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Films for a Wiser Earth
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT (2018)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
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
Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
LOCAL: A Story Of Hope
World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
Locally Abundant (2012)
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love
Indigenous Stories and Perspectives
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Down To Earth (2020)
Schooling the World (2010)
Song From the Forest (2013)
Ever the Land (2015)
Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)
PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)
Protecting Country (2018)
Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)
Honey At The Top (2016)
Seeds Of Change (2014)
Red Cry (2013)
Utopia (2013)
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)
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
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A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Rebel Wisdom
Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi
Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas
The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom
Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta
Addicted to Ideology? | Gabor Maté
Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD
Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania
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Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong
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"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)
Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (2019)
Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms
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Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams
If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger
Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes
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Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)
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The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)
Disruption (2014)
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Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)
A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012) (trailer)
Tomorrow's Power (2019)
The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)
Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)
Climate of Doubt (2012)
Years of Living Dangerously (2014)
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)
2040: Join The Regeneration (US-Only) (2020)
Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)
The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)
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