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Opposition to GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral
Opposition to GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral
The pro-and anti-GMO positions will remain polarized until larger questions about the future of food production are addressed.
Charles Eisenstein
How to Respond to Anger | Abraham Twerski
How to Respond to Anger | Abraham Twerski
"If our goal is to never get angry, that is probably unrealistic, and not even desirable. But if we can get angry less? Surely that's a worthy aim, because anger - if held on to - usually only poisons the self.
4 min
The Case Against The Jedi
The Case Against The Jedi
At their core, George Lucas's six Star Wars films are coming of age stories about boys becoming men. Both Luke and Anakin Skywalker are guided and shaped by the principles of the Jedi Order, but buried within Jedi teachings we find some troubling and deeply unhealthy ideas...
26 min
Why I'm Done Trying To Be "Man Enough" - Justin Baldoni
Why I'm Done Trying To Be "Man Enough" - Justin Baldoni
Justin Baldoni wants to start a dialogue with men about redefining masculinity -- to figure out ways to be not just good men but good humans. In a warm, personal talk, he shares his effort to reconcile who he is with who the world tells him a man should be. And he has a...
18 min
How to Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain
How to Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer – and, often, alcohol.
Jamie Smolen
Rich or Poor? This Film Only Takes 1 Minute to Have You Completely Rethinking Those Words
Rich or Poor? This Film Only Takes 1 Minute to Have You Completely Rethinking Those Words
What makes you rich or poor? A 1 min. short film from a beautiful valley.
1 min
Death & Biostitutes - The US Opioid Crisis
Death & Biostitutes - The US Opioid Crisis
A new phenomenon has emerged in the United States: 64,000 people died in 2016 of a drug overdose—with 80% from opioids—with levels of addiction nearly 500% higher over the last six years.
22 min
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.
Hannah Alexander
Adventurmentalism: Ecotherapy for Suicide Survivors
Adventurmentalism: Ecotherapy for Suicide Survivors (2016)
Adventurmentalism is a 35-minute interpersonal documentary which records a 400-mile kayak expedition from Haines, Alaska to Wrangell, Alaska. This is not a sports film, but rather a personal perspective on suffering from Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder (PTSD) and suicide in...
36 min
One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back
One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back
The surprising effects of a man's experiment with eliminating pornography from his life.
Dan Mahle
What The Health
What The Health (2017) ($10)
What the Health is the groundbreaking follow-up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.
91 min
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The Wisdom of Insecurity
There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. Wisdom is the direct understanding of the fluidity of life. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for...
Alan Watts
Don't Always Trust Your Perceptions
Don't Always Trust Your Perceptions
Breathing in, I see myself as still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are. Near the mountain, there is a lake with clear, still water reflecting the mountain and the sky with pristine clarity. You can do the same. If you are calm and still enough, you can...
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Sex Workers Who Are Stopping HIV
The Sex Workers Who Are Stopping HIV
Sex workers in Mozambique are providing health support to those at the margins of society. They face political and financial challenges, but against the odds they are helping thousands. Jules Montague reports.
Jules Montague
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett examines how other cultures protect new mothers’ well-being.
Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication
Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication
A slice of life depiction about a camp in Vashon Island, WA that teaches parents how to parent nonviolently. Directed by: Hanna (Andie) Utkin.
35 min
How to Not Be Offended
How to Not Be Offended
There is an ancient and well-kept secret to happiness which the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use it all the time, and it is fundamental to good mental health. This secret is called The Fine Art of Not Being Offended.
Shemsi Prinzivalli
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Mate—which affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.
Jenara Nerenberg
The Invisible Vegan
The Invisible Vegan (trailer)
The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African-American community, foregrounding the health and wellness possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diets and lifestyle choices. Over the past...
5 min
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
Weaving together traditional stories, personal experiences and core concepts, Thich Nhat Hanh offers step-by-step practices that foster understanding and intimacy in any kind of relationship: between lovers, parents and children, even those who have done us harm.  According...
73 min
Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion on F-35
Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion on F-35
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system
Jon Queally
Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns
Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns
Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the "self", and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you've fallen into. Puett's latest book is "The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the...
4 min
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in  South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.
3 min
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Does your phone, the TV and advertising demand your attention everywhere you look? All this stimulation is triggering a social crisis, says writer Matthew Crawford. He talks to Ed Cumming about how to reconnect with reality
Ed Cumming
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015) ($5)
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
115 min
How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.
How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.
Shorter workweeks could help reduce accidents, combat climate change, make the genders more equal, and more, contends historian and author Rutger Bregman.
Rutger Bregman
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
Marc Lewis and Shaun Shelly
How Good Boundaries Can Free You
How Good Boundaries Can Free You
Your story is shaped by what you are saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to. Every single person on the planet knows the challenge of boundary setting. But being clear about what you will, and will not, allow into your life can help you to live a happier and simpler existence.
15 min
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister
How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages... Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute movie here.
6 min
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
Six years ago, Dave Booda was accused of rape. He didn't defend himself - instead, here's what happened.
Dave Booda
Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans
Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans
This... might be a problem.
5 min
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Before we go any further I would like to ask you what is your fundamental, lasting interest in life? Putting all oblique answers aside and dealing with this question directly and honestly, what would you answer? Do you know?
J. Krishnamurti
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves. The wife has an image about the husband ...
J. Krishnamurti
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, Clo Copass
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
Madlen Davies
Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope
Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)
THE CHILD MAY NOT REMEMBER, BUT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
2 min
'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill
'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill
'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'
Lauren McCauley
Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence, not many people really know how to spot it – in themselves or in others.
Jose M. Mestre, Kimberly A. Barchard,
Universal Wisdom Meditation
Universal Wisdom Meditation
This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story, emerging from the heart of our humanity. Meditation: Facilitated by Anneloes Smitsman of...
12 min
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
It has been said that we’re living through “The Age of Loneliness.” Loneliness is “epidemic” among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the numb
Planet Local
Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality
Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality
It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners make more than nine times as much on average as the remainder, and in...
Nick Haslam
25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult
25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult
Being a well-adjusted human has never been easier.
Anna Borges
5 to Life: Compassionate Release for Terminally Ill Prisoners
5 to Life: Compassionate Release for Terminally Ill Prisoners
The terminally ill deserve to die a dignified death with loved ones able to see them go in peace. But for Allison's father, it was too late. Watch their story about the agonizing struggle against time and red tape that is all too familiar to too many Americans dealing with...
9 min
The Day I Saved My Own Life
The Day I Saved My Own Life
CW: description of a suicide attempt   On 19th April 2012, I overdosed whilst living in San Francisco. I had just had a therapy session, in which my and my therapist signed a “suicide contract” — one that said I agreed to calling her if I was feeling like I was going to do...
Amani Omejer
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine (2017)
In May of 2016, six American Veterans with PTSD went to the Amazon in search of healing. What they found was another war...for the soul of humanity.
65 min
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
Saying “no” can be really hard. But Christine Carter has a three-step plan to get there.
Christine Carter
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy.  These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly...
60 min
Dairy Is F**king Scary! - The Industry Explained in 5 Minutes
Dairy Is F**king Scary! - The Industry Explained in 5 Minutes
Dairy is scary. Please share this video with anyone and everyone who still thinks dairy is just fine!
5 min
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
There is a common misconception that video games induce loneliness, or a symptom of disconnection. But although games are often blamed as a cause of mental illness, numerous studies have shown they are often a remedy, more than anything. Video games are therapeutic for...
Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham
Musician Macka B. Schools Us on Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Musician Macka B. Schools Us on Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Medical Mondays have become an internet sensation, Macka.B dropping bars about the Health benefits of Vegan Foods. This compilation video features 4 episodes, including the now famous cucumber, followed by herbal teas, pumpkin seeds and okra.
4 min
Carnage
Carnage (2017)
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
65 min
Why Recognizing Our Own Privilege Can Be so Hard
Why Recognizing Our Own Privilege Can Be so Hard
There is a kind of lottery that very rarely is talked about in which every single human being participates.
Chris Agnos
Stressed out? This Weird, Relaxing And Life-Affirming Video May Be Just What You Need
Stressed out? This Weird, Relaxing And Life-Affirming Video May Be Just What You Need
Having a bit of a grumpy day? "Hi Stranger," by Kirsten Lepore, offers a surreal, uplifting and intimate experience that may leave you feeling relaxed as much as puzzled. With so much going on in the world today, little videos like these are a nice reminder of the other side...
3 min
Breaking Taboos Around Men's Mental Health
Breaking Taboos Around Men's Mental Health
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Jamal Edwards, founder of film-making company SBTV, asks why so many men are taking their own lives, and whether society's stereotypes of masculinity have stopped men from seeking help with depression.
9 min
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
Fukushima residents are grappling with a choice: return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
22 min
'Healthcare Is a Right': Bernie Sanders Finds Common Ground in Trump Country
'Healthcare Is a Right': Bernie Sanders Finds Common Ground in Trump Country
In rural McDowell County, West Virginia, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered progressive senator's call for universal healthcare
Nika Knight
8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication
8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we have highly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down to how we are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef
In Praise of Boredom
In Praise of Boredom
Or, The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land
Rob Hopkins
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