Better World Films

DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis, talks with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party, at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Humanizing politics. Reviving democracy. The youth re-inovate politics. Rejecting a system that is grotesquely unfair. We...

The North Country Trail between New York and North Dakota. "At last we have a guide to the amazing North country Trail that is as interesting as the trail itself. Ron Strickland has written a thorough, informative, entertaining, and highly useful guidebook. I give it...

Drumheller Springs Spring 08 A spring visit to a spectacular drylands-basalt nature area. Elementry school children visit nature here twice each year, in the fall and spring. See what they see.

P2 Lean Social Energy For Cohesive Societies - David Fleming Lean Energy - is a practical guide on some principles for the repairing and replacing atrophied social structures. Lean Energy is to nurture cohesive societies that can survive turbulent times to come. When...

How should parents talk to their children about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others, how democracy can improve the Economy. Yanis Varoufakis as Finance Minister of Greece negotiated with the decision makers...

A 47-minute documentary about San Francisco's "The Farm," which was a remarkable urban laboratory and creative space, in addition to being a farm with animals, vegetables, fruit trees, farmers, circus performers, discussions, performance, punk rock shows, and much...

Visionary documentary that contrasts the conditions of life in small towns and in the industrialized cities, starting with a brief portrait of pre-industrial United States, then moving into the modern chaotic, industrial and commercial city to reflect on the effects...

Recorded live, with enhanced digital photos. Walkin' Jim Stoltz, wilderness songster and long-distance hiker, sings songs from his "Forever Wild" concert

Interviews of people with all sorts of nurturing perspectives. Nature - Salmon Back Home, trail walks, songs and stories of hiking in nature. Stories for a better world. Draft horses planting organic corn.

Jason Mark, editor of Earth Island Journal and an active farmer at the Alemany Farm in San Francisco, interviewed as part of the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history project. The project documents participants in the ecology movement in the San...

Transitions Initiative - Sandpoint Idaho How Sandpoint Idaho started it’s Transition Initiative. And ideas on how other towns and cities can start their Transition Initiative.

David Swanson's remarks at Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration at Peace Garden at Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 6, 2017. Video by Ellen Thomas.

Derek Rasmussen is a meditation teacher and activist. He lived on Baffin Island, Nunavut, for twelve years, and he still provides policy and legal research for the Inuit group Nunavut Tunngavik. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held...

the opening talk and 3 plenary talks at the Economics of Happiness 2015 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February, 2015. LocalFutures.org organizered this conference. Previous Economics of Happiness were held in other parts of the world. LocalFutures.org has...

There are four talks in this ~ 58 minute film: the opening talk and 3 plenary talks at the Economics of Happiness 2015 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February, 2015. LocalFutures.org organizered this conference. Previous Economics of Happiness were held in...

One Country For Palestinians & Israelis A bold Proposal To End The Israeli - Palestinian Impasse Part 2 - Learning From Ending Apartheid In South Africa Ali Abunimah tells of his parents life in Palestine and their exile to Jordan, his growing up as his father was...

A story of how people were invited to earth. Plants and animals asked Grandmother to bring people to the planet as she had done with all the plants, animals, insects, mountains and rivers and much more. Not all the people were as kind as expected. The people were...

Early spring. Perfect blue sky day. Morning. Not to much winter left in the air. Time to plow the field for this years organic corn crop. Draft horses will do the work. Giant horses. Strength. Gentle once they know and trust you. Watch how it is done. And how much...

Localizing economies has immense benefits for everyone. Shortening the links between producers and consumers increases food security, lessens our environmental impact, strengthens our communities, creates more meaningful jobs and prosperity, vitalizes diversity and...

Localizing economies has immense benefits for everyone. Shortening the links between producers and consumers increases food security, lessens our environmental impact, strengthens our communities, creates more meaningful jobs and prosperity, vitalizes diversity and...