Conservation versus renewable energy: an ecological battle brewing in Scotland

Name: Conservation versus renewable energy: an ecological battle brewing in Scotland | Aeon Videos
Uploaded: 2014-07-23
Duration: 9 min
Description: Conservation versus renewable energy: an ecological battle brewing in Scotland

In Arcadia, the director David Graham Scott explores a little-heard side of the renewable energy debate, focusing on a family for whom preservation and conservation of existing natural resources are of central importance. His film is simultaneously a topical exploration of two types of ecological thought, and a picturesque portrait of a distant region of Scotland, still untouched by urban development.

Director: David Graham Scott

Producer: James Alcock

23 July 2014

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