Filming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Imagine if you had one minute in an elevator to tell our next President why climate change matters. What would you say?

1Sky and Brighter Planet are teaming up and we want you to film your message and upload it now to our new national video message competition -- Climate Matters: Inspire Your Next President! Winners will win cash prizes and their ads will be broadcast nationwide and delivered to the Presidential candidates and members of Congress.

Click here to visit the competition page on Vimeo.

You and I both know climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. We may already have changed our light bulbs, transformed our diets, moved to more fuel-efficient transportation, reduced our consumption and limited our air travel. What more can we possibly do? The climate is constantly on our minds, but the final and most important piece of the climate puzzle is missing--putting the issue front and center in the minds of our leaders. Now is the time and we need your help to deliver a message to our leaders demanding bold federal climate action. So what's your message? Quickly... the elevator ride is almost over and time's running out!

The headline from big business lately has been drill, drill, drill. We say film, engage, and change! I believe one of the most powerful ways to avert this climate crisis is by using video to open the eyes of our leaders so that they can join us in our quest to tackle global warming. (As you may know I spent the last 10 years as the director of WITNESS, founded by Peter Gabriel, which focuses on using video to create change. So I have first hand experience with how a video can make a difference). The only way we can avoid catastrophic climate change is if our leaders base their decisions in the scientific reality. But in order for our leaders to act in-line with what science demands, we must move quickly and show them that America is ready for bold climate action!

You've all heard the old phrase "I'll believe it when I see it." Well, Brighter Planet and 1Sky are opening the political space for you and now is your chance to shoot a video showing Congress and the next President to take bold federal climate action. The best messages will be shown to a central audience of over 50 million people nationwide as well as our leaders. And the grand prizewinner will get $3000 on a Brighter Planet gift card. (We won't force you to weatherize your home with the prize money, but you might think about it!)

So think of what you would tell our leaders, grab a camera and start filming! You have the power to catalyze a new American movement and reshape the critical climate policies on Capital Hill. It's time for Congress and the next President to see that America is ready for bold climate action. If Congress and the President can see it, they just may believe it.

Comments

[ianrthorpe]

The climate issue is at the forefront of every business and political leader. They just come at it from a different angle. Rather than ask themselves, "How do we save the planet?" they ask "How do we let things go on as they are and blame someone else for the inevitable catastrophes?

Meanwhile celebrity green campaigners do not think about what their latest causus belli will achieve but how much publicity it will generate for them.


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