Carbon Nation is a film about solutions. Hitting cinemas in America this month, and being screened at various venues around the world, the film is a fresh and optimistic take on tackling climate change. The producers explain: Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment.
The film is a series of vignettes of individuals and projects highlighting the future potential of technology as well as showing changing attitudes and behaviours. It’s great to see that the film has set a positive tone. Hopefully Carbon Nation will illustrate to the wider public that alternative ways of consuming products, producing energy, travelling slowly and more, are in fact the way forward.
To find out more, visit: http://www.carbonnationmovie.tv/
(It’s .tv because that’s the domain for Tuvalu, a country that will be entirely submerged underwater by 2100. Proceeds from .tv domain name sales go towards paying the country’s UN fees and helping residents relocate to New Zealand).
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
