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Environmental Videos & Animations
This is a list of GP's most recently featured videos about the environment. Included are funny videos and animations as well as serious videos.
Topics for the environmental videos include waste and recycling; water pollution and air pollution; chemicals and pesticides; climate change; energy, coal, and peak oil; vehicles, transportation, and sprawl; animal welfare; agriculture and gardening; food, nutrition, and health GMOs; forests and trees; mining; nuclear energy and waste.
You can just scroll down to see the latest environmental animations and videos by category, or visit GP's specific topics pages of environmental videos using the menu below to the right.
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MOST RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL VIDEOS,
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| AGRICULTURE, FARMING & GARDENING
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WANT TO GET RICH QUICK? GET INTO FARMING!
A hilarious video about farming—and how to make an easy fortune doing it. Crude language but very funny. Watch funny farming video.
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HOW WE CAN EAT OUR COMMUNITY LANDSCAPES
What should a community do with its vacant land? Plant food, of course. In Todmorden, England, the Incredible Edible team has turned unused plots into communal vegetable gardens, radically changing the outlook on food in their community. Watch guerilla gardening video.
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| ANIMAL WELFARE/ANIMAL RIGHTS & BIODIVERSITY
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THE DAVERSITY CODE
This is a very well done animation in the mode of a murder mystery. What happened to the polar bear in the Museum of Natural History? What do the clues he left mean? The plot thickens.... Watch funny biodiversity video.
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SOUNDING OFF ABOUT WHALES
With as few as 130 left, the western gray whale teeters on the edge of extinction. A critical feeding ground is now under threat from oil and gas exploration. See two short save the whales videos.
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| CHEMICALS, TOXICS & PESTICIDES
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“SHE HAD GAMS THAT ... WERE NON-BIODEGRADEABLE”
It was a dark and stormy night... and perfect for some animation noire. "Sam Suds ... and the Case of PVC, the Poison Plastic" is a spoof of the hard-boiled P.I. genre that takes aim at that toxic perp known as Vinyl. Watch funny video about vinyl.
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AMERICANS—THE PROUD, THE BRAVE, THE POLLUTED
American babies are born pre-polluted with as many as 300 industrial chemicals in their bodies. Accumulation continues throughout life. Even low-dose chemicals can have devastating effects. Ken Cook of the EWG gives a witty, informative talk and slideshow on we, the polluted. Watch video on chemical body burden.
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| CLIMATE CHANGE / GLOBAL WARMING
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POLAR BEARS DISCUSS GLOBAL WARMING
Polar bears come up with a few amusing reasons why their environment is melting. The parallel to the reasoning abilities of some humans is bearly disguised. Watch funny video about the reasons for global warming.
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THE STORY OF CAP AND TRADE
This is a very good summary of what "cap and trade" is, why it could be a solution for climate change, but how the current cap-and-trade approach is really just a giveaway to big business and won't fix the climate problem. All done with a humorous touch from the 'Story of Stuff' folks. Watch funny cap-and-trade video.
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| CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GLOBAL TRADE
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SUPPLY CHAINED
The tentacles of the knotty prison-labor problem attach at the head of the beast—the banking-oil-prison-education-food-military-industrial complex. But Stephen Colbert manages to find ways to make us laugh as he pokes at this new form of exporting jobs. Watch funny prison labor video.
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GREEN MAGIC CARPET
Ray Anderson, who turned his carpet-manufacturing business green (and profitable!) thinks the old paradigm of capitalism as "a way to efficiently convert natural resources into pollution" is both silly and dangerous. Watch green business video.
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| ENERGY, OIL, PEAK OIL, RESILIENCE
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PETROTHEISM AND DOMINION
Mark Fiore returns to the petrotheism theme to explore how the US public worships oil and how some politicians justify ravaging the earth for more of the black gold. Watch oil as religion funny video.
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RESOURCES, BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE END OF GROWTH
When we get down to first principles in economics, biology, energy, and human behavior, we see that constraints on resources, environment, and debt capacity pose an imminent threat to the economic juggernaut that has brought unparalleled prosperity to so many. Watch peak oil / end of growth video.
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| FINANCIAL SYSTEM, EMPIRE, ELITES
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THE GODAWFUL PARTICLE
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery—the long-sought particle that lies behind all things in our universe! Amazingly, it orbits in this pattern: $ Watch funny video about money.
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THE MONEY MASTERS
This documentary shows how the modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The methodology has evolved over the last three centuries, and nation after nation, including the United States, has fallen prey to a cabal of international central bankers intent on being masters of the world. Watch The Money Masters free online.
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| FOOD, NUTRITION, DIET, ORGANIC
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BRUNCHABLES
If you live in the bizarro world of insane food marketers, you might come up with some of these conveniently packaged kids' meals. Watch funny school lunch video.
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CEREAL CRIMES
Does common sense tell you that foods labeled "natural" are non-GMO and free of chemical pesticide residues? You will be disappointed to find that this is not the case, as this natural food scam video from the Cornucopia Institute explains.
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| FORESTS, RAINFORESTS, TREES
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SOY STORY
This is a cute 4-minute short film about how South American soy plantations are destroying rainforests to supply cheap feed for cattle in the UK (and elsewhere, BTW). Watch soy plantation/rainforest video.
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THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
In this excellent short film, a man stumbles upon a quiet shepherd who is planting trees—lots of them, slowly but surely. But why? The film has a great animation style, giving the film a warm, intriguing feel and adding to the sense of mystery. The plot pacing ensures the viewer's attention never wanders.
Watch The Man Who Planted Trees
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| GENERAL VIDEOS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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INTRODUCING THE S-MEN, DEFENDERS OF SCIENCE!
Who will defend our right to enjoy chemical pesticides, GMOs, mercury-laced vaccines, and fluoride-tainted drinking water? It's the S-Men, defenders of science! (Or not!) Watch funny science parody.
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THE EARTH IS FULL
We have filled up the world with ourselves and our stuff. Paul Gilding explains why it's delusional to think that we can continue our pattern of never-ending growth in finance, population, energy, food, water, and pollution. Watch unsustainable trends video.
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| GMOS & GENETIC ENGINEERING
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HETEROGENIC – SUPER CORN — In this highly polished animation, genetic engineering and radiation turn an ordinary kernel of corn into something more—much more. You may also perceive the unspoken message about how easily genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can escape confinement via accidental means. From Art5, via YouTube.
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MONSANTO OR MONSATANO?
The documentary Bad Seed—The Truth About Our Food explains the dangers of genetically modified food and the dirty tactics used by GMO corporations and their government henchmen to keep their products on the shelves (and out of the news). If you weren't convinced GM crops were bad before, you will be after this. Watch video on genetically modified food.
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HOMEOPATHIC EMERGENCY!
When one is suffering from systemic imbalance, homeopathy may be just what the alternative doctor ordered. But what can it do when it comes to traumatic injury? Watch funny homeopathy video.
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WAR ON HEALTH—THE FDA’sS CULT OF TYRANNY
This free online movie details the malfeasance of the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as it works with industry to promote dangerous pharmaceuticals and suppress information on the health benefits of natural supplements and whole foods. Directed by Gary Null. Watch video on FDA and health.
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HOW WILL THE END OF PRINT JOURNALISM AFFECT US?
Panelists discuss how the decline of the newspaper industry will affect the loons who depend on newspapers for stacking around their ramshackle homes—and others who rely on newsprint for various purposes. Watch funny video about the death of newspapers.
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ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE
This excellent documentary examines how our media system, controlled by a few global corporations, has the ability to overwhelm all competing voices and turn lies into truth. Watch corporate media video.
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COAL LOBBY WARNS WIND FARMS MAY BLOW EARTH OFF ORBIT
Is the US doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun? Satire from The Onion. Watch funny coal lobby video.
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(GOOGLE) EARTH TO MTR MINING ADVOCATES!
This video shows some examples of how you can use Google Earth/Maps to see the scale of destruction from mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. We add two bonus videos: The short film Black Mountain Story and a 10-minute debate on MTR coal mining. Watch mountaintop removal mining videos.
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| NUCLEAR ENERGY & NUCLEAR WASTE
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HERR HOPPE AND THE NUCLEAR WASTE
Metaphorically, nuclear waste is the energy elephant in the global livingroom. Cartoon character Herr Hoppe, however, finds himself with actual radioactive waste in his livingroom. Watch his humorous—and strikingly unsuccessful—attempts to get rid of it. Watch funny nuclear waste videos.
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NUCLEAR POWER 101
Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or limitless—rather it's the most inefficient, expensive, and dangerous way we could possibly create electricity. Arnie Gundersen explains it clearly in this facts about nuclear power video.
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| POLLUTION (WATER, AIR, LAND, GENERAL)
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CHINA CELEBRATES ITS STATUS AS WORLD’S NUMBER ONE AIR POLLUTER
Now that the Beijing Olympics are over, China can get back to polluting properly! Enjoy this great dead-pan video satire on the subject, which uses the angle that politicians will try to put a happy face on just about any bad news. Funny stuff from The Onion. Go there
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THE SKY IS PINK
Josh Fox's film Gasland brought to public attention the rampant groundwater contamination associated with natural-gas fracking. The movie also stirred up the industry, which implemented a "create confusion about the facts" campaign. In The Sky is Pink, Fox explains what's been happening. Watch fracking video.
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FUTURAMA: E-WASTE DELIVERY
This acidly funny short clip from Futurama offers a hyperbolic jab at how toxic e-waste from rich countries is sent to developing countries (or planets) for recycling. Watch funny e-waste video.
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THE STORY OF ELECTRONICS
The high-tech revolution's collateral damage includes 25 million tons of e-waste (and counting), plus poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. This good electronic-waste video uses funny/clever graphics to accent its points.
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| TRANSFORMATION & CONSCIOUSNESS
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DR. STEEL - ALIEN ILLUMINATI
A funny, clever spoof on the possibility that we humans are neither descended from monkeys nor from Adam and Eve; rather, we were cooked up in an alien genetics lab long ago (a theory that has been seriously proposed by a number of people!)... Watch funny aliens video.
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THE AWAKENING
To conquer the psychopathic New World Order juggernaut, we "little people" must capitalize on our spirituality, feelings, emotions—a focus on heart energy—and the effect this has on the current fear-based reality. This is the key to beating the crazed institutions of society constructed and run by greedy power-mongers. Watch fight the new world order video.
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| VEHICLES, TRANSPORTATION, SPRAWL
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SMUG ALERT
The people of South Park go from Cluelessville to Greentown and then back again, first jumping on the hybrid-vehicle bandwagon and then being overcome with the effects of deadly smugness. Watch funny video about hybrids.
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PEOPLE-CENTERED DEVELOPMENTS FOR REDUCED-ENERGY LIVING
A great interview with a developer who has proved that it is possible to escape the standard grid-dependent sprawl model and instead create a community that uses sustainable energy sources, collocates services and homes, has more green spaces—and that people love living in. From Peak Moment Television.
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Agriculture, Farming, Gardening
Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Biodiversity
Chemicals, Toxics, Pesticides
Climate Change, Global Warming
Corporations, Globalization, Global Trade
Energy, Oil, Peak Oil, Resilience
Financial System, Empire, Elites
Food, Nutrition, Diet, Organic
Forests, Rainforests, Trees
General Environmental Issues
GMOs, Genetic Engineering
Health Care Issues
Media & Communications Issues
Mining & Coal
Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste
Pollution (water, air, land, general)
Transportation, Vehicles, Mass Transit, Sprawl
Trash, Waste, Recycling, Reuse
Transformation, Consciousness, 2012
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Sea Change Radio
The US Chamber of Commerce—The Nation's Top Pollution Advocacy Group — 17 Jan 2012 — What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it's a government agency. It's not. Rather, it's the most significant lobbying group in the United States, and it's almost always a formidable foe of environmental protections. Environmental ethicist Philip Cafaro explains the role that the Chamber plays in promoting constant growth, and how that premise inherently contradicts environmental sustainability.
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Sea Change Radio
Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity — 11 Jan 2012 — Ecologist Eric Berlow discusses how understanding the complexity of a system can point to a simple key that will unlock a solution to fixing a problem in the system. This can apply to many things in the world, including ecosystems.
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Flashpoints
Derrick Jensen: Activism Means Dismantling Oppressive Systems — 28 Dec 2011 — Jensen offers an informal review of species extinction and decline and explains the linkage between resource/environmental exploitation, war, and hegemony. He calls for political action when it can be effective, and direct action when it isn't. His takeaway message: The task of the activist is not to navigate the systems of oppressive authority with maximum integrity, it's to dismantle those systems.
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