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Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
At a conference a couple weeks ago an activist who does work in Africa recounted an encounter she had with the minister of agriculture of a certain African country. The minister spoke with excitement about the high-tech agricultural technologies he was bringing into the...
Charles Eisenstein · 8,956 views · 88%
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution 26 min
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)
As corporate media fails to provide accurate news of the world's dire environmental predicament, the Earth sends a clear message in the form of record-breaking natural disasters, famine and epidemics. People are mobilizing for what lies ahead.
Vanessa Schulz · 70,222 views · 90%
Permaculture in Costa Rica 45 min
Permaculture in Costa Rica
Permaculture course in Costa Rica that explores the core principles of Permaculture Design and applications with the intention of meeting human needs as individuals, within society and community, as well as creating harmony with ecological systems.
12,282 views · 88%
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
As the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded across our globalised world, I found myself unsure of priorities in this time of pivotal change, even though I had been tracking information about Wuhan since January. Not because I didn’t know that a global pandemic of this scale was...
David Holmgren · 5,661 views · 88%
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
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 · 3,254 views · unrated
Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities
Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities
Rather than waiting for society to all agree how we need to live in a different way, by focusing here in the suburban household, people can actually get on with making changes… a lot can happen right where people are. – David Holmgren, co-founder of Permacul
Chip Richards · 29,950 views · 96%
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden! 48 min
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!
8,531 views · 75%
Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House 15 min
Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House
Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours. In this series we’ll be diving deep into some amazing properties designed using permaculture principals, with the aim of giving you inspiration and ideas on how to apply these solutions in your own life. In...
Happen Films · 6,205 views · 96%
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...
5,355 views · 88%
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 · 5,062 views · 75%
Permaculture Is a Way of Thinking | Andrew Faust 11 min
Permaculture Is a Way of Thinking | Andrew Faust
This is a clip from The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013). Watch the full documentary here.
4,759 views · 100%
The Permaculture Concept 53 min
The Permaculture Concept (1989)
The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture. Through a series of publications, Mollison, Holmgren and their associates documented an approach to...
25,279 views · 92%
7 Things You Should Know About Permaculture
7 Things You Should Know About Permaculture
What is permaculture? For those of you who’ve only heard of the term in passing, and even for you seasoned “permies” who struggle to explain this exciting (and sometimes life-changing) idea to others, here’s the gist in 7 points:
Rob Avis · 40,604 views · 94%
Crisis, Hope, And Permaculture 3 min
Crisis, Hope, And Permaculture (trailer)
Join Geoff Lawton as he explores some of the most pressing issues of our time, soil erosion, climate change, pollution and food security. Learn how we can apply permaculture's ethical design science, to solve these issues whilst meeting all our human needs.
3,870 views · 88%
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust 31 min
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...
Andrew Faust Permaculture Consultant · 38,331 views · 100%
Early Morning Permaculture Tour of Zaytuna Farm 17 min
Early Morning Permaculture Tour of Zaytuna Farm
After a struggle to get back home to Australia and two weeks in quarantine before reaching Zaytuna, Geoff enjoys an early morning, and he takes us on a walk to some special spots around the property. Possum (the dog) waits on the speed bump that sends water to Paradise Dam...
Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton · 1,803 views · 75%
10 Ways Permaculture Principles Can Help Your Relationships
10 Ways Permaculture Principles Can Help Your Relationships
Do you mulch your relationships? Kim Millar explains how Permaculture principles work just as much in the home, as they do in the garden
Kim Millar · 9,687 views · 100%
Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People
Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People
We know that television's numbing effect is an unhealthy side-effect of our modern world, however Jenny Nazak argues that we individually have the power to incite people to goodness using the bounty of multimedia platforms available to each and every one of us. Jerry...
Jenny Nazak · 7,079 views · 100%
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
The divide between the haves and the have nots has been highlighted by the impacts of the pandemic.[1] For those able to work online with a spacious and secure home base, and some financial resources to ride out the pandemic, life has mostly been tolerable. Consumption has...
David Holmgren · 5,449 views · 100%
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic 115 min
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic (2018) ($5)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a feature-length educational film that will teach you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at any scale. Recognizing the limitations of the organic model as a substitute to conventional fruit growing, this film proposes a...
6,426 views · 100%
The Permaculture Design Course : Learning to See the World differently 9 min
The Permaculture Design Course : Learning to See the World differently
The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) has become one of the most popular standards in permaculture training. Hear from trainers Ben Falk and Mark Krawczyk and from participants during a PDC held in Vermont by Whole Systems Design, about how such courses can teach us to view...
5,414 views · 81%
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer) 1 min
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a full-length educational film that will give you the tools necessary to get started on your own project, whether it's a multi-acre commercial orchard, or a few fruit trees in your urban backyard.
4,148 views · 88%
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective 92 min
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
Costa Boutsikaris · 125,719 views · 91%
Intro to Permaculture 90 min
Intro to Permaculture
This is an 18 part 90 minute intro to permaculture webinar with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture in Illinois. Bill has been teaching permaculture for 6 years. He holds 2 PDC Certificates and has Advanced Training in Permaculture Design and in teaching Permaculture.
Midwest Permaculture · 20,800 views · 90%
Intro to Permaculture - The Case for Permaculture 110 min
Intro to Permaculture - The Case for Permaculture
This video is Midwest Permaculture's Intro to Permaculture Internet Webinar, The Case for Permaculture. Originally available free online in eighteen segments it is now available here as one single video. It is the first video in our Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series...
Midwest Permaculture · 6,941 views · 88%
Scaling up Permaculture in the City | Andrew Faust 35 min
Scaling up Permaculture in the City | Andrew Faust
Learn how to become more regionally resilient with bioregional economics and ecological city design.
Andrew Faust · 2,994 views · unrated
Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour 18 min
Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour
In Episode 3 of Permaculture Tours we revisit the amazing Limestone Permaculture Farm. in NSW, Australia. We first visited Limestone back in 2015, when Brett and Nici were five years into developing their 1-acre permaculture property, working full time off-farm and creating...
Happen Films · 8,088 views · 75%
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden 11 min
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden
This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland's beautiful no-dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @PermacultureMagazine and have a tranquil vegetable garden, meadow and food forest at their home that has been maturing for...
Small-Scale Potager Style Vegetable Garden · 17,548 views · -12%
From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory 9 min
From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory
On the grounds of the permaculture laboratory Peintnerhof in the middle of Carinthia (Austria), pigs dig through the earth and prepare the formerly compacted soil piece by piece for a new, more diverse planting. For example, classic fruit trees are allowed to flourish next to...
Biotopia Films · 9,570 views · 92%
From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years! 15 min
From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!
Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry, but after leaving that life, he and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand and developed an amazing permaculture property in just 3 years!
From Finance to Farmer · 4,797 views · 100%
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.
33,104 views · 100%
Introduction To Permaculture Design by Geoff Lawton 3 min
Introduction To Permaculture Design by Geoff Lawton (trailer)
Based on the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course as devised by Bill Mollison, join Geoff Lawton as he takes you into the world of Permaculture Design and introduces you to a new way of looking at the world.
27,169 views · 95%
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...
21,546 views · 94%
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...
19,473 views · 94%
106 Acre Profitable Permaculture Farm - Interview with Owner Mark Shepard 47 min
106 Acre Profitable Permaculture Farm - Interview with Owner Mark Shepard
In this interview we discuss Mark Shepard’s 106 acre profitable permaculture farm – New Forest Farm. Specifically:
GroAction · 16,614 views · 75%
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture 9 min
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
The Plummery is a suburban home where a backyard permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round. Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is –...
Happen Films · 12,808 views · 79%
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm 13 min
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm
A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The 1 acre property has been developed into a productive permaculture farm that is currently feeding around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas...
Limestone Permaculture Farm Tour · 12,803 views · 100%
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series 50 min
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series
A rich and imersive nine part series looking at all aspects of living with the land. Produced by Permaculture magazine and Permaculture People the films explore successful permaculture projects across a range of topics, such as large-scale, regenerative agriculture, forest...
Part 1 · 11,577 views · 100%
This Toe-Tapping Permaculture Jamboree Will Make You Want to Obtain a Yield! 3 min
This Toe-Tapping Permaculture Jamboree Will Make You Want to Obtain a Yield!
"Yield" by Formidable Vegetable Sound System (feat. Ensemble Formidable) from the album "Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual". Permaculture principle 3: "Obtain a Yield" Written and performed by Charlie Mgee.
Grow Your Own Food Permaculture Music Video · 10,944 views · 83%
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization 61 min
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization
Hemenway is a frequent teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design throughout the U.S. and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review and American Gardener. He is an adjunct professor in the...
Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment · 10,013 views · 81%
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists 25 min
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists
Asking “wouldn’t it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?” Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate world after reading the book “Your Money or Your Life”. As educators on sustainability and...
peakmoment · 8,561 views · 100%
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg 27 min
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
Tour Janet and Richard’s quarter acre for an example of what’s possible in suburbia. Their front yard of edible plants also provides habitat for birds and insects. The backyard radiates out from an herb and kitchen garden to vegetable beds and containers; 25 fruit and nut...
peakmoment · 7,719 views · 44%
Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project 28 min
Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project
Take a tour with Joe, Doug and Sam Bullock on their Orcas Island homestead, site of a yearly Permaculture design course. Using nature as their model, they create edges and wildlife habitat, move water through the landscape, promote diversity, and raise an astonishing variety...
peakmoment · 6,263 views · 100%
City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces 28 min
City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces
What happens when citizens apply permaculture principles to a city grid? They create friendly places within the grid that invite people to come together. Mark Lakeman, co-founder of Portland, Oregon's City Repair Project describes these "creative intervention" projects as...
peakmoment · 6,025 views · 50%
Designing Your Garden and Your Life with Permaculture 8 min
Designing Your Garden and Your Life with Permaculture
Permaculture designers and educators Bonita Ford and Sébastien Bacharach talk about how they integrate permaculture principles in the way they design their garden and other aspects of their life.
Possible Media · 5,901 views · 92%
Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place 13 min
Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on an urban 1/4 acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals...
Creatures of Place · 5,746 views · 88%
Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story 72 min
Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story
It’s true; musicians can be a catalyst for social change!  Watch the inspiring story about the first Permaculture Action Tour, with music producer The Polish Ambassador, that covered over 9,000 miles though 33 cities and 19 states, from San Francisco to New York City...
4,759 views · 92%
Magical 28-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest 15 min
Magical 28-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest
In this documentary we revisit an incredible food forest growing on 2 acres of land in the very south of Aotearoa New Zealand. The forest, previously an abandoned section filled with rubbish and burnt house remains, was the subject of our 2016 film An Invitation for Wildness...
Happen Films · 4,634 views · 100%
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School 28 min
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.
1,677 views · unrated
Supporting SOILS on International Permaculture Day with Geoff Lawton 3 min
Supporting SOILS on International Permaculture Day with Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton talks International Permaculture Day at The Greening the Desert Sequel Site in the Jordan Valley (PRI Jordan). Join us worldwide on Sunday 3rd May for International Permaculture Day: In Support of Soil! http://bit.ly/IPD2015SupportSoil
Permaculturenews · 1,373 views · 75%
Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness 19 min
Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness
In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton's amazing 23-year-old food forest. The two-acre property has been transformed from a neglected piece of land into a thriving ecosystem.
Happen Films · 584 views · 100%
Orders Of Energy: Biogas & On-site Fuels 4 min
Orders Of Energy: Biogas & On-site Fuels
Why Biogas and on-site fuels are inherently superior and appropriate for heating and domestic hot water and why electricity should be reserved for certain tasks that can be run by solar on-site.
Andrew Faust Permaculture Consultant · 1,237 views · 100%
The Ecocity: The Only Way to Organise Massive Populations?
The Ecocity: The Only Way to Organise Massive Populations?
Richard Register invites permaculturists to scale up their ideas on a bigger level to cater for our increasingly large world population.
Richard Register & Sven Eberlein · 10,797 views · 100%
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 · 7,988 views · 79%
The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world
The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world
Alan Heeks explores the pathways that can take us from the ‘old story’ of addictive materialism into a new, creative and regenerative post-industrial society.
Alan Heeks · 11,439 views · 100%
All About Weeds 11 min
All About Weeds
Weeds are a symptom, not the cause, of a problem. We can observe weeds to read the landscape, deduce what reparative steps need to be taken, and speed up the natural sequence of recovery. Weeds can actually be great friends to gardeners. In any square meter of ground, there...
Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton · 9,145 views · 100%
Imagine a 100% Renewable New York City | Andrew Faust 8 min
Imagine a 100% Renewable New York City | Andrew Faust
Permaculture designer Andrew Faust presents a clear outline for achieving energy independence with 100% renewable technologies in the New York bioregion.
Andrew Faust · 2,937 views · unrated
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity 79 min
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
A Simpler Way follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group built tiny houses, planted veggie gardens, practised simple living, and learned how to live in community.
44,315 views · 93%
Sustainability in Exile: Tibetan Farmers Cultivating Compassion 29 min
Sustainability in Exile: Tibetan Farmers Cultivating Compassion
Produced by Dr. Jonathan Scherch, Mr. Lobsang Tsering and a team of university students and professional advisors, the film builds on Scherch's and Tsering's sustainable agriculture and permaculture design projects over the years and introduces the challenges and...
14,073 views · 88%
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects! 13 min
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects!
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison reveals his picks for the 5 most epic Earth healing projects in the world.
Andrew Millison · 4,911 views · 100%
Heal the Planet with PONDS 13 min
Heal the Planet with PONDS
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits beaver dams and talks about how beavers are the world's greatest ecosystem engineers. He journeys to different permaculture sites in Oregon to see how these sites are actually mimicking the hydrologic and ecosystem effects of the...
Andrew Millison · 3,161 views · unrated
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness 109 min
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)
In this profound film, permaculture designer Andrew Faust invites us to reclaim our place in the grand story of life on Earth—a story that reveals how deeply we're woven into the living fabric of this planet.
Costa Boutsikaris · 112,016 views · 93%
The Fuck-it Point 42 min
The Fuck-it Point (2012)
A film about the dark side of civilization, why we should bring it down and why most civilized people don't.
71,378 views · 87%
The Real Dirt on Farmer John 82 min
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer.
44,821 views · 85%
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species 104 min
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)
United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.
34,224 views · 100%
Perma Kultcha 30 min
Perma Kultcha (2010)
This 30-minute documentary focuses on Permaculture and Organic Farming in South Africa and what it can do to transform society at a grass roots level, to create sustainable lives for individuals, communities and South Africa as a whole.
33,000 views · 86%
Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields 61 min
Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields
Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does not plow the soil or use prepared compost and yet the condition of the soil in his...
17,854 views · 100%
Earthships  -  The Ultimate Green Homes
Earthships  -  The Ultimate Green Homes
Earthship is a concept of over 40 years and yet the first one ever built in Europe was in 2000. The idea is a trademark of Michael Reynolds — a US architect. In the 70s, Reynolds envisioned a home which would have three exciting traits — self sustainability, construction...
Audrey Wright · 14,008 views · 100%
What the Economic Crisis Really Means, and What We Can Do About It 12 min
What the Economic Crisis Really Means, and What We Can Do About It
Doing It Ourselves aims to broaden understanding of the debt crisis and peak resources and encourage action for the sake of personal preparedness, happiness and ethical living. This animation sums up the key challenges facing our global society of credit crisis and...
Doing It Ourselves · 13,923 views · 96%
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance 5 min
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
In the small town of Oxford, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. Their business Urban Gardener aims to build resilience and food security in their local community.
Happen Films · 12,168 views · 84%
Why They Call It "InDUSTrial Agriculture" 2 min
Why They Call It "InDUSTrial Agriculture"
"The threat of nuclear weapons and man's ability to destroy the environment are really alarming. And yet there are other almost imperceptible changes - I am thinking of the exhaustion of our natural resources, and especially of soil erosion - and these are perhaps more...
Cyrus Sutton · 8,471 views · 94%
Another Life Is Possible: A Homage to Catalonia II 60 min
Another Life Is Possible: A Homage to Catalonia II (2010)
A documentary, a research project, a story of stories about the construction of a sustainable, solidary and decentralized economy. Weaving nets that overcome the individualization and the hierarchical division of work. Thousands of people every day all over the world. Here...
8,176 views · 75%
The Garden at the End of the World (trailer) 3 min
The Garden at the End of the World (trailer)
Gary Caganoff's 'captivating and gutsy' film on Afghanistan.
7,978 views · 94%
'Belonging to a People and a Place' - Interview with Jamaica Stevens 5 min
'Belonging to a People and a Place' - Interview with Jamaica Stevens
We notice something percolating. Have you felt it in yourself? A rising sense that there's so much more richness and depth to this life than we are told? Are you feeling the underpinnings of discontent, fear, uncertainty, imbalance, and apathy that have become pandemic in...
Reinhabiting the Village · 7,498 views · unrated
How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
When European settlers first came to North America, they assumed they were looking at "untouched" nature. Sure, there were native peoples, but history tells us they didn't value the skills or knowledge of the existing civilizations too highly. The fertile landscapes they were...
Sami Grover · 7,352 views · unrated
Awakening the Village Heart and Mind 27 min
Awakening the Village Heart and Mind
From their “Zero Mile Meal Eatery” to zoning and financing innovations, O.U.R. Ecovillage in BC, Canada has paved the way for many communities worldwide. For Brandy Gallagher, the story on the planet right now could be a shared ethos of caring: “Everyone is fed. Everyone is...
peakmoment · 6,782 views · 75%
Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin 6 min
Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin
Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa all live in a tiny 20sqm off grid cabin on a property on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Instead of paying rent, they share the work of looking after the land with the owners and both families share in the farm's abundant produce.
Happen Films · 6,034 views · 100%
Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity 11 min
Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity
Tamera is an ecovillage situated in the south of Portugal. It is a holistic peace research and education center exploring different ways of being and living on this planet. With two hundred people currently residing there, Tamera has become an iconic space of experimentation...
The Great Relation · 5,904 views · 100%
The Coming Collapse + A Positive Course of Action 11 min
The Coming Collapse + A Positive Course of Action
The United States and the global status quo are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Viewed from the scale of history we're milliseconds away.
StormCloudsGathering · 4,901 views · 100%
Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials 12 min
Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials
In this film we take a tour of Adam and Sian's beautiful off-grid tiny house truck that was built using mostly reclaimed building materials on the back of a 1969 Bedford truck.
Happen Films · 4,397 views · 100%
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...
Tommy Lehe · 2,995 views · 75%
Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond 67 min
Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond
From the closure of markets to the interruption of agricultural supply chains, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt food systems around the world. Many families, especially those in already fragile contexts, may soon struggle to access healthy, nutritious diets. Meeting...
FSN Network · 2,405 views · unrated
Pathways 2 Resilience 11 min
Pathways 2 Resilience
Approximately two years ago a collaborative of Oakland based non and for profit companies and organizations including; The Green Life, Earthseed Consulting, Planting Justice, Wildheart Gardens, Impact Hub Oakland, United Roots, Sustainability Economies Law Center, all...
Endangered Ideas · 1,523 views · 92%
We Are All One
We Are All One
Love, Peace and the Interconnection of All Life
Ebrajm · 1,221 views · 88%
Inspiring Couple Build the Sustainable Home of Their Dreams (From Start to Finish) 26 min
Inspiring Couple Build the Sustainable Home of Their Dreams (From Start to Finish)
'Strawbale Dream Home' follows the building of a beautiful eco home by wonderful owner builders Adam and Sian in Victoria, Australia.
Jordan Osmond · 977 views · 100%
The Movement We Need
The Movement We Need
It is my deepest desire to see the emergence of the movement we need right now—one that is open, welcoming, broad-based, strategic, and oriented to our core human needs, one that can gain the power to make this world more balanced, just, and kind.
Starhawk · 696 views · unrated
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...
Daniel Christian Wahl · 8,782 views · 100%
230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage 75 min
230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage
The EcoVillage at Ithaca was established in 1991 and has become a mature communal village with three neighborhoods developed on 10% of the land with 90% of the land devoted to farmland and natural areas. Given that we're interested in communally living at Flock, we took quite...
Flock Finger Lakes · 8,175 views · 100%
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village 17 min
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Portland, Oregon to talk with architect Mark Lakeman, founder of Communitecture Architecture and the City Repair Project. Mark initiated a movement in Portland to transform the homogenous neighborhoods of the city into...
Andrew Millison · 4,939 views · 100%
Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu 48 min
Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)
"It's possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems with the use of permaculture design principles and techniques."
42,104 views · 92%
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...
46,495 views · 94%
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...
Films For Action · 1,261 views · 100%
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
If we want to build a broad-based movement, a regenerative movement that can heal and renew the world, a movement that attracts people as they really are, not just as we think they should be, a set of guiding principles can be helpful. Here are thirteen, to start with.
Starhawk · 1,067 views · 100%
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 · 401,835 views · 100%
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 · 27,185 views · 95%
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?
19,887 views · 77%
Top 10 Grassroots Movements That Are Taking on the World
Top 10 Grassroots Movements That Are Taking on the World
Waiting for political change to come about once every few years at election time is not only frustrating, but is an almost sure-fire way of ensuring that the changes you really want don’t get delivered within the time frames that are necessary. If we really want to see...
SHIFT · 17,666 views · 96%
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems 63 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...
Restoring Paradise · 16,083 views · 88%
Urban Farming Guys: Farmin' In the Hood! 5 min
Urban Farming Guys: Farmin' In the Hood!
This is a story of about 20 families who have purposefully uprooted from out of their comfortable suburban homes and moved into one of the worst neighborhoods in Kansas City.  They bought homes within a 5 block radius of each other and put down a stake for the sake of the...
TheUrbanFarmingGuys · 13,034 views · 78%
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers 45 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.
OUREcovillage · 11,378 views · unrated
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