What can we learn from entropy about life on Earth? In this series of videos, I aim to provide the thermodynamic and Earth system background to answer this question.  The videos are based on two lectures that I gave in Padova in July 2025.  I split the lectures up into an introduction, six questions, and a summary, each in a separate video.  This blogpost provides a brief description of the different videos, references for further reading, and the links.