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06 MARCH 2012
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Home: a call to action to halt global warming

"In the past 200,000 years, humans have upset the balance of planet Earth, a balance established by nearly four billion years of evolution. We must act now. It is too late to be a pessimist. The price is too high. Humanity has little time to reverse the trend and change its patterns of consumption.

Through visually stunning footage from over fifty countries, all shot from an aerial perspective, Yann Arthus-Bertrand shows us a view most of us have never seen. He shares with us his sense of awe about our planet and his concern for its health. With this film, Arthus-Bertrand hopes to provide a stepping-stone to further the call to action to take care of our HOME.

HOME is the first film that has been made using aerial-only footage. The film marks artist-activist Yann Arthus-Bertrand's feature film directorial debut.

HOME the movie is carbon offset. All of the CO2 emissions engendered by the making of the film are calculated and offset by sums of money that are used to provide clean energy to those who do not have any. For the last ten years, all the work of Yann Arthus-Bertrand has been carbon offset."

(Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

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Simon Perkins
02 MAY 2011
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The Story of Stuff: The Story of Electronics

"So, some time ago I was shown this video 'The Story of Stuff', a project created by Annie Leonard. She is an environmentalist who worked on international environmental health and sustainability issues, among other things like Greenpeace International, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and others.

This project has, so far, 2 seasons, the first with 7 short animated videos explaining some of our everyday environmental, social and economic problems and how they're related to one another. The second season is more focused on what is behind these social, environmental and economical problems and how we can act on them."

(Letícia Neves, 23 March 2011)

Fig.1 Annie Leonard (9 November 2010). 'The Story of Electronics'

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2010 • activism • animated presentation • Annie Leonard • commodity • critique • design intelligence • design responsibility • disposable consumption • e-waste • ecological • economic issues • electronics • electronics industry • Electronics TakeBack Coalition • environmental issues • environmentalist • ethics • everyday • exploitation • gadget • GAIA • Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives • green design • green race to the top • Greenpeace • Greenpeace International • high-tech revolution • innovation • international environmental health and sustainability issues • long-lasting products • manufacturing industry • mining • obsolescence • Peoples Republic of China • poison • poisoned workers • recyclable • recycling • responsibility • responsible recycling • social change • social issues • sustainability • The Story of Electronics • The Story of Stuff • toxic-free products • toxicological effects • waste

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Simon Perkins
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