PickVidsBest Environment, agriculture & food systems Videos
The 104 Environment, agriculture & food systems videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 2 intermediate, 100 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, TEDx Talks, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.
PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on PFAS, the 'forever chemicals' linked to health problems.
Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town
Climate Town gives a comedic, fast-paced account of how the plastics industry promoted recycling, including the resin-code recycling symbol, while knowing most plastic could not be economically recycled.
Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Kirsten Dirksen visits retired mailman Russ Finch in Alliance, Nebraska, who grows oranges, figs and pomegranates in a backyard greenhouse without paying for heat.
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot narrates how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone after about 70 years set off a trophic cascade.
How to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland
A short TEDx talk by Joe Smith teaching how to dry your hands with a single paper towel.
Chinampas of Mexico: Most Productive Agriculture EVER?
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the chinampas, the floating gardens of Xochimilco in Mexico City.
The Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
Veritasium investigates PFAS forever chemicals, from Teflon's history to pollution of the global water system and their presence in the US population.
Chai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
Chai Jing's 104-minute documentary on China's smog, with full English subtitles.
Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
A Business Insider investigation into the US boom in AI data centers, mapping where they are, who owns them, and how much power and water they consume.
India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the village of Garavadi in Maharashtra, India, which took part in the Paani Foundation's Water Cup competition.
Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
Thai farmer Jon Jandai talks about leaving Bangkok to farm and build his own house, arguing that food, shelter, clothing and medicine are easy to provide and that modern life is made needlessly complicated.
Permaculture Greening the Desert - Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton documents a permaculture project that turned barren Jordanian desert into green, productive land.
A Third of America Belongs to America
CGP Grey explains what it means that a third of the United States is federally owned land.
Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town
A Climate Town episode on who uses America's water, particularly Western water.
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything | Short Film Showcase
An 8-minute National Geographic short film about David Bamberger, who bought 5,500 overgrazed acres in the Texas Hill Country and restored the land and its aquifers over about 50 years.
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison travels with the UN World Food Programme to Niger to see land recovery within the Great Green Wall, where rainwater harvesting is boosting food security and restoring the ecosystem.
If You Eat Meat You Should Know This
A Kurzgesagt video on the conditions in which most farm animals are raised.
How Wolves Change Rivers [REMASTERED HD] - George Monbiot
A short narrated video describing how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone triggered a trophic cascade that changed wildlife, vegetation and even river courses.
Iowa Swine Day 2022: Agriculture at the End of the World
Peter Zeihan speaks at Iowa Swine Day 2022 on geopolitics, the end of globalization and agriculture.
#Earth 🌏 Will we survive this ? Amazing⚡️ #crashcourse on #collapse & #environment by #ArthurKeller
Arthur Keller gives a roughly half-hour crash course on environmental collapse, covering exponential growth, carrying capacity and ecological overshoot.
Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
A short documentary about Eric Maundu's Arduino-controlled aquaponics setup in West Oakland, where contaminated soil rules out ordinary farming.
Cody's Algae Panel
Cody's Lab builds a prototype algae growing panel as an experiment before making more.
George Carlin - Saving the Planet
George Carlin's stand-up routine arguing the planet will be fine and it is people who are in trouble.
Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
A Kurzgesagt explainer asking whether organic food is really healthier or better for the environment.