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Felix wrote:Lots of reasons not to be a consumer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYXKSy2fb8

Brilliant Australian TV show. Amazing that this stuff gets airtime.

Amazing Resource. Thanks for sharing!

Ya this is really funny. Good stuff here.

Hilarious. Tweeted by NN Taleb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI

Although he didn't realize that you don't need even that much money.

Has anyone seen the new Adam Curtis docu on BBC iPlayer? I haven't had a fast enough connection....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... itter-lake

Living Without Economic Growth ... https://vimeo.com/54199462

Dragline wrote:On interpreting the news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvOW6RwmFg

Just watched this and it is a great source of information. At about 1:15:00 he talks about going on a 'news sabbath' and I can tell from personal experience this is a great idea. March 2014 until about Fall 2014 I completely tuned out all news feeds and it was amazing. Even now I only check financial news and energy news, but I can feel another sabbath coming.

jennypenny wrote:Living Without Economic Growth ... https://vimeo.com/54199462

@ 1:50, I think that's a direct shoutout to the ERE Community

An Evening with Charles Eisenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po19BhSfxxg

Lots of documentaries free to watch online here: Documentary Storm

Hiking the PCT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIvyuaz ... 0E&index=4

Chef:

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70297087

A fun movie with work and life priorities as a central theme. Heard about it through an interview with Jon Favreau that was also interesting:

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/04/14/jon-favreau/

@5to9
Chef is a great movie.

I'm sure most people here have seen this before, but in case you haven't, drop everything and watch now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnMs-E1j6P4

I feel like we need a humor section here in the forums.

@cmonkey - We already have that
viewforum.php?f=20

whoops! I completely overlooked it hehe

Anyone here ever listened to the Legalise Freedom channel on Youtube? I find most of his interviews extremely fascinating particularly the podcasts on spirituality and consciousness. Very deep stuff, which explains why only 5K subscribers.

https://www.youtube.com/user/LegaliseFreedom1

Pico Iyer gave the baccalaureate speech at USC. In it he manage to talk about his early retirement as well as about a half dozen topics we've discussed here recently (see how many you can catch) all meandering - strangely - around Leonard Cohen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GIYRQEXmMg

Nate Hagans - Turning 21 in the Anthropocene

This has some pretty incredible and sobering statistics regarding the 6th great extinction that is going on right now. 50% of all animal life, 40% of insect biomass and 30% of all birds in Europe gone in just the last 25-40 years.

Also includes a host of other topics.

@cmonkey - The "grandma I saw a squirrel"-reaction is common in Europe. The first time I was in the US, I burned half a roll of film photographing squirrels on campus because seeing them run around was so mind blowing.

Its really hard to wrap my mind around the fact that 50% of all wildlife has disappeared within your (jacob) lifetime and pretty close to mine. Probably 40-45% within my life.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/prog ... on_crisis/

Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].

Without Bound - Perspectives on Mobile Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg37Cbx ... e=youtu.be

The guy who sounded like Pat Robertson was my favorite character. Here is his blog
http://mobilecodgers.blogspot.com/

@Ego, Thanks for sharing this, I really enjoyed it. I also found Randy to be my favorite, he seems very personable. I love that Walden is what inspired him to go that route.