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Environment, agriculture & food systems Videos Recommended on Hacker News (104)
Environment, agriculture & food systems is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 104 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 265 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Environment and farming: conservation, pollution, plastics, recycling, water, deforestation, farming, regenerative agriculture, fisheries, food supply, vertical farming, sustainability.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]: “this documentary made me re-evaluate my diet.” — an HN commenter, 2020.
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12 mo on HNDominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
Farm Transparency Project
10 HN recommender · 2019–2024
11 mo on HNTreating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health
Living Web Farms
12 HN recommender · 2019–2025
10 mo on HNThe Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
wonderingmind42
13 HN recommender · 2010–2025
9 mo on HNHow to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
TED
9 HN recommender · 2013–2023
8 mo on HNLife in Syntropy
Agenda Gotsch
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
8 mo on HNEating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why
Joseph Everett - WIL
10 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HNWhy Grocery Shopping is Better in Amsterdam
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNGabe Brown: Keys To Building a Healthy Soil
Transcend Productions
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
6 mo on HNHow Much Do Rockets Pollute? Are They Bad For Our Air?
Everyday Astronaut
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNThe Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
Veritasium
6 HN recommender · 2022–2026
5 mo on HNYou are being misled about renewable energy technology.
Technology Connections
12 HN recommender · 2026–2026
5 mo on HNArithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett
lXlSalemlXl
6 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNThe Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1
CrashCourse
4 HN recommender · 2015–2021
6 mo on HNThe Roots of Your Profits - Dr Elaine Ingham, Soil Microbiologist, Founder of Soil Foodweb Inc
Oxford Real Farming Conference
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
5 mo on HNFeeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)
Mark Rober
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
5 mo on HNThe Carbon Offset Problem
Wendover Productions
5 HN recommender · 2022–2023
5 mo on HNWhy Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet
Utah State University Extension
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNDAIRY IS SCARY!
Erin Janus
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HN6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED
TED
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
5 mo on HNExponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
Hiroob
5 HN recommender · 2019–2021
5 mo on HNMan Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
Happen Films
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HNPlagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea | KQED Truly CA
KQED Arts
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNDatacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons
Benn Jordan
5 HN recommender · 2026–2026
4 mo on HNTurning Photons Into Food
Apogee Instruments Inc.
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNPFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNPlastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town
Climate Town
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNNebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Kirsten Dirksen
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNHow Wolves Change Rivers
Sustainable Human
4 HN recommender · 2014–2022
3 mo on HNHow to use one paper towel | Joe Smith | TEDxConcordiaUPortland
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNChinampas of Mexico: Most Productive Agriculture EVER?
Andrew Millison
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNThe Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNChai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查:穹顶之下 (full translation)
Christopher He
3 HN recommender · 2015–2018
3 mo on HNExposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
Business Insider
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNIndia's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
Andrew Millison
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNLife is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNPermaculture Greening the Desert - Geoff Lawton
SDA-Network
3 HN recommender · 2017–2020