Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an independent (and still work-in-progress ) documentary about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Pacific Trash Vortex in the North Pacific Ocean. This area shows a significantly higher mass of plastic debris in the upper water column.

Welcome to Plastic Paradise! This fantastic invention has become so pervasive in our daily lives that to imagine living without it seems unfathomable. But how did we get to this point? and where are we headed? In the independent documentary film, Plastic Paradise, Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one of the most remote places on earth–Midway Atoll. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers whom shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption.

via: Laughing Squid

It’s Global Warming, Stupid

The rather bold cover of the Bloomberg Businessweek (via: The Fox Is Black).

Surviving Progress

“Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.”

Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired this film, reveals how civilizations are repeatedly destroyed by “progress traps” — alluring technologies serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. With intersecting stories from a Chinese car-driving club, a Wall Street insider who exposes an out-of-control, environmentally rapacious financial elite, and eco-cops defending a scorched Amazon, the film lays stark evidence before us. In the past, we could use up a region’s resources and move on. But if today’s global civilization collapses from over-consumption, that’s it. We have no back-up planet.

Oil Wars

An amazing animation by Monstro Design for the Post Carbon Institute – they do not bring good news though.

For more information on drilling for “unconventional oil” you may check out Tipping Point – The End Of Oil, a documentary about the search for tar sands in Alberta/Canada.

via: Das Kraftfuttermischwerk

Ride Your Bike.

via: Das Kraftfuttermischwerk