Watch generosity in motion.

Intro

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film

Transparent Film · 2012

An interpretive film about gift and money. Treat it as a point of view, not as anthropology.

Culture

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Nature Teaches Us About Giving Back

Museum of Science · 2025

A talk on reciprocity with the living world, from the author of The Serviceberry.

Real-world projects

Imagining an Economy Where You Don't Have to Buy Anything | Solving Plastic

The Story of Stuff Project · 2022

A Story of Stuff piece connected to Buy Nothing-style reuse.

Systems

TEDxAshokaU - Edgar Cahn - 2/19/10

TEDx Talks · 2010

Edgar Cahn on time banking. Time credits are a tracked adjacent model.

Culture

Ubuntu: The One Word to Change How You Work, Live and Lead | Shola Richards | TEDxSouthLakeTahoe

TEDx Talks · 2020

One contemporary English-language talk on Ubuntu. It is not a complete tradition.

Culture

When the Old Pieces Came to Potlatch

Museum at Campbell River · 2022

Museum partnership film about potlatch belongings. Watch on the original channel.

Spiritual practice · link out only

Biggest Community Kitchen---Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar: A Table for 60,000 documentary

sikhseverywhere · 2017

Sikh langar documentary. Playable on YouTube; embedding is disabled, so this card links out only.

Spiritual practice

Karma Yoga: The Path of Action (Part 1) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York · 2020

A Vedanta teaching on karma yoga. Yoga.org remains the canonical teaching home for this site’s yoga links.

Systems

Timebanking in the UK: It's About Time | Sarah Bird | TEDxStPeterPort

TEDx Talks · 2017

Title and channel confirmed via YouTube oEmbed on 2026-10-11. A UK timebanking talk; still a tracked-credit model.