Due to climate change, ski seasons will be markedly shorter by 2050. Lower elevations will receive significantly less snowfall. Professional skiers Greg Hill &amp; Chris Rubens peer into the future and have a conversation with their future selves, contemplating the sobering forecast and the impact their thirst for adventure has on the very environment that sustains and fulfills them. With an eye on the clock, they launch themselves into an experiment: can they each remain committed skiers while significantly reducing their carbon footprints?

The Curve of Time

Faced with a worsening climate, professional athletes Greg Hill and Chris Rubens make a time capsule recording for their future selves in 2050. With an eye on the clock, they begin an experiment: can they each remain committed skiers while significantly reducing their carbon footprints?

We know that cycling is good for the environment but what about bikes? Revolutions looks at the waste created by bike manufacturing and consumption and encourages us to think about the circular economy as a way forward.

Revolutions

An environmentalist and animal rights activist whose care for nature and concerns for water shortage is unique in his own way. He has chosen to live away from the city and people, however, after each visit to the city he collects all the recyclable and usable items namely plastic bottles, worn and abandoned tires on the roadsides and in nature. His job is to grow tomatoes, vegetables, and use the garden trees, grapes, and even roses that he grows and earns a living from that. But perhaps his strangest difference with the rest of the gardeners in the world is his home in which he lives - a building with dilapidated TVs, cell phones. The appearance of the walls and putting the TVs under mud can be a reason for hatred and avoidance, however, he takes shelter inside the same building which shows a contrast that mankind faces these days.

Kak Iraj

In this documentary, landscape architect Louis De Jaeger outlines how food forests can save the earth from suffocation, resuscitate communities, make agriculture sustainable, reverse global warming and still produce an abundance of food. This film takes you on a trip through the secret gardens of food forest pioneers. From urban jungles to healing projects in psychiatric institutions. Because nature appears to be the best healer for the social, psychological and ecological scars that people have caused. If we give nature's resilience a chance, together we can create a new Eden. In fact, pieces of this new paradise are already visible.

Food Forest

In Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—an artist named Nthabiseng TeReo Mohanela takes discarded materials and transforms them into unique clothing and accessories. Teaching young people the benefits of recycling and re-creation, she calls her project “From Trash to Treasure.” With TeReo’s work as a starting point, this short film showcases a broader spirit of reimagination among artists in Lesotho, who use creativity to respond to entrenched social problems: Filmmakers show the need to end child marriage. Musicians write songs about climate change. Farmers collect seeds to protect endangered tree species. Designers use fashion to preserve traditional Basotho culture and challenge common perceptions of Africa. Profiling a variety of these innovators, FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: turning negatives into positives encourages us to take lessons from those who rethink, reuse, and reinvent in order to promote positive change.

From Trash to Treasure

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