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Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change 13 min
Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change
"Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples."
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth? 7 min
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?
"We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?" - Carl Sagan​
Growth is Not Enough 3 min
Growth is Not Enough
Our politicians are hung up on keeping the growth curve rising. But does GDP really tell us all we need to know about a country's wealth and well-being? In this new RSA Short, Kate Raworth makes a powerful argument to look beyond economic growth alone for a true measure of...
The RSA
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia 62 min
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia (2014)
Recipe For Change follows the story of Earthship Biotecture in Ushuaia, Argentina as they and a group of academy students build a two-room simple survival Earthship. Earthships are fully off the grid buildings which catch th
The Secret Reason Sustainable Living Is Now Illegal 6 min
The Secret Reason Sustainable Living Is Now Illegal
Many states are cracking down on sustainable off-the-grid living. They generally come up with ridiculous laws to justify it. However, there is a much larger, deeper reason as to why these communities are being stopped.
Expired Lee Camp Channel
Peter Joseph: Economic Calculation in a Natural Law / Resource-Based Economy 163 min
Peter Joseph: Economic Calculation in a Natural Law / Resource-Based Economy
Intro: 0:00 Part 1: Why Change?: 4:12 Part 2: Post Scarcity: 30:59 Part 3: Economic Organization and Calculation: 1:11:01 Q&A: 1:45:10
TZMOfficialChannel
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way 82 min
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry
Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry
Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference
Nafeez Ahmed
Rap News 22: The Energy Crisis 6 min
Rap News 22: The Energy Crisis
Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride. But our dirty little secret is seldom mentioned in the news, let alone connected to economic instability or to...
The Second Heliocentric Revolution
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Films For Action
The Best Intro to Tar Sands in 3 Minutes 3 min
The Best Intro to Tar Sands in 3 Minutes
Animated sequences from the feature documentary H2Oil explain, in a nutshell, the issues and problems associated with oil/tar sands production in Canada. You can view the full film here.
Dale Hayward
H2Oil 3 min
H2Oil (trailer)
Due to Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands, Canada is now the biggest oil supplier to the United States. A controversial billion-dollar industry is heavily invested in extracting crude from the tarry sands through a process so toxic it has become an international cause for concern...
The Voice of the Grandmothers - In The Flow with Water 32 min
The Voice of the Grandmothers - In The Flow with Water (2012)
In October 2011, grandmothers from all over the world came together to offer a vital message to the world. This 30 minute film documents this historic convergence, which took place in Brazil.
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot 4 min
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.
Sustainable Human
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (trailer) 4 min
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (trailer)
Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth...
Hamburg Sets Out to Become a Car-Free City in 20 Years
Hamburg Sets Out to Become a Car-Free City in 20 Years
Hamburg City Council has disclosed ambitious plans to divert most cars away from its main thoroughfares in twenty years. In order to do so, local authorities are to connect pedestrian and cycle lanes in what is expected to become a large green network. In all, the Grünes Netz...
Ignasi Jorro
Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better 88 min
Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better (2013)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary. We remind you subtitles are available! Visit http://www.seedsofpermaculture.org for more information and extra...
Who Controls the Planet? This Parable About How a Second Earth Gets Colonized Will Make You Shudder 5 min
Who Controls the Planet? This Parable About How a Second Earth Gets Colonized Will Make You Shudder
Fewer than 10% of the world's population own and control all our land and natural resources.
TheIUorg
Enough Is Enough 18 min
Enough Is Enough (2014)
Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is enough, not more.
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community 51 min
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
David Korten’s inspiring and extensively illustrated presentation of his book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David says we are at a defining moment in all of human history.
Why Bitcoin Terrifies Big Banks 13 min
Why Bitcoin Terrifies Big Banks
Abby Martin speaks with Andreas Antonopoulos, founder of Root Eleven and co-host of let's Talk Bitcoin, discussing how Bitcoin works, and why it's so important to have a decentralized system of money.
Not Business As Usual 61 min
Not Business As Usual (2014)
Not Business As Usual is a provocative look at capitalism and its unintended price of success. The film tracks the changing landscape of business with the rising tide of conscious capitalism through the stories of local entrepreneurs who have found innovative ways to bring...
How to Create Abundant Cities
How to Create Abundant Cities
Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having enough, of contests over who gets the most of the scarce resources available, then aiming for...
Wolfgang Hoeschele
How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050 2 min
How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050
Imagine a world where you know, regardless of the nature of your work, that your efforts provide you with a livelihood that contributes to the well-being of others - your family, your friends, and society as a whole - in a way that respects the ecological limits of the planet.
Post Growth Institute
Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together
Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together
When I was seven, I was given an Apple Macintosh in the hope that Mavis Beacon would teach me how to touch type. It was an unreasonable expectation, for I was actually more interested in escaping to the fantasy lands of computer games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Lode...
Donnie Maclurcan
Using Biomimicry To Build a Centenary City in Nigeria 11 min
Using Biomimicry To Build a Centenary City in Nigeria
Nigeria will be celebrating its 100th birthday in 2014 and as part of the celebration a new city will be built based on biomimicry.
Shannon Royden-Turner
10 Reasons Why EarthShips Are F!#%ing Awesome
10 Reasons Why EarthShips Are F!#%ing Awesome
Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across.
Jordan Lejuwaan
Let's Be Honest: Real Sustainability May Not Make Business Sense
Let's Be Honest: Real Sustainability May Not Make Business Sense
Considerations such as 'what do you really care about' and 'who do you serve' should be drivers of sustainability, not profit.
Charles Eisenstein
Freedom Culture 4 min
Freedom Culture
A movement about building the world we know is possible in our hearts today.
The Valhalla Movement
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times 66 min
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
2013: Hope or Despair?
2013: Hope or Despair?
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” – Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community 87 min
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Within Reach explores one couple's pedal-powered search for a place to call home. Mandy and Ryan gave up their jobs, cars, and traditional houses to 'bike-pack' 6500 miles around the USA seeking sustainable community. Rather than looking in a traditional neighborhood, they...
How To Feed The World With Biodynamic Farming 1 min
How To Feed The World With Biodynamic Farming (trailer)
The film, narrated by Peter and produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn, features Peter Proctor of New Zealand, the father of bio-dynamic agriculture. The documentary highlights his journey throughout India helping farmers revive their poisoned soil. Various...
UnBreaking Birth (trailer) 2 min
UnBreaking Birth (trailer)
Will you join the movement to unbreak our birth care system in the U.S.?
Simple Sustainable Off-Grid Living: How To Build A Solar Cabin For $2,000 6 min
Simple Sustainable Off-Grid Living: How To Build A Solar Cabin For $2,000
This is a general overview of how to built a 14x14 solar cabin for under $2000. For complete step-by-step directions, videos, and more project plans including how to install solar power, drill your own well, build a composting toilet and more please visit the Simple Solar...
Solarcabin Off Grid Adventure Channel
The New Materialism: Inviting People to Fall in Love with Stuff in a Good Way
The New Materialism: Inviting People to Fall in Love with Stuff in a Good Way
Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent 'Festival of Making'. She describes her work as "inviting people to fall in love with stuff in a good way".  We sat down...
Rob Hopkins
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm 4 min
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm
Valhalla is a sustainable community hell-bent on inspiring people to be the change they wish to see. Together we can create the beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.
Valhalla Movement
Connected: A Film for Change 42 min
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...
The Race to Save the World (trailer) 5 min
The Race to Save the World (trailer)
The Race to Save the World is seeking funding on Kickstarter. Help them capture the dedication and sacrifice made by four scientists in their struggle to update society to 21st century energy sources.
Seeds of Sovereignty 36 min
Seeds of Sovereignty (2013)
As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film tells the story of how African farming communities and organisations are reviving traditional seed diversity across the continent, and resisting mounting corporate...
SEED: The Untold Story (trailer) 8 min
SEED: The Untold Story (trailer)
Collective Eye Films is raising funds for SEED: The Untold Story - The Final Push on Kickstarter! Inspiring documentary unearths the dramatic story of seeds. From creators of QUEEN OF THE SUN & REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN. Go to Kick Starter to Read More and Contribute to the...
South African Students Grow Veggies to Feed the Local Children 7 min
South African Students Grow Veggies to Feed the Local Children
It all started, in part, with Thomas Chevallier growing his own organic veggies and realizing the benefits of following a system that reflects the natural world, not only in the healthy food that was being produced, but the lesson of everything's inter connectivity.
Sustainable Brothers
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way 25 min
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way (2013)
The Killing Fields is a documentary highlighting the importance that economics and taxation plays in wildlife conservation.
15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)
15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)
Films For Action
Who Knew that Seoul was a Leader in the Sharing Economy?
Who Knew that Seoul was a Leader in the Sharing Economy?
Did you know that Seoul, South Korea is one of the world’s key sites for post-growth economic re-development? No? Neither did I, until I saw for myself.   I was pleased to be invited to give the keynote address at a conference titled “Reshaping the Way We Live,” put on by...
Richard Heinberg
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The future of the human species - if there is to be a future - must be radically green, red, black and female.
Robert Jensen
Revolt and Change Our Lives
Revolt and Change Our Lives
It's a sign of a really good essay when bits of it linger with you for days after you've read it and it keeps popping up in your mind. Naomi Klein's "Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet" is one of those. Her theme?...
Joanne Poyourow
The Atomic States of America 2 min
The Atomic States of America (trailer)
Screened at Sundance, THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA journeys to nuclear reactor communities around the country to provide a comprehensive exploration of the history and impact of nuclear power to date, and to investigate the truths and myths about nuclear energy.
When You are Seeing Visions of the World in 2048, Remember: One Act of Courage Can Change the World 4 min
When You are Seeing Visions of the World in 2048, Remember: One Act of Courage Can Change the World
This is an excerpt from The Fifth Sacred Thing, an upcoming feature film based on the best selling novel by Starhawk, and is set in 2048, where an ecotopian San Francisco defends itself from invaders using nonviolence and healing.
FifthSacredThingFilm
Permaculture Trio: Forest Gardening, Edible Landscapes & Urban Permaculture 48 min
Permaculture Trio: Forest Gardening, Edible Landscapes & Urban Permaculture
This video consists of three mini-documentaries about permaculture: 1. (0:12) FOREST GARDENING with Robert Hart Find out loads about what forest gardening is, and how to make your own! 2. (15:55) PLANTS FOR A FUTURE with Ken Fern Second is an amazing case study about...
10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmental Superhero
10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmental Superhero
In one vision of the distant future, after global warming has melted the ice caps and left the planet covered in water, Kevin Costner grows fish gills, lives on a trimaran, and battles pirates as he sails in search of the legend of “Dryland.”
Christopher Zumski Finke
The Sustainability of Self 90 min
The Sustainability of Self (2012)
What defines true sustainability? How can we begin to create sustainability in a world that has such vastly differing views on the subject? If we perceive our external world as "unsustainable" what does this suggest about our own internal landscape?
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing 16 min
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing
The triple bottom line for business is people, planet, profit. What is it for housing? A group of people in Leeds, England have built a cohousing project that sets a triple-benefit bar for housing projects by prioritizing three core tenets: the environment, affordability, and...
TEDx Talks
Mi'kmaq Blockade 3 min
Mi'kmaq Blockade
For over two weeks now, a coalition of people including local Mi'kmaq residents, and anglophone and Acadian settlers, have blockaded the road leading to an equipment compound leased to South Western Energy or SWN. SWN is a Texas based energy company, that has been attempting...
Franklin Lopez
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land 10 min
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and...
The Nation
Chevron Sues Oil Victims after Destroying Amazon Rainforest 10 min
Chevron Sues Oil Victims after Destroying Amazon Rainforest
Abby Martin speaks with Han Shan, spokesperson for Ecuadorian Victims of Chevron Contamination about the decades-long legal battle between oil giant, Chevron, and indigenous residents of Ecuador's rainforest who suffered from a massive oil contamination. LIKE Breaking the Set...
Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines 10 min
Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines
Kahsatstenhsera (gah-sad-sdanh-se-ra) is a Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) word that means Strength in Unity. This short documentary details contemporary Indigenous resistance to tar sands pipeline expansion, in particular the Line 9 and Energy East pipelines, which threaten the...
reclaim turtle island
Designing Healthy Communities 7 min
Designing Healthy Communities (trailer)
Designing Healthy Communities is a 4 part series and companion book that takes a comprehensive look at the impact America’s built environment has on public health, and at the people and communities working to turn things around through innovative solutions. Many of today’s...
With My Own Two Wheels 45 min
With My Own Two Wheels (2011)
Can a simple, 19th century technology change the world? For most North Americans, a bicycle ride or commute is a lifestyle choice. For countless others across the globe, each pedal stroke is progress out of poverty, toward an education, and over the mountains of social and...
Arise (2013) (trailer) 2 min
Arise (2013) (trailer)
On every continent, women are taking the lead to protect and restore the natural environment, and are empowering others to respect the earth. Arise presents the stories of a diverse group of 13 women in five countries who have initiated solution-oriented environmental...
Fox News Discovers the "Green" Tea Party, And It Actually Makes A Lot of Sense. 2 min
Fox News Discovers the "Green" Tea Party, And It Actually Makes A Lot of Sense.
The Koch brothers must be terrified this will catch on.
greenmanbucket
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that
Daniel Quinn
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking about Religion and Spirituality?
It would seem there are certain strands of thought within many religions that are highly unsustainable, for the health of individuals, society and the planet as a whole.
Tim Hjersted
The Story of Solutions: Why Making Real Change Starts with Changing the Game 9 min
The Story of Solutions: Why Making Real Change Starts with Changing the Game
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. In the current 'Game of More', we're told to cheer a growing economy -- more roads, more malls, more Stuff! -- even...
The Story of Stuff Project
Growing Cities: Urban Farming in America 2 min
Growing Cities: Urban Farming in America (trailer)
Growing Cities is a film about two young men's journey across America to learn about urban agriculture and how it is revitalizing cities one animal, vegetable, and chicken at a time.
Passive House: A Building Revolution 4 min
Passive House: A Building Revolution (trailer)
48% of all CO2 generated and energy consumed in the U.S. is from the construction and operation of buildings. Most climate scientists agree that CO2 emissions must be reduced 80% by 2050 to help stabilize the earth’s climate. Passive House is a new building standard for...
Bill McKibben: Draw the Line on Keystone XL 2 min
Bill McKibben: Draw the Line on Keystone XL
On September 21st, we will draw the line to protect our communities from climate change and show President Obama that there is no turning back -- to keep his climate promises, he has to stop Keystone XL and the tar sands.
350.org
His Beautiful Philosophies About Life Will Make You Feel OK That We're Running Out Of Oil 15 min
His Beautiful Philosophies About Life Will Make You Feel OK That We're Running Out Of Oil
When our economy is based on, y'know, stuff ... and stuff is made out of, y'know, stuff we get from the Earth ... how exactly do we think this is going to end?
Kirsten Dirksen
Schooling the World 66 min
Schooling the World (2010)
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
Carol Black
Australia Could Achieve 100% Renewable Power by 2030
Australia Could Achieve 100% Renewable Power by 2030
Australia could achieve nearly 100% renewable power within decades at the same cost as continuing to use fossil fuels, according to a new federal government study. Modelling from the
TckTckTck
Naomi Klein: Green Groups May Be More Damaging Than Climate Change Deniers
Naomi Klein: Green Groups May Be More Damaging Than Climate Change Deniers
Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it’s easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things...
Jason Mark
A Bunch Of Young Geniuses Just Made A Corrupt Corporation Freak Out Big Time. Time For Round Two. 6 min
A Bunch Of Young Geniuses Just Made A Corrupt Corporation Freak Out Big Time. Time For Round Two.
When you've got giant energy companies this scared, you must be doing something right. At 3:38, I snorted. Just sayin'. And at 4:43, he explains brilliantly what's in it for you. - Adam Mordecai
Line in the Sand: The Conflict Surrounding Keystone XL and Tar Sands 15 min
Line in the Sand: The Conflict Surrounding Keystone XL and Tar Sands
Line In the Sand is an independent documentary about the ongoing resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil through the U.S. with the risk of damaging land and health. We're drawing a line in the sand through film to say "no" to...
Drew Bastien
Permaculture, Homesteading, and Compost-Powered Heating in the Vermont Hills 9 min
Permaculture, Homesteading, and Compost-Powered Heating in the Vermont Hills
Throwing conventional environmental wisdom on its head, Ben Falk doesn't want to reduce his impact on the land. He wants to increase it as much as possible. We couldn't agree more.
Possible Media
Fun Frack Facts! with Troy McBlur 1 min
Fun Frack Facts! with Troy McBlur
Those pesky earthquakes that happen near fracking rigs? Just natural side effects, folks. Nothing to see here... Read about frackquakes at http://bit.ly/frackingquake
Post Carbon Institute
Poverty Of the Spirit 9 min
Poverty Of the Spirit
There are some things in our society.. and some things in our world.. which I am proud to be maladjusted" -Martin Luther King Jr. Mankind's increasing capability is at great contrast with the global state of disparity. We've reached unprecedented levels of technological...
SHORT FILM
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction 80 min
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event.
Monte Thompson
Capitalism Will Save the Planet 15 min
Capitalism Will Save the Planet
Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:
The Ecology of a Police State
The Ecology of a Police State
Panagioti
Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley 31 min
Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley (2013)
The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn't getting enough air. Maybe this had something...
How to Design Our Neighborhoods for Happiness
How to Design Our Neighborhoods for Happiness
Neighbors in Conover Commons in Redmond, Washington, share an open field as their community gathering spot. This photo originally appeared in Jay Walljasper's book, How to Design Our World for Happiness.
Jay Walljasper
The Spark | A Groundbreaking Documentary 5 min
The Spark | A Groundbreaking Documentary (trailer)
THE SPARK 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?
With Detroit's Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project "Free Detroit" - Starting a Community
With Detroit's Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project "Free Detroit" - Starting a Community
The city of Detroit isn’t looking too pretty to date. On July 18th as many know, Detroit filed for bankruptcy after falling an estimated $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 creditors. Due to the inability for the city government to provide for goods and services it once...
Ezra Van Auken
How to Fry a Planet
How to Fry a Planet
The Third Carbon Age: Don’t for a Second Imagine We’re Heading for an Era of Renewable Energy When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.  Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will...
Michael T. Klare
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future
My first visit to Mondragon was in 1979. I had been searching the globe for years for a Relationship Age society which was also fully integrated into the modern world. My initial reaction to Mondragon was utter amazement. I had never expected to find such a mature and...
Terry Mollner
4 Tips to Find - and Keep - Happiness!
4 Tips to Find - and Keep - Happiness!
Happiness, or the lack thereof, lies at the root of what makes life meaningful. But figuring out what exactly constitutes happiness,especially in a culture like the Unites States that tends to conflate moneywith meaning, proves to be elusive. It's not enough, the new...
Bob Banner
The Battle of Balcombe 3 min
The Battle of Balcombe
Fracking company Cuadrilla have descended on the small West Sussex village of Balcombe, where 85% of the residents have said they are opposed to fracking and supportive of those taking action to stop it. Residents and their supporters have set up the Balcombe Community...
Dissent Is Beautiful
Costa Rica Announces Plans to Close its Zoos and Release Animals from Captivity
Costa Rica Announces Plans to Close its Zoos and Release Animals from Captivity
What the tropical nation of Costa Rica lacks in size, it more than makes up for in a wealth of biodiversity. Despite occupying just 0.03% of the planet’s surface, the region's lush forests are home to an incredible 500 thousand unique organisms -- representing over 4% of all...
Stephen Messenger
Shift | Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis 56 min
Shift | Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis (2013)
A film by brother/sister duo, Sam and Kate Fulbright to take a closer look at what climate change really means in the United States, and dive beyond the daunting numbers and graphs to meet the people and communities effected by the problem of climate change.
Why the Peak Oilers are Still Right
Why the Peak Oilers are Still Right
The piece is excerpted from the new book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future.
Richard Heinberg
If There Was One Problem I Wish America Had, It Would Be This
If There Was One Problem I Wish America Had, It Would Be This
Due to Sweden’s innovative waste-to-energy program and highly efficient recycling habits, the Scandinavian nation faces an interesting dilemma.
Alan Pierce
What the Bhutanese are Doing is Amazing. Can We Get More of this in Our Country? 12 min
What the Bhutanese are Doing is Amazing. Can We Get More of this in Our Country?
Bhutan, a small country enshrined in the Himalaya's leads the way in the pursuit of holistic, inclusive and truly environmentally sustainable development. This commitment emanates from the visionary statement in the early 1970s, of His Majesty, the Fourth King of Bhutan...
The Poverty-Environment Initiative
Do the Math 40 min
Do the Math (2013)
Like most people, Bill (environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org), is not an activist by nature. There’s really not that many people whose greatest desire it to go out and fight the system. His theory of change was that he’ll write his book, people will read it and they’ll...
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World 77 min
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
Many people do not realize that permaculture is much more than about growing fruit and vegetables, it is a whole view incorporating the environment, energy, resources, housing, technology, education, healthcare, the arts, spirituality, psychology, philosophy and agriculture...
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
What would it mean for us to reclaim July 4th not as a celebration of militarism, but as a celebration of our interdependence?
Michael Lerner
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.
Tory Field and Beverly Bell
Surviving Progress 79 min
Surviving Progress (2011)
Humanity's ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by...
Repeal & Nullify Cannabis Prohibition
Repeal & Nullify Cannabis Prohibition
It's time we end cannabis/hemp/marijuana prohibition ONCE and FOR ALL. Its time we repeal & nullify cannabis prohibition. Please sign the petition and visit our website for more information. Thanks! http://americansforcannabis.com
Americans For Cannabis
Fractured Land 3 min
Fractured Land (trailer)
A modern Indigenous warrior. A Goliath industry. A new way forward. -- Filmmakers Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis document the journey of Caleb Behn to protect the health of his land and people from the ravages of Big Oil and Gas.
The Changing Nature of Work
The Changing Nature of Work
Frances Coppola explores how increasing automation is fundamentally shifting the nature of work away from 'making stuff' towards personal services. One of the most interesting issues to arise in the course of the "comment-athon" on my post "The Golden Calf" was the...
Frances Coppola
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