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Energy - Balancing the Scales

How much energy do we use, and how much energy could renewables provide? References: MacKay, D.J.C. (2009). Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air. Cambridge, England: UIT Cambridge Ltd. UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department. (2014). Energy Scales Table. Retrieved from http://ephysics.physics.ucla.edu/energy-scales-table State of California, Department of Finance. (2004).

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Revolution Food (2015)
What If We Bought Land With Our Friends and Built Houses Together?
The Case for Solarpunk
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
The Great Transition, 2025-2050
What Will Socialism Look Like?
Rachel Carson (2017)
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
I Turned My Front Yard Into a FOOD FOREST in 1 Year
Why You are Being LIED to About Immigration
Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
The Suburbs Are Literally Killing the Planet
The Shipping Container That Might Replace Solar Farms
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
Trump Brags "I Ended Nord Stream Pipeline From Russia To Germany, Making EU Dependent On US Oil/Gas
How Koyaanisqatsi Changes Our Perspective On Modernity
Churning the Earth (2024)
He Voted For Trump. It Cost Him His Job
Why This Far-right Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
We're Deep Frying the Rainforest
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
The Eternal Song (trailer)
Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD
life changed when i realized the rules are made up / my journey to an off-grid life
How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar
The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity
“Living In This Ecovillage Costs $200 per Month (All Inclusive)”
5 Solarpunk Communities That Will Bring You Hope
Planting Trees Won't Save the Planet. Protecting Forests Will.
Economics
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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