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Peter, a German climate laywer

4/1/2022

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Peter is a father of two and a climate lawyer. He co-founded Lawyers4Future and works for ClientEarth.

He has worked in environmental law for 25 years and seen the climate become much more of a topic, as well as seeing changing laws so that instead of winning 0% of environmental cases, as was normal when he started, to winning about 60% now!

What Peter loves about his profession is the sense of David versus Goliath: in court, a tiny environmental organization can take on a big corporation and get on an equal level with them, and when they have good arguments, even win. 

He is currently preparing a case against a coal plant that would be one of the first to use a new legal basis for environmental cases, saying the coal-fed power plant would exceed the CO2 Budget for the next years.
Peter is trying to make it mandatory for all construction and industrial plans to calculate their specific CO2 budget so that Germany can overall stick to the Paris agreement.
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Scarlett, a 17-Year old activist

4/1/2022

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Scarlett is a 17-year-old leading climate justice activist. She lives in Birmingham, England, with her family who emigrated from Kashmir.

Scarlett is currently the youngest person in the world to have an A level in Government and Politics, which she attained at age 13.

She is the youngest regular policy writer in Europe, having contributed to 3 Bills and 7 party manifestos.

Scarlett is also a leading organiser of the Birmingham school strikes which attracted turnouts of thousands, as well as a prominent national strike organizer. 

The climate bill she is currently pushing forward is supported by the two main political parties.
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Ophelie: Our second protagonist in Europe

12/17/2021

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Ophelie is 25 years old, she lives in the North of France and comes from a working-class family.

​Her story is beautiful and in The Week, she will speak among other things about how she onboarded her whole family on her ecological journey. 

Ophelie is a great role model when it comes to mobilizing people to make changes in their most immediate circle.

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Ophelie and her uncle Jacques who has an amazing vegetable garden
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in the barn...
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Film team: Bente, the sound person, and Celine, the translator.
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Everyone, all together, on the set
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Ophelie said she didn't want to let the crew go after the shooting...
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After a good day of work!
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And now meet Pauline in Paris!

12/17/2021

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Pauline is 28 years old, she lives in France and works in a large company. She has decided not to leave the corporate world, but instead to make things change regarding the climate crises by mobilizing her colleagues within the company, who otherwise would feel lonely or powerless.

Pauline is also part of a larger network in France, called Les Collectifs whose objective is to transform the corporate world from within.
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Pauline talking about how she woke up to the climate crisis
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Paris... The view from Pauline's company
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At a meeting with her friends from "Les Collectifs"
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The film crew
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The spill that opened Yancy's eyes!

12/7/2021

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Yancy is a veteran of the Armed Forces. He began working for the fossil fuel industry over a decade ago in the transportation sector of Crude Oil.

As a young man remembering the Exxon Valdez spill, he became aware and convinced by virtue of other unnatural disasters in recent history, that climate change is a serious threat to humanity.

​Yancy decided to resign from his job in the oilfield, and began working for an electric car company as a test driver. He has found great joy in collaborating as well as working with other human beings to create technology to bring about a cleaner, more efficient world.

Yancy is in his late 40's, happily married and an empty nester who loves spending time with his grandchild.

He is a very genuine and heartfelt person and we can't wait for you to meet him!
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Yancy and his grandchild...
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At work, testing a new electric vehicle...
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Playing the drum with his mom
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Bits of Yancy's life...
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John and Holly, 9th generation farming family!

10/15/2021

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This summer, David, our director, and his team filmed John and Holly. Let's introduce them briefly... 
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After witnessing John's father embrace industrialized agriculture practices after 8 generations of family farming, John and Holly have chosen to go back to raising animals as their ancestors did, on green grass, without growth stimulants, antibiotics, and GMOs.
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John...
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... on his tractor :-)
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Holly
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At the farm...
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A poignant interview.
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With their daughter...
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The crew!
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Nick, our amazing producer... and his new friends.
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Please Meet Frank!

10/15/2021

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Frank is the second person we filmed in the US this summer. Frank grew up between a superfund site and an oil refinery. Seeing the effects of the pollution take out community members – including his own family – he is now on a mission to educate South Memphis residents to make the connection between environmental pollution and community health in order to empower them to fight back.

​This is Frank on the set :-)
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The interview with Frank was captivating!
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Frank talking in the park with other members of his community about the effects on pollution.
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Frank reflecting on the consequences of pollution on his family and community.
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Frank on the phone, organizing actions.
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Smoke. Quality of Air. Refinery.
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The refinery Frank grew up next to.
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We're filming Ashley: our first protagonist!

7/10/2021

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A doctor who's had the courage ​to face the climate crisis.

David Byars, our film director, and his team just spent three days with Ashley, a primary-care physician who lives in San Francisco.

After the Paradise wildfire in 2018, she was forced to stay-at-home for 13 days with her two-month-old baby because of the dangerous air pollution. It was a sudden and massive wake-up call. ​What is this world she just put this precious being into?  

​After that experience, she co-founded the non-profit organization Climate Health Now, a group of medical professionals in California who are protecting and improving the health of all people by advocating for urgent, equitable climate solutions.
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In The Week, Ashley will talk about how the climate crisis is affecting our health. This is her on the set!
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Ashley, with her group of doctors. Working hard to prepare a protest... and laughing hard too!
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Ashley talking about how she woke up to the climate crisis.
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A doctor listening to Ashley talk about climate change.
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Ashley in her clinic talking about the climate emergency with her patients.
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Getting ready for the morning bike ​ride to go to school.
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Ashley, her husband Hans and their daughter Calla
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Calla, who inspired her mom Ashley to wake up the the climate crisis, is now 2 years old
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Ashley painting. Preparation of a protest with other doctors.
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Ashley at work.
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David, our director, in shock when the lens is turned on him!
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