Archives for the ‘Videos’ Category
By NikkiJade • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Videos
This video presents environmental activist Severn Suzuki at age twelve addressing global leaders at the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in a powerful, provocative speech.
By NikkiJade • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This animated video by GOODmagazine breaks down the impact of the world’s “oil addiction”, on prices and other social, environmental and economic factors. The video is a simple overview of a complicated situation, but it presents a provocative message.
By NikkiJade • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Videos
What would you do for $20,000? National Geographic and Frito Lay’s Sun Chips want to know. The Green Effect is a contest that asked U.S. residents to submit an original idea for an eco-iniative to make a difference in their community, with prizes to turn the ideas to reality!
By NikkiJade • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This AlJazeera report highlights the challenge of balancing progressive environmental policies and the socio-economic impacts they have, with particular respect to China’s plastic bag ban on June 1, 2008. The accompanying post outlines more detail on the move and a brief global perspective of plastic bag policies.
By NikkiJade • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This UNICEF video notes that the changing climate undermines social and economic development, which in turn affects children and other individuals’ access to food, clean water, and in turn, education thus bringing awareness to the physical vulnerability of children who are more likely to “die in a natural disaster or succumb to malnutrition, injuries or disease in the aftermath”.
By NunoXEI • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This Moosnight special report featured some best of breed production including lighting by Richard Laing, cow heads by Jeff Cliff Model Effects, sound by Stuart Bunce, sound mix by Iain Grant, graphic sequence by A Productions, post production by Magic Films and writing and direction by the inimitable Michael Wright. No humans were harmed or eaten during the production.
By NikkiJade • May 4th, 2009 • Category: Videos
“Clean” coal is a fallacy appeasing the minds of energy users in the U.S. and around the world. This Is Reality tells a different story: while there are clean coal technologies being developed and tested at the moment, there is currently no such thing as clean coal in America. This video is great for raising awareness about the energy aspect of climate change.
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This creative Greenpeace video on the importance of clean air in our environment is amusing and entertaining. Without being prolific in its obvious connotations, it succeeds in being controversial enough to become viral based solely on the audio and visual cues.
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This creative Greenpeace video on the importance of keeping our oceans clean captures a soothing, yoga-inspired, moment of reflection. The stop motion video captures are varied and all represent the awesome nature of our oceans. Unlike some of there more controversial videos, this one does the trick without being in your face.
By NunoXEI • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Videos
This video was sponsored by the Häagen-Dazs for “Help the Honey Bees“, a website focused on helping to stabalize the honey bee population. With a viral video like this one bringing in over one million views on YouTube, the honey bees have never seen a better chance of entering social awareness!
