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The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

The Bloom Series: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)

Long Videos for Listening to While You Move

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Peter Joseph: Can We Solve the Problems Created by the Market Economy While Retaining the Market?

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

The Corporation (2003)

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Trailers

Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Dominion (2018)

PBS FRONTLINE: The Trouble With Chicken (2015)

I was sexually exploited by my school seniors while i was in a boarding school in Darjeeling - Says Dr. Himadri Roy

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

Hidden Valley

The Great Everything & the Nothing (2016)

We are Rebels. Western Sahara. FULL DOCUMENTARY

PBS FRONTLINE: Top Secret America (2011)

The Invisible War (2012)

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

Watch On Demand

Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Harambe (2023)

Israelism (2023)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

No Small Matter (2019) (trailer)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Bullied (2019)

Madagasikara (2020)

You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018)

The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Make Me A Man (2021)

Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

Wondering What to Watch? Try These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Money & Life (2013)

Down To Earth (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

Trending Articles

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Jim Tull

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction

Steve Taylor Ph.D.

Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

Charles Eisenstein

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound

Bethany Webster

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Indigenous Knowledge

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility."

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

Why Cultural Diversity Is as Essential to Human Survival as Biological Diversity

Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother

The Other Way of Knowing

The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

Red Cry (2013)

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization

Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary

Communalism

Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model

Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis

How to Create Democratic and Ecological Cities

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech (2019)

With God on Our Side (2010)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

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Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

How to Change Your Mind (2022) (trailer)

The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021) (trailer)

My Octopus Teacher (2020) (trailer)

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

The Great Hack (2019) (trailer)

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) (trailer)

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