300 years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds wins DoGooder nonprofit video award!

November 22, 2010

From Tod Brilliant of PCI:
Last week we asked for your help with the YouTube/See3 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. Thousands of organizations participated and four were awarded the top prize. THANKS TO YOU and your support, Post Carbon Institute secured the Best Video in the Small Nonprofit category. For this we are grateful and proud.

The winning videos are posted here.

Fossil fuels have powered human growth and ingenuity for centuries. Now that we’re reaching the end of cheap and abundant oil and coal supplies, we’re in for an exciting ride. While there’s a real risk that we’ll fall off a cliff, there’s still time to control our transition to a post-carbon future.

Written and narrated by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg.

Animated by the wonderful team at MONSTRO DESIGN.

Background beats (“Can I Kick It?”) by A Tribe Called Quest.

The video has also been translated into Hungarian – and Portuguese.

Richard Heinberg

Richard is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He is the author of fourteen books, including some of the seminal works on society’s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis. He has authored hundreds of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature and The Wall Street Journal; delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences on six continents; and has been quoted and interviewed countless times for print, television, and radio. His monthly MuseLetter has been in publication since 1992. Full bio at postcarbon.org.

Tags: Coal, Consumption & Demand, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Overshoot, Renewable Energy