Documentary
Follow the link to see the documentary "Sustain-Ability: an experiment" that was produced for and screened in the 2012 Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance - Setting the Stage for Sustainable Consumption:
SustainAbility: an experiment
Sustain-Ability: an experiment: As part of the multimedia event, a documentary is currently being produced focusing on the topic of sustainable living. Through different approaches, ranging from interviews with producers and consumers to the experiences of the MEG 6 students with a four week experiment, the documentary seeks to explore the feasibility of a "zero impact" way of life.
Inspired by Colin Beavan, the author of "No impact man", students face the challenge of adopting lifestyles of the lowest possible environmental impact for a month. The multicultural group embarks on this challenge using different strategies, as each of them has different needs and habits. But how has this experiment impacted their lives? This and more in the documentary that is to be launched in the 2012 Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance!
The full documentary Sustain-Ability: an experiment will be available for viewers in our YouTube Channel. You can already view some videos documenting the making of the documentary and interviews with citizens of Freiburg
http://www.youtube.com/user/MEG6ify
Interviews with citizens at the Freiburg market
Aditional Information on Sustainable Lifestyles
Below you can find some interesting sources of information on sustainable lifestyles
Concept papers of the student organizers
See the concept papers of the student organizers of the 2012 Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance
Websites
No impact man
The Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo
The Project http://noimpactproject.org/
Literature
Cohen, Maurie and Joseph Murphy (eds) 2001. Exploring Sustainable Consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
About the director
Philippe Waldecker is a German/Canadian with experience in film Editing,
Producing and Directing. In addition to his current studies in Audio
and Video Engineering at the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) at the
University of Music, Düsseldorf; he has been involved in a number of
projects in various capacities. These range from providing technical
advice to directing to editing, camera operation and conceptualisation.
Some of the credits attached to his name include: Never Never Land
(2008, conceptualisation and realisation); Top 10 Grooves and Beats
(2009, camera operator); The Soul of Dance (2009, director, editor and
producer); Mozart: Le Nozze de Figaro (2010, technical advisor and
vision mixer); Herkules (2009 – 2011, camera operator); Serdar Somuncu:
Der Hassprediger (2011, technical adviser and steadycam operator).
Philippe’s work has proven to be a valuable contribution in documenting
the approach taken by some MEG students in adopting Sustainable
Consumption practices in their lives.