Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary on the global environmental crisis paints a portrait of a planet at risk while also offering some exciting and radical solutions for making life on earth sustainable. Tapping the brains of leading scientists and thinkers – including Stephen Hawking and Mikhail Gorbachev – the film ultimately delivers a hopeful message. Our planet may be in crisis, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to change. Extract from Netflix – Rated PG – 1hr 32min – 2007
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The 11th Hour Film Documentary
The 11th Hour looks at the state of the worldwide environment, incorporating visionary and commonsense answers for restoring the planet's biological systems.
Co-chiefs Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners lead questions with a percentage of the planet's heading researchers and inventive scholars in a film that asks whether it is too late with no option to evade the biological catastrophe that is coming soon.
Notwithstanding investigating how humanity has landed at this essential focus in history, discussion with 50 heading masterminds, researchers, and pioneers incorporating previous Soviet Pm Mikhail Gorbachev, widely acclaimed researcher Stephen Hawking, and manageable configuration masters Bruce Mau and William Mcdonough to figure out just what mankind can do about the most pressing issues of our opportunity.
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Narrator
Paul Stamets - Mycologist, Author, Mycelium Running
David Orr - Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
Stephen Hawking - Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University
Oren Lyons - Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations, Iroquois Confederacy
Kenny Ausubel - Founder, Bioneers
Thom Hartmann - Author, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Wangari Maathai - Founder, Greenbelt Movement, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Sandra Postel - Director, Global Water Policy Project
Andrew C. Revkin - Author & Science Reporter, New York Times (as Andy Revkin)
Sylvia Earle - Oceanographer, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
Paul Hawken - Author, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur
Janine Benyus - Author, Biomimicry
James Parks Morton - Dean Emeritus, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Nathan Gardels - Editor, New Perspectives Quarterly
Wes Jackson - President, The Land Institute
Joseph Tainter - Author, The Collapse of Complex Societies
Richard Heinberg - Author, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Stuart Pimm - Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University
Paolo Soleri - Architect, Founder of Arcosanti
David Suzuki - Scientist, Environmentalist, Broadcaster
James Hillman - Psychologist
James Woolsey - VP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Director, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, 1993-1995
Vijay Vaitheeswaran - Energy & Environment Correspondent, The Economist
Bill McKibben - Author, Founder, Stepitup07.org
Peter de Menocal - Associate Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (as Peter Demenocal)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier - International Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Brock Dolman - WATER Institute Director, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
Stephen Schneider - Co-Director, Center for Environmental Science & Policy, Stanford University
Ray Anderson - Founder, Interface, Inc.
Tim Carmichael - President, Coalition for Clean Air
Theo Colborn - President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Jeremy Jackson - Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography
Tzeporah Berman - Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics
Gloria Flora - Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions
Mikhail Gorbachev - Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Omar Freilla - Director, Green Worker Cooperatives
Wallace J. Nichols - Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy
Diane Wilson - Author, An Unreasonable Woman
Andrew Weil - Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Thomas Linzey - Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund
Michel Gelobter - President, Redefining Progress
Jerry Mander - Director, International Forum of Globalization
William McDonough - Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough)
Bruce Mau - Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs
John Todd - Ecological Designer
Rick Fedrizzi - President & CEO, US Green Building Council
Greg Watson - Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Lester Brown - President, Earth Policy Institute
Herman Daly - Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank
Betsy Taylor - Founder, Center for the New American Dream
Wade Davis - Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
Leo Gerard - President, United Steel Workers International Union
Mathew Petersen - President & CEO, Global Green USA
Peter Warshall - Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue
Andy Lipkis - President & Founder, Tree People
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Attenborough (archive footage)
George W. Bush (archive footage)
Al Gore (archive footage)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage)
Brian Williams (archive footage)
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