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Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

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

Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)

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

Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics

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

Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities

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

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

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

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

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

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

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

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

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

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

The End of the Corporation?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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)

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

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

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

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

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

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

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

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

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

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

What People Are Watching Now

Schooling the World (2010)

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What REALLY Happened on October 7

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

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Wallace Shawn SLAMS Israel's 'Horrifying Sadism' & Defends Protests

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America's War Games (2013)

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

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Where Olive Trees Weep (2024) (trailer)

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

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How Brands Use Design & Marketing to Control Your Mind (2023)

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Wetiko - The Cannibalistic Disease Consuming Our Planet and Society

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9/11 in the Academic Community (trailer)

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Israelism (2023)

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Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017)

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Israel Created Hamas

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Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr

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October 7th: The Whole Story Finally Revealed

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Sugar: The Bitter Truth

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Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

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Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

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Education

Schooling the World (2010)

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

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

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

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

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

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Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

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Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

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What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

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The Importance of Rites of Passage

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

Initiation Into a Living Planet

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

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Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

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A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

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Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

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Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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Planet of the Humans (2019)

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Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

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Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

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The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

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

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Gasland (2010)

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A Quest For Meaning (2017)

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The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

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A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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Sir! No Sir! The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005)

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Mark Corske's Engines of Domination (2014)

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Human (2015)

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Subconscious War (2011)

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

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

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

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

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

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

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Imperialism

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

Schooling the World (2010)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Obey (2013)

War By Other Means (1992)

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (2020)

US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

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