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Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
"Plastic pollution, explained. In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at an aspect of plastic pollution that often is ignored in the face of plastic pollution in the ocean. While ocean plastic pollution is an important issue, plastic is actually a fossil fuel...
13 min · 4.5 stars
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Everybody keeps telling us to cut our carbon footprints. So how guilty should I feel about my personal emissions? And what's Big Oil got to do with it? We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
13 min · 5 stars
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
“They allowed this entire shitfest to happen"
10 min · 5 stars
Death by Pollution
Death by Pollution (2021)
Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...
10 min · 5 stars
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Australien Government has made an ad about Carbon Capture and Storage, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
5 min · 5 stars
Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)
Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)
The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
4 min · 5 stars
Can Indigenous Knowledge Save the World?
Can Indigenous Knowledge Save the World?
Indigenous peoples are among the worst affected by rainforest deforestation. What can art do in the face of this destruction? We show solutions from Cameroon, plus how artists in Brazil are fighting to save the Amazon. The rainforest is on fire. Profiteering and greed are...
26 min · 4.5 stars
Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?
Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
42 min · 5 stars
Megan Adams | A Journey Towards Zero Waste | A Million Voices #climatechange #zerowaste
Megan Adams | A Journey Towards Zero Waste | A Million Voices #climatechange #zerowaste (2021)
Every day we have the decision to positively impact the planet.
10 min · 5 stars
The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained
The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained
Here’s the story of how Extinction Rebellion's symbol spread around the world and became an icon in just a few years.
4 min · 4.5 stars
The Magnitude of All Things
The Magnitude of All Things (trailer)
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the...
2 min · 5 stars
The Scariest Climate Science Paper I've Ever Read?
The Scariest Climate Science Paper I've Ever Read?
This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements of the climate system, such as excess melting of the Greenland ice sheet...
12 min · 5 stars
How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?
How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?
The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them. Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!
Dr. Aaron Thierry · 5 stars
ATLAS - An Artist's Journey To Draw Attention
ATLAS - An Artist's Journey To Draw Attention (2022)
Produced by Fishbulb Films, ATLAS follows ocean wildlife artist Olivier Leger as he embarks on his latest painting ‘Atlas’.
30 min · 5 stars
The News Media Is Selling You Out
The News Media Is Selling You Out
The news media is in the pocket of a major industry. 
25 min · 5 stars
The Amazing Community Making Beautiful Compost from City Food Waste | Ben & bEartha
The Amazing Community Making Beautiful Compost from City Food Waste | Ben & bEartha (2023)
'Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story' is a free 40-minute sustainability documentary following the highs and lows of a passionate community as they attempt to tackle the issue of food waste going to landfill. Their solution? A composting machine called bEartha and...
40 min · 5 stars
HeadSpin! Rewrite the Rules of the Money Game
HeadSpin! Rewrite the Rules of the Money Game (2023)
Introducing… HeadSpin! our parody game show which exposes the only real winners in this economy: big banks, fossil fuel giants, and landlords.
6 min · 5 stars
Whose Consumption Is Killing the planet?
Whose Consumption Is Killing the planet?
It's not the impoverished billions, and it's not the majority of American consumers, either.
Ragina Johnson and Michael Ware · 4 stars
Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism
Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism
This is a fantastic video essay. Sit back, relax, and enjoy it like a podcast for some serious knowledge gems.
24 min · 4.1 stars
Open Up Your Eyes
Open Up Your Eyes (2016)
This 11 minute video manages to be informative, satirical, and poetic as it covers serious issues that affect all of humanity. It offers simple solutions to government and corporate involvement in unconstitutionally drugging the American people via the air we breathe and the...
11 min · 4.1 stars
Connected: A Film for Change
Connected: A Film for Change (2013)
'Connected' is a film made by Paul and Kate Maple, a UK based couple who have made it their lives for the last 4 years. Worried about the future and the seemingly insurmountable mountain of problems in the world, Paul and Kate decided to ditch their busy lives and start...
42 min · 4 stars
The Swedish Schoolgirl That Took Davos To Task On Climate Change
The Swedish Schoolgirl That Took Davos To Task On Climate Change (2019)
Greta and the Snowman: From Greta Thunberg to the man who's measured the weather every day for nearly half a century, it is private citizens leading the charge on climate change prevention. This report profiles these two extraordinary characters.   
27 min · 4.2 stars
Climate Deadline
Climate Deadline (2015)
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
69 min · 4 stars
Carbon Nation: How To Really Tackle Climate Change
Carbon Nation: How To Really Tackle Climate Change (2010)
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary that illustrates why it's incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it's good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment.
82 min · 4 stars
Climate Change: Faith and Fact
Climate Change: Faith and Fact
Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bill about ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith.
25 min · 4.2 stars
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 · 4 stars
Watch the Yes Men Impersonate Shell, Make 'Last Iceberg' Snow Cones
Watch the Yes Men Impersonate Shell, Make 'Last Iceberg' Snow Cones
New Yorkers and tourists passing through Columbus Circle Thursday were treated to free shaved ice courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell, which was recently given preliminary approval by the Obama administration to drill for oil in the Arctic. The company hauled a chunk of the "last...
5 min · 4.2 stars
What Does Coal Have to Do with hunger?
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...
1 min · 4.2 stars
Best Evidence Yet Supports We Are Undergoing a Mass Extinction
Best Evidence Yet Supports We Are Undergoing a Mass Extinction
The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.
Bob Novella · 4.2 stars
A Climate Of Change
A Climate Of Change (2014)
Director Ray Kocur leads you through a thorough (and accessible) study of current climate change research, speaking with a dozen of Canada's foremost climate scientists as well as historians and civil rights activists to gain perspectives on the past, present and future of...
71 min · 4.2 stars
Dams Contribute to Global Warming
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...
7 min · 4.2 stars
Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai
Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai
An excerpt from Anjali's second TEDx Talk on the negative use of fear as motivator in the world of activism, suggesting hope as viable alternative to action. Part 2 is the full-length video.
4 min · 4 stars
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)
The film scratches the niggling itch that is lurking in many of our brains about the extinction of planetary systems that seems to be going on all around us, and the dawning realisation that something has to be done.
57 min · 4 stars
Throwing Stones At Goliath
Throwing Stones At Goliath
Families, organic farmers and many 9/11 first responders call Minisink and Westtown, NY home. 9/11 first responders and their families moved to the area for the clean air and peaceful living. Never did they think that their health and safety would once again be put at...
6 min · 4 stars
Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson
Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson
It was not hard for me to make the connection between the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, and the catalyst for my work to stop the climate crisis.
Deirdre Smith · 4.5 stars
Climate Perth 2100
Climate Perth 2100
What effect will a changing climate have on Perth Western Australia in 2100. If you ever wondered what are the real issues here is a scientists who has dedicated his research on just that. A video by Geo Newmedia (Australia) - Age Group 18-35
3 min · 4.5 stars
Climate Change around Lake Wamala
Climate Change around Lake Wamala
My documentary shows how climate change has affected my village's prestigious and traditional Lake. Lake Wamala's size has reduced over time and this has affected a lot of things but most significant is the change in fish species and this affects economical well-being of the...
7 min · 4.5 stars
Hedges, Klein, McKibben, Sanders and Sawant Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
Hedges, Klein, McKibben, Sanders and Sawant Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
On the eve of three historic People's Climate March, authors Chris Hedges and Naomi Klein, 350.org founder Bill McKibben and Seattle Council person Kshama Sawant discuss the urgency of radical action on climate change, with an opening speech by Senator Bernie Sanders and...
111 min · 4.5 stars
Save the Climate or Save Capitalism? #FloodWallStreet Dispatch
Save the Climate or Save Capitalism? #FloodWallStreet Dispatch
 An exclusive Acronym TV dispatch from the Flood Wall Street day of action, featuring exclusive footage, analysis, and interviews with Adam Clayton Muller (Idle No More), Tim DeChristopher (Peaceful Uprising), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Arun Gupta (Counterpunch), and Flood...
10 min · 4 stars
Underwater Museum: A Tribute to the Ocean
Underwater Museum: A Tribute to the Ocean
Coral Guardian, a non-profit dedicated to coral reef conservation, has developped this unerwater museum in a secret spot in order to let the local biodiversity take its rights back. This video has a strong meaning, showing marine life beauty and how important it is to us.
2 min · 4.5 stars
Saving My Tomorrow - Inspiring Youth into Action
Saving My Tomorrow - Inspiring Youth into Action (2014) (trailer)
A lyrical mix of science, animation and music, SAVING MY TOMORROW celebrates the wonders of the natural world and is a call from kids to kids to help take care of the planet.
2 min · 4.5 stars
Groundbreaking Study Confirms: We Must Leave Fossil Fuels "In the Ground"
Groundbreaking Study Confirms: We Must Leave Fossil Fuels "In the Ground"
New research first of its kind to identify specific national reserves that must remain untapped A groundbreaking new study is confirming what green campaigners have long argued: in order to stave off climate disaster, the majority of fossil fuel deposits around the...
Sarah Lazare · 4.5 stars
Climate Change: What's Really Been Going On (And How We Can Solve It)
Climate Change: What's Really Been Going On (And How We Can Solve It)
Ever wondered why we're not on track to solve climate change despite all the protests and petitions? Watch this to hear the story of what's really been going on. For more information on how you can take action visit http://nononsensevideos.org/action
3 min · 4.5 stars
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 · 4.5 stars
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding of all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us.
Paul Hoggett · 4.5 stars
The Anthropocene Myth: Blaming All Of Humanity for Climate Change Lets Capitalism Off The Hook
The Anthropocene Myth: Blaming All Of Humanity for Climate Change Lets Capitalism Off The Hook
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar, wind power, or even natural gas or oil, but coal.
Andreas Malm · 4.5 stars
Why the Planet Is Happy That Bernie Sanders Is Running for President
Why the Planet Is Happy That Bernie Sanders Is Running for President
After lunch, right about the time that Bernie Sanders was actually announcing his run for president, I went for a walk in the woods, and polled three chickadees, two wild turkeys, one vernal pool of chirping wood frogs and a random sample of several tree species. You have...
Bill McKibben · 4.5 stars
Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva · 4.5 stars
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 · 4.5 stars
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 · 4.5 stars
Notorious Climate Skeptic Rupert Murdoch Just Bought National Geographic
Notorious Climate Skeptic Rupert Murdoch Just Bought National Geographic
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin · 4.5 stars
Conscientious Compassion: A Buddhist's View on Climate Change, Social Justice, and Saving the World
Conscientious Compassion: A Buddhist's View on Climate Change, Social Justice, and Saving the World
American scholar and Theravada monk Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi might not receive the same high-profile press coverage as the Roman Catholic Church’s charismatic standard-bearer Pope Francis, but it is becoming evident to Buddhism watchers and commentators that his message is...
Raymond Lam · 4.5 stars
Climate Change Warriors: We Are the Storm!
Climate Change Warriors: We Are the Storm!
Climate change continues to have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable communities around the globe, including migrants and communities of color -- people who are typically marginalized in our society. CultureStrike, in collaboration withJustseeds Artists’...
3 min · 4.5 stars
The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Silence
The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Silence
In the wake of Monday night’s direct attack on #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in Minneapolis at a protest against the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, I feel compelled to share some thoughts.
Annie Leonard · 4.5 stars
No Planet for Optimists: Coastal Flooding May Come Sooner and Bigger Than We Think
No Planet for Optimists: Coastal Flooding May Come Sooner and Bigger Than We Think
Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding...
Pete Dolack · 4.5 stars
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
With the largest evacuation in the history of the province of Alberta displacing nearly 100 000 people as large sections of Fort McMurray burn to the ground in the middle of a spring heat wave, it’s only natural for people affected to ask “why?” Why is this happening? What...
Nicholas Ellan · 4.5 stars
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The year 2015 has proven to be another year of temperature records. Data released by NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) show that in 2015, the global mean surface temperature – the yardstick scientists use to measure air
Kevin Trenberth · 4.5 stars
'Not a Symbol, a Signal': Wave of Direct Actions Points to Fossil-Free Future
'Not a Symbol, a Signal': Wave of Direct Actions Points to Fossil-Free Future
On final day of two-week Break Free mobilization, demonstrations take place in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Turkey, and beyond
Deirdre Fulton · 4.5 stars
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 · 4.5 stars
Artists of Color at Heart of Environmental Movement
Artists of Color at Heart of Environmental Movement
Artist Favianna Rodriguez and political commentator Van Jones have a lot in common. They both came up through the grassroots activism scene of the Bay Area in the late 1990s. They both run non-profit organizations/initiatives — respectively, CultureStrikeand 
3 min · 4.5 stars