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We proudly present our second group project on the climate, this one dealing with solutions to climate change and the individual stories of those trying to live a more sustainable existence: "Solutions by NOOR".
Following our 2009 group project "Consequences by NOOR" (click to access the project) - an eyewitness record of the effects of climate change around the globe - in the autumn of 2010 NOOR investigated what is and can be done to slow down or reverse climate changes. We focused on human stories about alternative power sources, renewable energies and attempts to alleviate, adjust or cope with the rise of global temperatures.
A multi-year group project on climate change, the biggest challenge our world has ever faced.
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What was once America’s most famous slum is now at the forefront of a national movement tackling climate change with environmental justice, one street at a time. What’s good for the planet is also good for the ’hood. The Bronx, US, August/November 2010.
© Nina Berman
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What started as a way to reduce oil dependence in a decade threatened by the first oil crisis and its resulting oil shortages, has brought Brazil to the forefront of the battle against climate change. Brazil, October 2010.
© Francesco Zizola
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The Mongolian herdsmen have received compensation from the energy companies to allow them to build these high-tech wind parks on their land. Now the old and the new meet and mingle on the steppes. China, November 2010.
© Kadir van Lohuizen
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Nearly all homes in Iceland are heated by geothermal heat, one of Iceland's greatest natural resources. The geothermal water is also used in swimming pools and greenhouses and for soil warming, fish farming, animal husbandry, and many other ways. Iceland, August 2010.
© Pep Bonet
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The back to the land movement is drawing thousands of professionals - weary of consumerism, state policy and corruption - to far corners of Siberia, the Altai Mountains and the Karelian woods in search of happier, alternative forms of living. Russia, November 2010
© Yuri Kozyrev
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Rickshaw cays, filtering swirling, carbon-monoxide-blues, invite glances from within, both furtive and not, and cageless, steel-pressed-boxless proximity ensures a constant theatre of exchanges, bells and laughter pealing and ringing in the islands' collective wakes. Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 2010
© Philip Blenkinsop
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Globally there are more countries with few resources and people forced into environmentally conscious decisions by necessity than places with ‘whizz bang’ gadgets. Much can be learned from Cuba's initiatives and innovations. Cuba, October 2010.
© Jon Lowenstein
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Deforestation produces about one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests is a key part of the solution to tackling the climate crisis. DRC, November 2010
© Alixandra Fazzina
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Solar energy in Kenya: the beginning of the journey to search for the usages of solar energy in Kenya started for me in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi. Kenya, November 2010.
© Stanley Greene
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Consequences by NOOR launched with a series of events and public initiatives during the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. Filmmaker Ivan Abreu documented these events (click here to watch the video).
Since its launch, NOOR's climate change project has been on show as in- and outdoors exhibitions in Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Balearic Islands, Turkey, Belgium and Spain. The work has been widely published in the international print and online media.
Both the new Solutions by NOOR and Consequences by NOOR have been funded with a generous grant from Nikon Europe BV (click to access Nikon's website).
To publish the different features from the project Solutions by NOOR please contact the NOOR office (click).
To book or develop unique exhibitions and/or publish our climate change projects, please contact us.
Claudia Hinterseer
NOOR | Managing Director
tel. + 31.20.616.4040
gsm + 31.6.2428.5669
claudia@noorimages.com
support this project through the NOOR foundation.
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