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"Water from the Air: Humanity's Path to Survival" is a compelling documentary that unveils innovative solutions to the global water crisis and highlights the pivotal role of Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) in combating climate change. Premiered on the Creative Society Format platform, this film delves into the technical capabilities and environmental impacts of AWGs, offering a hopeful perspective on securing clean drinking water for billions globally, amidst escalating climate threats. This documentary serves as a critical call to action, urging global cooperation to harness technology for sustainable development. #Sustainability #ClimateChange #Innovation #GlobalCrisis #CreativeSociety #WaterConservation #RenewableEnergy #EcoFriendly #WaterInnovation #airwatergenerator #watercrisis #globalwarming #AtmosphericWaterGenerator #NikolaTesla https://lnkd.in/gcgPeUDS

Art won’t solve the climate crisis. METRA won’t solve the climate crisis. But art, and maybe METRA, can push the conversation forward about not only how we got here, but how we are going to deal with the pain, suffering, and societal upheaval barreling toward us, and deal with it in a way that is kind, compassionate, equitable, and just. Change the myth, change the world. https://lnkd.in/eXB_RXex

📢📣 If you´re in Berlin tomorrow evening or want to join us online, I´ll be moderating a panel about: Talking Humanity: Indigenous Insights, Creative Voices, and the Climate Imperative, under the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival Panel description: "The world witnesses the enduring impact of Western dominance, often at the expense of indigenous cultures, knowledge, and territories. As the planet faces the climate crisis, this panel examines the intersections of Western progression, indigenous knowledge, and artistic representation through a (post-)colonial lens. What can the West, with its history of colonization and persistent (neo-colonial tendencies, learn from indigenous practices that have sustained environments for millennia? And how can art and film serve not just as translators, but also as catalysts for recognizing past injustices and mobilizing a collective, reparative and regenerative action?" https://lnkd.in/dr8UJBBn https://lnkd.in/dwsRzQMR

Want to meet a Climate Punk? Hate, love, hope or despair? What moves us to act on climate? This was a question I asked myself last summer frustrated with the escalating development of the climate emergency from wildfires to draught. My own lightbulb moment was the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009 where I was angry and frustrated with our elected leaders lack of action, lack of courage and asked myself the question: Hey, I’m working in a crap consumerist industry, advertising, what if advertising could also be used for something good? (Back then #Goodvertising shaped) So this summer, I began reaching out to others from different walks of life, who had challenged the status quo and interviewed them about their journey and how they think, we all can act on the climate emergency. I spoke with people like you and I, we can mirror ourselves in from accountants, chefs to farmers with a few celebs in-between that can inspire each one of us to act. Like Margaret Klein Salamon, a psychologist overpowered by anxiety, who’s now helping fund climate protest such as Extinction Rebellion. Or Douglas McMaster, a chef who slept months on end in the basement of his struggling restaurant to prove you can serve delicious food without any waste. Or take Chris Jordan, a photographic artist, who opened the world’s eyes to the damage of ocean plastics with photos of albatrosses suffocating in plastic and now he believes love can heal the world. The series is called CLIMATE PUNK – do have a look at our episode with Chris and remember to follow the channel for more episodes. We’re doing Climate Punk together with the kind folks at We Don't Have Time and our always inspiring production partner Will Nicholson FRSA from TVN (The Vision Network) !!!!!!! Want to support, sponsor and inspire climate action?  At the moment, we’re looking for people wanting to help sponsor and fund more episodes. Please get in touch. #ClimatePunk #Streaming #Follow #TV #Climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #WeDon'tHaveTime #ThomasKolster

Really good, but long, documentary on climate change by PBS. Downside as usual is that there is no mention of global desertification or the fact that even if we stop all fossil fuel use tomorrow, the change will continue because it is being fueled by global biodiversity loss, desertification and mega-fires now feeding on each other. And again as usual including every climate conference not a word about addressing the cause of biodiversity loss, desertification or climate change - so no hope of success. They acknowledge the cause is how such resources are managed and then ignore management at such scale tragically. https://lnkd.in/eggEqaG7

Our researchers have been featured in the media this week as the effects of climate change continue to be felt in force across the globe. Here’s a roundup 👇 🐝 Dr Chris Smith featured on BBC World at One, talking about climate change impacts and extinction. Clip starts at 07:30: https://lnkd.in/eb52Tfts 🌡 Professor Cathryn Birch was quoted in The Independent on the cause of the ongoing European heatwave: https://lnkd.in/eRQmTkT3 💭 Professor Suraje Dessai was quoted in National World about new University of Leeds research in collaboration with Ipsos, finding that “the public are very concerned about the impacts of a changing climate” - “they think the nation is unprepared and that action is urgently needed now.”   https://lnkd.in/eJ9MY3Ae 🔋 Professor Piers Forster featured on the Northern Agenda podcast and discussed the role of the North in the UK’s effort to tackle climate change. Section starts at 17:30: https://lnkd.in/e5uemknS 🤝 Piers was also quoted in The Guardian on Jim Skea being appointed as Chair of the IPCC - “Jim will be a great chair of the IPCC over such a crucial decade where we really need to see a massive step up in international cooperation and action. Leading the IPCC gives the UK a great opportunity to reestablish itself as an international climate leader.” https://lnkd.in/gAxmkkUu  

How often do you get the chance to watch a movie for free that reveals the ultimate plot twist in real life? This isn't your typical blockbuster; it's a documentary that dares to suggest the climate crisis, much talked about by governments worldwide, might just be an elaborate ruse. The claim? It's all an intricate scheme to dip into the public coffers, siphoning off hundreds of billions of Euros and Dollars under the guise of environmental protection. Imagine the governments, acting like magicians, distracting us with one hand waving warnings of climate doom, while the other hand quietly redirects our tax money into projects as ephemeral as the wind itself. In a world where truth is stranger than fiction, this film could be a rare gem, offering a perspective that questions the mainstream narrative. Who wouldn't be intrigued by the possibility that we've all been part of an audience in a theater orchestrated by the powers that be, watching a drama unfold that might just be smoke and mirrors? If such a film exists, it would certainly be a conversation starter, inviting viewers to look beyond the curtain and question what they've been told about where their money is going and why.

✨NEW Climate Comms Resource✨ 🎥 Why is #climatechange missing in our movies? 🍿 Popular films have a massive influence over our culture. It’s where we go to see the biggest stories on the biggest screen. In this episode of The Climate Pod, the hosts unpack why climate change is missing in our movies with Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, who have put together a new report outlining how often the #climatecrisis shows up in famous flicks and how often we see characters aware of its existence on screen. 🎧 Listen to it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eR_ZjUj3 #climatemovies #climatecomms #climatecommunications #climatecommunicators #climateaction #climateemergency #climatestorytelling #theclimatepod

Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house to travel around the world looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the predicament goes along with the systems and ways of thinking that brought us here. Featured in this documentary are Professor of Sustainability and founder of the Deep Adaptation movement Jem Bendell, award winning journalist and author of "The End of Ice" , Dahr Jamail, Dharma teacher and author of Facing Extinction Catherine Ingram and Stan Rushworth, a Native American Elder, teacher and author who brings an especially enlightening viewpoint to these questions. While it becomes clear that catastrophic climate change is now inevitable it also opens up a whole new set of questions: How exactly did we arrive at this point? What new choices can we make now re how to live our lives and what actions make sense at this time. The people interviewed in the documentary, all highly regarded and well known spokespeople on the issue, argue it's too late to stop what is coming but in no way is it too late to regain a renewed, life giving relationship with our selves and our world. This film is available free of charge or by donation https://lnkd.in/eQHH-tfm... https://lnkd.in/eDUamgwP

Can we imagine just 3 years from now a growing global movement of Citizens Juries sitting in Advisory Trials of the Fiduciary Faithlfulness of Pensions & Endowments in providing innovative new stewardship equity financing to buy hydrocarbons companies out of public markets ownership and the tyranny of the growth imperative, placing them into fiduciary stewardship where they can be directed to become, and supported in being, part of a global REPLACE to RETIRE strategy for reconfiguring our global energy technologies portfolio by adding new technologies that will not geoengineer the habitats on earth so that we can delete habitat geoengineering energy extraction from hydrocarbons, for energy sufficiency with habitat longevity and social equity? And 10 years on from that, a new energy economy purpose-built for future security.