Stories tagged with "movie"

Livable Streets and Reclaiming Public Space for People (Instead of Automobiles)

Posted by Glenn on May 13, 2009 - 6:13pm in The Oil Drum: Campfire
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: livable streets, movie, new york city, ocean city, public space, sustainability [list all tags]

One of clearest ways that cities and towns can start to de-couple their economic fates from the addiction to oil is to create alternatives to automobile centric lifestyles. One way that New York and other cities are adapting their land use policies is to reclaim space from automobiles to encourage a rich pedestrian environment that attracts people to sit, relax, walk around their neighborhood or commercial districts

For anyone who is down in the dumps and thinks that nothing can be done to change the car-culture where you are, I hope this post offers a glimmer of hope, optimism and inspiration on what can be done when we re-think our public domain.

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Blind Spot Documentary

Posted by Gail the Actuary on February 20, 2009 - 3:23pm
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: blind spot, energy crisis, movie, peak oil [list all tags]


Blind Spot is a new documentary directed by Adolfo Doring that may be of interest to Oil Drum readers. This is a link to its website. It is described thus:

Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroads, which offer two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse.

According to one review, "It makes 'An Inconvenient Truth' look like a sitcom".

The movie features interviews with William Catton Jr., Max Fraad Wolff, Richard Heinberg, Kenneth Deffeyes, Albert Bartlett, Roscoe Bartlett, James Hansen, David Pimentel, Joseph Tainter, David Korten, Jason Bradford, Elke Weber, Mary-Ann Hitt, Terry Tamminen, Ted Caplow and Derrick Jensen.

The movie is available as a DVD for $16 and lasts about 1.5 hours. It would be great if readers could convince a local public television station to show it. The web site includes a trailer and 12 short excerpts available on the website. Some quotes about the film below the fold.

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Australia Pumping Empty: New Movie Now Available

Posted by Phil Hart on June 13, 2008 - 1:48am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: australia, movie [list all tags]



The DVD is now available to buy from Aquila Productions.
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Movie Preview: Australia Pumping Empty

Posted by Phil Hart on May 19, 2008 - 7:21am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: movie [list all tags]

The first three minutes of this new Australian film are available on the Aquila Productions website:

http://www.aquilaproductions.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...

More news about release and distribution soon (hopefully!).

Opening Night in Brisbane this Tuesday.

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Australia Pumping Empty: the Looming Peak Oil Crisis

Posted by Phil Hart on April 17, 2008 - 7:42pm in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: movie [list all tags]



Those lucky folks in Brisbane have a new Australian made Peak Oil Movie to go and see. Opening Night is Tuesday 20th May at the Ithaca Auditorium at the Brisbane City Hall.

Get your tickets at www.climateleadership.net.au

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Oil Drum Staff on Film

Posted by Chris Vernon on March 13, 2008 - 10:04am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Site news
Tags: aspo6 conference, movie, the oil drum [list all tags]

During the Sixth annual ASPO conference in Cork, Ireland in 2007, Nate Hagens and I were interviewed for the event's DVD. The 5 disc DVD box set (available here) contains all the conference material and a number of interviews including ours.

Below the fold you can watch our interviews. As ever your insightful comments on the content are welcomed but we are also interested in your thoughts on video as a communication medium and what future video could have on The Oil Drum. Also see the video Luís de Sousa made last month: Olduvai 2008 movie.

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Olduvai 2008 movie

Posted by Luis de Sousa on March 1, 2008 - 11:30am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: alternative energy, movie, olduvai, peak coal, peak fossil fuel, peak natural gas, peak oil [list all tags]



As an addendum to the Olduvai 2008 post there's a movie available that digests the main ideas presented there.

This was an original idea of Nate Hagens and Chris Vernon to somehow broaden the TOD readership spectrum to people with busy schedules and/or short attention spans. This new Olduvai assessment seemed a good place to start, although in the future the objective is to have more concise and direct movies, targeted for people who are not so savvy on fossil fuel depletion.

The budget was €0, so this piece of media is far from perfect, to which we ask for your understanding.

You can watch the movie using these links:

Google Video

YouTube (part 1)

YouTube (part 2)

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Boone Pickens: There's No End in Sight for the Rise in Crude Oil Prices

Posted by Sam Foucher on October 18, 2007 - 6:00pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: movie, oil prices, t. boone pickens [list all tags]

A lot of talks in the media about the recent jump in oil prices.

Boone Pickens yesterday morning:

"We've never been where we are today at $87 a barrel and we're still whistling along. Everybody seems to be, 'So what? We can handle $87' " he said. "I don't know where the world chokes on the price."
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