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Glimpse into the miraculous potential of Biochar as a significant solution to climate change, soil degradation, drought, slash and burn deforestation, peak phosphorus and the global food crisis.

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Permaculture
I Turned My Front Yard Into a FOOD FOREST in 1 Year
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar
A Narrative Strategy for the Earth Regeneration Fund
The Future Is Local: Bioregioning 101
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
Water is Love (2024)
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)
Inspiring Couple Build the Sustainable Home of Their Dreams (From Start to Finish)
Are These The Seeds of a Solarpunk Future?
Imprint (2023)
Awakening of the Soil (Toprağın Uyanışı) (2021)
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden
Magical 28-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest
The Modern Eco Village | BedZED
Heal the Planet with PONDS
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects!
Forest Condominium is Ecosystem of 150 Trees, 60+ Apartments
How to Start a Regenerative Farm from Scratch
Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic (2018) ($5)
From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory
Permaculture Is a Way of Thinking | Andrew Faust
In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)
Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai
Hope in a Changing Climate - by John D. Liu
Living Soil (2018)
Early Morning Permaculture Tour of Zaytuna Farm
Imagine a 100% Renewable New York City | Andrew Faust
Bamboo--the Tradition of the Future
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden | Grow Food Not Lawns
Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken
We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It
3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
True Justice Should Have Compassion in It
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: The Ultimate Guide to Activism That Doesn't Reproduce The Status Quo
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
You Can't Be Intersectional While at the Same Time Being Elitist and Exclusionary
The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed
Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Social Justice Educators
Core Nonviolence Commitments
Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Nonviolent Communication Basics
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online
Why We Should Love Our Enemies
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
The Problem With Hating Our Enemies
To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
Compassion, the Antidote
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
The Four Qualities of True Love
Public Shaming
The Politics of Being Woke
If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical
Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action
The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.
Patron Documentaries
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
We Are Many (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Affluenza (1997)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Tomorrow's Children (2001)
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)
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