This is one of the best peak oil movies. A must see documentary.

See also:

• Good Films
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• Crude Impact
• Free ‘Peak Oil’ conference in London, 15 July 2006
• What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire

Widespread debt slavery created by an insane banking system is undoubtedly one of the biggest problems we all face.

This video animation, Money as Debt by Paul Grignon, is undoubtedly one the most important films ever made.

If you don’t yet understand why money is such a big problem, WATCH THIS VIDEO.

Please help spread this video far and wide.

I’ve embedded it here, but you can watch and download it on Google Video too.

Further introductory reading

• Ecology of Money and Short Circuit by Richard Douthwaite
• Community Currency Guide (pdf) by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith
• Interest and Inflation Free Money by Margrit Kennedy
• Extract of Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (pdf) by Tom Greco
• Draft of Healthy Money Healthy Planet:Developing Sustainability through new Money Systems by Deirdre Kent
• Chapter One of Grip of Death (literal meaning of mortgage) by Michael Rowbotham
• Money Debt and Banks essay by Richard Greeves, Dr. John Courtneidge and David Soori
• Openmoney.info and the Open Money Manifesto by Michael Linton and friends
• The inspirational article A Tale of Two Ecovillages by Jonathan Dawson, that looks at Damanhur’s Credito currency and Findhorn’s Eko

Some of the many examples of successful alternatives to the Money as Debt madness:

• Bartercard
• The Totnes Pound
• Berkshares
• Toronto Dollar
• Salt Spring Dollars
• Ithaca Hours
• WIR Bank – Economic Circle Co-operative that has been running in Switzerland since 1934
• Damanhur’s Credito
• Findhorn’s Eko

See also:

• Timebanks.org
• Time Banks UK
• The LETSystem Design Manual
• LETS Link UK
• The ccSyndicator
• Complementary Currency Resource Center
• The Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy’s sub-site on Social Money
• Interra Project
• LOADs more really good money links can be found via all the sites above, here, here, here and here

Again, please help to spread this video and information far and wide.

Thank you.

Further reading:

• a_changing_money_system.pdf by Margrit Kennedy
• Beyond Greed and Scarcity.pdf – an interview with Bernard Lietaer by Sarah van Gelder, editor of YES!: A journal of positive futures.
• breadhoursnewsletter.pdf – a nice newsletter from the now defunct www.breadhours.org (anyone know what happened?)
• ccClearingHouse.pdf – a proposal for an “Internet-based clearing system that would enable complementary currencies of different types from anywhere in the world to be exchanged among themselves. It would be an important next step to empower the complementary currency movement.”
• Comment on the Wörgl Experiment with Community Currency and Demurrage.pdf by Thomas H Greco, Jr.
• Community Currencies in Japan.pdf by Yasuyuki Hirota
• community currency for solving social issues.pdf by Akio Doteuchi
• Community_Currency_Guide.pdf – an excellent guide by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith
• Community_Exchange_Systems_screen.pdf – a Community Exchange Systems in Asia, Africa & Latin America newsletter from 2002
• Complementary currency systems and the new economic paradigm.pdf by Stephen DeMeulenaere for Strohalm Foundation
• decentralizedcurrency.pdf – Money as IOUs in a Social Trust Network and A Proposal for a Secure, Private, Decentralized Digital Currency Protocol by Ryan Fugger, founder of Ripplepay,com
• FEASTA Proposals 4 Gobal Monetary Reform.pdf by Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
• How to Build Healthy Community Economics.pdf – a presentation by Thomas H Greco, Jr.
• InternationalExperienceInCommunityCurrencies.PDF by Gill Seyfang and Ruth Pearson
• interraproj.pdf – an introduction to the Interra Project
• InWhoseInterest.pdf – an article by Mark Kinney for http://www.terratrc.org/
• Islamic Banking and its Importance in the Emergence of Economic Democracy.pdf by Thomas H Greco, Jr.
• keeping_the_gp_away.pdf – a nef (new economics foundation) briefing about community time banks and health
• local_currencies_catalysts.pdf – “Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies” by Robert Swann and Susan Witt
• Local Currencies in European History.pdf by Jerome Blanc for LEFI
• MoneyABriefHistoryDeeHock.pdf – “Money – A Brief History” by Dee Hock, founder of VISA
• money debt and banks.pdf by Richard Greeves, Dr. John Courtneidge and David Soori
• money_guide.pdf – United Diversity’s Money Guide
• pictorial_history_of_CCS.pdf by Stephen DeMeulenaere
• Plugging the Leaks – Handbook.pdf – Making the most of every pound that enters your local economy, published by nef
• Presentation of Tucson Traders for the Forum Social Money.pdf by Thomas H Greco, Jr.
• Public Involvement in Health-Timebanks.pdf by nef
• Report of the Worldwide Database of Complementary Currency Systems 06.pdf by Stephen DeMeulenaere
• Setting Up a Credit Union.pdf from the Association of British Credit Unions Ltd
• Social_Money_as_a_Lever_for_the_New_Economic_Paradigm.pdf, summarised by Heloisa Primavera
• Social Money the experience of Friendly Favors.pdf by Sergio Lub
• Social money – Well timed permanence or break from normality.pdf by Heloisa Primavera
• The SANE Community Exchange System.pdf by Tim Jenkin
• the_time_of_our_lives.pdf – Research findings about Time Banks in the UK, by Gill Seyfang
• Time Banking – A briefing.pdf by nef
• Time Banks – A Radical Manifesto for the UK.pdf by nef
• Time Banks in the UK-Building Sustainable Communities.pdf by Gill Seyfang
• Wealth money and power.pdf by Heloisa Primavera
• What is a credit union flyer.pdf by ABCUL

See also:

• Money downloads
• A Brief History of Money
• In Debt We Trust
• Money
• More money books

I just watched this.

As it says at the beginning it is very dense, but overall I think it is really rather good.

For more info about the movie visit the website

Trailer

Peak Moment 72: “What a Way to Go” – Meet the Filmmakers

It was on google video but seems to have gone:

See also:

• The Permaculture Concept
• Prophecy, Peak Oil and the Path for the Faithful
• Video Blogging
• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
• David Korten – The Great Turning

A brilliant new documentary from John Pilger about the reality of USA’s role in Latin America and the world. “It is about the struggle of people to free themselves from a modern form of slavery.”

See also:

• Protest against Mexico’s vote rigging TODAY 1-2pm (and Radical Activist conference 2moro)
• ‘Voices of Latin America’: The Left in Mexico and the Other Campaign.
• The Money Masters
• Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war
• Movimientos – 6th July

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know. It is made by Brave New Films.

See also:

• Good Films
• The Future of Food
• Network
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Screening
• Indymedia Film Festival 7th – 15th July

One of the first documentaries made by Big Noise Films and still one of the best. This follows the explosive events of Seattle in 1999.

See also:

• Zapatista
• Fourth World War
• Good Films
• Outfoxed
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 15th through November 17th

Another great documentary from Big Noise Films

See also:

• Zapatista
• This Is What Democracy Looks Like
• Good Films
• Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war
• The War On Democracy by John Pilger

Here are some clips from the amazing 1976 film, Network.

A truly brilliant film about media that also touches on the realities of oil and money.

The classic “Mad as Hell” speech is repeated a bit below, because I wanted to include the first clip that includes what happened beforehand, but that doesn’t include the reaction to the speech and so I had to include the second clip here too.

Enjoy!

And remember to get hold of and watch this movie in full. It is fantastic.

See also:

• Peer Trust Network, OSE and More!
• EYFA Network News
• Imagine This
• Zeitgeist: Addendum
• What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire

This is one of the best videos about Peak Oil because rather than focussing on the potential doom and gloom, it shows how communities can work together to implement solutions

Watch it now!

See also:

• Transition Towns
• Oil companies to buy the world!
• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
• David Korten – The Great Turning
• Video Blogging

Another must see documentary that we’ve screened a couple of times.

Watch it now! (and considering buying the book or original DVD, or just donating, at http://www.thecorporation.com/ )

Part 1

Part 2

See also:

• The Corporation, Zapatista, Space Hijackers and Lab of ii…
• The End of Suburbia
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• Zeitgeist – The Movie: Federal Reserve
• Supermarket Secrets