Planet Coolers
50:31 | VPRO Backlight dives into the world of climate engineering: scientists and start-ups trying to use technological means to cool the earth. How hopeful or risky are these techniques?
Greenland’s melting ice causing social problems
35:00 | Bram Vermeulen travels to the town of Ilulissat and the nearby ice fjords. Climate change has totally turned the lives of Greenlanders upside down.
The threat of rising sea levels
41:12 | On the paradisiacal San Blas Islands, the kunas live with the rhythms of nature. As sea levels rise, they face a major dilemma: should they move to the countryside or wait for the water to come?
Driving on Solar
47:26 | The solar car, an electric car with built-in solar panels, will be on the market in 2022. From 2030 onwards, no new cars may be sold in the Netherlands that run on petrol or diesel.
A New World order
50:19 | It is more urgent than ever for Europe to become self-sufficient in energy. This is accompanied by major power shifts, both within and outside the EU.
Fighting for the climate
24:21 | In this short documentary we see three young people who turn their climate concerns into action. How far will they go and how lonely is their struggle?
The Race for the Super Battery
46:11 | All over the world, storage technologists and battery pioneers are looking for ways to store renewable energy. From developing fast batteries to storing heat in basalt and salt.
Not having children for the climate
12:26 | Pop star Blythe Pepino came to realise that far-reaching choices are needed to save the climate. Such as not fulfilling your wish to have children.
Trees will save our planet
50:39 | Will trees save our planet? Trees and forests make the earth and climate livable and stimulate biodiversity. How do we deal with our ancient trees, and what else can we do?
Why our economic model must change
44:59 | In Doughnut economics by Kate Raworth, we see that markets are inefficient and growth is not the holy grail.
How clean meat will change the food industry
30:15 | How will clean meat change our food industry? Is clean meat the future and if so, how will clean meat change our way of living or are we ignoring it to satisfy our hunger for meat?
Why earth destruction is a crime
46:41 | Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón to fight for ecocide.
The battle against climate change by Paul Kingsnorth
49:32 | A documentary that gives thinker and writer Paul Kingsnorth the time to explain how humanity still can be hopeful although the battle against climate change in his eyes has been lost.
How green energy will change our future
44:51 | How will green energy change our future? What will our future look like with green energy? The growth of green energy goes together with change.
Why fossil free is a movement
48:03 | A documentary that shows a movement that believes in a fossil free future.
Transition to sustainable energy
47:43 | In view of the explosive growth in China and India, the pessimists give us only 25 years to operate an energy transition to sustainable energy. But is an energy transition easy to set in motion?
Waste = Food (Cradle to Cradle)
49:08 | Michael Braungart and William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build.
Breakthrough in renewable energy
46:10 | In countries like Brazil, Australia, Chile and parts of the United States people consider renewable energy because of financial reasons. A surprising newcomer on the market is Morocco.
Fossil Free
48:29 | Om divestmentkampagner i Holland og Berlin. Den ene kampagne retter sig mod det store hollandske pensionsselskab ABP, med 2,8 millioner medlemmer, og den anden mod byen Berlin.