For Our Planet
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Nicotine Bees - Trailer

Sierra Club Press Release: "We urge the American public to view the outstanding documentary entitled Nicotine Bees" "Bravo! Nicotine Bees is an outstanding documentary (Dr. Neil Carma...view video

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Earth Condominium: Organizing the Global Neighborhood

A wonderful short video, beautifully done, showing how we all live on a shared planet, much like a 'condominium' - where everybody has to get along because we all share everything!view video

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Healthy Food, Organic Food, Abundant Food: Dr. Vandana Shiva

Dr. Vandana Shiva, a physicist and powerful leader in the worldwide, growing movement towards organic food, describes her vision for the diverse, healthy ecosystems that once sustained, can provide am...view video

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Rogpa - Happy Kids and Fair Trade

The Rogpa Charitable Trust in Dharamsala, India, started providing daycare for Tibetan kids - mostly from refugee families - but its mission has steadily grown to providing job training for refugees,...view video

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Street Kids of Old Delhi

These street kids ran up to us. They were great, and hungry and also being kids. At first, they faked some crying, then they were mostly curious....and some were supposed to be in school - at 11:00am...view video

For Our Communities
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What's Behind the Dollar?

Money - where does it come from?  Money expert James Bernard Quilligan, Executive Director of the Center for Global Negotiations, describes where U.S. money comes from, and why, even today, all...view video

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10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles)

The amazing 10-year-old Felix Finkbeiner articulates his wishes for "Plant for the Planet" the campaign to plant trees - a United Nations-sponsored program that has become an overwhelming...view video

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Healing Rwanda: Jean Paul Samputu and the Forgiveness of Murder

AfroPop Star Singer Jean Paul Samputu speaks of the forgiveness that is healing Rwanda, as neighbors re-discover that they can live together. Mizero Children was founded by Jean Paul to help heal the...view video

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Trash Beach

From toys, to shampoo bottles, to bread wrappers, to car parts, to our shoes and clothes, plastic is everywhere!  But what happens to all that plastic when we are done with it? Where does it end...view video

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Ending Gun Violence: The Legs Against Arms Race 2007

In Philadelphia, the problem of gun violence by young people is taking a terrible toll. The Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, led by Pat Harner, decided they had to take...view video

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We've Experienced Enough: Damon Roberts and South Philly

Too many homicides. Too many dropouts. Too much trash. These are all minimum, basic issues that good government must address. The Second Council District of Philadelphia in the USA has too many of...view video

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From Forgiveness to Activism: How Michael Berg Lost His Son to Revenge in Iraq Then Found His Voice for Peace

Peace activist Michael Berg's story of the horrific murder of his son, and his personal transformation thereafter into an activist using nonviolent peaceful protest against the war in Iraq. Produced...view video

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Great South Philly Cleanup

Community leader Damon K. Roberts, Esq. and his wife Arline bring together hundreds of people across more than 300 blocks in South Philadelphia, all to take charge of their neighborhoods, to take a...view video

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Wangari Maathai

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai speaks of the connection between peace and the environment. Produced by: Pierre Terre, 10/17/2006 Language: English Run Time: 2 min. 12 sec. Story Level...view video

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The Small-Mart Revolution

Author, attorney and economist Michael Shuman describes how small, local businesses are emerging as the most effective means of building community prosperity, creating opportunity and building a good...view video

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The Happiest Place on Earth? How the People of Bali Created Paradise

The island of Bali is a paradise created by its people. They live with a balance of masculine and feminine values, they celebrate very often, every Balinese seems to be an artist - and there seem to...view video

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Legend of the Four Crows

Caretakers of Creation, the Lena'pe people have lived here for thousands of years, demonstrating sustainability. Native American Jim Beer of the Lena'pe Turtle Clan shares a little of the...view video

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Jumping Joyous Urban Jumble: Judy Wicks and Building a Local Living Economy

Judy Wicks, owner of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, shares the origins of her incredible business success. Judy has created a vibrant restaurant business committed to organic-only food,...view video

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The Great Turning of the World

Pierre hears the incredible vision of an already-unfolding sustainable future, described by author David C. Korten of Yes! Magazine. David Korten is an international development expert, and he...view video

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Three Farmers, Three Communities

Pierre meets three professional farmers from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in southeast Pennsylvania in the USA who show how their communities organized to grow great organic food close...view video

For Ourselves
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Singing the Future: Rhetta Morgan

We met Rhetta Morgan at the Common Ground services in Bala Cynwyd, near Philadelphia. She is truly an instrument of love, bringing and singing a new vision for human relationships, healing and...view video

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Paolo Lugari: Founder of Las Gaviotas (en Español, with simultaneous English translation)

Paolo Lugari, the founder of Las Gaviotas in Colombia, describes the incredible energy of the human spirit, and some examples of how it has transformed Las Gaviotas into a world-famous example of...view video

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Think Like a Coral

Pierre meets a coral, and asks how a colonial animal can be many lives and one life, in harmony, at the same time.... Produced by: Pierre Terre, 9/2/2008 Language: English Run Time: 1 min. 30 sec...view video

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It Belongs to Everyone

The many efforts of groups around the world are converging for justice, peace, the end of poverty, the achievement of the Millennium Develpment Goals, and the restoration of a healthy planet.view video

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The Story of Stuff

What is the Story of Stuff? From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.view video

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Genie in a Bottle: UNLEASHED

An amazing, award-winning video (v2.0) by (then) child-filmmakers Stephen and Trace, about nuclear weapons. Please watch with your children, please forward so children see this wonderful short film,...view video

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Dan Orzech's Green Home

Dan Orzech shows Pierre his new home, built as a Green, sustainable home design. Many Japanese style elements were used as part of this beautiful dwelling on the banks of the Schuylkill River near...view video

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Think Like A Forest

In the forest there is no such thing as garbage! Everything works together without harming anybody.  They find ways to get along because they need each other.  Pierre talks about how people...view video

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Now is the Time

There is a restoration happening everywhere. Pierre invites you to action for your highest aspirations for a better world. In the affairs of humanity there is a tide of possibility, seen in places...view video

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Peak Oil and Why the Oil Wells are Running Dry

With Bill Burke of the Post Carbon Institute, we find out about "Peak Oil" and why so many oil/gas wells are running dry. We see California oil wells and their ugly, toxic tar residues....view video

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Blue Spruce Hollow II: Architect David Hartke Moves Forward with his LEED Green Home

Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode II: Architect David Hartke shows Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania. Since this was first filmed in Part I, David...view video

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Future Trash

Mother Earth shows us the trash that covers the world in 2027, all because we couldn't find time to recycle. Global warming has ended all snow, even on New Year's Day. Come and see all the presents...view video

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From Forgiveness to Activism: How Michael Berg Lost His Son to Revenge in Iraq Then Found His Voice for Peace

Peace activist Michael Berg's story of the horrific murder of his son, and his personal transformation thereafter into an activist using nonviolent peaceful protest against the war in Iraq. Produced...view video

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The Power of Love Is Greater Than The Love of Power

Jonathan Granoff speaks at Common Ground Fellowship. January 2007. The human being has the capacity of demonstrating that which is most worthy of praise, the indivisible unity of being realized...view video

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Blue Spruce Hollow I: Architect David Hartke Builds a LEED/Green Residence

Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode I: Architect David Hartke showed Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania. The home is to become a LEED-Certified or '...view video