Find out what would happen if we diverted the 60 billion pounds of mineral-rich food materials that go to landfills each year in the U.S. alone and turned them into compost. Join the movement to regenerate the planet, starting with soil at https://kisstheground.com/. The Compost Story was produced by Kiss The Ground and Elevate

WATCH the follow up, The Compost Story! http://bit.ly/2ov6zf8 MIRA LA VERSION EN ESPAÑOL AQUI! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-y9qGNajBQ Science meets inspiration in this tale of nature’s best hidden innovation: soil. The Soil Story, created by Kiss the Ground, is a five-minute film that shares the importance of healthy soil for a healthy planet. Learn how we can “sequester” (store) carbon from our atmosphere, where it is harmful, and pull it back into the earth, where it belongs, through regenerative agriculture, composting, and other land management practices. The film was directed in partnership with Louis Fox, best-known for the acclaimed viral series, “The Story of Stuff”. LEARN: www.kisstheground.com FOLLOW: facebook.com/kissthegroundca instagram @kissthegroundca pinterest.com/kiss_the_ground Twitter @kissthegroundca

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves constantly - through the medium of ever-more pervasive advertising - that we are Consumers? And what would it look like to put all the creativity that currently goes into that, into involving people in society as Citizens? Jon spent a decade working at big name ad agencies, on some of the world's biggest brands, all the while asking deeper and deeper questions about the role of his industry in society. His conclusions will shock and inspire you. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

All 17 Sustainable Development Goals in just THREE minutes! IIED's animation, "Bringing the ‪#‎SDGs‬ to life: real change for real people", is designed to communicate what the SDGs are, why they are needed, and why we need to take collective action. Please tell us what you think of the animation in the comments below and by using the #SDGideas hashtag on social media. We also encourage you to share this animation and use it as a resource. The animation was produced in conjunction with Hands Up. This is an updated version of the animation, updated on 21 June, 2015. More details: http://www.iied.org/sdgs

Every day you have to eat, just like the other 7.2 billion people on the planet. By 2050, at least 2 billion more people will join you. In this short video we explore the reasons why we need to transform the way we eat and consume our food. You can participate in change, too: ask yourself about the food that you produce or eat, eat a balanced diet and reduce your food waste.

A simple introduction to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The film is produced by Animaskin on behalf of UN Association of Norway and UNICEF Norway, as part of an interdisciplinary learning program for students on primary and secondary level. Read more about this topic at https://www.fn.no/Undervisning/Baerekraft and https://www.unicef.no/skole/barekraft

Packaging accounts for over a quarter of plastic used worldwide. Plastic has revolutionized the way we package food, distribute it and safely consume it. But South-East Asia has seen an explosion of plastic packaging waste. What's the solution?

A short video explaining the idea of the Circular Economy Creative Commons available for reuse. Join the community: https://www.systemsinnovation.network Twitter: http://bit.ly/2JuNmXX LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2YCP2U6 facebook: http://bit.ly/31Et5p5 Excerpt Talk of sustainability is everywhere today and along with it a growing awareness of the linear model of our existing economy. This linear economic model is captured in the popular description of the economy as a process of "take, make and dispose." We take natural resources from our environment, produce a product and push it out to end-users who then dispose of it. This used not to be such a problem however as the economy has grown and reached planetary limits, inputs are appearing more limited and outputs have become increasingly detrimental to ecosystems. To give us some appreciation for just how inefficient this overall linear model is, the Rocky Mountain Institute estimated in the year 2000 that the flow of natural materials globally is 500 billion tons per year but only 1% is put into durable products and still there 6 months later, the other 99% is waste. (ABC, 2001) As limits are increasingly met the emphasis is now shifting from an economic model that is organized around gross throughput of material and energy in a linear fashion. To a new kind of circular economy which shifts the focus to the internal organization of processes within which resources are used, it aims to optimize for the overall service delivered, rather than the gross throughput of products. The circular economy is all about identifying and closing loops so as to create self-sustaining systems where producers and consumers are closely coupled to enable constant feedback. For example, food production, consumption, and disposal might be organized to be part of the same closed cycle. To do this, industries are studied as industrial ecologies so as to identify where and how resources and energy flow through them, where they are lost and where processes could be interconnected to reduce those losses. In a circular system resource input and waste, emissions, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops; this can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, or recycling. This is a regenerative approach where things are being constantly repurposed to serve new functions. The challenge of achieving a sustainable form of development is shifting the emphasis from discrete one-off products to looking increasingly at how they can evolve through their full life cycle. This is a fundamental switch in paradigm from designing systems that are inherently degenerative to systems that are inherently regenerative over time. Developing a truly circular economy requires diversity and the interconnecting of different systems. Systems and processes that are all the same consume the same resources and produce the same outputs without the capacity to recycle them. It is only by connecting different systems in the right way that we can harness their diversity to create synergies between them. The circular economy shifts the locus from "things" to the synergies between them. Our existing linear economy is a product of analytical thinking where we divide everything up and separate everything out so as to focus on specific activities and achieve economies of scale - we put housing all in the residential area, factories in the industrial zone, food production in farms etc. In contrast, the circular economy is about integration so as to enable feedback loops and synergies. As Gunter Pauli notes it is about "using the resources available in cascading systems...the waste of one product becomes the input to create a new cash flow.” Things in this circular model become multifunctional, instead of a building just serving a housing function it becomes also an energy producer and consumer, a food producer, and consumer, it may function as entertainment and recreation. This multifunctionality works to not just close loops but also create more resilient systems because they are more self-sufficient and less dependent. As the circular economy is not about any individual product or thing it is rather about changing the organization of whole systems it requires systems thinking. As the Ellen Macarthur Foundation notes "The circular economy isn't about one manufacturer changing one product, it is about all of the interconnected companies that form our infrastructure and economy coming together... it's about rethinking the operating system itself"