We are at the summit.

Social Business sounds like an interesting answer to a lot of questions asked in these tumultuous economic  times. So far in my research I’ve found that the way people treat economics has a lot to do why and how wars happen. Since I don’t want another war to happen I thought I’d check it out.

Social Business inside the Henry Ford Building.

Anyway, we’ll hang with the Social Business crowd in Berlin this weekend. I’ll keep you posted on what’s going on there. Btw the location of the summit is quite neat. They definitely have taste.

Check out the link here.

vision summit

What can we do?

We probably all agree on the need for a more sustainable way to live. Cutting carbon emissions, pushing renewable technology, upping energy efficiency and so on. Question remains: Are these efforts enough?

More and more experts argue that personal carbon virtue and collective environmentalism are futile as long as our economic system is built on the assumption of growth. So if we are serious about saving earth, we must re-structure our economy.

What can you do to help this process?  I  let some experts do the talking on these issues.

“Buy less stuff. Join and support Friends of the Earth.”

Herman Daly ecological economist, University of Maryland, US

“Vote. Or better yet, get involved in politics at any level and advocate green economics.”

Julia Marton-Lefèvre director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

“In a speech in April 1967, Martin Luther King called on the US to undergo a radical revolution of values – to shift from a ‘thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society’. It is a message that resonates with today’s challenges.”

John Beddington, chief scientific adviser to HM Government, UK

find more on Newscientist.com

At the crossroads.

While researching for our doc GLOBAL WARNING I realized that I need to investigate the economic system we’re trapped in to find the reasons why we destroy what we love most (e.g. our planet and thus ourselves).

We are in an economic turmoil and the consequences of the financial meltdown will be rippling all over us and the planet. Did you know that there’s one person who predicted all this two years ago?

His name is Nouriel Roubini and the New York Times recently called him Dr. Doom. I find him to be a tremendously interesting person to listen to with a diverse background.  Check out Mr. Roubini’s website

GLOBAL WARNING: now more relevant than ever

from right to left: Reinhard Dayer (CEO Naturfreunde Austria), Regina Hrbek (Environmental Department), Ernst Gossner (Director GLOBAL WARNING)

It’s turbulent times all over our planet. With the financial turmoil headlines now everywhere it seems we’re  at a critical point. The more I deal with the making of our documentary GLOBAL WARNING the more it dawns on me that we seem to be at a crossroads as a society. I’ll be going into more detail about this in my next blogs.

In our last series of interviews we also met with the guys from NATURFREUNDE in Austria. They are an organisation promoting nature and environmental issues and they’re great guys. All our German speaking blog readers please check them out at http://www.naturfreunde.at/

In the trenches!

I delivered the footage we shot so far now to our editing suite in Los Angeles. Still a little jet-lagged I went through some of the stuff cameraman Rich Marcus shot with his flip camera while we were scouting on top of the Lagazuoi mountain – one of the nastiest battlegrounds of the alpine frontline in WW1.

Very strange vibe witnessing this amazing landscape contrasted by the remnants of a brutal war. Here’s a little snippet Rich shot in the trenches: