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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 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

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

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

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

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

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

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

Watch These First

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)

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)

Developing Skills of the Heart

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

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

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

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

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Do You Have Time to Love?

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear

Wanted: Men Who Love

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

What It Means To Communicate

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Control is a Trap

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

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

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

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

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

Courtland Milloy

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

Eric Michael Johnson

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

David Cain

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

Yasha Levine

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

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

Films For Action

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

George Lakey

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

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

Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson

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

Wisdom Pills

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Law Professor's Epic Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint

Social Design Notes

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Inspiring Short Films

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

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine & Feminine

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

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

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig

Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender

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

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

How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life

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

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

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

Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

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

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Epic Documentaries

Human (2015)

Earthlings (2005)

The Corporation (2003)

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

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

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

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

HOME (2009)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Trending Documentaries

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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

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Schooling the World (2010)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

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

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Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

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Imprint (2023)

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475 (2013)

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A Fall From Freedom (2011)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

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9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2010)

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Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

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Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

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In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)

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

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

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

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

Genetics Explained Who Are the Blessed Ones!

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Us Government Destroy Family

Why Julian Assange Should Be Freed | John Mearsheimer

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