Media
Videos & Films (in theaters and/or on DVD)
- "An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson" by Nora Bateson — Now AVAILABLE from Amazon
- Reviews of the film, "An Ecology of Mind"
- “When we find meaning in art, our thinking is most in sync with nature” — A Review of An Ecology of Mind - The Gregory Bateson Documentary by Jan van Boeckel
- Reviews of the film, "An Ecology of Mind"
Videos (embedded or linked to on this site)
- Gregory Bateson
- General Issues and Ideas
- Carl Sagan's Warning (2:34) — his last interview prior to his death in 1997
- Harrison Bergeron — a clip from the movie, based on a novel by Kurt Vonnegut
- Possible Human, Possible World - Thinking Allowed — Jean Houston (excerpt of DVD)
- Social Issues
- Wealth Inequity in America (6:23)
- Rich People Don't Create Jobs — a banned TED talk by Nick Hanauer
- Why Are American Healthcare Costs so High? — a talk by John Green (addresses the complex systems involved)
- Ecology and Environment
- Overviews and General Ecology
- "The State of the World" & Other Videos of Rex Weyler and Greenpeace — an important wake-up call by Rex Weyler (co-founder of GreenPeace International)
- "The Root and Responsibility Model" — a talk about consumption and social—environmental consequences
- The Crisis of Civilization
- Green Gold (47:30)
- Overview Effect — What looking at Earth from space does… (19:01)
- Population Growth
- The Limits to Growth
- Population Growth — from MindTV
- Global Warming & Climate Change
- Do Something About Climate Change (4:52)
- Weather Lady Tells the Truth (2:43)
- A Conversation with Climate Scientist Michael Mann — After C02 Reached 400 ppm in the Atmosphere
- Climate Change: The State of the Science (4:04)
- Overshoot
- Interview with William Catton — author of Overshoot: Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
- Overshoot: Why It Matters, What You Can Do
- Energy & Entropy
- Energy and Entropy — 2 videos
- How a Sandcastle Reveals the End of All Things (5:32) — from BBC Wonders of the Universe
- Thermodynamics Review For Ecology (8:45)
- The Net Energy Time Bomb (5:08) — from "Explaining the Future" by Christopher Barnatt
- Energy and Entropy — 2 videos
- Peak Oil & Peak Everything
- Peak Oil and Peak Everything — by Richard Heinberg
- Oil, Smoke, and Mirrors — a documentary
- Food & Agriculture
- Natabar Sarangi -- The Source (9:07) — Indigenous rice farming in India (wonderful film!)
- Ron Finley "Guerilla Gardener" (10:43) — a TED talk
- Economy & Ecology
- No Growth Economy — by Peter Victor
- An Awkward Moment When You Realize Economists Are Full of Sh*t (4:03) — David Suzuki
- Specific Issues and Environmental Action — Current & Historic
- Midway: A Love Story for Our Time from the Heart of the Pacific (3:55)
- "Grinding Nemo: What's the Real Cost of Your Prawn Curry?" — a short documentary about corporate fishing
- Whaling — videos about whaling
- Greenpeace Documentary on Whales and Whaling — a rare documentary on Greenpeace and its efforts to stop whaling
- Down to Earth — a talk by Donella Meadows (author of Limits to Growth)
- Sustainability and Justice Club — from Thomas Culhane
- Overviews and General Ecology
- How Do We Think? (a Batesonian question)
- "Seeing Myself See: An Ecology of Mind" — by R. Beau Lotto
- Perception
- Playing with Space and Light — a TED talk by Olafur Eliasson
- Optical Illusions Show How We See — a TED talk by Beau Lotto
- What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds — A TED talk by Oliver Sacks
- The Power of Perception — a short interview of Nora Bateson
- Men In Black — excerpt on significance of perception
- Relationship
- Legacy of Wisdom Project videos
- Examinations of Network Theory
- Shared Experience of Absurdity — a TED talk by Charlie Todd
- Cybernetics, Complexity, & Non-Linear Systems
- American Society for Cybernetics — YouTube Video Channel
- Thinking Cybernetically — by planetacid
- Feedback Loops
- Language Development — by Deb Roy (TED talk) — a cybernetics view of language development
- Using Nature's Genius in Architecture — a TED talk by Michael Pawlyn
- On Systems Thinking — a talk by Russell Ackoff
- From Rosenblueth to Richmond — an historical view of cybernetics and systems thinking by Randall Whitaker
- How Complexity Leads to Simplicity — a TED talk by Eric Berlow
- Change in Thinking - Systems Thinking — a talk by Ron Davison
- Introduction to Complex Systems: Patterns in Nature — by Ilana Schoenfeld
- Complex Adaptive Systems — a TEDx talk by Igor Nikolic
- Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory (13:45) — a TED talk by Nicolas Perony
- Mind & Ecology of Mind
- Brainman — from the Science Channel
- The Murder of Crows — from PBS
- Epistemology — How We Know
- Powerful Ideas About Ideas — a TED talk by Alan Kay]
- Epistemology — an audio of Gregory Bateson talking about epistemology
- Uncertainty of Knowledge — Richard Feynman discusses the uncertainty of knowledge
- Difference
- Double Bind
- Unshackling the "Double Bind" — YouTube video of discussion of double binds experienced by women vying for positions of power
- The Double Bind — by Alan Watts
- Communication: Double Binds — by Elizabeth Daniels
- Patterns, Metapatterns, & Pattern Thinking
- The Pattern Which Connects — by Christopher Kinman
- The Patterns That Connect — by Darren Owen & Omega Pointe Productions
- Metapatterns Videos — by Tyler Volk
- Shapes of Stories — by Kurt Vonnegut
- Secrets of Movement — a TED talk by Robert Full
- Anti-Gravity Sculpture — a TED talk by Tom Shannon — patterns and sculpture
- Organic Designs — a TED talk by Ross Lovegrove
- Using Nature's Genius in Architecture — a TED talk by Michael Pawlyn
- African Fractals — a TED talk by Ron Eglash
- Ways of Seeing — a TED talk by Rob Forbes
- Doodling in Math Class — a video series by Vihart on YouTube (Fibonacci sequences and more)
- enra "Pleiades"
- Changeability
- Aesthetics & Emotions
- Super Brain — a TED talk by Daniel Tammet (an autistic savante)
Photos and Slideshows
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