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Our Story in Video

New video: To Be Alive and Well; It’s Easier Than You Think

See Mike telling his stories about different styles of mutual provision (economic systems), about perpetual biological cycles and about what it means to be a good person. Mike offers a portal through which to glimpse a sense of something else — a direction in which sustainability can be found.

	1. Exponential Growth (3:09) A Short clip explaining how civilization has managed to reach planetary limits.
	2. Life After Growth (0:58) What awaits humankind when we recognize that, as a species, we are now grown up?
	3. "To Hold On" (2:50) A spoken word poem by Maya Thau-Eleff prepared for the book launch of "Life, Money and Illusion"
	4. Most of Life is a Gas (1:29) Jean Baptiste Van Helmont demonstrated that most of what it takes to live is freely available in the water and the air.
	5. Pattern Integrity 101 (1:54) A short clip explaining that we can focus on enjoying life, if we treat the material cycles with care and respect. More on this here
	6. The Price of a Barrel of Oil (1:29) It is hard to imagine how valuable oil is to us. This video illustrates that value.
	7. The Growth Hormone of Society (4:52) Does society have to grow until we drop? See how today's monetary system compels expansion, even as we stretch Earth's limits.
	8. Metamorphosis of Civilization (1:37) The human family is now grown up. As we touch planetary limits, it is comforting to know the change ahead is entirely normal.
	9. 2 More Lessons from Metamorphosis (1:55) The process of change that a caterpillar goes through has much to teach those who want to adapt our societies for a secure future. One more observation.
	10. Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay The first of four videos in a 21 minute prestation to the Rotary Club of Cobourg. See the full series here.
How to Embed YouTube Video by VideoLightBox.com v1.8m	11. "Radiate" (2:46) A spoken word poem by Maya Thau-Eleff presented at the Citizen's Inquiry on Uranium Mining.

12. Note: there is a third lesson from the Metamorphosis story

Other clips:

Guideposts for a Sustainable Future - the video

This video was produced in 1990. We've come a long way since, tho in many ways, the issues are much the same. The perspective of 30 years can provide a sort of binocular vision bringing today's situation better into focus.

This might take a while to load. I hope you get to see it. I'm always keen on comments, especially about how the intervening years have changed this perspective.

Long since moved to Lanark County, materials are available from sustain5@web.ca

Talk at Occupy Ottawa