climate can't change.
TeleSUR English
UN Report Finds Almost No Industry Profitable If Environmental Costs Were Included
UN Report Finds Almost No Industry Profitable If Environmental Costs Were Included
If you haven’t been paying attention, I don’t blame you for at first not believing this. After all, companies go to great lengths to greenwash their image and present themselves as progressive and environmentally responsible, even while they turn your land to deserts and your...
Exposing The Truth
Babushkas of Chernobyl 48 min
Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
The defiant women who returned to the radioactive exclusion zone soon after the disaster share their tales of survival.
Cold at Home 9 min
Cold at Home
Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
Bombay Flying Club
Carbon Omissions: 3 Lies The UK Government Has Been Telling about Its Response to Climate Change 3 min
Carbon Omissions: 3 Lies The UK Government Has Been Telling about Its Response to Climate Change
A new animation about consumption, climate change and wellbeing by PIRC, George Monbiot and Leo Murray. For more info, see: http://carbonomissions.org.uk
PIRC UK
Reversing The Mississippi 4 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?
Ladakh : Breaking Stereotypes 12 min
Ladakh : Breaking Stereotypes
Ladakh is that one place, which is by default on everyone's Bucket List. But what happens, when a pristine land becomes a tourist hotspot? Last year I went on a trip to Ladakh that changed my paradigm towards a lot of things. Like so many of you, I have a million memories...
Pramati Anand
RIVER WIDE : an Uncertain Future for Salmon & the Skeena River 8 min
RIVER WIDE : an Uncertain Future for Salmon & the Skeena River
How you can help in under 30 seconds. Share The Film & Speak Up https://vimeo.com/158591490 Sign the Declaration www.LeluDeclaration.ca Sign the SumofUs Petition action.sumofus.org/a/reject-petronas-lng/?sub=homepage Learn More or Donate www.SkeenaWild.org Produced by...
The United Nations of the Spirit - Naciones Unidas Del Espíritu 10 min
The United Nations of the Spirit - Naciones Unidas Del Espíritu
In 2015 leaders and members of diverse indigenous communities throughout America founded the United Nations of the Spirit. Durante el mes de diciembre del 2015 en la Eco Yoga Aldea de Varsana, cerca de Bogotá, Col
We Are Those Who Are on the Side of the Living. and We Are Going to Win
We Are Those Who Are on the Side of the Living. and We Are Going to Win
Who are we? We are the people who are ready to fight back. The people who no longer live in hope that the Earth will be saved, but in the certainty that we will save her. We are activists, survivors, lovers and fighters. And we say: the destruction will stop.
Derrick Jensen
Maybe the Humans in Interstellar Wouldn't Have Wrecked Their Planet If They Had Stopped Monocropping
Maybe the Humans in Interstellar Wouldn't Have Wrecked Their Planet If They Had Stopped Monocropping
Did the brainiac space man played by Matthew Mcconaughey ever stop to consider the possibility that continuing to rely on massive homogeneous corn fields was driving the death of the planet? No, no he did not. This parody video isn't directly related to the mo
Tim Hjersted
Regenerative Response to Crisis: Blueprint Meeting at Tamera August 2015 20 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...
Auroras Eye Film Studio
What Do You Think When You Hear People Say That 'We're All One'?
What Do You Think When You Hear People Say That 'We're All One'?
Sometimes I feel this sense of "oneness" in my body and it's hard to describe, but I say 'we're all one' as a verbal way to describe the feeling. At other times oneness is an intellectual idea that I know to be true but I don't feel it in my direct experience.
Tim Hjersted
How a 'New World' Would Look to One of the Most Famous Pagans Alive
How a 'New World' Would Look to One of the Most Famous Pagans Alive
A new book by Starhawk explores the task of healing society.
Antonia Blumberg
Healing Forest 2 min
Healing Forest
Can a forest heal people? Explore the magic of nature. Come home. Be Healed.
Come Home
The Good Life (La Buena Vida) 2 min
The Good Life (La Buena Vida) (trailer)
The village of Tamaquito lies in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced...
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
13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda
13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda
REVOLUTION LA is a political discussion group and revolutionary grassroots movement dedicated to building class-consciousness from the bottom-up through community education, outreach and empowerment.As the struggle of disadvantaged populations continues to widen through mass...
REVOLUTION LA
The 10 Revolutionary Keys to Saving Humanity and Healing the Planet
The 10 Revolutionary Keys to Saving Humanity and Healing the Planet
The Awakening of Humanity Occasionally in the course of human events, a new worldview emerges that transforms society. It happened when Jesus’ disciples were inspired by his life to believe in radical transformation of the person and theworld through love. It occurred in the...
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and Its Main Thinkers
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and Its Main Thinkers
“We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras” is the way Jan Rotmans from the University Rotterdam describes the structural changes impacting our societies. This is also the phrase Michel Bauwens chose to open his latest book yet to be published in English...
Commons Transition
The Warriors of the Rainbow Prophecy
The Warriors of the Rainbow Prophecy
Are the ancient stories of the Native Americans coming true?
John Black
Kind is the New Cool
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
How Nature Has The Power to Liberate 13 min
How Nature Has The Power to Liberate
Nature is the great teacher. The more you embrace nature, the more you feel free.
Infinite Waters (Diving Deep)
The Organic Revolution 5 min
The Organic Revolution
Sex, drugs and rock&roll, now thàt used to be cool. Someone who wants to be cool today, grows his own organic vegetables. Hip and trendy, or is there more to it?
DOCWERKERS
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System 4 min
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System
We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth means consuming more resources each year than were consumed in the prior year, which means that more of...
Sustainable Human
The Song of Grandmother Cricket 11 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...
Denis Chapon
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
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College 11 min
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College
Watch how harnessing human potential along with the sun is improving millions of impoverished lives.
Climate Reality
World War III - the New Axis of Evil 11 min
World War III - the New Axis of Evil
The alliances and proxies of the Syrian Front explained. World War III - The New Axis of Evil Sources and transcript: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/world-war-3-new-axis
StormCloudsGathering
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
Ghana's Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes 2 min
Ghana's Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes
Meet the Ghanaian entrepreneur who's building bikes out of bamboo.
AJ+
Palm Oil Alternative Offers Hope for Rainforest Deforestation 2 min
Palm Oil Alternative Offers Hope for Rainforest Deforestation
Harvesting palm oil is destructive to the environment, resulting in the destruction of thousands of miles of rainforest and destroying crucial orangutan habitat. But some engineers and scientists are coming up with an alternative and some hope.
AJ+
The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil 29 min
The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil
The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil's strong-arm reach--its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.
The Natural State of America 75 min
The Natural State of America (2011)
In the 1970's, a small group of residents in the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas organized and successfully halted the U.S. Forest Service’s planned aerial applications of herbicides. Now the group battles their rural electric cooperative to protect the region’s organic farms...
Dams Contribute to Global Warming 7 min
Dams Contribute to Global Warming
Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a "clean and green" source of electricity by international financial institutions, national governments and other actors. They greatly benefit from instruments meant to address climate change, including carbon credits under...
AmazonWatch
Oil Fuels War and Terrorists Like Isis. The Climate Movement Can Bring Peace
Oil Fuels War and Terrorists Like Isis. The Climate Movement Can Bring Peace
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil
Rebecca Solnit
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience 45 min
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)
This is a documentary about getting out into the natural world and learning from the wisdom of land and people - focusing on how rewilding our perception might be the catalyst for the changes we wish to see in the world.
Apocalyptic Capitalism
Apocalyptic Capitalism
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and...
Chris Hedges
Western Firms Plan to Cash in on Syria's Oil and Gas 'Frontier'
Western Firms Plan to Cash in on Syria's Oil and Gas 'Frontier'
US, British, French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad regime. A study for a global oil services company...
Nafeez Ahmed
When We Were Hela: ExxonMobil's New Guinea Nightmare 14 min
When We Were Hela: ExxonMobil's New Guinea Nightmare (2014)
There are some disturbing facts buried in the debris of ExxonMobil's $19 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea—funded in part by a U.S. government loan. A landslide from an ExxonMobil quarry there killed 27 people in 2012—a disaster ExxonMobil and the PNG...
Orangutans - Victims of "Sustainable" Palm Oil
Orangutans - Victims of "Sustainable" Palm Oil
In Borneo, several starving orangutans have been rescued after their forest homes were clear-cut for a palm oil plantation. The rainforest was bulldozed by BGA, a member of the RSPO – the organization issuing the label for sustainable palm oil. Please act now to stop this...
Rainforest Rescue
Realize You Are the Earth
Realize You Are the Earth
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
First Full Scale Tidal Lagoon Power Plant 2 min
First Full Scale Tidal Lagoon Power Plant
Could this tidal lagoon project in Wales be the future of sustainable energy?
How Cities Make Us Sick 18 min
How Cities Make Us Sick
Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
CBC News: The National
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature? 12 min
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature?
Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.
TEDx Talks
$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials 4 min
$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.
Happen Films
Seeds Of Change 41 min
Seeds Of Change (2014)
An ecological community in the Bolivian Amazon is revealed: Candelaria Madidi Ecologico. By protecting one of the most biodiverse places in the world, they aim to create an alternative model of a society.
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul 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?"
Paul Watson: If the Ocean Dies, We Die!
Paul Watson: If the Ocean Dies, We Die!
If the ocean dies, we all die. Why?
Paul Watson
Baranaja - Twelve Seeds of Sustainability 6 min
Baranaja - Twelve Seeds of Sustainability
300 million farmers is a whole lot of famers. India is their home, making it the country with the largest number of small-scale food growers in the world. Most of these farmers own less than 2 acres of land and are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising input costs...
Project Survival Media
Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500 8 min
Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500
Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled materials.
Happen Films
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See? 5 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."
Tamera - Healing Biotope 1
The Precious Opportunity of Climate Change
The Precious Opportunity of Climate Change
We are in the process of burning ourselves and many of the beings on Earth right out of existence. Overwhelming. Unbelievable. Wildly inconvenient. Weirdly difficult to take in. But true. We are.
David Goldstein
The Ending Of Sorrow
The Ending Of Sorrow
First of all I would like to remind you if I may, this is not an intellectual entertainment nor some kind of romantic ideological rubbish. We are dealing with our daily life, with our relationship with each other, and also what is happening in the world, and the turmoil, the...
J. Krishnamurti
As 'This Changes Everything' Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
As 'This Changes Everything' Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
'People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,' says film's director Avi Lewis
Jon Queally
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
Two years ago when he was 14, my son Matthew grew six inches. Last year he only grew two inches, and this year he has only grown half an inch. Should I be worried?
Charles Eisenstein
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