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Forests Finally Emerging as Climate Issue

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Forest and Techologies

Technology Pathways AF&PA estimates that the forest products industry will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 12% by 2012 relative to 2000 numbers. One of the main ways AF&PA anticipates that the industry will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity is through implementation of new technologies from research and development programs. AF&PA has been participating in DOE's Industries of the Future program, a collaborative research and development partnership between DOE and the forest products industry. Through this program, AF&PA has participated in the development of a number of technologies aimed at cutting energy use, minimizing environmental impacts, and improving productivity in industry. If fully commercialized, these technologies could make the U.S. forest products industry totally energy self-reliant and generate surplus power. Additionally, AF&PA is participating in the Agenda 2020 program, a voluntary partnership with the Department of Energy that fosters cost-shared research and development projects. Forest product industry participants are putting up 50 percent of the investment capital for these demonstration projects. Partnerships such as this promise new energy efficiency and other technological innovations.

Pumzi

 

Pumzi

Luonto on kuollut. Kaikkialla on pelkkää tyhjyyttä kolmannen maailmansodan jälkeen, joka on käyty veden omistuksesta 35 vuotta sitten. Maitu Councilin sisätiloissa elävän yhteisön museokuraattorina toimiva Asha saa yllättäen paketin multaa postista ja istuttaa siihen vanhan siemenen, joka alkaa heti itää. Asha pyytää lupaa tutkia elämän mahdollisuutta ulkomaailmassa, mutta Council ei myönnä hänelle viisumia. Asha murtautuu ulos yhteisöstä autioon ulkomaailmaan päästäkseen istuttamaan orastavan taimen. Onko ulkomaailmassa sittenkin elämää? Kenialaisen ohjaajan Wanuri Kahiun scifi-lyhytelokuva valittiin Sundance Film Festivalin ohjelmistoon 2010.

Nature is extinct. The outside is dead, 35 years after World War III - “The Water War”. Asha lives and works as a museum curator in one of the indoor communities set up by the Maitu Council. When she receives a box in the mail containing soil, she plants an old seed in it and the seed starts to germinate instantly. Asha appeals to the Council to grant her permission to investigate the possibility of life on the outside but the Council denies her exit visa. Asha breaks out of the inside community to go into the dead and derelict outside to plant the growing seedling and possibly find life on the outside.

Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2010

 

 

Maa / Country:
Kenia / Kenya
Vuosi / Year:
2009
Elokuvan kesto / Film length:
20 minutes
Ohjaaja / Director:
Wanuri Kahiu
   
Esitysaika
Showtime
Lauantai / Saturday 7.5. 12:00
Elokuva on englanninkielinen. 
The film is in English.