At Tuesday’s summit on sustainability (see the summary in our last post), Bill Becker, of the Climate Action Project, pointed me towards his group’s site which has aggregated some effective web-based visualization tools for teaching/encouraging/explaining sustainable living. I stumbled upon a video from a couple of years ago set in a sustainable future; looking back from the year 2055 to the year 2005, it traces the steps we “undertook” to avert climate crisis.
The video, A Crisis Averted, seems a bit outdated already- talk of an Obama-McCain ticket for 2008 election?- but the ‘future’ it suggests- McDonald’s opening a chain of veggie oil gas stations called McFuel, politicians increasingly unable to justify their close ties to the oil companies…- does still seem possible. And we begin to see how we arrive at this ficticious (and hopeful) 2055.
Produced, in collaboration with Stonyfield, by RenewUs, which evolved into Climate Counts, an organization that brings consumers and companies together in the fight against climate change. The group scores the world’s largest companies on their climate impact to spur greater corporate responsibility.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll feature some of the other videos Bill and the folks at the Climate Action Project have collected.
