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A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a foregone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?

We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. That’s the message we’ve been hearing from the “serious” center for four months straight: that it’s too big, too ambitious, that our Twitter-addled brains are incapable of it, and that we are destined to just watch walruses fall to their deaths on Netflix until it’s too late.

This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet, and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.”

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EarthSayers Molly Crabapple; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Date unknown Format Cartoon and Animation
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Yes! Magazine More Details
The Energy Revolution

Published on Jun 6, 2016

A better future is literally falling from the sky and blowing in our faces every day. So why are we still using fossil fuels?! A 2-minute animation on how we can achieve a world powered by 100% renewables.
Date unknown Format Cartoon and Animation
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Renewable Energy & The Smart Grid More Details
Sustainability Pioneers 5: Becoming Energy Independent
One of Germany green pockets, Climate Community Saerbeck, shows a model to the world of how to become energy independent in a sustainable way. A town of about 7,000 people started its climate protection and adaptation work in 2009, and in just five years the town was producing more renewable energy than it consumes.

Sustainability Pioneers also interviews Ralf Fuecks, the president of Heinrich Boll Foundation, and climate scientist Neil Donahue from Carnegie Mellon University. Neil Donahue explains how we need to reduce our carbon footprint, and Ralf Fuechs offers his view if this is feasible in the U.S.

Become a Sustainability Pioneers supporter and make a tax-deductible donation at sustainabilitypioneers.com. Published on May 14, 2015
EarthSayers Neil Donahue; Ralf Fuecks; Guido Wallraven
Date unknown Format Series
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Sustainability Pioneers More Details
Sustainability Pioneers 4: It Takes a Leader

The "Doomsday Clock" now stands at three minutes till midnight due to the rapid progression of the climate crisis. Unchecked climate change is now as serious a risk to humanity as the nuclear weapons for which the Doomsday Clock was created. World leaders have failed to do what is necessary to stop the course of climate change. Yet, there are leaders who are modeling ways to turn back the clock. Sustainability Pioneers visits one of them, Borough Manager Mario Leone, Jr, from Monaca, Pennsylvania. Monaca has reduced utility costs by 25 percent, thanks to energy saving strategies initiated by Mr. Leone. Published on May 14, 2015


Become a Sustainability Pioneers supporter and make a tax-deductible donation at sustainabilitypioneers.com.

EarthSayers Kirsi Jansa; Mario Leone, Jr,; Matthew Mehalick
Date unknown Format Series
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Sustainability Pioneers More Details
Sustainability Pioneers 3: It Takes a Village

Sustainability Pioneers' It Takes a Village is a story about community power. Documentary filmmaker Kirsi Jansa visits two communities, Butler in Pennsylvania and Balcombe in the UK. In Balcombe oil and gas industry wants to drill and frack, and in Butler the shale gas development is in full swing. In both places some local have visions for a different kind of a future.

Josh Roberts, an environmental lawyer from Client Earth talks about community power. Community power is a new energy system based on renewable energy that benefits the largest number of people.

Become a Sustainability Pioneers supporter and make a tax-deductible donation at sustainabilitypioneers.com. Published on May 14, 2015
Date unknown Format Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Sustainability Pioneers More Details
Sustainability Pioneers 1: The Journey Begins

Sustainability Pioneers, a series of short documentaries on the transition to sustainable energy, begins looking at how energy is being produced in Pennsylvania in 2014. How does our energy use affect air, climate and public health?

Become a Sustainability Pioneers supporter and make a tax-deductible donation at sustainabilitypioneers.com. Published on May 14, 2015
EarthSayers Neil Donahue; Angela Garcia; Fernando Holguin
Date unknown Format Series
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Sustainability Pioneers More Details
Keynote, Ceres Conference of 2015 by Gina McCarthy of EPA

Published on Jun 23, 2015

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers the keynote address at the Ceres Conference 2015, discussing the Clean Power Plan, Climate Change and how businesses and investors can support the transition to a clean energy economy.
EarthSayer Gina McCarthy
Date unknown Format Speech
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Ceres Annual Conferences More Details
Mapping the Gap: The Road From Paris with Michael Leibreich

Published on Feb 4, 2016

Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) teamed up to release "Mapping the Gap: The Road from Paris", which seeks to underscore how the global transition to clean electric power can be financed. This special presentation by Michael Liebreich (BNEF) was made at the 2016 Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the U.N. headquarters in NYC. A sneak peak: the global renewable energy investment opportunity in the electric sector is massive, at $12.1 trillion over the next 25 years.

To download the report and to learn more about Ceres' Clean Trillion initiative, visithere.

To learn more about the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, visit here.
EarthSayer Michael Liebreich
Date unknown Format Speech
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Renewable Energy & The Smart Grid More Details
Think Big: Mega Trends in Sustainability
Introduction by Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres.

From the rapid depletion of natural resources like water to increased energy demands to growing public awareness of climate change impacts, sustainability mega-trends expose businesses to risks - yet they also offer tremendous opportunities. Addressing these trends will require profound shifts in the way investors and businesses plan, operate and compete in the global economy.

More companies tying compensation into sustainability goals as sustainability becomes mainstream.

Published on May 13, 2014

Hear from Paul Gilding (Environmentalist and Author; Former Executive Director of Greenpeace International),
Mary O'Malley (Vice President, Environment and Sustainability, Prudential) and Andrew Winston (Author of 'The Big Pivot') from the opening plenary at the Ceres Conference 2014 held in Boston on April 30

EarthSayers Paul Gilding; Mindy Lubber; Mary O'Malley
Date unknown Format Speech
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Ceres Annual Conferences More Details
Barriers to Solar Energy Crumbling by 24 Hours of Reality (2)

In hour 2 of 24 Hours of Reality we explore how the price barrier to solar energy is crumbling - in almost 80 countries it now costs the same or less than existing utilities. Published on Sep 16, 2014

Date unknown Format Series
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection 24 Hours of Reality by The Climate Reality Project More Details
 

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