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Documentaries that Inspire Ecological Consciousness

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (2015)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

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

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Superior Human? (2012)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Creating Conscious Communities

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

Double Down News

Israel is Becoming a Fascist State (2023)

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

Former British Soldier EXPOSES Israel War Machine

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

A Quest for Meaning

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Ego Not Bad

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

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

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Videos Under Five Minutes

The Truth

2 min

Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms

5 min

Fox News Objects When Boots Riley Speaks Truth to Power

1 min

The Orlando Massacre Terrorist Will Fail. Here's Why

4 min

An Animated History of Taker Culture in 4 Minutes

4 min

How To Be A Man

5 min

These Men Kept Harassing Women On The Streets, Until One Day This Happened... Mom?!

3 min

Could a Wordless 1 Minute Film with the Music of Radiohead Change How You See This Animal?

1 min

Robert Reich: The 5 Principles of True Patriotism

2 min

7 Science-Backed Ways for a Happier and Healthier 2017

2 min

The NSA and Surveillance Made Simple

3 min

My Urban Report Interviews Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen

2 min

Government of Occupation

2 min

The Philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

5 min

British Reporter Returns from Gaza and Gives Heartbreaking Account of What He Saw

3 min

The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List

5 min

Printemps érable - Manifeste vidéo («Maple spring» English subtitles)

3 min

When Kids Recite The Pledge of Allegiance in School This Is Basically What They're Saying

2 min

Epic Poem About Money by Benjamin Zephaniah

3 min

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

2 min

Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich

3 min

Here's A 5-Minute Video That'll Make You Rethink Our Entire News Media Circus

5 min

The High Price of Materialism

5 min

Witness The Power of Film

2 min

Guides

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World

Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons

Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice

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

A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals

How to Not Be Offended

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle

The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New

How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op

4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever

Guide to Building a Solidarity Network

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

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 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

George Lakey

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

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

Courtland Milloy

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Eric Michael Johnson

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

Charles Eisenstein

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Tim Hjersted

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

Yasha Levine

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 37 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men

Mark Green

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

Bethany Webster

Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Invest in Alternatives.

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About 'A Police-Free Future'?

We Must Look Beyond Police for Community Safety

The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.

We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd's Murder

Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.

The Police State & The Minimum Wage

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: End the Drug War Now

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

A Few Thoughts After the #Blacklivesmatter Vigil in Lawrence, KS Tonight

15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System

13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda

The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

Permaculture

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better (2013)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

All About Weeds

Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)

Intro to Permaculture

Perma Kultcha (2010)

Masculinity

The New Macho: One Vision Of What Mature Masculinity Looks Like In The 21st Century

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) (trailer)

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Masculinity, Yet Again, Is Fragile

Healing the Divine Masculine

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