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An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina. | |
 | | The Best of Both Worlds
Cohousing offers both privacy and community—the best of both worlds! | |
 | | Beyond Being Silenced: Gyaa Isdlaa
The Haida Potlatch. Once forbidden. Not anymore... | |
 | | Bread Bike
Three enthusiastic young Californians are creating delicious food, promoting healthy local produce, building community and having fun at the same time. | |
 | | Chávez Ravine
Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium. | |
 | | Community
Micro-credit is transforming the lives of women in Bangladesh. | |
 | | Divide In Concord
A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA. | |
 | | Edens Lost and Found
4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities. | |
 | | Food Coop
Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work. | |
 | | Food For Change
The deep history of cooperatives in America -- the country's longest-surviving alternative economic system. | |
 | | From Seed to Seed
Through a group of Canadian organic farmers—both large-scale and small-scale—we experience a full growing season with all of its rewards as well as the challenges of a changing climate. | |
 | | From The Ground Up
Five 9/11 widows of New York firefighters pay tribute to their husbands by accomplishing extraordinary feats in their communities, turning evil into good. | |
 | | The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline. | |
 | | No Fear No Favor
African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations. | |
 | | One Big Home
Trophy homes threaten Martha's Vineyard. When he feels he is complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, one carpenter takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera. | |
 | | Redefining Prosperity
The story of how a mining town recovered from its legacy of pollution and prospered by building community around the battle to save their beautiful river. | |
 | | The Sequel
Daringly re-imagines a thriving, resilient civilization after the collapse of our current economies, drawing on the inspirational work of David Fleming, grandfather of the global Transition Towns movement. | |
 | | A Silent Transformation
The transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model, illustrated with many inspirational examples. | |
 | | Tribal Justice
Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice. | |
 | | We Still Live Here
Tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language, a language that was silenced for more than a century. | |
 | | Welcome to Commie High
In-depth exploration of Community High School in Ann Arbor, MI, one of the sole survivors from America's early 70s "free schools" movement, now a thriving public school. | |
 | | Windshipped
Sail freight comes to the 21st Century. | |
 | | The Wisdom to Survive
Examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities. | |
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Aboriginal Architecture
New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Affluenza
Diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.
After Winter, Spring
An intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.
Ageing with Community
The search for community and independence as we grow old.
Argentina: Hope in Hard Times
The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.
Argentina: Turning Around
An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
The Best of Both Worlds
Cohousing offers both privacy and community—the best of both worlds!
Between Two Worlds
A personal essay revealing the passionate debates over identity and generational change inside today's American Jewish community.
Beyond Being Silenced: Gyaa Isdlaa
The Haida Potlatch. Once forbidden. Not anymore...
Beyond Organic
A model of community supported agriculture in the midst of suburban sprawl.
Bidder 70
Tells the story of Tim DeChristopher's extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience drawing attention to the need for action on climate change.
Blue Vinyl
Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
Blue Vinyl (Short Version)
Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
The Boundaries of Change
Cities cope with changing demographics.
Bread Bike
Three enthusiastic young Californians are creating delicious food, promoting healthy local produce, building community and having fun at the same time.
Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos
An uplifting story about Jupiter, Florida's humane response to an influx of day laborers from Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
Build Green
David Suzuki reports on a wide range of green buildings, from large community developments to mini-homes.
Burning in the Sun
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali.
Buyer Be Fair
Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.
Chávez Ravine
Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Cities
Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work?
City Life
22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.
City Life
Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.
Come Hell or High Water
When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled.
Community
Micro-credit is transforming the lives of women in Bangladesh.
Community - Planet Neighborhood
Community regeneration, energy-efficient design, and waste water treatment.
Community Animals
Leading thinkers explore community, work, time, values, and change.
Community by Design
Good design of houses and neighborhoods builds community.
A Crack in the Pavement
2-part series on how greening school grounds improves not only the school, but the surrounding community.
Cultivating Change
Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue to social change.
Cultivating Kids
On South Whidbey Island, WA, a school farm shows that a garden can be a valuable addition to the curriculum while encouraging a healthy diet.
Cultivating Opportunity
Hard-pressed farmers in the southeast US and in Mozambique find co-ops work.
David Brower
An interview with America's foremost environmentalist.
Day One
Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.
Detropia
A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
Digging In
Jesse Ketchum School greens their schoolyard.
Divide In Concord
A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.
Doing the Right Thing
Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.
Don't Give Up Your Voice!
Looks at the inspirational resistance of Argentinians to the government of Mauricio Macri, whose election preceded Trump's but whose style and policies are eerily similar.
Early Life
How irrevocably are we shaped by the first few years of our lives? Early Life explores the arguments through the stories of young children and their families in four different continents.
Early Life 2
Second series of Early Life programs that follows Mayor Amilcar Huanchuari as he tours Brazil and his native Peru looking at programs promoting early childhood development.
Economics
Economics and its relation to social change and our lifestyles.
Ecosophia
Some of the wisest ecological minds come together for an honest appraisal of our civilization without greenwash.
Edens Lost and Found
4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities.
Edens Lost and Found - Chicago
City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Edens Lost and Found - Los Angeles
Is it possible that the City of the Angels can be a model for the world of environmental rebirth?
Edens Lost and Found - Philadelphia
Faced with severe budget limitations, Philadelphia's rebirth is being brought about by a network of community-based volunteer organizations.
Edens Lost and Found - Seattle
Recognizing that the human community is growing faster than the aging infrastructure, the city of Seattle created an Office of Sustainability and Environment.
Farmsteaders
Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming.
Favela Farm
In Brazil can Pedro build a Life App to help the secret world of urban farms and gardens in Rio's shanty towns?
Finding Us and Them
Physically and mentally challenged people find community.
A Fistful of Rice
Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
Food Coop
Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.
Food For Change
The deep history of cooperatives in America -- the country's longest-surviving alternative economic system.
From Docklands to Dhaka
English MD travels to Bangladesh to improve community health.
From Seed to Seed
Through a group of Canadian organic farmers—both large-scale and small-scale—we experience a full growing season with all of its rewards as well as the challenges of a changing climate.
From The Ground Up
Five 9/11 widows of New York firefighters pay tribute to their husbands by accomplishing extraordinary feats in their communities, turning evil into good.
G is for Gun
Explores both sides of the highly controversial trend of arming teachers and staff in America's K-12 schools.
Game Over
Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.
God Among the Children
Community organization works with at-risk youth in Boston.
Going Green
Reducing the "unfriendly" impact of your household on the environment.
The Golf War
Globalization comes to a Philippine seaside community, which has to defend its ancestral lands against golf course development.
Good Food
An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest.
The Greening of Southie
The story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible.
Growing Dreams
An inspirational overview of school ground greening.
Hayley, Rosamaria, Angela and Martens
Revisits four children in England, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Latvia, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.
Helping Ourselves!
In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.
Holy Smoke
Buddhist monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia.
Homeland
Tells the inspiring story of four battles in which Native American activists are fighting to preserve their land, sovereignty, and culture.
Homeland (Short Version)
A shorter version of the inspiring story of four battles in which Native American activists are fighting to preserve their land, sovereignty, and culture.
The Hospice
Workers at the Mother of Mercy hospice in Zambia provide palliative care for those afflicted with AIDS.
How Green Is My Valley?
Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.
In The Wake of War
A burgeoning grassroots peace movement in Burundi is aimed at ending civil war between Tutsis and Hutus.
Islas Hermanas
Ometepe, Nicaragua, and Bainbridge Island near Seattle work together for a better life for both communities.
It Takes a Village
A cyclone in Bangladesh results in the construction of an experimental community health center.
It's Eco-Logic
Practical things kids can do to protect the environment.
Keepers of the Future
Following El Salvador's civil war, a farmers' cooperative puts down roots, builds resilience and provides a model of how to mitigate climate change and resist unsustainable, extractive development.
Kibera Kids
The adults of Kibera are working hard to offer kids a safe and stimulating haven in pre-schools.
Life
30-part series that looks at the effect of globalization on individuals and communities around the world.
Life 4
A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Life Apps
5-part series in which tech-savvy young adults from around the globe create mobile apps for a better, more sustainable world.
Lines in the Dust
In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
Listen to the Kids!
A UNICEF initiative involves children in decisions that affect their own futures, their families and communities.
Livable Landscapes
How growth and sprawl affect the quality of life in New England, and some possible solutions.
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The Long March
Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
A Lot in Common (Short Version)
A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
A Lot in Common
A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
Lunch Love Community
Passion, creative energy and persistence come together when Berkeley advocates and educators tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and in the neighborhoods.
Making Shelter
Co-ops and co-housing provide new models for building community.
Maps with Teeth
Bioregional mapping by locals communicates a sense of place and regional identity.
Milking the Rhino
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
My Country No More
The oil boom in N Dakota sets off a crisis in a rural community, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life.
My Hanoi
Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.
My Mother Built This House
Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.
The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline.
No Fear No Favor
African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations.
No Umbrella
An unblinking look at the 2004 US Election Day failures in one of Ohio's poorest neighborhoods.
Nothing Like Chocolate
The story of Mott Green and the solar-powered Grenada Chocolate Company, a farmers' and chocolate-makers' co-op, which makes organic chocolate from tree-to-bar.
On the Road
RV owners leave their home towns and build their own communities.
One Big Home
Trophy homes threaten Martha's Vineyard. When he feels he is complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, one carpenter takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.
Orchestrating Change
The inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them.
The Other Side
Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives.
Our Mockingbird
Harper Lee's novel, and the story of a remarkable high school production of the adapted play, are used as a lens to examine race, class, gender, and justice - then and now.
Oyster
Observes the daily life of a family running an oyster farm in a lake on the SE coast of Australia, as they deal with climate change, pollution, and the fickleness of consumers.
Panjy, Amelia, Justin and Vusumzi
Revisits four children in India, Norway, and South Africa, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.
Plane Truths
With the "Pivot to Asia" increased activity at the navy base on Whidbey Island, WA is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife - collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of our society.
Planet Neighborhood
The latest in energy saving technology and good design.
Reaching Out to the Grassroots
Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
A Reckoning in Boston
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?
Reclaiming Community
Communities in Toronto and Oakland take back and revitalize public spaces.
Redefining Prosperity
The story of how a mining town recovered from its legacy of pollution and prospered by building community around the battle to save their beautiful river.
Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground
International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict with cultural realities in the Philippines, Latvia, Japan, and India.
Refuge
Refugees, asylees and caregivers share their stories to help professionals and volunteers understand the needs of the more than a million survivors of torture rebuilding lives in the US.
ReInventing The World
Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.
ReInventing the World II
Two 50-minute videos that offer practical solutions to the big problems affecting all of us.
The Return of the Cuyahoga
The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
Return to Srebrenica
Survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica struggle to heal their community and build a new future.
The Return
After California's "Three Strikes" law was amended, thousands of lifers were suddenly freed, but re-entry presented problems for the lifers, their families and their communities.
Rule of Law
A newly-disabled outlaw and country lawyer in Tennessee lead a class action lawsuit that affects the rights of 55 million people.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Classroom Version)
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
School's Out!
The private school option in a Lagos shantytown.
The Search for General Tso
A quest to understand the origins of this ubiquitous, spicy red chicken dish and to explore the history of Chinese-American food.
Seats At The Table
Portrays a remarkable college class which connects university students with incarcerated students discussing Russian literature at a maximum security juvenile facility.
Secrets of Silicon Valley
Shocking exposé of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution.
Seeing is Believing
Zambia begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.
The Sequel
Daringly re-imagines a thriving, resilient civilization after the collapse of our current economies, drawing on the inspirational work of David Fleming, grandfather of the global Transition Towns movement.
Shift Change
Investigates employee-owned businesses that provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces even in today's economic crisis.
A Silent Transformation
The transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model, illustrated with many inspirational examples.
Slum Futures
The slums of Mumbai are an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world.
Stephanie, Erdo and Kay-Kay
Revisits three children in the United States, Kenya, and China, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.
Still Waters
In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Latinx kids reading, creative writing and Latin.
Store Wars
Looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.
Stray Dog
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Debra Granik ("Winter's Bone") returns to SW Missouri for her first documentary, looking at the life of Vietnam vet, Ron "Stray Dog" Hall, and shattering some stereotypes.
Subdivide and Conquer
Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.
Talk Mogadishu
The story of HornAfrik, the first community TV and radio station in Somalia.
Thirst
A piercing look at the global corporate drive to control and profit from our water -- from bottles to tap.
this black soil
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Together Against Violence
Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.
Trees in Trouble
The first film to document how a city responds to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.
Tribal Justice
Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.
Truck Farm
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Truck Farm - Short Version
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Virtually Intentional
Finding community in the cloister, a commune, and in cyberspace.
War for the Woods
30 years after the original protests, journalist Stephanie Kwetásel'wet Wood travels to Clayoquot Sound, BC to find out whether Indigenous and environmentalist protesters won the battle but lost the war for old growth forests.
The War on Democracy
John Pilger reports that, in spite of a history of repeated US-backed suppression, popular democratic movements are gaining ground in Latin America.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program One
Communities solving their own water problems.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program Two
Farmers and communities solving their own water problems.
Water First
An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Ways We Live
New models of community living and building in the US and Canada are featured.
We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
We Still Live Here
Tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language, a language that was silenced for more than a century.
WEconomics: Italy
The first in a new series from the makers of SHIFT CHANGE, WEconomics: Italy reports on the extensive and innovative cooperative economy in the region around Bologna.
Welcome to Commie High
In-depth exploration of Community High School in Ann Arbor, MI, one of the sole survivors from America's early 70s "free schools" movement, now a thriving public school.
What's the Economy for, Anyway?
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.
Whose Agenda Is It Anyway?
To fulfill the Millennium Development Goals, many poor countries are now implementing "Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs".
Whose Home on the Range?
The peace process between environmentalists, ranchers, and the U.S. Forest Service in the toughest county in the West.
Windshipped
Sail freight comes to the 21st Century.
The Wisdom to Survive
Examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities.
Work and Time
A program about stress. How we can overcome being over-worked and out of time?
World of Apps
Young people are writing apps to solve problems from reproductive health care in South Africa to helping young minority adults in London who are "stopped and searched."
Wrenched
Captures the generations of eco-activists, from the 1960s to the present day, inspired by Edward Abbey's passionate defense of wilderness in The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Zero Ten Twenty
3-part series revisits 11 children from around the world who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.
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