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Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...
Starhawk
Revolution: Food is all about the positive changes taking root in our modern food system. It focuses on real farmers who are growing, raising real food and the consumers who are demanding it.
71 min
This year, my friends and I are taking on a huge project. We're going to try to build our own houses on land that we bought this summer.
5 min
The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power crush the powerless. It's the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums and medieval...
Tim Hjersted
By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fueled road.
David Suzuki
Solarpunk is an aesthetic and genre which envisions a sustainable future built around social and ecological resilience. It often includes concepts such as renewable energy, rewilding & harmony with nature, counter-culturalism and decolonialism, collective living, optimism...
37 min
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By the time Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline. By discouraging alternative energy and encouraging fossil fuels, President Trump is undercutting America’s economic competitiveness in the most fundamental way imaginable.
Alfred W. Mccoy
So many of us are now searching for a bridge to the world we need. I'm thankful that we're searching together and for the possibilities we may find.
Erika Spanger
The word communism has been dragged through history as a banner for human politics. However, its Latin origin, communis, means shared, as in belonging to all. Long before Marx or Lenin, this was not an ideology but a condition of existence. Everything that lives participates...
Don Christoff
Part 1 of this 2 part short film explores one of humanity’s greatest challenges — the energy transition — and the bold choices that will define our future. The next 25 years will decide who leads and who is left behind.
24 min
When we begin to act with deep time in mind, perhaps future generations will remember us not for what we took, but for what we tended, protected, and passed on.
Darby Weaver
In this video essay, I examine what ecosocialism might look like in the future. From zero-carbon, accessible, and free public transit, to low-cost housing, an ecosocialist future would seek to bring better well-being to all people and the planet.
21 min
When Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical...
115 min
One could say that ‘bioregioning’ is our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and hence a return to it may well be the most promising pathway our species can take through the tumultuous if not catastrophic decades ahead.
Daniel Christian Wahl
What do humans who aren't consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food?
19 min
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
Richard Heinberg
How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?
Florent Marcellesi
I decided to experiment planting a food forest in my front yard in my first years in this garden. Discover what happened…
20 min
Jimmy The Giant confronts immigration as a polarizing, often misunderstood topic, emphasizing that both anti- and pro-immigration perspectives can be nuanced, and not simply rooted in prejudice or naivety. Drawing from key academic sources—including Hein de Haas's "How...
52 min
Growing food in a small garden can produce a surprisingly big harvest, whether it’s on an urban balcony, in a tiny yard, or even on a countertop or windowsill. It feels pretty special to learn and practice the timeless skill of growing your own food and to be able to eat...
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Bryce and Misty have spent the last 12 years building a cob home, homesteading, living off the grid, and homeschooling their two daughters. They live without a car, so for transportation, they use taxis and bicycles, and they eventually hope to have a cart that their two...
29 min
Most American towns before the 1950s were already 15-minute cities. What changed wasn’t freedom—it was corporations dismantling transit to profit from cars and sprawl.
Tim Hjersted
Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is shaking up everything from sustainable construction to meatless bacon. It’s turning agricultural...
16 min
Cities are not associated with being green, but when you measure carbon emissions per household, suburbanites have a much higher carbon footprint than city dwellers. And that’s because American-style suburbia is designed in a way that forces people to live unsustainable...
19 min
Exowatt is betting big on forgotten technologies from the 1800s: Fresnel lenses, thermal brick batteries, and Stirling engines, all packed inside a sleek orange shipping container. Their system promises 24/7 dispatchable power at a fraction of the cost of traditional solar...
19 min
How did a community beat Jeff Bezos? When Amazon proposed a massive, water-guzzling data center out Tucson, community members organized and shut it down. Here's how they took on the multi-trillion dollar company, and won.
12 min
Donald Trump boasted, "I ended Nord Stream", referencing the pipeline connecting Russia to Germany. Now Europe is dependent on buying North American oil and gas, Trump bragged. Political economist Ben Norton shows how the EU has become a "vassal" of the US empire.
34 min
Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
What's it like to see the world for the first time, with a fresh pair of eyes, from a completely different perspective? In this video, we'll be taking a look at one of the most profound films of the last several decades: Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary and visual...
13 min
In the face of widespread ecological destruction, social injustice, economic deprivation, there are powerful countercurrents. 'Ordinary' people in several parts of India are resisting the disruption of their lives by constructing alternatives in the form of sustainable...
44 min
In Maine, trades workers are facing catastrophic layoffs. Why? Trump has cancelled hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy projects to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy in his ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ Workers who voted for him told us they’re paying the price.
9 min
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I examine the destructive nature of Trump and his fossil fascist (and at times ecofascist) tendencies. Specifically, I look at how the American far-right has captured power in the United States and is barrelling...
26 min
In this video, I examine why we need solarpunk, ecosocialist, and degrowth-oriented cities. Specifically, I look at what those future cities might look like, and the failures of capitalist cities today. - OCC
28 min
Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning for No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy for years, and right now they have their sights set on Mondelēz, the corporation that makes Oreos and also continues to use conflict palm oil.
36 min
Dupont and 3M have been secretly poisoning America for decades. PFAs — also known as forever chemicals—are now in our food, water, clothes, and our blood. These companies knew its chemicals were highly toxic. But they chose to use them on everything you own.
19 min
Andrew Nisker is back with a new documentary, This Film is Garbage! Is the future greener—or bleaker—than before? Nisker is determined to find out. In this film, he challenges the Masons, a typical Canadian family of four to keep their trash for 3 months. Andrew compares this...
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Best known for his 8,000-mile walk for peace, former monk, activist, author and educator Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for nearly 70 years. Between his home in the south of England and an experience returning to India, the documentary "Radical Love" portrays...
3 min
Planet Local Voices is video and podcast series featuring cutting-edge thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from across the world, united by a planet local vision of ecological economies, healthy communities and local food systems.
445 min
System Update isn’t just a film—it’s a rallying call for a better future. This film shows how radical shifts in political, economic, and social systems can protect people from climate change. After all, the majority of people across the globe want the changes needed, as UN...
58 min
“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”
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reflecting on my journey to a life of peace and joy as i celebrate my 38th birthday on this beautiful planet. ~ i recently launched my Patreon! if you enjoy my videos and reflections, and would like to see a little more, or if you'd simply like to support my content creation...
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Can you restore forests without planting trees? Technically, yes, and it might even be faster and better if you actually restore forests without planting saplings. At least in Grassland landscapes. But let us give you some context!
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In this video, we introduce the People's Library—a parallel economy where resources like housing, food, tools, and transportation are shared instead of hoarded, and where access is based on participation, not profit.
20 min
Ecolieu Argoumbat's mission is to enable everyone to fulfil their pontiac, living together in harmony with the living world, in service of a fairer world.
23 min
Explore 5 sustainable ecovillages and communities that are built on the premise of building a brighter future. See these locales that are built with focuses on permaculture, and other design techniques that you can use to make your home more friendly to nature and the Earth.
20 min
This writing began with the premise that humans are not alone in this world, and that our largest problems are rooted in imagining ourselves alone. The original focus was on climate change. During the years of writing, society fell apart in multiple ways. I found myself...
Shodo Spring
While a lot of time, energy, and resources will be necessary to stop the erosion of civil rights and defend democracy during a second Trump administration, it’s essential that we don’t neglect the equally important work of building alternative systems and cultures.
Don Hall
Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:
What happens when a study goes viral? After the “trillion tree” campaign captured the internet's imagination, YouTube sensation, MrBeast, raised 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees. But did they survive? We went to check in on them… and were shocked. In this episode...
12 min
Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for over five...
74 min
Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
The Shitthropocene is a mock anthropological view of humanity's consumption habits, turning a satirical (yet brutally honest) eye on how everything is turning to shit and why the impulse towards more might destroy us all.
47 min
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
8 min
In this important webinar, we share how to create a strategy for storytelling that rapidly scales to regenerate the Earth.
93 min
In this (2 hour+ !) episode of Revolution Now (Episode 54), Peter Joseph examines the complexities of systemic transition and the limitations of reformist approaches to change, including a critical review of Jason Hickel’s work.
136 min
What if the world we live in isn’t broken by accident but by design? And what if the path to fixing it has been within us all along?
7 min
They are mostly invisible, essential for life on earth and could be the building blocks of our future. Here's how fungi can clean up our soils from the mess we created - and even house us.
14 min
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of How Soon is Now? We are on the brink of an ecological mega-crisis threatening the future of life on earth and our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. Between a manifesto and a tactical plan of...
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