A Moving Art original short. This inspirational video was well responded at TED conferences and filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg motivates those around him as happiness is revealed. Spoken word and music montage created and composed by Gary Malkin. Narration written and spoken by Brother David Steindl-Rast.
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Sacred Economics – Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to [...]
Full Story »Designing For Generosity – Nipun Mehta
What would the world look like if we designed for generosity? Instead of assuming that people want to simply maximize self-interest, what if our institutions and organizations catered to our deeper motivations? This compelling TEDx talk explores this question and introduces the concept of Giftivism: the practice of radically generous acts that change the world. [...]
Full Story »Awesome Abundance – Peter Diamandis
Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism — that we’ll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. “I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.” Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which gives rich [...]
Full Story »21st Century Enlightenment – RSA
In the video below… Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today, and the role that can be played by organisations such as the RSA.
Full Story »Plentitude – Center for a New American Dream
More at http://www.newdream.org Produced by the Center for a New American Dream 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 enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and [...]
Full Story »Declartion of Interdependency
Independence without separation = Interdependency Our bodies are made of the earth… our bodies shall return to the earth… The earth is made of star dust… and so are we… We are connected to each other and to the cosmos… Our heart is our closest star… our Sun is our closest galactic star portal… We [...]
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