8 videos about consumerism

1 short film7 interviews

A Shift from "Me" to “We”

Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta comments on how modern culture makes people think they need to acquire things in order to feel complete and recalls the ancient idea that in giving you are fulfilled.

(3:19)

A Threat to Living Communities

Indian social activist Medha Patkar explains how the economic development model being imposed on India's farmers is neither inclusive nor sustainable.

(5:37)

Alternative Sources of Energy

Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development

(4:49)

Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews.

(17:00)

Food Systems

People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi discusses the effect agriculture is having on the environment, farm communities, and consumers, and the need for systemic change in the way food is grown and

(4:14)

The Race for Materialism

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta describes how the Western yardsticks for quality of life are impossible for a population the size of India's.

(2:43)

Things We Don't Need

Freddy Ehlers, general secretary of the Andean Nations, explains why marketing is a tragic waste of human creativity. Mr. Ehlers asks, how can an external object really give lasting happiness?

(2:19)

We All Eat, Shit, and Die

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, tells us that it's not what we do that counts, but how we do it.

(3:20)