The Post Carbon Institute has been responsible for a couple of great viral videos recently. Who killed economic growth? is a pithy introduction to post growth arguments, and 300 years fossil fuels in 300 seconds has now been watched over a million times on Youtube. Perhaps emboldened by the success of the latter, PCI has gone [...]
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Top ten social documentary cliches
I’ve seen quite a few social documentaries in my time. We show awareness raising films in Transition Towns, and there are some really great, thought-provoking, well crafted documentaries out there. And then there are some very bad ones. Digital video production has made film-making possible (if not advisable, or profitable) for almost anyone. But making [...]
In Transition 2.0
You’ve all seen In Transition 1.0, the Transition Towns movie, right? I should hope so. You may have noticed the 1.0, and that’s because there was no way the first documentary could claim to have told a definitive story, especially so early in the history of the movement. More iterations of the film were to [...]
Greedy Lying Bastards, the movie
And the prize for the bluntest documentary title of the year goes to… Craig Rosebraugh for his expose of the oil industry, Greedy Lying Bastards. Well, it’s going to get you noticed at least, although the chances of constructive dialogue with the industry as a result of the movie will be slim indeed. Here’s the [...]
Offsetting gone wrong
A couple of months ago I expressed my interest in offsetting the carbon emissions I can’t cut, clearing the decks as best I can at the end of the year. I still intend to do so, and am looking into how best to do it. Not all offsetting schemes are created equal, as The Ecologist [...]
Schumacher on film: videos
Fritz Schumacher only made one film. Two months before he died, he traveled to Western Australia to make an ecological documentary called ‘On the edge of the forest‘. It’s about deforestation, and shows the clear-cutting of ancient woodlands for paper pulp. The film was never screened in the UK, and was pretty much lost for [...]
Debtocracy
Debtocracy is a new documentary about Greece’s debt crisis. It’s by Greek filmmakers Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou, and they have posted it on the internet as a Creative Commons film so that anyone who wants to see it can watch it for free (like Yann Arthus Bertrand’s Home). I haven’t watched it all the [...]
The Story of Broke
Why is there always money for the military, for banks and fossil fuels, but not for health or education? The Story of Stuff tackles taxation and perverse subsidies:
Land grabs: the unintended consequences of biofuels
Access to land is one of the oldest sources of conflict. It’s written deep into Britain’s history through the enclosure acts and the seizing of the commons – a process that shaped the landscape, drove people into the cities, and through the industrial revolution, changed the world forever. It’s an injustice that’s never been corrected, [...]
The greatest movie ever sold
That’s the latest project from Morgan Spurlock, or to give it it’s proper title, Pom Wonderful Presents the Greatest Movie Ever Sold. It’s an adventure in product placement, funded entirely by product placement. Yes, it’s as conflicted as it sounds, but it is certainly stirring up conversation about the pervasiveness of this somewhat covert form [...]
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