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Food Waste Is a Massive Problem. Here's How to Fix It.
Food Waste Is a Massive Problem. Here's How to Fix It.
A new film highlights the food waste problem. Here are some things we can do to fix it.
Naomi Starkman · 14,205 views · 100%
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
The food industry is no longer a free market.  In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies fully control the basic building blocks of the food that makes up the majority of the...
Eric Blair · 9,470 views · 100%
Food Inc. 93 min
Food Inc. (2008) ($3)
For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
Robert Kenner · 230,788 views · 90%
Food Matters (2008) (trailer) 7 min
Food Matters (2008) (trailer)
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." –Hippocrates With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is...
48,287 views · 68%
Food Savers 4 min
Food Savers (trailer)
This follow-up to Valentin Thurn’s documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. Thurn asks why is it...
7,654 views · 100%
Food Fight (trailer) 2 min
Food Fight (trailer)
When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy...
6,981 views · 83%
Food, Earth, Happiness 20 min
Food, Earth, Happiness
A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York...
City as Nature · 5,493 views · 83%
Food, Inc. 2 94 min
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a...
Melissa Robledo · 5,339 views · 88%
Food Chains 2 min
Food Chains (trailer)
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the Un
2,789 views · 81%
Food Cooperatives and Garlic 5 min
Food Cooperatives and Garlic
Cooperatives are businesses owned by the people who use their services. Many communities look to their local food co-ops as a way to maintain greater control over their food. Garlic is isolated as just one of many foods that can communicate the importance of retail food...
1,098 views · 75%
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 · 7,543 views · 100%
Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food 72 min
Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)
When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy...
Chris Taylor · 30,508 views · 83%
Food Fight: A Brief History of American-centric Warfare 5 min
Food Fight: A Brief History of American-centric Warfare
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. For a breakdown of the actual battles portrayed in the film, visit the accompanying website link.
touristpictures · 3,677 views · 75%
Food Stamps vs. Farm Stamps: Subsidizing GOP Hypocrisy 3 min
Food Stamps vs. Farm Stamps: Subsidizing GOP Hypocrisy
Abby Martin breaks down the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing to defund food stamps by separating the program from the congressional farm bill, all the while accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from the federal government in the form of subsidies for their private farms.
1,958 views · 75%
23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger
23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger
Food is one of our most basic needs. And yet, for over 800 million people, food insecurity remains a daily issue. While top-down programs that address hunger certainly exist, more efficient, immediate solutions are sometimes found on the community level, where neighbors...
Cat Johnson · 12,832 views · 88%
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods.
April McCarthy · 103,748 views · 75%
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
Paul Mahony · 9,360 views · 75%
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens' God-given rights to "produce, process, sell, purchase, and...
Ethan A. Huff · 10,179 views · 100%
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It’s not because I can’t afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It’s because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day.
Jeremy Seifert · 8,691 views · 100%
"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 · 7,568 views · 88%
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
If you're a regular reader of The Salt, you've probably noticed our interest in foraging. From San Francisco to Maryland, we've met wild food experts, nature guides and chefs passionate about picking foo
KRISTOFOR HUSTED · 7,073 views · 100%
Grocery Chain Figures Out How to Stop Wasting Food
Grocery Chain Figures Out How to Stop Wasting Food
40 percent of the food we produce in the United States goes uneaten. No matter how local or organic it is, if nearly half our edible food is ending up in the garbage, we’re not doing something right.
Peter Lehner · 6,293 views · 100%
Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as  Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients anywhere within the country for a full decade before coming up for another review.  Peru’s Plena
Occupy Monsanto · 5,825 views · 100%
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for triggering behavioral problems...
Julie Deardorff · 5,801 views · 100%
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
There are plenty of reasons to boycott factory farms, including your health, animal welfare and the environment.
Kaye Spector · 5,789 views · 100%
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their...
Holly Richmond · 5,083 views · unrated
Host a Film Screening of The Future of Food
Host a Film Screening of The Future of Food
Hosting film screenings can be used as a powerful method to accopmlish many goals. They can be used to launch solutions-oriented campaigns (either designed by your group or to assist already on-going campaigns). They can create a common foundation of understaning among a...
Tim Hjersted · 4,717 views · 75%
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
A chemical widely used in plastic food and drink containers may narrow coronary arteries, raising the risk of heart attacks, research suggests. High levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) in the urine were seen significantly more often in patients with severe damage to the arteries...
John Von Radowitz - Belfast Telegraph · 2,960 views · 62%
Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food.
Films For Action · 2,529 views · unrated
Everything You Need to Know About Food Waste... In 11 Short Films
Everything You Need to Know About Food Waste... In 11 Short Films
1 in 7 Americans are food insecure, which means they are often hungry with no food to eat, yet we produce enough food to feed every American two times over. That’s about $165 billion worth of food that is not being eaten. So where’s all that extra food? Well it’s in our...
Rob Greenfield · 12,962 views · 81%
The Future of Food 2 min
The Future of Food (trailer)
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented...
57,053 views · 98%
Waste = Food 49 min
Waste = Food (2007)
Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in na­tions like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have...
34,910 views · 95%
In Defense of Food 11 min
In Defense of Food
Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of 2006's ten best books by the New York...
5,549 views · 50%
The Stimulator: Food Fight! 18 min
The Stimulator: Food Fight!
This week: 1. Warming up police intelligence 2. A hungry man is an angry man 3. Farm land not airports 4. Vintage riot porn: The battle for Narita 5. Bosnia burns 6. Bilbao welcomes the IMF 7. African migrants bum rush fortress Europe 8. Brujeria: La Migra 7.
Anarchy Now · 4,440 views · 81%
Watch Your Foodometer! 3 min
Watch Your Foodometer!
Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
The Nation · 4,346 views · 75%
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition 2 min
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
6,209 views · 75%
Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry
Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry
"When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes on--what purpose it serves, and who wants it to...
Prole.info · 14,867 views · 94%
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.
32,996 views · 100%
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food 3 min
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food
"As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud...
19,285 views · 100%
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods 57 min
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods (2011)
For thousands across the UK, the new year usually means a new diet. But it's the supermarket rather than the health club that many are turning to. The low fat food industry is worth two billion pounds and there are more reduced calorie ready meals sold in January than at any...
16,601 views · 56%
Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution 2 min
Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution (trailer)
Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger.  It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.
16,600 views · 79%
The Story of Food is Free 3 min
The Story of Food is Free
The Food is Free Project is creating a repeatable model of growing food and community. It is our vision and wish to empower you with the knowledge and know-how to transform your block and neighborhood step-by-step. Using salvaged materials we are building front yard community...
Food is Free · 15,082 views · 95%
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story 73 min
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?
14,304 views · 94%
Chipotle Fires First Shot to Take Down Big Food in This Brilliant Short Film 3 min
Chipotle Fires First Shot to Take Down Big Food in This Brilliant Short Film
Produced by Chipotle and created by the Academy Award–winning Moonbot Studios - this masterfully animated film feels like more than an implicitly subversive attack on big agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Tyson and Monsanto.
Pixelis · 13,472 views · 95%
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison? 53 min
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison? (2005)
Having discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, corporate scientists can produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked violent...
9,446 views · unrated
Portraits of the Solidarity Economy: Food Cooperatives 5 min
Portraits of the Solidarity Economy: Food Cooperatives
In a solidarity economy, our needs are met by exchanging goods, services, resources and knowledge in ways that advance core values of justice, democracy, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. Produced by Caroline Woolard, Cheyenna Weber, and Michael Johnson of...
Alex Ramírez-Mallis · 7,232 views · 75%
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? 28 min
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the...
peakmoment · 6,720 views · unrated
How to Start a Food Co-Op
How to Start a Food Co-Op
Starting a food co-op takes a lot of work. But the rewards are many. This book provides an overview of the basic steps and procedures. The manual is not an exhaustive or comprehensive reference document. Groups interested in starting a new co-op are strongly encouraged to...
Patricia Cumbie and Margaret J. Goldstein · 5,987 views · 100%
Bill Moyers: Ag-Gag Laws Try to Call Food Safety Whistleblowers Terrorists 5 min
Bill Moyers: Ag-Gag Laws Try to Call Food Safety Whistleblowers Terrorists
I don’t know what to find more horrifying — the idea that people still habitually abuse helpless animals, or that this is how parts of our country want to treat the people who try to stop it.
5,802 views · 88%
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard 27 min
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard
Rainey Hopewell's crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to anyone, anytime ? with messages chalked on the sidewalk...
peakmoment · 5,597 views · 75%
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul 27 min
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman and Larry Saltzman of Santa Barbara share a love for their garden in more ways than one. Larry is creating a lush food forest and teaches permaculture to promote local food security. Ecotherapist Linda helps people heal their relationship with nature...
peakmoment · 5,320 views · unrated
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy 28 min
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy
Take a whirlwind tour of the one-acre Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (grains), they're growing Jerusalem artichoke and dale sorghum to produce both food and...
peakmoment · 4,165 views · unrated
12 Fast Facts About Thursday's Fast-Food Strike
12 Fast Facts About Thursday's Fast-Food Strike
This Thursday, December 5, workers at fast-food restaurants around the country will be striking for higher pay and better working conditions. Their primary demand is an increase in their base hourly wages to $15 an hour.
Richard Eskow · 1,581 views · 100%
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Teaching you how to meet your neighbors, grow food together, share the harvest and create a life that excites you.
The Food is Free Project · 15,574 views · 100%
Your Half-Eaten Sandwich's Dirty Secret
Your Half-Eaten Sandwich's Dirty Secret
Food waste is killing the planet. Here's how.
Kiera Butler · 3,098 views · 75%
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Reducing your carbon footprint by eating less red meat rarely gets attention. This strategy has been recommended by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, epidemiologists writing in The Lancet and a host of other highly-regarded researchers and organisations. But it...
Judith Friedlander · 6,466 views · 100%
Chipotle in hot salsa over tomato pickers' rights
Chipotle in hot salsa over tomato pickers' rights
It’s a long drive from Florida to Denver, but Leonel Perez and his colleagues at theCoalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) don’t mind. In fact, they arrived in the Mile High City three weeks early for Cultivate, a food, beer, and music festival sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Films For Action · 2,216 views · unrated
Ask Umbra: Can I Rest Easy Eating Organic Beef?
Ask Umbra: Can I Rest Easy Eating Organic Beef?
Q. I always buy organically raised beef, when I do buy beef. I read that ground beef you get is a mixture of beef from different animals. How do I know the beef I am getting is, in fact, organically grown? Could it be mixed with other feedlot beef? Also, when it comes to...
Ask Umbra · 1,700 views · unrated
There's arsenic in your rice -- and here's how it got there
There's arsenic in your rice -- and here's how it got there
Rice. It’s just one of the basics, right? Whether eaten on its own, or in products like pastas or cereal, this inexpensive and healthy food is a staple for Asian and Latino communities, as well as the growing number of people looking to avoid gluten.
Twilight Greenaway · 4,363 views · unrated
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
One of the most frequent criticisms leveled against the sustainable agriculture movement is that its proponents want to send farmers back to 19th-century hard labor, with hand weeding and harvesting. Here's an incredibly cool group of eco-minded "farmer-scientists" who aren't...
Bonnie Azab Powell · 7,211 views · 100%
The People's Supermarket: Communal, Cheap and Democratic
The People's Supermarket: Communal, Cheap and Democratic
Would you be willing to spend four hours stacking shelves in a supermarket? Regularly? For nothing? And do a spot on the tills, and quite a lot of floor-mopping? Well, it certainly makes a change from hanging out at Starbucks, I suppose.
Rosie Millard · 3,539 views · 100%
Flesh Choice: A Meat Lover's Guide to Giving It Up
Flesh Choice: A Meat Lover's Guide to Giving It Up
I once saw a turkey carcass in a New York City garbage can. It did not look good. I said to myself, I’m never eating meat again. A few hours later, I ate meat.
Sarah Miller · 3,535 views · unrated
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
"We encourage every city official, business owner, student, and citizen to read this book. Besides being incredible in terms of seeing the building of "civilization" differently (which relates to city-building and workplace-building), it has some of the most important...
Daniel Quinn · 66,277 views · 97%
Frankensteer 44 min
Frankensteer (2005)
FRANKENSTEER is a disturbing yet compelling documentary that reveals how the ordinary cow is being transformed into an antibiotic dependent, hormone-laced potential carrier of toxic bacteria, all in the name of cheaper food.
19,560 views · 84%
Fed Up 95 min
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
10,296 views · 92%
What's Organic About Organic? 2 min
What's Organic About Organic? (trailer)
WHAT’S ORGANIC ABOUT “ORGANIC?” rings the alarm for the need to develop an ecological consciousness.  The film illustrates that the organic food debate extends well beyond personal choice and into the realm of social responsibility.
8,292 views · 75%
Go Green, Go Vegan 4 min
Go Green, Go Vegan
Go Green, Go Vegan is a short clip about a movement of volunteers promoting the vegan lifestyle in Taiwan. They offer vegan lunch boxes to the younger generation in different schools and universities to offer sustainable solutions to inspire teenagers for green actions.
Sattva reports · 5,288 views · 86%
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
"I wasn't worried about freedom. I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV." -- Ray Bradbury in 2001 talking about his book Fahrenheit 451
Ron Kaufman · 8,279 views · 88%
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.
Films For Action · 401,732 views · 100%
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Itʼs a cool spring day in Merville, BC as Moss Dance, sole proprietor of Ripple Farm, unfurls irrigation lines along tightly spaced rows of lettuces. Itʼs early in the season, but there are already fresh greens, radishes and onions ready to harvest for the weekly farmersʼ market.
Nicole Shaw · 2,161 views · 100%
Edible City: Grow the Revolution 10 min
Edible City: Grow the Revolution (trailer)
Edible City tells the stories of the pioneers who are digging their hands into the dirt, working to transform their communities and do something truly revolutionary: grow local food systems that are socially just, environmentally sound, economically viable and resilient to...
38,652 views · 90%
An American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like
An American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like
This is what real revolution looks like. This is the future. Ron Finley in South Central LA was tired of living in a food desert and he decided to do something about it. He took back control over his food supply and health, while also setting his community on a path towards...
Dan West · 43,157 views · 97%
Seeds of Deception 7 min
Seeds of Deception
Think about it: None of us called for genetic manipulation of seeds. Not one of us said, yes, this new technology will benefit me, my family, and my community. Yet today most of us are eating them, while kept completely in the dark as to the hazards we may be facing - for...
OperationMaple · 12,161 views · 92%
7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them
7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them
Most people – even many of those who support small farms and eat organic food – believe that there’s no way to feed the global population without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, fossil fuels, biotechnology, heavy equipment, and the rest of the agribusiness arse
Steven Gorelick · 9,178 views · 75%
The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment
The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment
This series will attempt to roughly give some examples as to how the urban environment can be altered so that cities can not only sustain themselves but also become ecologically rich environs benefiting mankind and servicing nature. In order for us to do so, we must create...
Nathan Revercomb · 26,816 views · 100%
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating 3 min
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating (trailer)
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental...
12,407 views · 100%
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”
David DeGraw · 6,962 views · 100%
What's Wrong with McDonald's?
What's Wrong with McDonald's?
This article is asking you to think for a moment about what lies behind McDonald's clean, bright image. It's got a lot to hide. "At McDonald's we've got time for you" goes the jingle. Why then do they design the service so that you're in and out as soon as possible? Why...
London Greenpeace · 4,551 views · unrated
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
Systems thinkers have given us a useful metaphor for a certain kind of human behavior in the phenomenon of the boiled frog.
Daniel Quinn · 31,573 views · 100%
Detroiters Question “World’s Largest Urban Farm”
Detroiters Question “World’s Largest Urban Farm”
Patrick Crouch practices the kind of gardening that Detroit has recently become famous for. The typical plot at Earthworks Urban Farm, where he serves as program manager, is cultivated on borrowed land and in close proximity to houses and apartment buildings. These plots...
James Trimarco · 3,563 views · unrated
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 97 min
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't...
159,120 views · 90%
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days 91 min
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)
"One thing you are going to learn about live food is that that's the diet that works the best. And what's the reason? When you cook the food, you lose 50% of the protein, 70% to 80% of the vitamins and minerals, and close to 100% of the phytonutrients." –Gabriel Cousens...
82,125 views · 91%
King Corn 90 min
King Corn (2007) ($3)
KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom -- corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, two college...
76,419 views · 33%
An Animated History of Taker Culture in 4 Minutes 4 min
An Animated History of Taker Culture in 4 Minutes
Self-described civilized man, belonging to the culture known as the Takers. What an extraordinary creature. He has walked on the moon and created the worldwide web that connects billions of people like us right here. But there is a darker side of Taker culture, a history that...
Steve Cutts · 70,765 views · 91%
Hey Corporate America, THIS Is What Happens When You Piss Off a Rapper And His Friends 6 min
Hey Corporate America, THIS Is What Happens When You Piss Off a Rapper And His Friends
Food Fight is the story of a kid who lives in a world where the food at the local corner store is killing his neighborhood -- literally.
Ben Zolno · 70,670 views · 96%
The Real Dirt on Farmer John 82 min
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer.
44,692 views · 85%
Big Sugar 90 min
Big Sugar (2005)
From its early days with ties to slavery, to modern times with its political ties, "Big Sugar" explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels.
Brian McKenna · 25,809 views · 100%
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil 223 min
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil (2011)
Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his...
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Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of our Lives 2 min
Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of our Lives (trailer)
Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions.
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The Basic Income: Visualized 3 min
The Basic Income: Visualized
This animated short film visualizes what the Basic Income is, why a movement for it is growing around the globe, and how we could pay for it.
Basic Income Europe · 15,419 views · 82%
Processed People 40 min
Processed People (2009)
The statistics are terrifying. Two hundred million Americans are overweight and 100 million are obese. More than 75 million Americans have high blood pressure. 24 million people are diabetic. Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death for men and women, followed by stroke...
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Grow the Change You Want To See In The World 4 min
Grow the Change You Want To See In The World
A short film fom Over Grow The System that showcases young farmers who are growing the change they want to see in the word.
Over Grow The System · 13,431 views · 91%
The Ghosts in Our Machine 90 min
The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013) ($3)
The Ghosts in Our Machine is a journey of discovery into what is a complex social dilemma, one that needs to be considered morally significant. In essence, humans have cleverly categorized non-human animals into three parts: domesticated pets, wildlife, and the ones we don’t...
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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...
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Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat 60 min
Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat
Melanie Joy presents "Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat" at the McDougall Advanced Study Weekend, February 2012.Kick back, relax, and open your ears to this wonderful and fluid speech about what allows people to eat some animals but not others, what these animals seen as...
Dr. McDougall Health & Medical Center · 8,452 views · 77%
Become a Farmer
Become a Farmer
The last 30 years have seen a protracted crisis in American agriculture. We have fewer farmers, less land, a degraded soil base and intensifying corporate control over production, processing and technology. With 58 being the average age of farmers in America, there is a...
Tim Hjersted · 8,146 views · 75%
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 · 7,986 views · 79%
Eat Locally!
Eat Locally!
Supporting local farms is one of the best and easiest ways to eat healthy, reduce your carbon footprint, and strengthen your community.
Matthew Toplikar · 7,805 views · 75%
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single...
Vice Motherboard · 7,123 views · 100%
Roses On My Table 19 min
Roses On My Table
An intimate and upbeat portrayal of anarchism in action and a creative critique of capitalism, the film begins by documenting the house, residents, projects and principles of the Richmond VA based Wingnut Anarchist Collective.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective · 6,296 views · 75%
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