A lot of these videos are full of green goodness but let this criterion guide your voting and rate below. Tell us, which entries best address solutions to reducing one's personal carbon emissions? Which are the most:
*Inspiring (Does it make me want to do something?)
*Pragmatic (Does it provide me answers, tools so I can take action?)
*Compelling (Does it make me laugh, make me sad, make me angry, make me shivery?)
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- Planeless
- Just Say No - Thanks
- Sustainable Solutions: Hunter Lovins
- Convenient Truths: Climate And Action
- No More Plastic Bags
- Don't Run Up The Bill
- Redefining The Environmental Movement
- Bear Necessities
- Try The Patch
- Don't Be Goob
- Spend Wisely
- O Goods
- Plant A Seed
- Man Of Convenience: Part III
- Plastic Bag Pillow
- Man Of Convenience: Part II
- Guinea Pig M
- Man Of Convenience: Part I
- Enviremint
- HMS Environmental Management
- Hugurth
- It's So Easy
- He Gets Around
- FREEZEFRAME
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- An Inconvenient Cubicle
- Carless In L.A.
- Little Guy (Make A Start) Music Video
- Timeline
- A Brighter Idea
- YOU Can Stop Climate Change
- Families Fight Back
- Think Green
- Animal Guide To Saving The Planet
- I Am A Climate Activist
- Good vs. Bad
- Green Kids
- Keep It Green, Keep It Clean
- One Up
- Food Production
- Green
- The Commute
- Aurora City Of Lights' Struggle With The Environment
- My World Is Melting
- Better Late Than Never
- Save Our Planet
- Sid The Lid Meets Tumbleweed
- Chickens Enlighten, Humans Change, World Improves
- Eat Local
- Making A Way
- Change A Light Bulb
- Chicken Little
- Road Rage
- Footprints
- Even Small Actions Make A Difference
- Calling All Earth Lovers!
- Toothbrush Problem
- Follow Me
- Cool Notebooks For A Hot Planet
- Solar Power Walking Chariot
- Greenspotting
- Friends Don't Let Friends...
- Wasting Xmas
- Stop, Drop, & Rock
- Imagine
- Enviroman Takes on Biodiesel
- Reality in the Self-Checkout Lane
- Remix
- Reduce Reuse Recycle At Boulder Community Hopsital
- Demand Reduction At Boulder Community Hospital
- Changing A Lightbulb And Boulder Community Hospital
- Carrying Power: Solar Energy On The Go
- Rust Belt
- Forage! An Exploration in Collaborative Art Making Through Re-Use
- Light on the Pedal, Light on the Planet
- Passive Solar Techniques For Year-Round Local Food - Even In Cold Climates
- The Living Building Challenge
- Going In Circles
- DREAM Big
- Scotty P's Convenient Truths
- A Terrible Pickle
- Peace Corps Experience in Guatemala
- The Man Who Planted Trees
- The Power of Straw
- Work Harder
- Worm Poop - The Other "Black Gold"
- What Can Regular People Do About Global Warming?
- What Can I Do?
- Save Energy, Need Less
- Recycle America, Close the Loop
- A Kid, A Car, And An Idea
- Gwoble Wawming Solooshons
- Future Mechanics
- Secondary Footprints: Reducing the Impact
- Team Denim At The 2006 Tour de Sol
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Susan said:
Sweet!
mary p said:
i just watched this again and realized how dramatic and ridiculous it is. how ab
SS said:
Very cool video. Congrats! Seems like there are a lot of sustainability video co
anthony egiziano said:
I have been taking my cooler bags to costco/shoprite in particular for two rea
Shawn Nesbitt said:
I think that the solution being shown, very eloquently, is the idea of public tr
Calvin Jones said:
It is clear that there are a multitude of ways in which our current industrial s
Mia said:
I think a lot of people would watch the videos if they are funny and this video
Susan McFaddin said:
I'm trying to watch the living building challenge and Hunter Lovins interview.
AllQuality said:
Our video missed downloading (30 minute download time) by one minute on the nigh
Animal Guide To Saving The Planet
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Comments
Using only nature and music was a great idea! It was upbeat, positive, and do-able for everyone.
Posted by: Erin Gettman | March 1, 2007 4:38 PM
It was delightful especially with the music, but felt it was lacking in some real solutions. We use Agnihotra Fire in way called Resonance Farmiming-the ash if used to treat disesased crops and animals (most research done in South America) and also the ash used to purify water and used in maing Homa Ash medicines.
Animals become calmer in an enviroment where Agnihotra is performed. Children become calmer. The air is cleaner. It is so powerful and so subtle.
Believe what you experience.
Posted by: Louise Deville | March 2, 2007 5:46 AM
Thanks for your comment Erin,
I couldn't disagree with you more. While this video, which was intended to make some people laugh and enjoy seeing some animals. It also had a very serious message in it which many many not have noticed. "Love your neighbor" For at least two Billion people on the planet that is a very important but often overlooked and not practiced commandment.
Glatians 5: 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall Love your neighbor as yourself."
Luke 10: 25 to 37 backs this up and explains who a neighbor is.
Romans 13: 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
Matthew 22: 39 Says Loving your neighbor is the second most important commandment 40: On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Maybe Love is what is missing in our world right now. Wonder what would happen if everyone on the planet Loved their neighbor? (or at least two billion of us) I think it just might help things a bit more then changing a light bulb.
We are so far from being sustainable, Love is the only thing that can Shift us back to sustainability.
Posted by: Matthew | March 4, 2007 8:33 PM
Sorry Erin & Louise,
I thought you wrote the comment Erin.
Thanks for the compliment on the music choice Louise (Peter picked it out.)
I disagree with the statement "but felt it was lacking in some real solutions" I now realize you may not have seen all the words at the bottom of the video.
My apologies, I just got so focused on the "LOVE Thing." (One track mind sometimes.) We wanted to create a piece where we used the less is more theory. We titled it "Animal Guide to Saving the Planet" and mentioned the only thing billions feel can save our planet for Seven Generations and beyond.
If approximately 85% of 6.4 billion people believe in a Creator, Great Spirit God,Gods, higher self etc (sorry can't list them all here), and most if not all of them talk about Love, (not to mention forgiveness), and for 2 Billion "Love" is the most important thing, and we are not even close to sustainability, maybe "Love" is the only think that can save us. And if we don't believe that, and we are wrong... Our left brain logical minds can not save us now (technology without wisdom....).
We need less then 5% of the people to believe this and take positive action (which we are). If we end up being wrong and save the planet (for our children) before WW3, the Second Coming, Rapture or asteroid hitting us,etc., our Children won't be upset with us, if stop polluting ourselves to death and.. and we become sustainable as a human society again. Most children are taught to forgive.
Since "What we are facing here is a full scale Planetary Emergency" Al Gore September 21st, 2006 Clinton Global Initiative [Inspiring change - Delivering Results] (both left, middle, right, and the always right represented), maybe we need to Shift our belief systems (exponentially would be nice), or most of us will pass away within a short period of time (doesn't matter if it is 40 years or 1,000 years .... )
It was just reported that some top Ocean experts say our Ocean has less then 40 years left of the natural ocean fish we eat (Ocean fish farming has challenges), (not to mention food for our Whales, Dolphins and all sea life or the pollution factor.
What happens if our Ocean goes? (One Ocean) We can and must Shift from unsustainable fishing and farming etc... and we can do it in a win-win-win ... way, in fact that is the only way it can happen.
Quality of food and ways of production and transpotation leads to quality of life for worker on up.
We are what we eat.
Sustainable food production can feed every soul on this planet within years, if we only believe. Just gotta have Faith.
Love must lead us back into sustainability, by doing the message, not just loving the message.
Love will help us work with those who may be doing things which are making things unsustainable in some people's minds. If they are our neighbors and our enemies Billions of us are still commanded (not asked) to Love them.
Many governments and big corporations now understand that there has to be major changes, they have Shifted a lot within the last year. They now understand, No environment, No nothing. It's just that most people don't know that they know.
There is no way life on planet earth will become sustainable without the big governments and corporations becoming sustainable. They also know we can all save money, make money and Shift towards sustainability while creating got jobs and lots of Taxes. It about Shifting jobs, not losing them. Less is more. Quality over quantity. Spirit of the Law vs letter of the law. (did i forget any?)
Since it is an emergency, I felt it would be ok to write a bit, and mention both Spiritual and political perspectives. Most of my friends and family may have seen this already, so should only be a few more people seeing this anyway.
Lots of Love to All,
mlb
My apologies to the 100 people or more who end up seeing this post and think it was too long or poorly written or ..... That's why I'm working in other fields of communication. "Less is more" is easier said then done some times.
Posted by: matthew | March 4, 2007 11:09 PM
Sorry Erin & Louise,
I thought you wrote the comment Erin.
Thanks for the compliment on the music choice Louise (Peter picked it out.)
I disagree with the statement "but felt it was lacking in some real solutions" I now realize you may not have seen all the words at the bottom of the video.
My apologies, I just got so focused on the "LOVE Thing." (One track mind sometimes.) We wanted to create a piece where we used the less is more theory. We titled it "Animal Guide to Saving the Planet" and mentioned the only thing billions feel can save our planet for Seven Generations and beyond.
If approximately 85% of 6.4 billion people believe in a Creator, Great Spirit God,Gods, higher self etc (sorry can't list them all here), and most if not all of them talk about Love, (not to mention forgiveness), and for 2 Billion "Love" is the most important thing, and we are not even close to sustainability, maybe "Love" is the only think that can save us. And if we don't believe that, and we are wrong... Our left brain logical minds can not save us now (technology without wisdom....).
We need less then 5% of the people to believe this and take positive action (which we are). If we end up being wrong and save the planet (for our children) before WW3, the Second Coming, Rapture or asteroid hitting us,etc., our Children won't be upset with us, if stop polluting ourselves to death and.. and we become sustainable as a human society again. Most children are taught to forgive.
Since "What we are facing here is a full scale Planetary Emergency" Al Gore September 21st, 2006 Clinton Global Initiative [Inspiring change - Delivering Results] (both left, middle, right, and the always right represented), maybe we need to Shift our belief systems (exponentially would be nice), or most of us will pass away within a short period of time (doesn't matter if it is 40 years or 1,000 years .... )
It was just reported that some top Ocean experts say our Ocean has less then 40 years left of the natural ocean fish we eat (Ocean fish farming has challenges), (not to mention food for our Whales, Dolphins and all sea life or the pollution factor.
What happens if our Ocean goes? (One Ocean) We can and must Shift from unsustainable fishing and farming etc... and we can do it in a win-win-win ... way, in fact that is the only way it can happen.
Quality of food and ways of production and transpotation leads to quality of life for worker on up.
We are what we eat.
Sustainable food production can feed every soul on this planet within years, if we only believe. Just gotta have Faith.
Love must lead us back into sustainability, by doing the message, not just loving the message.
Love will help us work with those who may be doing things which are making things unsustainable in some people's minds. If they are our neighbors and our enemies Billions of us are still commanded (not asked) to Love them.
Many governments and big corporations now understand that there has to be major changes, they have Shifted a lot within the last year. They now understand, No environment, No nothing. It's just that most people don't know that they know.
There is no way life on planet earth will become sustainable without the big governments and corporations becoming sustainable. They also know we can all save money, make money and Shift towards sustainability while creating got jobs and lots of Taxes. It about Shifting jobs, not losing them. Less is more. Quality over quantity. Spirit of the Law vs letter of the law. (did i forget any?)
Since it is an emergency, I felt it would be ok to write a bit, and mention both Spiritual and political perspectives. Most of my friends and family may have seen this already, so should only be a few more people seeing this anyway.
Lots of Love to All,
mlb
My apologies to the 100 people or more who end up seeing this post and think it was too long or poorly written or ..... That's why I'm working in other fields of communication. "Less is more" is easier said then done some times.
Posted by: matthew | March 4, 2007 11:26 PM
Very cute, and inspiring. Though aren't all of the videos in this contest made by animals? You've just got a lot more species in yours :-)
Posted by: Turil | March 7, 2007 2:55 PM
Thanks for investing so much time and energy into creating the video and trying to make people aware of the urgency to take an active role in helping to stop the destruction in our enviroment.
Posted by: sue billet | March 11, 2007 1:14 PM
I thought this is terrific video. It was simple in its presentation, but so damn enjoyable to watch. The animals we're really great and the humans who put it together deserve two thumbs up. When this whole contest is over, I hope a bunch these can get on a compilation and be screened all over. Congratulations!!
Posted by: Austin | March 11, 2007 4:18 PM
Thanks for the comments Turil, sue & Austin. It took years to get all these clips. We actually produced it within an hour or so. Had a few more clips I wanted to include, but ran out of time. I plan on adding those clips and putting it on youtube and our website. If you want a free DVD Ryan go to the site and send me an e-mail. Best Wishes, Matthew
Posted by: Matthew | March 11, 2007 7:50 PM
I really enjoyed your video....Great! Very Creative!
Posted by: Marji | March 11, 2007 10:41 PM