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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
Big Oil Has Pulled off a Classic Bait and Switch Move in the Arctic
Big Oil Has Pulled off a Classic Bait and Switch Move in the Arctic
Suzanne
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm 13 min
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm
A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The 1 acre property has been developed into a productive permaculture farm that is currently feeding around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas...
Limestone Permaculture Farm Tour
Corridors of Resistance: Stopping Oil and Gas Pipelines 24 min
Corridors of Resistance: Stopping Oil and Gas Pipelines (2015)
The Unist’ot’en camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, is front and centre in a global battle for climate and energy justice. Since 2011 they have been maintaining a check-point controlling access through their territory to stop government and industry plans to build...
What Humanity Needs to Realize to Live Forever with the Earth 4 min
What Humanity Needs to Realize to Live Forever with the Earth
In the end, the lesson our culture needs to learn is simple. But before any meaningful change can happen in our world, we need to learn that lesson.
WeAreChange
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.) 3 min
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.)
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
Take your shoes off
Here and Now 18 min
Here and Now (2015)
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
From Garden to Forest - Da Horta À Floresta 15 min
From Garden to Forest - Da Horta À Floresta
On this episode we present Juã and Rômulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of a good agriculture.
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
'This is our sacred duty to those this country harmed in the past, to those suffering needlessly in the present and to all who have a right to a bright and safe future.'
Naomi Klein and David Suzuki and Leonard Cohen and Ellen Page and Donald Sutherland
Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political...
Chris Hedges
ONE PLANET Featuring Joel McKerrow 5 min
ONE PLANET Featuring Joel McKerrow
Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
Tearfund Australia
Sweden Is Now Recycling 99 Percent Of Its Trash. Here's How They Do It 4 min
Sweden Is Now Recycling 99 Percent Of Its Trash. Here's How They Do It
Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial (read why here...
Make Your Life Healthier
Stunning Trailer for POC21 Shows "The World We Need" Is Possible Now 4 min
Stunning Trailer for POC21 Shows "The World We Need" Is Possible Now
POC21 is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Their ultimate goal: Overcome...
POC21 cc
The Earth's Battery Is Running Low
The Earth's Battery Is Running Low
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
How to Reduce Your Transport Footprint
How to Reduce Your Transport Footprint
If you live amongst society today it’s nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation.  How much is largely up to you.  There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so...
Rob Greenfield
Why We Need a Guaranteed Income. Soon.
Why We Need a Guaranteed Income. Soon.
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
Why We Must Find Beauty In The World: Richard Rodgers 2 min
Why We Must Find Beauty In The World: Richard Rodgers
It has been amazing for me to return the the White Crow Farm. Six years ago I moved to this land to reconnect with my roots, and to start to use my skills in media to tell the story of the important work happening on the land. That project would one day turn into Over Grow...
How to Stop Climate Change 7 min
How to Stop Climate Change
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
sub.Media
Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities
Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities
This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes...
Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
Blasting The Arctic 1 min
Blasting The Arctic
This summer, seismic blasting in Arctic waters is being conducted on behalf of companies like Shell, looking for oil beneath the seabed. Blasts from 16 massive airguns are emitted every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these blasts are 8 times louder than a jumbo...
GreenpeaceCanada
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change 11 min
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday; or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons; or that dancing around a fire...
rwrite dotorg
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series 50 min
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series
A rich and imersive nine part series looking at all aspects of living with the land. Produced by Permaculture magazine and Permaculture People the films explore successful permaculture projects across a range of topics, such as large-scale, regenerative agriculture, forest...
Part 1
Five Eco Villages Around The World
Five Eco Villages Around The World
Communities in Senegal, Colombia, Jamaica, Palestine and Egypt are experimenting with more sustainable ways of living
Anna Leach
Can Standing up for What We Believe in Make Us All Feel a Little Less Powerless?
Can Standing up for What We Believe in Make Us All Feel a Little Less Powerless?
It’s all a bit overwhelming, isn’t it? Inequality is rising, and services are being cut to those who most need them. Our eco-system is teetering on the edge, and oil companies are controlling the climate agenda. Multinationals are booming off the labour of the poorest, racism...
No Longer Powerless
How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World 9 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)
Momenta 38 min
Momenta (2015)
Momenta is a film and movement founded to educate, raise awareness, and activate communities to stop all proposed coal exports in the Pacific Northwest. We are dedicated to rethinking fossil fuels, their impact on climate and environment, and accelerating the clean energy...
The Venus Project by Jacque Fresco 4 min
The Venus Project by Jacque Fresco
For more information visit the official web site: thevenusproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/TheVenusProjectGlobal
NOIR Films
It's Not Climate Change  -  It's Everything Change
It's Not Climate Change  -  It's Everything Change
Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.
Margaret E. Atwood
ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us 22 min
ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us (2015) ($3)
ʻĀINA (pronounced "eye-nah") means "That Which Feeds Us" in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai - and of island Earth. That may sound like an outstanding claim, but...
Cries of Betrayal, Calls to Organize as Obama Approves Arctic Drilling
Cries of Betrayal, Calls to Organize as Obama Approves Arctic Drilling
'With this decision, President Obama has given Shell an open invitation to turn the Chukchi Sea into an energy sacrifice zone,' said Marissa Knodel of Friends of the Earth
Sarah Lazare
Alihuen: An Agrarian Conservation Story 31 min
Alihuen: An Agrarian Conservation Story (2014)
Alihuen means Big Tree in the language of the indigenous Mapuche peoples of Chile. When Jeroen decided to settle in the rural Chepu province of Chiloe with his wife Grecia, this name was not taken lightly, for the farmland which it would represent has undertaken massive...
Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever
Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever
“Horrendous inequity whereby a few hundred people possess half of Earth’s wealth as more than one billion live on less than $1.50/day is evil incarnate and will kill us all… The human family will only avert biosphere collapse if we choose to live more simply, share more with...
Dr. Glen Barry
Horizon-1: A New Horizon For Humanity 15 min
Horizon-1: A New Horizon For Humanity
For two weeks in March 2015, a film crew was given exclusive access to the Horizon-1 high-tech experimental community, which has been in development since 2006 via an undisclosed location in Western Europe. This film captures the opinions and perspectives of several project...
Prosocial Progress Foundation
Can Meat Actually Be eco-friendly?
Can Meat Actually Be eco-friendly?
Should we eat meat? That’s the big question, which — for this series — I’m asking three different ways: in terms of environmental sustainability, morality, and practicality.
Nathanael Johnson
'Hobbit House' Family Succeed in Quest to save Home from Bulldozers 1 min
'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.
All You Need To Understand About Climate Change In Under A Minute 1 min
All You Need To Understand About Climate Change In Under A Minute
This is a special edition of the Fishbones climate change animation, dedicated to the occassion of the International Climate Top in Paris 2015 -- otherwise known as COP21. Fishbones is an animated short explaining the most fundamental thing you need to know about what climate...
Tremendous Light
Good News for the Anthropocene
Good News for the Anthropocene
The best news for a good Anthropocene is that the human brain is a master at learning and relearning and that “rewiring” takes place all the time. Until old age, learning processes can cancel out old habits. Addictive and behavioral pitfalls can be replaced with new ways of...
Christian Schwägerl
These Are The 3 Climate Tipping Points That Keep Scientists Awake At Night 3 min
These Are The 3 Climate Tipping Points That Keep Scientists Awake At Night
This knowledge isn't supposed to make us afraid - it's meant to stir our hearts into action - to give us the fire that we can use to save everything we love.
Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love
Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love
The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked. Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen
Redesigning Cities Could Solve Our Biggest Problems. But We're Hardly Talking About Them. 4 min
Redesigning Cities Could Solve Our Biggest Problems. But We're Hardly Talking About Them.
Cities are the biggest thing we create. But when we talk about sustainability, there is still surprisingly little discussion about how our cities are designed as a whole.
On Brink of 'Sixth Great Extinction,' Humanity Must Conserve or Die
On Brink of 'Sixth Great Extinction,' Humanity Must Conserve or Die
It's official: the planet is entering a "sixth great extinction" that even the most conservative estimates show is killing off species at rates far higher than the previous five mass die-offs—and humanity is both at fault...and at risk. A joint study by scientists from...
Nadia Prupis
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
This Is What Happens When Our Politicians Say Yes to Dirty Energy 3 min
This Is What Happens When Our Politicians Say Yes to Dirty Energy
Between Tues 23rd and Fri 26th June Lancashire County Council is scheduled to be considering applications for 2 new fracking test sites on the Fylde Peninsular near Blackpool. We have been here before with the last attempt in January ending in farc
38 Degrees
Buen Vivir: A New Era of Great Social Change
Buen Vivir: A New Era of Great Social Change
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”― R. Buckminster Fuller
Jocelyn Mercado
Of Mindfulness, Meditation and Other Aliases
Of Mindfulness, Meditation and Other Aliases
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rishi Miranhshah
What Does Coal Have to Do with hunger? 1 min
What Does Coal Have to Do with hunger?
Coal pollution is the single biggest driver of climate change on the planet. It's causing more and more extreme weather and pushing the world's poorest people into poverty and hunger.  If we keep burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now, climate change could push 50...
Oxfam Stories
Thirsty planet
Thirsty planet
Remember, it’s not the planet that needs saving, it’s us. #savethehumans
Jamie Newell
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield
If You Learn Anything From This Street Artist Works It's The Vital Importance Of Bees
If You Learn Anything From This Street Artist Works It's The Vital Importance Of Bees
When street artist Louis Masai Michel went on a trip to South Africa to paint endangered animals, he came back a man on a mission.
Brandon Siewert
Why Sacred Places Matter
Why Sacred Places Matter
Film series tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world
Christopher McLeod
Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy
Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy
The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century.
Guy Dauncey
My Generation Does Give a Damn about Climate Change, Says 14-year-old activist
My Generation Does Give a Damn about Climate Change, Says 14-year-old activist
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
Lilah Raptopoulos
Breaking News: Earth Is Not an Exclusive Habitat for Homo Sapiens
Breaking News: Earth Is Not an Exclusive Habitat for Homo Sapiens
An Open Letter
Rishi Miranhshah
Let's Make Earth Day about Earth, Not us
Let's Make Earth Day about Earth, Not us
Earth Day is one of the most confused and misguided celebratory days of the year. The UN refers to this day as the ”International Mother Earth Day,” but what is it we’re supposed to celebrate?
Shahid Naeem
Forget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities
Forget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities
Using California's rooftops, parking lots, and other developed land, the state could power itself up to five times over.
Adele Peters
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby
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
A Real Solution to Environmental Sustainability
A Real Solution to Environmental Sustainability
Only a sweeping Constitutional amendment can save us from a global environmental disaster beyond our imagination.
Michael Lerner
Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us
Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us
Is there a belief about the Universe or about ourselves that causes all of the conflict in the world?
Chris Agnos
The Green Energy Revolution Is Exciting - but Don't Forget the Pollution!
The Green Energy Revolution Is Exciting - but Don't Forget the Pollution!
Boading, dubbed China's 'greenest city', is the world's biggest maker of solar panels and wind turbines, write Caleb Goods & Carla Lipsig-Mumme. But it's also has the country's worst pollution. Green energy, electric cars and the batteries that power them are great, but with...
Caleb Goods & Carla Lipsig-Mumme
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
When you take a moment and look around at the world, things can appear pretty messed up. Take 5 or 10 minutes and watch the 6 o’clock news. Chances are, the entire time, all you are going to see is war, conflict, death, illness, etc. Sure, this is part of the mainstream...
Joe Martino
Towards a Future Worth Choosing - Ending the Era of Ecocide 5 min
Towards a Future Worth Choosing - Ending the Era of Ecocide
I’m looking out across a valley, very fertile and green. Different cultures share their space with young and old alike. A society that cares for the soil beneath our feet, the water that nourishes us and the air that fills our lungs. The health and well-being of all beings...
endecocide.se
Validation Is the Missing Ingredient to a More Sustainable World
Validation Is the Missing Ingredient to a More Sustainable World
I went through a recent awakening where I realized that something very important has been missing throughout my entire life.
Chris Agnos
Earthships  -  The Ultimate Green Homes
Earthships  -  The Ultimate Green Homes
Earthship is a concept of over 40 years and yet the first one ever built in Europe was in 2000. The idea is a trademark of Michael Reynolds — a US architect. In the 70s, Reynolds envisioned a home which would have three exciting traits — self sustainability, construction...
Audrey Wright
The US-Saudi War with OPEC to Prolong Oil's Dying Empire
The US-Saudi War with OPEC to Prolong Oil's Dying Empire
Whoever controls the price of oil can play god with the global economy - that’s why the US and Saudi Arabia are leading the way to smash OPEC and re-create a new global oil cartel “No one can set the price of oil,” said Saudi oil minister Ali
Nafeez Ahmed
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate change have been ‘woefully inadequate.’...
Steve Taylor Ph.D.
How Values Work
How Values Work
Following decades of research and hundreds of cross-cultural studies, psychologists have identified a number of consistently-occurring human values.
Common Cause
The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People 3 min
The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People (trailer)
The Future of Energy is a powerful documentary that captures the movement across the United States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It's a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story...
The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred 70 min
The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred
Part III of The Bloom “New Ways of The Sacred” looks at how Transformational Festivals are venues for an active engagement with ancient, universal themes of MYTHOS, RITUAL and THE SACRED, exploring ways which both honor the traditional, while reflecting our unprecedented...
The Oceans Are Not Worth $24 trillion
The Oceans Are Not Worth $24 trillion
Some things are beyond measure and beyond price. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred.
Charles Eisenstein
The Soil Solution To Climate Change 30 min
The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)
What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet?  Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and...
Supporting SOILS on International Permaculture Day with Geoff Lawton 3 min
Supporting SOILS on International Permaculture Day with Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton talks International Permaculture Day at The Greening the Desert Sequel Site in the Jordan Valley (PRI Jordan). Join us worldwide on Sunday 3rd May for International Permaculture Day: In Support of Soil! http://bit.ly/IPD2015SupportSoil
Permaculturenews
Films For Action & The Bloom: Transformational Festivals Panel - "Practicing The New World" 60 min
Films For Action & The Bloom: Transformational Festivals Panel - "Practicing The New World"
Transformational Festivals Panel for “Practicing The New World” LIVE at 7:00pm April 29th following the LIVE MASS VIEWING of THE BLOOM PART II
The Bloom
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiable
Charles Eisenstein
Breath of Life 82 min
Breath of Life (2015) ($4)
Spectacularly photographed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii, Breath of Life travels the globe in search of the truth behind what appears to be a looming environmental catastrophe. Everyone is telling us how we are destroying our world. BREATH OF LIFE is a film...
Dear Future Generations: Sorry 6 min
Dear Future Generations: Sorry
An Apology Letter to Future Generations.
Prince Ea
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective 92 min
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
Costa Boutsikaris
Why The Great Burning Must End 4 min
Why The Great Burning Must End
Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas — must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first...
Post Carbon Institute
The Law of Diminishing Returns 6 min
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Richard Heinberg explores how — in our economy, the environment, and energy production — we may well be hitting the point of diminishing returns. When previous societies have hit similar limits, they often doubled-down by attempting ever more complex interventions to keep...
Post Carbon Institute
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next 4 min
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next
Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models-"the next system."
The Next System Project
The Bliss of Ignorance 2 min
The Bliss of Ignorance (trailer)
Through first-hand testimony The Bliss of Ignorance investigates South Africa's complex relationship with one of the country's most abundant resources: coal.
L.A. Just Called. It Says Go Find Another Dystopia.
L.A. Just Called. It Says Go Find Another Dystopia.
In 10 years, Los Angeles plans to reduce per capita water use by 22.5 percent. It will no longer get any of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. It will turn public library lawns into urban gardens and lay out rain barrels like a city full of survivalist...
Heather Smith
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story 101 min
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.” - Polly Higgins
Pesticide Lake - The Poisoning of the Workers of Apopka, Florida 7 min
Pesticide Lake - The Poisoning of the Workers of Apopka, Florida
Every day, farmworkers across the county are exposed to a toxic brew of chemicals. One of the communities that has been impacted is Lake Apopka, Florida. This video tells their story. There is a better way to get our food from farm to table. TAKE ACTION...
Earthjustice
The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project 3 min
The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project (trailer)
The Great Squeeze chronicles our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels that have been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years.  Although cheap energy has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, the ecosystem we depend on has paid the...
PLANETARY 81 min
PLANETARY (2015) ($1)
We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a...
Patriarchy Is Killing Our Planet
Patriarchy Is Killing Our Planet
The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed.
Nafeez Ahmed
This Is What Energy Democracy Looks Like 5 min
This Is What Energy Democracy Looks Like
Profit-driven approaches to our energy supply are not working. Emissions continue to rise and our climate is rapidly changing. How can we move toward “energy democracy,” shifting to a more sustainable, equitable energy system? And what’s the role of trade unions in getting us...
rosaluxnyc
Looking for Leaders on Climate? Follow the Women Farmers
Looking for Leaders on Climate? Follow the Women Farmers
Across the globe, countless women are standing up to the ravages of climate change – and to the governments and big businesses who are allowing it to destroy the world "I give you a message from my heart," she says, "let's move forward and work together for the benefit of...
Jon Queally
Seeds of Time 77 min
Seeds of Time ($4)
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation inspired rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are already...
Confronting Industrialism: If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make it!
Confronting Industrialism: If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make it!
Modern industrial capitalism is based on a simple premise, writes Derrick Jensen: our mother Earth is a great store of raw materials for us to pillage, and a vast trashcan for our endless volumes of waste, no matter how long-lived and deadly. How can this be changed? First we...
Derrick Jensen
The Economics of Climate Change
The Economics of Climate Change
Shifting away from an emphasis on global economic growth toward local economies provides a means to increase meaningful employment, shrink the gap between rich and poor, and tackle climate change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Why We Need Big Picture Activism
Why We Need Big Picture Activism
People are beginning to understand that something is fundamentally wrong, and that minor tinkering with the current system is not the answer. A critical mass is ready for fundamental change: what they need is a clear explanation of the root cause of the crises we face, and...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...
Daniel Quinn
Our Shitty situation 18 min
Our Shitty situation
In this sedition we look at the economic clusterfuck enveloping the globe, the mega drop in oil prices and the political party that has the left screaming like Justin Beaver fans.
sub.Media
Forget Shorter Showers
Forget Shorter Showers
Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Derrick Jensen
More 5 min
More
An animation about consumption in a surreal, miniature world
Maia Thomas
Great Canadian Migrations: The Tar Sands Pipeline 2 min
Great Canadian Migrations: The Tar Sands Pipeline
Join the intrepid naturalist as he follows the greatest of all Canadian migrations: the journey of the tar sands. Say no to the Energy East pipeline proposal here.
environmentaldefence
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
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