Towards A Sustainable Future provided by the Auroville Centre for Scientific Research; documentary showing how international township of Auroville in southern India transformed from barren land to lush forest through trial, error and success in alternative technologies.
1000 Protesters Storm Wall Street — provided by TheRealNews.com; Occupy Wall Street movement gains support from unions, student groups and community organizers. Watch full multipart TRNN Occupy Wall St. Stories
Navajo Green provided by LivingOnEarth; shows effort and enthusiasm to bring green jobs to Navajo communities by adopting green job legislation, complimenting a way of life valued by many indigenous peoples.
Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America provided KilowattOurs.org; This award-winning film is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmental challenges: energy. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows how you can conserve energy, use renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. The full 56-minute version of the film is available on DVD from www.KilowattOurs.org. (12 min)
Ellen Brown – Financial meltdown: Why it happened, How it can be reversed provided by Democracy for America; Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, explains the roots of the current economic crisis and a way out. Brown’s articles are regularly posted at www.ethicalmarkets.com. Her presentation begins about 11 1/2 minutes into the video. Worth the wait!
What Happens When Schools Care provided by The Real Food Channel and Healing Quest; Is it possible that the problems so many children and schools have these days are food related? Could it be that simple? The trend today is to manage children and young people: drug them, psychoanalyze them, treat them as potential criminals. But, studies and alternative programs show positive response to managing their food instead. What’s your school district feeding the children in its care?
Sarvodaya Movement – provided by SarvodayaUSA; Featuring A. T. Ariyaratne, this video shows how the Sarvodaya Movement is building alternative social, economic and political structures from bottom up, showing the stages of the Sarvodaya development process in Sri Lanka.
Harmonic Humanity provided by HarmonicHumanity.org; Real Change and Harmonic Humanity offer great examples of using the principles of ethical markets to address local community challenges such as homelessness.
The Economics of Happiness — provided by The Dylan Ratigan Show; Helena Norberg-Hodge of the International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) promotes her film which offers simple policy steps to reduce unemployment and pollution if we can get beyond the economic myths which have us rushing in the wrong direction.
Move Your Money provided by MoveYourMoney.info; introduces the compelling movement to move individual bank accounts from the “too big to fail” institutions into community banks and credit unions
Catherine Sneed: the Green Project – provided by the Schumacher Society, Cathrine Sneed’s work shows that bringing people out of jails and off the streets into the garden can be transformative in both the human and natural realms. (7 min) provided by Global Footprint Network, How many Earths would it take to support your lifestyle? The Global Footprint Network is pleased to announce a new video and Footprint Calculator for the U.S., two tools to help Americans see how their living habits relate to their use of the planet’s resources.
The Grassroots Economy in 2018 provided by P2P Foundation; What our economy could look like over the next decade, a change from economies of scale to economies of groups. It values collaboration more than negotiation, and bottom-up rather than top-down processes.
How to Create 18 Million Jobs provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible.
How to Create 18 Million Jobs Part 2 — provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible but “normal” or “natural” pace might push that date to 2018.
BerkShares Local Currency on BBC provided by the E.F. Schumacher Society and the BBC; BerkShares local currency supports the community, economy, ecology, and sustainability of the southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. Launched by the E. F. Schumacher Society, BerkShares create consumer awareness about the consequences of spending practices, supports local businesses, facilitates the development of import replacing industries, and serves as a model for other regions.
Gasland Trailer — provided by Democracy for America; The Academy Award nominated ‘Gasland’ reveals dangerous natural gas drilling and bane of hydraulic fracturing.
Canada Index of Wellbeing — provided by CIW; Keynote speech by The Honourable Roy J. Romanow, Chair, CIW Advisory Board.
How fair trade can help people trade their way out of poverty – The startling truth about how fair trade can help people out of poverty in the slums of Nairobi Kenya. For more information on how you can invest with Shared Interest please visit www.shared-interest.com
In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell the exploding use of social media and addictive behaviors of users leading to loss of privacy, autonomy and jobs. They discuss all these issues of psychographic targeting of groups using big, data and proprietary algorithms, which are sold to data brokers and advertisers. They review the new efforts to protect users and voters, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, attempting to curb the misuse of user’s private information with heavy fines. They look at the other problems including government surveillance and toxic content: hate speech, biased algorithms, terrorist recruiting sites, Russian trolling and its influence on US and European elections. Many proposals for how individuals can protect themselves are also discussed, even though this burden must also be shared by the corporations and government agencies as well.
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy” provided by Chris Bedford Films and the Schumacher Society; Sincere appreciation goes to Chris Bedford who made this film as a labor of love, telling the story of rebuilding a local economy using strategies from community land trusts to the nation’s most successful local currency – Berkshares. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Regulating derivatives could lower price of food — provided by the TheRealNews.com; Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, describes how unregulated speculation in food and oil are major factors in creating food and energy price bubbles.
Built Totally Green — provided by BuiltTotallyGreen.com; Preview of a compelling and educational documentary of Tragedy to Triumph. After Tropical Storm Fay destroyed Steve Sadler and Michaela Miller’s home in 2008, they chose to rebuild a sustainable, ruthlessly energy efficient and environmentally responsible home.
Power Kick for Africa — provided by www.worldfuturecouncil.org; The WFC and cooperation partner Energiebau Sunergy Ghana Ltd. installed modern solar panels to power the Oboadaka village community hospital with a permanent and reliable electricity supply, medication cooling and modern communication facilities. As a bonus — football enthusiasts in the small non-electrified bush village watched Ghana’s soccer team in the World Cup!
The Story of Cosmetics – provided by the Story of Stuff Project; Annie Leonard explains “toxics in – toxics out” in all the untested cosmetic products we use daily. Released in conjunction with the introduction of the Safe Cosmetics Act in the US Congress, the video raises the debate about toxic chemicals in the shampoos, deodorants and lotions we rub on our bodies every day.
Do Not Frack New York — provided by DoNotGasNY.org — “Clean Natural” Gas is neither. Gas extraction, made possible by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is as environmentally hazardous as Deep Sea Drilling, Mountain Top Removal, and Dirty Tar Sands Oil in the pantheon of insane ways to produce energy. There needs to be a drilling “time out” where drilling doesn’t occur unless and until it can be done safely with strong rules and enforcement.
FLOW — presentation to the UN and trailer for the award-winning documentary on the looming water crisis and the Right to Water, proposed Article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Common good banks™ are a democratic, community-based system that puts people and planet first by having depositors decide where in the community to invest profits while offering micro-loans, FDIC-secured banking and other community-centered services. For the past seven years, hundreds of people around the world have worked to design this new system to support and empower ordinary people everywhere to put an end to war, poverty, hunger, unemployment and global warming. This is not just another bank with a social mission, this is a social mission with a bank.
The Last Mountain – trailer for the critically acclaimed documentary on the devastation of mountaintop removal in the pursuit of coal in Appalachia
The Organic Opportunity provided by Chris Bedford Films; Chris Bedford tells the story of Woodbury County, Iowa, first in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development by offering tax rebates to farmers transitioning to organic agriculture, mandating purchase of locally grown organic food by county institutions and offering no-cost loans and free building lots to farmers relocating to the county to farm organically. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Harmonic Humanity + Music = Jobs — provided by HarmonicHumanity.org; A grassroots, outreach organization serving homeless adults and at risk youths in the Bay area, Harmonic Humanity started in 2005 as a music empowerment program in a soup kitchen in Seattle, WA. The mission of the program is to inspire and support homeless individuals through music, providing the homeless a means to support themselves.
Bank of North Dakota – provided by Prairie Public Television and the Public Banking Institute; During the early 1900s, North Dakota was dependent on agriculture. To diversify the economy, North Dakota created the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, largely credited for making North Dakota the only state with a large budget surplus. This film discusses the bank’s history and plans for the future.
Cool Jobs – Solar Installers provided by Workforce Solutions Capital Area and coolaustinjobs.com
