Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate.
(1:50)
Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger talks about the need for a democracy that takes the need of all peoples into account, as well as the needs of all life on earth.
(2:14)
Author Woody Tasch describes the need to balance current large-scale farming models with smaller, sustainable, and long-term models.
(5:10)
Author Woody Tasch feels that the way modern economies create wealth is not proactive enough to sustain social and environmental relationships.
(2:56)
Indian social activist Medha Patkar explains how the economic development model being imposed on India's farmers is neither inclusive nor sustainable.
(5:37)
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)
Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, contrasts the Maori and colonial views of the land. Can such a fundamental gap be bridged?
(2:59)
Museum director Mia Hanak says that real change can't happen without involvement from all levels of society and describes how art can bring individuals and agencies together in an environment that inspires change.
(2:24)
In this complete interview, Author Woody Tasch illustrates the concept of Slow Money.
(29:25)
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us about growing up on an Aboriginal settlement.
(10:24)
Author Woody Tasch explains how current models of economic growth depend upon destructive and unsustainable living practices which do not support well being.
(2:48)
Author Woody Tasch explains that the way we currently grow food is destructive, and argues that the human race has never lived sustainably.
(2:45)
A retrospective of our journey offering a picture of what is being born during this time of global transformation.
(4:42)
Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.
(4:19)
Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that in our current physical and spiritual search for sustainable energies, we can look to Indigenous Peoples for their sense of traditional environmental knowledge and the immediate power of nature.
(2:34)
Medha Patkar, Indian social activist and advocate, rejects the idea that indigenous peoples must assimilate to a market economy that is neither inclusive nor sustainable on a long-term basis.
(1:33)
Anshu Gupta is the founder of Goonj, a volunteer-run recycling center in New Delhi. Anshu shows how Goonj recycles garments to provide clothes, schoolbags, sanitary napkins and other amenities for India’s poor.
(7:05)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"?
(3:49)
Permaculture expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices.
(3:16)
Museum director Mia Hanak sees changes happening in the way we consume but says we could do a lot more to reduce, reuse and recycle.
(2:03)
Museum director Mia Hanak gives one example of how our patterns of consumption are impacting other parts of the world, illustrating the need for greater awareness about the choices we make.
(3:00)
Author Woody Tasch speaks about creating capital flow that supports environmentally sustainable food movements and environmentally sustainable financial markets in general.
(4:31)
Author Woody Tasch explains that if we detach from global markets we can enhance quality of life by living slower, smaller and local!
(1:19)
Author Woody Tasch describes how the current economic crisis evokes fundamental questions about the future of capitalism.
(1:47)
People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi explains how industrialization has changed our relationship to food and agriculture.
(2:15)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure.
(4:59)
In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities.
(4:38)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, shares his childhood realization that Earth's limited resources could not support our current lifestyle indefinitely.
(2:03)
Author Woody Tasch believes that there is a dramatic need to focus time, energy, and capital on the next generation of small business entrepreneurs because they represent diversity.
(5:42)
In West Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, People’s Grocery is creating a healthy alternative, offering access to organic produce.
(8:56)
Author Woody Tasch argues that the current economic crisis is an opportunity to reorganize capital markets towards a more sustainable and ethical future.
(5:09)
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)
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, describes the perception that the universe is dead as the root cause of the exploitative mindset.
(3:18)
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, explains three levels of oneness, along with the response evoked by each level.
(2:44)
Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies, responds to our question of what Western cultures can learn from Aboriginal culture.
(5:13)
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions?
(25:14)