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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)

Can Humanity Find Harmony with Itself, the Earth? Here are 22 Films That Say Yes.

Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

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

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

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

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

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Enough Is Enough (2014)

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

Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Real Value (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

Waste = Food (2007)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Trailers

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

Disruption (2014)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022)

Zapatista (1999)

License To Parent (2018)

I Seek Love, Not Privilege: India's First Gay Prince

Men's Madness (1991)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It

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

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

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

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

You Can't Be Intersectional While at the Same Time Being Elitist and Exclusionary

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Social Justice Educators

Core Nonviolence Commitments

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

Exiting the Vampire Castle

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

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

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

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

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

The Problem With Hating Our Enemies

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness

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

Compassion, the Antidote

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

Public Shaming

The Politics of Being Woke

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.

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The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

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

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

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Russell Means

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

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

Courtland Milloy

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Paul Harrison

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Bernie Sanders Will Tie Biden in the Final Super Tuesday Results: Why It Looks Good for Sanders

Saib Bilaval

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

The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today

Daniel Quinn

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

Charles Eisenstein

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

Eric Michael Johnson

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

George Lakey

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

Africa Brooke

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

David Cain

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

With God on Our Side (2010)

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

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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

Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

The Israeli Lobby (2007)

The Zionist Story (2009)

Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth (2009)

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

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)

Reading Library

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

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

Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles

From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities

The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience

Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves

Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War

To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case

14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians

The Death of Israel

Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote

This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF

Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.

The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza

War Is Always Justified

Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%

When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?

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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