Carbon Neutral?
16/11/09 10:27 Filed in:Film
Our new film project "Death of the Nile?" looks at the effects of climate change on the Nile Basin.
While its important to highlight the issues surrounding climate change, its hard not to become part of the problem when shooting a film that involves a lot of international air travel. To make this film, we've had to fly from Europe out to the Nile Basin, so to try to help neutralise our carbon footprint, when I got home, I planted an "Umbrella Pine", a "Cyprus Pine" 3 huge Catalpa trees in our garden.
According to Channel 4's Landshare website:
Find out more here:
http://landshare.channel4.com/blog/146
While its important to highlight the issues surrounding climate change, its hard not to become part of the problem when shooting a film that involves a lot of international air travel. To make this film, we've had to fly from Europe out to the Nile Basin, so to try to help neutralise our carbon footprint, when I got home, I planted an "Umbrella Pine", a "Cyprus Pine" 3 huge Catalpa trees in our garden.
According to Channel 4's Landshare website:
According to the UK Government, the average person in the UK has an annual carbon footprint of 10.92 tonnes of CO2 - which is equivalent to the carbon captured by 7 trees in their lifetime.
Find out more here:
http://landshare.channel4.com/blog/146
