Film and media production
Robert Alstead 
I posted this video profile of Andrew Weaver’s two terms in the BC Legislature, yesterday to my YouTube channel. It includes footage and interviews, not used in my feature documentary Running On Climate, looking at how the BC Greens went from a 30-year-old party with no seats to holding the balance of power in the … Read more
Ever since they have had the neck muscles to hold their cranium above their shoulders our kids have been on human-powered wheels: on seats on the back of our bikes, in bike trailers, on scooters, pedal bikes, roller blades, skateboards, and tricycles. (Article continues below video) One big reason why we never became a car … Read more
The idea for a vice fast had crossed my mind as the end of the year approached, but it was my seven-year-old who made it something concrete. Mid-December, he declared that as soon as Christmas was over he was going to give up sugar. No candy, maple syrup, ice cream, donuts, granola bars, chocolate, cookies, … Read more
President Joe Biden has wasted no time in winding back the damage done by his predecessor. On day one of his four-year term, Biden is taking the US back into the Paris Agreement and has carbon reduction in his sights, including axing the Keystone XL pipeline. There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic: the U.S. … Read more
I’m celebrating. At the beginning of 2020, climate and energy journo Alessandro Vitelli (aka @CarbonReporter) held a competition on Twitter to see who could predict the price of a tonne of CO2e (carbon dioxide or equivalent) on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Futures at the end of the year. Specifically, he asked for a prediction for … Read more
This is the teaser video that I included as part of a submission to the CBC about the BC Seed Trials. The extract opens on urban farmer Chris Thoreau ruminating on why all but one of his tomato plants have failed. “It’s a little embarrassing,” he says. Other participants in this citizen seed trial (that … Read more
This is a work-in-progress that started with gathering photos of discarded televisions in my neighbourhood in Vancouver. It will be a whimsical look at the nature of obsolescence. I have now hoarded a fair amount of material and so should be posting an update here soon. With a more exciting title, too.