Greenvoice

Film Vert is a new cinematic term meaning stylish environmentally-friendly moving images – films that emphasise both the problems facing our existence on our beautiful planet and, more importantly, providing solutions to help halt the decline.

Greenvoice is running a nationwide search for great Film Vert. From film schools and university campuses to production companies and local authority funded schemes and even as high up as the BFI we will be running the search to find green talent for over 2 months, culminating in a summer evening at the Hospital Club in London where the winning films will be announced and screened.

The winning filmmaker(s) will then have the chance to remake their film using a veritable who's who of London's film and production world. On top of this they will be handed the opportunity to produce 3 short films as a Greenvoice in-house creative filmmaker.

Environmentalists are calling on the government to put a halt to the building of a new biofuel power plant in Beckton amid claims that biofuels contribute more to climate change than previously thought.

Blue-NG, a joint venture between National Grid Blue Power and 20C Ltd, have applied to Newham Council to build a 19.5 MWe Combined Heat and intelligent Power (CHiP) plant in Beckton, East London. If given the go-ahead the plant will burn up to 20,000 tonnes of Biofuel per year, producing energy sufficient to meet the electricity needs of 50,000 homes in the UK. The company have plans for a further seven similar plants.

However, both local and national environmental groups have raised arms over the plans, arguing that the proposed plant will have an averse effect on the local area, add to UK carbon emissions and perpetuate the displacement of people in the global south through changes in land use.