Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken

The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. All the practices and technologies documented in Paul’s best-selling "Drawdown" book are already...

33 min

The Four Levels of Action | Will Grant

Each of us is empowered to engage in solutions in a way that is not stressful or overwhelming. It is through the sheer numbers of individuals doing their part that we will see massive positive changes on our planet! -

3 min

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Films For Action

Biomimicry Explained with Drawings & Examples

Sustainability Illustrated presents the concept of Biomimicry:

5 min

Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real

There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with disastrous results, and one scientist noted in September 2018 that the scientific community is

JR Thorpe

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game

"Voting is a chess move, not a valentine. And here's the joy of being politically engaged all year round every year; you get to work with a whole lot of chess pieces and players and strategies and longterm visions, so you don't agonize over whether this little hop with a pawn...

Tim Hjersted

The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy

Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.

Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha

One Nation (2020)

The future of the political party is here. Welcome to the OneNation Party (USA). Our Purpose is...

31 min

BIAS AI

Solution-based documentary taking you on a journey of perspectives and insights on the issue of inclusivity and bias in Artificial Intellligence systems.

25 min

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

The Biomimicry Institute presents a new 20-minute film produced by Tree Media that introduces biomimicry as a way of living for everyday people and as a pathway for design inspired by nature.

22 min

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have great conversations – and most of us don’t converse very well.

13 min

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is all in on beauty. After photographing sea birds dying by the dozens from consuming bits of plastic, Chris had a revelation: It was time to refocus in his lens on the awesome beauty of the planet.

16 min

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"

Shareable

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and selfish and destroy our own habitat trying to gain more wealth or more power. If we reach...

Daniel Christian Wahl,

Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires

We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our economic system will save our future, but these proposals...

Jeremy Lent

Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament

We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to...

Michael Lerner

Yes, You Can Change Someone's Mind

There’s something fascinating about stories that recount a major change of heart. Like the one of C.P. Ellis, a White member of the KKK, and Ann Atwater, a Black community activist, who in 1971 were thrown together as co-chairs of a group focused on school desegregation in...

Amanda Abrams

Converting Businesses to Cooperatives Just Got Easier

A coming wave of Baby Boomer retirements threatens the survival of many small businesses. This initiative is making employee-ownership a more viable option.

Isabella Garcia

Fighting for Reforms Isn't Enough. It's Time We Reach for Prison Abolition.

Our communities cannot be safe within a system that fights harm with greater harm.

Tanya Watkins

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to dialogue, discuss proposals, mediate conflicts and make decisions about their school life.

89 min

Envisioning The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

"I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein

8 min

Andrew Yang's Powerpoint Presentation

Andrew Yang speaks to voters in a town hall at Ames, Iowa, with a powerpoint presentation to help him present his blueprint for a new way forward for America.

30 min

How Much Good Can One Person Really Do?

One of the reasons the world is in the state that it is, is because everybody mortgages what is really pulling at their heart to do something abstract. For the thing that they think they have to do for the numbers to work out. - Charles Eisenstein

21 min

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

Michael Pollen explains the ego's "location" in the brain: It would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.

6 min

Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation (trailer)

HEALING FROM HATE examines the root causes of hate group activity through the bold work of those battling intolerance on the front lines, including Life After Hate, an organization founded by former Skinheads and neo-Nazis, now engaged in transforming attitudes of...

2 min

Overpopulation: Do We Really Need to Control Population Growth?

"Every once in a while someone comes to me and says, "Charles you've ignored the elephant in the room. It's population growth. And unless we control our population, then nothing else is going to make a difference." - Charles Eisenstein

9 min

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

“We are a society of altruists, but we are governed by psychopaths.” ~ George Monbiot

7 min

Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn

Seen as the father of modern day natural farming, Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was the author of The One Straw Revolution, a fundamental volume for understanding how human beings can live together with this earth. This three part film series features previously unreleased...

10 min

Will We Have to "Make-Do with Less" to Sustain Life?

When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at CharlesEisenstein.org/books

8 min

Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)

What happens when people work together to create solutions to the social, economic, and ecological issues we face today?

50 min

It's Not Medicare for All Unless It Has These 5 Qualities

Polls show that over 70% of the country supports Medicare for All! But what does it mean? Some politicians are trying to turn to Medicare for All into a catch-all term that means any kind of health care reform. But Medicare for All means something specific: a single...

4 min

A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan (2019)

Produced by S.O.U.L. Documentary, this is a film on the life’s work of late, legendary visionary Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project. The movie features never before seen archival footage and the inspirational last interview of his life.

44 min

Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm? (2015)

This documentary explores how the Internet is changing the way in which we do science and create knowledge. It takes the viewer on a journey from Danish biology papers all the way to Google’s headquarters.

56 min

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

All our knowledge comes from nature and yet nature is a source of many mysteries.

51 min

Bernie Sanders Gets Stuff Done | 5 Amazing Victories

Bernie Sanders has an incredible record of accomplishing the impossible. Here are 5 of Bernie Sanders amazing victories for everyday Americans. - Matt Orfalea

13 min

A Few Thoughts on Practical Activism

This speech by Kira McPherson was delivered during the #ClimateStrike protest on September 20th, 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Kira McPherson

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

Localism taps into a deep need for community and a sense of place. Nationalism, on the other hand, destroys our sense of interdependence with human-scale community and the living environment.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites

We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.

Chris Hedges

“Free, Fair and Alive” Is Now Published!

From cohousing and agroecology to fisheries and land trusts and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to “commoning as a way to emancipate themselves from a predatory market/state system.

Free, Fair and Alive

How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist

'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'

Peter Kalmus

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.

38 min

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.

80 min

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...

Local Futures

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...

56 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems

‘Use and value diversity’ is one of the ten core principles of permaculture — for good reason. Studies have shown that small, diversified farms can yield more than twice as much food per acre when compared to large monocultures. Crop diversity significantly contributes to...

63 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution

When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.

53 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food

These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t made in factories that harm the...

58 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions

Small farms around the world may be thriving, but farmers, particularly those just starting out, face a lot of challenges. Accessing affordable land is a BIG one, along with finding start-up capital, and competing with traditional producers in the market. But so are things...

83 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

For young people not raised on the land, getting into farming can seem daunting. Even for people who have worked on farms before, it is easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed when it comes to starting a farm of one’s own.

45 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.

36 min

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the...

30 min

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...

Thomas Linzey

Seeking the Good Life in America: Alternative Ways to Live Sustainably (2011) ($2)

Join Joy on her journey to visit intentional communities as she searches for a place to call home.

62 min

Passive House Revolution (2013) ($3)

Create a Low Energy Home: Join the Passive House Revolution!

45 min

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

To celebrate Plastic Free July we're bringing you the inspiring story of a zero waste/waste free family in Hobart, Australia. Lauren, Oberon, and their kids have found ways to produce almost no rubbish - they've only filled one small jar of waste in two years!

9 min

Workers Should Be in Charge

Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.

Peter Gowan

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee

Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.

Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton

Regreening the Planet (2014)

Regreening the Planet looks at the profit that comes from the recovery of ecosystems in Spain, Egypt and India. Restoring ecosystems does not only generate ecological profit but also economic.

49 min

Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University

The Fridays For Future (FFF) climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across 125 countries. This environmental...

Otto Scharmer

The Big Picture

Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious...

Richard Heinberg

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