Climate LIFE

Visualizing everyday life in a low carbon future

Climate LIFE is a virtual tour of how communities across the globe can both fight climate change and adapt to a warming world. The purpose of Climate LIFE is to encourage awareness of and appreciation for the human and commercial potential in a low carbon future. It will act as a catalyst for a new public discourse on climate change.

Until now, the political debate and public discourse on climate change has pictured a world of risks. In response to this, Climate LIFE will present a vision for a more sustainable future-a future that can also be a place we want to be.

Drawing on the transformative power of visualization, Climate LIFE will show what sustainable communities might look like in the future, and in the process demonstrate that these communities are not only economically viable but also highly desirable, capable of setting new standards for quality of life.

Climate LIFE is produced in collaboration with several partners, including Koncern Film and TV, Arup and Make. Trygvesta has provided seed funding. Climate LIFE will consist of three key elements:

A FILM 'Climate LIFE - the 5th revolution'

'Climate LIFE - the 5^th revolution' is an emotional and strong story of a journey across the world in search of the solutions so urgently needed for avoiding a world climate life gone a wreck. It is produced in the realisation that we need a new climate agenda in order to achieve a transition to a sustainable society. We need to tell the story of climate change using a new positive language that can appeal to new audiences. Particularly, we wish to use evocative and emotional storytelling to get behind the real motivations, which has made pioneers, community leaders and others act on climate changes. Through compelling and evocative story-telling, the audiences will themselves feel the urgency of the quest and be inspired to take action.

Climate LIFE will be a follow-up to Al Gore's 'An inconvenient truth'. Where Al Gore opened the world's eyes to the massiveness of climate change, Climate LIFE will tell the new convenient truth of climate change - that the knowledge and solutions we know today give us the opportunity to create communities that enhance quality of life; that it is possible to build a greener, safer and more sustainable Earth.

'Climate Life - the 5^th revolution' will show that the precondition for the success is already present, and we will use this to root a new motivation and will to act in all of us. Such an inspiring innovation-tour has not yet been shown on the big screen- until now. A short feature will be launched at the World Business Summit on Climate Change and subsequently it will be shown at events, on the web, and will also be distributed to TV broadcasters across the world.

The film is produced in collaboration with Koncern Film and TV.

The LIFE Digital exhibtion

The LIFE digital exhibition will demonstrate what makes Climate LIFE possible and explores the delivery model necessary to achieve this vision. Looking at the political, economic and cultural systems as well as the technological and biological process that will underpin low carbon living in the future, the exhibition will present a variety of practical solutions and their implications, highlighting the state of the art in movement, energy production and efficient consumption, water and waste management etc. The exhibition will use the latest social software advances and interactive tools to illustrate the challenges, how they affect people, and the possibilities for getting involved.

The LIFE book

The coffea style-table LIFE book will illustrates Climate LIFE and what makes the transition to this new way of living possible and desirable. A reference book, it is the perfect companion piece to the digital exhibition.