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Produced by Dr. JonathanScherch, Mr. LobsangTsering and a team of university students and professional advisors, the film builds on Scherch's and Tsering'ssustainableagriculture and permaculture design projects over the years and introduces the challenges and opportunities...
29 min · 13,833 views · 4.5 stars
This presentation addresses the problem of communication, categorical associations, the rise of anti-intellectualism and other issues related to discussions surrounding social progress. It works to address the tendency to view all ideas as ideologies, as if the foundation of...
31 min · 2,185 views · 5 stars
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?
90 min · 19,702 views · 4.1 stars
Earth needs humans to figure out our shared destiny, says Alan Seid, whose interest is both the outer and inner dimensions of sustainability. Outside there's ecology, social systems and economics (e.g., in Permaculture). Inside is the psychological dimension of personal and...
27 min · 8,018 views · 5 stars
Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and selfish and destroy our own habitat trying to gain more wealth or more power. If we reach...
Daniel Christian Wahl, · 2,298 views · unrated
The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput.
Andrew Nikiforuk · 2,113 views · 4.2 stars
Sierra Robinson is a seventeen-year-old farmer, homeschooler, and environmental activist from Vancouver Island, BC.
12 min · 1,526 views · 5 stars
Envision a society where economic opportunity, social justice and sustainable culture all spring from environmental stewardship. Imagine a world where nurturing the health of the planet is the catalyst for global financial success and social stability. Can you?
Ten years...
56 min · 41,468 views · 4.5 stars
In a new video series on sustainability, filmmaker Alexia Prichard focuses on shelter, food, water, waste & community. In this first installment we meet architect and author Sarah Susanka (the "Not So Big House" series) to learn about the true meaning of "home."
5 min · 4,635 views · unrated
In this final installment of the "Shelter" segment of the Sustainability Series, we meet Dr. Eugene Tsui, a non-traditional architect whose design inspiration comes from nature and all the brilliant systems and methods found therein. Dr. Tsui shows us city designs inspired by...
9 min · 4,037 views · unrated
In this segment environmental architect David Hertz walks us through the sustainable aspects of his own home in Southern California.
7 min · 2,854 views · unrated
The World's largest environmental organizations are failing to address the single most destructive force facing the planet today. Follow the shocking, yet humorous journey of an aspiring environmentalist as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing...
90 min · 39,499 views · 4.5 stars
Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...
Daphne Dupont-Nivet, Anouk Ruhaak, Marije Schuurs, Emiel Woutersen · 3,917 views · unrated
Virtually none of the outlandish claims about Agenda 21 are true. Yet, as with all such baseless propaganda, the hysteria over it has had the effect of poisoning any kind of rational discussion of the very real challenges we face challenges that are essential to tackle...
Heidi Beirich · 3,096 views · unrated
My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.
Richard Heinberg · 2,754 views · unrated
It would seem that there are certain strands of thought within many religions that are highly unsustainable, for the health of individuals as well society and the planet as a whole.See this trailer for Holy Wars, as an illustration:
Tim Hjersted ·
2,703 views · 4 stars
Considerations such as 'what do you really care about' and 'who do you serve' should be drivers of sustainability, not profit.
Charles Eisenstein · 5,201 views · 5 stars
300 million farmers is a whole lot of famers. India is their home, making it the country with the largest number of small-scale food growers in the world. Most of these farmers own less than 2 acres of land and are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising input costs...
6 min · 8,777 views · 4.8 stars
Tour Scott McGuire's "White Sage Gardens" in the back yard of his rental home -- a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, "How might a household produce and preserve a significant portion of its own food supply?" Composting, a water-conserving greenhouse...
28 min · 8,053 views · 4 stars
Only a sweeping Constitutional amendment can save us from a global environmental disaster beyond our imagination.
Michael Lerner · 1,213 views · 4.5 stars
The brilliant author/entrepreneur/change-maker Paul Hawken encourages us all to embrace a new type of "infinite game," one without losers that supports the future of life and a re-imagined world of growth without inequality, wealth without plunder and work without exploitation.
1 min · 3,124 views · 3 stars
Prosocial Progress aims to demonstrate how behavioural science can be utilised on a large scale in areas of child development, education and the culture itself in order to bring about sustainability both on a social and environmental level.
55 min · 12,096 views · 4.8 stars
Transformational festival culture strives to create and become the more beautiful world it imagines. Traveling to several of these festivals across the world, this short film looks at the ways these festival communities are putting sustainability into practice.
Certainly...
11 min · 7,979 views · 4.8 stars
Abby Martin discusses the history of the Black Hills in South Dakota, the US governments seizure of the land and subsequent offer of $1 Billion to the Sioux tribe, which they refuse to accept.
28 min · 2,208 views · 4 stars
Think it's all hopeless? Think there are too many problems and our children's future is doomed? In 16 minutes, renowned and inspiring speaker Guy Dauncey explains why pessimism is the wrong answer to our society's challenges. There's already a massive world-wide movement to...
15 min · 9,449 views · 4.2 stars
This short clip come from the excellent documentary Cowspiracy, wich follows the shocking, yet humorous journey of an aspiring environmentalist as he daringly seeks to findthe real solutionto the most pressing environmental issues and a true path to sustainability.
2 min · 3,184 views · 4.5 stars
A challenge instigated by a group of friends with different diets and eating habits takes the viewers of Sustenance on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability. Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food's journey around the world and its...
88 min · 3,093 views · unrated
Peter Joseph speaking at The Peoples Convergence, Sept 8th 2017, in Washington DC.
50 min · 3,795 views · 4.7 stars
A New Story For Humanity presents a beautifully and sensitively woven tapestry of the rich diversity that is the human family. Featuring interviews on the essential topics of our time: from cosmology to ecology, from ancient wisdom to current thinking, from leadership to...
3 min · 115,563 views · 4.8 stars
A short film fom Over Grow The System that showcases young farmers who are growing the change they want to see in the word.
4 min · 13,309 views · 4.6 stars
In 10 years, Los Angeles plans to reduce per capita water use by 22.5 percent. It will no longer get any of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. It will turn public library lawns into urban gardens and lay out rain barrels like a city full of survivalist...
Heather Smith · 15,901 views · 4.5 stars
Agenda 21: Its the biggest threat to your freedom, and unless you regularly attend yahoo-filled local planning and zoning meetings, youve probably never even heard of it. Until recently, this 20-year-old United Nations plan to promote sustainable development was known only to...
Greg Hanscom · 9,860 views · 5 stars
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...
5 min · 6,929 views · 4 stars
Jaureguiberry's elementary school is giving kids in Uruguay a first-hand look at environmental sustainability. The school was built with recycled materials, and students grow indoor and outdoor edible gardens.
2 min · 12,323 views · 4.5 stars
Peter Joseph is the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a grassroots, worldwide organization that advocates an alternative economic system based on sustainability, cooperation and human need. His most recent book, The New Human Rights Movement, delivers a startling expos about...
45 min · 9,819 views · 4.9 stars
Culdesac, a new car-free community in Tempe, Arizona, is the most Edenic urban space I have seen. Join me on a recent visit and conversation with its CEO Ryan Johnsonwho explained how to unlock sustainability in the US and design our way out of the loneliness epidemic. This...
12 min · 1,158 views · unrated
Over the last few weeks, I reached out to sustainability experts around the world, crunched a bunch of numbers, and asked all of you for help finding the most sustainable city in America. Here's what I learned. - Distilled
12 min · 3,537 views · unrated
Asking wouldnt 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...
25 min · 8,383 views · 5 stars
A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural...
27 min · 5,856 views · 5 stars
Oct 8th 2011, Marina Del Rey California. Thisprogram considers the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and...
43 min · 13,056 views · 4.8 stars
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.
26 min · 69,753 views · 4.6 stars
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability would look like.
5 min · 3,496 views · unrated
MILKEDfollows a young activist who goes deep into dairy land where he takes on the giants of New Zealands most powerful industry, and reveals how the sacred cash-cow industry has been milked dry. His journey exposes not only the sustainability crisis and the dangerous denial...
90 min · 6,636 views · unrated
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 · 1,340 views · unrated
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.
6 min · 5,436 views · 5 stars
When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at CharlesEisenstein.org/books
8 min · 1,954 views · 4.5 stars
Peter Joseph speaks atThe University of Santa Barbara, CA,Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.
120 min · 9,472 views · unrated
POC21is an innovation camp for open-source sustainability taking place at Chateau de Millemont (Paris) in 2015.100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy.Their ultimate goal: Overcome our...
4 min · 7,537 views · 4.4 stars
Cities are the biggest thing we create. But when we talk about sustainability, there is still surprisingly little discussion about how our cities are designed as a whole.
4 min · 4,099 views · 4 stars
If we can make radical changes in how we think about our relationship to nature and economic growth, we will see restored, vibrant ecosystems and healthy, prosperous farmers, cows, consumers, employees, investors and future children. So says the iconic food entrepreneur Gary...
33 min · 5,547 views · 3.7 stars
Nature teaches us that no system is truly isolated and positive synergies are often at work. Yet the isolation of the various technological disciplines in our educational and industrial institutions has limited synergy in the human-built world. These walls are starting to...
27 min · 5,637 views · 5 stars
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Occupy Loveexplores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning...
85 min · 55,935 views · 4.5 stars
The Commons is a documentary film about communities re-asserting sustainable futures using consensus, equity and shared resources ancient Commons principles.
110 min · 2,845 views · 4.5 stars
'Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story' is a free 40-minute sustainability documentary following the highs and lows of a passionate community as they attempt to tackle the issue of food waste going to landfill. Their solution? A composting machine called bEartha and...
40 min · 1,153 views · 5 stars
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.
46 min · 3,812 views · unrated
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
47 min · 3,593 views · unrated
Fast fashion has radically transformed the textile industry. These days, 56 million tons of clothing are sold every year. But cheap garments come at a high price: A precarious existence for workers and a catastrophic environmental impact. The clothing industry is currently...
43 min · 4,043 views · unrated
"You can find examples of really big environmental problems that we've already solved. Climate change is solvable, argues Hannah Ritchie.
13 min · 1,060 views · 2.5 stars
In this episode, the focus is on introducing a new phase of the podcast with expanded content, including visuals, interviews, media analysis, and discussions of current events, while ensuring accessibility for audio-only listeners.
73 min · 302 views · unrated
Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some ofways citiesare changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he couldn't visit he crowdsourced footage from residents. This film is made in collaboration withThe Nantucket...
18 min · 9,949 views · 5 stars