From the youtube description: "This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale... continue reading

posted by ChaosEngine 1 decade 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,237 views • 4:51

Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 2 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 3,998 views • 5:37

YouTube Description: Lulu is a single mom who'd gone back to school and didn't have the time or interest in working full-time to pay for rent. So when she had to move out of her more conventional home,... continue reading

posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 2 years 12 months ago • 5,579 views • 9:59

The untold story of planned obsolescence.

posted by geo321 1 decade 2 years 12 months ago • 5,859 views • 52:49

The United States isn't broke; we're the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more... continue reading

posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 3 weeks ago • 1,427 views • 8:07

Sorry about the ad! One of Andy Rooneys' pieces on Memorial day and the cost of wars. Powerful stuff I thought. Andy Rooney was my kind of curmudgeon. ;o)

posted by moodonia 1 decade 3 years 3 weeks ago • 1,601 views • 2:36

YT description: A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot, and the demise of the American Lifestyle http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 1,649 views • 2:03:43

TED: We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are... continue reading

posted by littledragon_79 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 1,768 views • 16:55

6-minute Trailer for a PBS profile on Pete Seeger. Absolutely inspiring. --- Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), better known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the... continue reading

posted by winkler1 1 decade 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 3,029 views

A preview for the film "The Economics of Happiness," If you can, check out the whole film. An in depth exploration of economic and political organization in a time when there seems to be little. I... continue reading

posted by Peroxide 1 decade 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,186 views

From Crooked Timber: Just when you think “he can’t possibly be saying that, there’s an obvious objection” – he anticipates, and replies … great stuff. From some time in the late 1980s.

posted by NetRunner 1 decade 3 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 1,842 views • 26:21

I found out about this guy from watching "2012: Time For Change". Listen to him, he has ideas. Good ideas. This was filmed on 11/30/09. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer

posted by laura 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,397 views • 18:46

"Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the... continue reading

posted by Hybrid 1 decade 3 years 2 months ago • 3,718 views • 14:20

Imagine if a hydro-scheme was to be proposed in your country that would flood 400 km2, displace 40,000 people, and cover irreplaceable forest. That's what has been approved in Brazil.

posted by ChaosEngine 1 decade 3 years 2 months ago • 2,008 views

A poem by Mhara Costello Just a Word 'Terrorist' is just a word, one I wish I'd never heard When it's used to vilify, without the need to question why Only fools would swift condemn, that... continue reading

posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,507 views • 3:30

Vice President and Current TV founder Al Gore speaks with new Current TV host of The Young Turks Cenk Uygur about President Obama, climate change, corporate personhood, Rick Perry and other topics. ... continue reading

posted by Boise_Lib 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 2,686 views • 9:51

[YT] An amazing little girl who had her cleft lip surgery.People ask me why I volunteer overseas so much.. It takes my eyes off me and allows me to remember what life is all about. When we use what we... continue reading

posted by Grimm 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 4,701 views • 3:21

The Young Turks reporting on how the majority of shrimp we eat isn't clean, and in fact, may make us resistant to anti-biotics.