** We're LIVE! Love letters are the only way we are going to change the future now: www.loveletterstothefuture.com **
Produced by the Emmy® Award winning production company Xenophile Media in Toronto, Love Letters to the Future is a project designed to raise awareness about climate change.
Imagine what generations in the future will think of us if we don't do anything about climate change. And then try to imagine that future differently. What would you say to a generation 100 years from now?
The project is crowd-sourcing video love letters to the future from the public, and asking people to send in small objects they want saved for future generations. It is also collecting filmed statements from those in remote locations, such as Raratonga, and the Soloman and Cook Islands, who are most effected by climate change.
A time capsule being built in Toronto will preserve the 100 best messages uploaded to www.loveletterstothefuture.com, as voted on by the public. It will be sealed in December, to be re-opened on December 13, 2109. To ensure our love letters are still around 100 years from today, they will be stored using Monolith™ cards, a technology incorporating analog and digital data pioneered by the Imaging and Media Lab at the University of Basel.
The project's goal is to collect a critical mass of love letters and present them to the world at a live event during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in mid-December. Throughout the event, a selection of the time-capsule messages will be projected on a huge screen and read out by a (soon-to-be-revealed!) celebrity.
Anyone can be a part of this project! Create your love letter to the future as a video, image or 140 character text and upload it to:
www.loveletterstothefuture.com