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The Robin Hood Army: Fighting Food Waste in India and Pakistan

The Robin Hood Army are taking on food waste in India and Pakistan by redistributing food waste from restaurants and weddings and giving it to the hungry

Dimple Vijaykumar · 3,020 views · 75%

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 · 6,218 views · unrated

Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!

Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food!

48 min · 8,416 views · 75%

Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs

Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.

Vandana Shiva · 15,460 views · 88%

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 · 5,757 views · 100%

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 · 9,047 views · 75%

Farming for a Small Planet

People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...

Frances Moore Lappé · 3,742 views · 100%

How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey

The importance of the microbiome has really come to the fore in the last five years. Viome, a company that analyzed the feces of 100,000 people, has discovered 10,000 new types of gut bacteria. Additionally, improved imaging technology led scientists to discover you don't...

7 min · 4,108 views · -12%

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

This Afristar (www.afristarfoundation.org) produced educational documentary offers step-by-step instructions on how to establish a permaculture garden at a school.

28 min · 1,483 views · unrated

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 · 7,738 views · 75%

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...

7 min · 48,131 views · 68%

The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution

Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.

William McDonough & Michael Braungart · 14,835 views · 100%

Diet: The Disease of Our Generation

64% of people in the UK are overweight or obese eating calorie dense but nutritionally empty food that is considered the norm, or even healthy, in today’s society.

5 min · 9,222 views · 97%

Davos and the Dangers to Democracy

It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change. US comedian Jon Stewart has...

Nick Buxton · 3,066 views · 100%

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...

53 min · 9,375 views · unrated

Super Size Me (2004)

"Super Size Me" is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days...

100 min · 36,012 views · 66%

Hungry For Change (trailer)

Learn what you should really be eating. Straight facts about the disturbing reality that is our way of eating and living. Food like products that contain zero or next to zero nutritional value. We are a society of overfed and undernourished people who are seemingly oblivious...

3 min · 26,332 views · 82%

It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics

Ignore the usual fairytale. Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter

Jason Hickel · 3,553 views · unrated

McLibel (trailer)

Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are...

2 min · 22,897 views · 85%

Making the Connection: How a Vegan Diet Can Benefit Us and The World

Food, fitness, nutrition, global food security, farming, the environment, animals, ethics - have you made the connection?

31 min · 11,162 views · 88%

Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? (2006)

Over nine months, director Mischa Hedges and his crew traveled the West Coast to learn more about our food system. While interviewing farmers, agricultural experts, nutritionists and activists, Mischa and his team learned that the standard methods of producing food do not...

50 min · 1,391 views · unrated

How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.

Errol Schweizer · 404 views · unrated

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.

93 min · 230,177 views · 90%

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 · 401,327 views · 100%

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 · 6,427 views · 100%

Chris Hedges: The Mafia State

First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.

13 min · 953 views · unrated

Sea The Truth (2010)

Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes addressed in the film and a brief explanation.

60 min · 20,043 views · 88%

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...

57 min · 16,505 views · 56%

Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty'

Critics cite irony of annual report filing: 'This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty'

Lauren McCauley · 5,647 views · 75%

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?

In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...

2 min · 12,532 views · 100%

How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse

The zombie apocalypse, of course, is a metaphor. It’s an allegory for the extremely unstable world we are living in at the moment.

john the baptist · 7,747 views · 92%

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.

Sher Watts Spooner · 24,702 views · unrated

How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic

As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.

Marina Martinez · 3,122 views · unrated

Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'

Update 8/6, a clarification. The below article's quotes were taken a bit out of context: http://www.rt.com/news/bolivia-coca-cola-ban-770/

RT · 12,012 views · 100%

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about...

Vandana Shiva · 11,684 views · 100%

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 · 4,473 views · unrated

What's Happening in Egypt is a Precursor to a Global War Between the World's Elites and the Poor

Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives of impoverished believers. The careful rituals of washing before prayers in the mosque, the strict moral code, along with the understanding that life...

Chris Hedges · 8,333 views · 75%

On the Second Anniversary of OWS: Three Metamemes for the Future

Here at Adbusters, we see three big tactical breakthrough ideas, three metamemes, that have the power to veer this global trainwreck of ours from its date with disaster. Make no mistake, the crash is a brutal world – a barbarian reality. It’s a happening that none of us...

Adbusters · 2,059 views · 75%

Do French Kids Have ADHD?

France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.

Marilyn Wedge · 201,509 views · 95%

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 · 103,672 views · 75%

Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'

Cuts to food stamps and jobless benefits predictable result of 'neoliberal assault' on American people As Congress decides this week whether to re-institute emergency jobless benefits for millions of Americans and closes in on negotiations for a Farm Bill that could see...

Jacob Chamberlain · 2,166 views · 88%

An Anarchist Response to Ebola

Anarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one? This article provides an...

Carwil Bjork-James with Chuck Munson · 3,353 views · 88%

Egg Producers Caught Conspiring to Shut Down a Vegan Mayo Startup

Katie Herzog · 2,615 views · 25%

Confessions of a Panama Papers Hit Man

As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is a system of legalized crimes. How else can we describe it?

John Perkins · 12,456 views · 75%

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

What gets you out of bed in the morning?

Chip Richards · 104,794 views · 99%

How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us

Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it seems that the lab-made drugs we have become so dependent...

Sophia Daoudi · 5,025 views · 88%

The Big FAT Lie (2018) ($5)

"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixon’s film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...

87 min · 7,830 views · unrated

The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)

For well over 400 million years, insects have played an essential role in the evolution of our ecosystem. While many may take them for granted, their extinction could spell catastrophe for the planet at large. Sadly, this scenario is currently playing out across the...

43 min · 3,800 views · unrated

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Why is it that some children thrive while others do not? Is it a matter of genetics, IQ, socioeconomic background or education? Every child deserves to reach their full potential and the early years are the best possible start in life that could transform the world.

60 min · 20,003 views · 100%

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)

OYLER profiles how an innovative "community school" helped fuel a dramatic turnaround in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, part of a growing national movement to help poor children succeed by transforming schools to meet basic health, social, and nutritional needs. Before...

56 min · 5,110 views · unrated

Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists

Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.

Bernie Sanders · 176 views · unrated

Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom

Venezuela was not liberated. Overnight, it became a US-occupied colony whose lands and resources will be stolen and exploited; whose people will be subjugated to a hostile foreign power; and whose future will remain uncertain.

Jordan Liz · 159 views · unrated

The Unofficial History of America™

The history of America is the one story every kid knows. It's a story of fierce individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the service of a dream. A story of early settlers, hungry and cold, carving a home out of the wilderness. Of visionary leaders fighting for...

Kalle Lasn · 7,452 views · 100%

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 · 3,502 views · unrated

Open-Source Healthcare

The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a...

Kevin Carson · 2,702 views · unrated

From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See

Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...

Tim Hjersted · 47,461 views · 92%

The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity

Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and...

Mark Weisbrot · 1,654 views · 75%

Health Care: An Anarchist Approach

The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:

Gary Chartier · 4,001 views · 75%

Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media

Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the mainstream media seems to have...

Paul Buchheit · 2,291 views · 100%

Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone

London, May 2009. A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...

Rutger Bregman · 27,633 views · 95%

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