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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
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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
Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber
Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
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Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)
5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society
Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan
David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street
Climate Change Documentaries
Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)
Fairytales of Growth (2020)
The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)
Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)
A Climate Of Change (2014)
The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)
Disruption (2014)
Do the Math (2013)
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)
Before the Flood (2016)
The Climate Changers (2016)
Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)
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Films For Action
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The Economics of Happiness (2011)
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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)
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Insane Trade!
Our Obsolescent Economy
Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization
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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
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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
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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
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My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
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Raising Children
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How To Bore The Children
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Children Full of Life (2003)
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
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Schooling the World (2010)
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The Case Against Grades
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Nonviolent Communication
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