Open Planet is a new free-to-use video library to help fight climate change
Nov 9, 2023
Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
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Open Planet is a brand new online library of over 4500 videos that are free to use. The project is a team effort between Studio Silverback and Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab. They are adding more videos daily to help battle climate change.
The project is about raising awareness of wildlife and the environment. The team behind Open Planet want to get the word out about climate change. They know that the medium of film and video is an effective way to convey the seriousness of the subject.
“Bringing together powerful footage and world-class science, we’re enabling everyone, everywhere, to tell the story of our changing planet,” says the team behind the project. They say climate change is no longer a science problem; it’s now a communications issue.
The videos range from beautiful drone footage of natural scenery to documentary footage of wildlife and the impacts of climate change.
The Open Planet team hopes that content creators, filmmakers and educators worldwide will benefit from the footage. They want them to tell more engaging stories that capture the public’s attention about the plight of the environment.
Director Colin Butfield told This is Colossal, “As filmmakers, we know stories can be powerful agents of change, and with the window for action rapidly closing to address the planetary emergency, there’s never been a greater need for compelling, authentic storytelling.”
The videos on Open Planet come from many sources. Filmmakers and companies are sharing some footage, while others are shooting specifically for this website. They want to grow the library and show even more issues from around the world.
So far, a collection that focuses on India has been released. However, the whole library will be available early next year. It’s free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.
[Via This is Colossal]
Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
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4 responses to “Open Planet is a new free-to-use video library to help fight climate change”
There’s no climate change. Or, the climate has always changed. Nothing we can do about it.
Can you stop posting political BS? And, especially when it is about the feud that is climate change.
Since you insist on giving this nonsense a forum let my reply.
Global warming is all about CO2 causing warming. We need to show people the truth about CO2. CO2 doesn’t and never has caused warming. There are two, very simple to understand, reasons for this.
1.All of the temperature vs CO2 studies using ice core samples show that CO2 levels follow temperature changes when you look at this over millions of years. Over short periods there isn’t any correlation. CO2 level is a result of changing temperature, not the cause. Temperature goes up then CO2 goes up. Temperature goes down then CO2 goes down. That should be enough. But there’s more…
2. At the wavelength, of radiation, where CO2 absorbs, all of the radiation is already being absorbed; mostly by water vapor. You can add many more times the amount of CO2 to the system and it can’t absorb what isn’t there. It’s like having five towels to clean up a spill of milk. If the first towel cleans up all of the milk, using more towels isn’t going to clean up more.
It’s getting really tiresome hearing all the doomsday BS as well. This has been going on since the recording of temperatures started. Exactly none of the doomsday predictions have ever come true. At some point you need to question the methods and more importantly the motives of these people.
Martin Gillette Are you a climate scientist? This is a great resource of high quality free stock video footage. It’s useful. But maybe if you’d read the article and didn’t just get angry at the title you’d realise that.
Alex Baker I don’t really care about all of what the article says I read enough of it to know it isn’t DIY Photography. Why would someone need to be a climate scientist or even a scientist at all (I am one but who cares) to be able to think critically, be able to find real science of a subject and to be able to spot BS? You might be able to do it if you try.