HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009 ,
http://www.home-2009.com
This documentary looks at the story of our planet and the impact humankind has brought through since its appearance to the modern day. Through spectacular video imagery along narration the documentary is a must see. It raises concerns about the massive impact we as a single race have come to achieve, specially in the past century alone. It shows the scars we have implanted on our planet through the depletion of our natural resources.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Cold not get the embed code for the documentary but here is the link.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Spains solar tower
This is something I came across a while back but have not got around to posting it. In a quick summery about the project, it is basically one massive harvesting field for solar power. It uses mirrors to reflect solar beams into a tower where that energy is harvested and then transformed into usable energy. Right now the project can create enough energy to power 10 000 homes while reducing 12 000 tons of CO2 emissions. When the project is completed by 2013 it will be able to power 180 000 homes.
THOUGHTS:
This is what I am talking about people!! we have excellent sources of clean energy provided by nature, these which are unlimited like solar energy. well maybe not unlimited since the sun will eventually contract and explode in millions of years, but we will have a good run at it until then!
Also here is a google video about the whole thing
THOUGHTS:
This is what I am talking about people!! we have excellent sources of clean energy provided by nature, these which are unlimited like solar energy. well maybe not unlimited since the sun will eventually contract and explode in millions of years, but we will have a good run at it until then!
Also here is a google video about the whole thing
Friday, March 5, 2010
Collapse 2009
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current finacial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.
Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of "peak oil," the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Rupperts doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.
Collapse also serve as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself.
Review by http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/synopsis
THOUGHTS: This documentary is a bit scary but it in a blunt way is an eye opener on how the system has been running for the past decades. Right now is a critical time for us to become more aware of these things and detach ourselves from the mass consumerist ways that have been planted into our culture. If we want to have a planet for our children and grand children to play on, we must stop idolizing consumerism and everything it stands for and begin to focus on nourishing a more sustainable way of living
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current finacial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.
Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of "peak oil," the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Rupperts doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.
Collapse also serve as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself.
Review by http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/synopsis
THOUGHTS: This documentary is a bit scary but it in a blunt way is an eye opener on how the system has been running for the past decades. Right now is a critical time for us to become more aware of these things and detach ourselves from the mass consumerist ways that have been planted into our culture. If we want to have a planet for our children and grand children to play on, we must stop idolizing consumerism and everything it stands for and begin to focus on nourishing a more sustainable way of living
Economical collapse
The worlds money and power are in the hands of a small portion of its population. This power delivered from the depletion of natural resources which after a hundred years of exploitation, they will not last too long. Humankind must find new ways of energy and change its way of life, leaving or modifying its capitalistic ways. When the capitalist system falls, which eventually will for the people can only be suppressed for so long, a certain way of revolution will occur. This is an example of this system failing and the people standing to the government claiming for a change.
Argentina's economic collapse
THOUGHTS:
So here it is, complete chaos on the streets! the system in place is weakening by the minute and if it goes the way it is going it wont last. Rich people can only keep taking from the poor for so long, once people revolt all hell will break lose! In order to avoid such a thing we must become aware and begin a move towards a better system where we live as brothers and sisters sharing this beautiful planet and its resources.
Argentina's economic collapse
THOUGHTS:
So here it is, complete chaos on the streets! the system in place is weakening by the minute and if it goes the way it is going it wont last. Rich people can only keep taking from the poor for so long, once people revolt all hell will break lose! In order to avoid such a thing we must become aware and begin a move towards a better system where we live as brothers and sisters sharing this beautiful planet and its resources.
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