Alex Txikon’s winter ascension on Manaslu, Nepal, is the seed of a story that will bring sustainable light to two very different places: Newton, Sierra Leone, and a special school in Diamer, Pakistan. Alpinism, solidarity and renewable energy are key to this story.

In India, tre donne sono pioniere della sostenibilità urbana affrontando i problemi della gestione dei rifiuti. Nonostante lavorino in campi a predominanza maschile, queste figure trasformano i rifiuti in materiali da costruzione, riuniscono membri della comunità per ripristinare i fiumi e producono prodotti per la cura della persona a zero rifiuti. Con le loro storie intrecciate insieme, vediamo che i rifiuti sono pieni di potenziale per il riutilizzo.

In 2050, the world has been drastically changed by lack of water, causing a global water crisis. In an underground shelter, two young men are faced with a struggle for survival. Their battle to find the necessary resources, and the hostility of the outside world, will lead them to make drastic choices.

When grandfather regrets the abuses in the family business on his deathbed, granddaughter seems to be the right person to change the company for good – were it not that uncle and aunt think slightly differently about this.

Faced with precarious access to electricity, one historic village in Lebanon harnesses the power of solar energy in a nation that receives abundant sunlight. Through the lens of an opera singer, a tailor and an environmental activist, we witness how community members seize this opportunity to become independent from private generators, instead installing new and innovative technologies that sustain both everyday life and the planet.

In the southwest of Madagascar, the Mahafaly plateau is an extremely arid land. Here, the rains fall only a few times a year. In these very difficult living conditions, the inhabitants of the small village of Ampotaka found a unique solution to store water.

There is a place in the Alps where the Mediterranean meets the boreal lands of Northern Europe. Species linked to very distant habitats, here they coexist almost side by side. Extraordinary landscapes and environments lead us in just a few steps from low altitudes to glaciers. A biodiversity threatened by the hand of man, but also tenaciously protected by a network of natural areas that are increasingly connected. This place is Valtellina, where European Nature meets.

To find less carbon-intensive solutions, the architects of the ciguë agency are studying the potential of using plaster instead of cement, which is responsible for 30% of CO2 emissions in the building sector. Their study demonstrates the qualities of plaster as a binder capable of replacing natural aggregates, sand, and gravel, with building rubble: bricks, tiles, or crushed concrete…

When a university student struggling with an environmental studies assignment searches for inspiration for an assignment at an art gallery, she is magically transported into a painting and lands in 19th-century Japan. In Edo, today’s Tokyo, she witnesses a range of everyday sustainable practices––using ashes in the dyeing process, fertilizing fields with night soil, repurposing used kimonos into towels and rags––that helped the country overcome environmental collapse.

What would you save, between a man and a tree?
In the age of global warming, there is no place where the usual expectations of human life are not questioned.
This movie is a picture of Senegal as a country of struggles. But it is also the country of activists who work hard to make climate change an opportunity for thinking about our way of being human.

Essaouira, Morocco. A narrator writes a letter in which he tells a story that is close to him: that of a young woman who, in losing her father, loses the world that shaped her identity.