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Review of Leonardo's 11th Hour
Jul 5 2008, 9:54 AM EDT
Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour ( www.11thhourfilm.com ). A friend went to see a screening of this film last week and recommended it... Impactful images and a formidable army of experts from a variety of disciplines and organisations discuss their take on the challenge of climate change. Leonardo asks us if we're going to allow this to be our darkest hour or choose it to be our finest moment. Good question. What's your answer? What inspired him most were the solutions put forward. As well as the top ten of switching off lights and cycling to work, we had the likes of William McDonagh, Time Magazine's 'Hero for the Planet'. William is an architect and designer and he comments: 'If we think about the tree as a design, it's something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distils water, provides a habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energy, makes complex sugars and food, creates micro-climates, self-replicates. So, what would it be like to design a building like a tree? What would it be like to design a city like a forest? So, what would a building be like if it were photosynthetic? What if it took solar energy and converted it to productive and delightful use?' www.mcdonagh.com The idea of looking deeply at nature, recognising we're not remotely separate from it, and learning how to change our world in alignment with it, is an extraordinarily inspiring vision for the future. It makes this the most amazing time to be alive. It means we can develop and evolve to reverse what damage we've generated. We have the choice to become a more inclusive breed and sustain humanity or not. "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." Arthur Rubinstein (GT Emails 15/01/08)
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