The BLOOM Documentary about Bioeconomy
What is bioeconomy? Can we show examples of the so-called bioeconomy? What are innovations in this field? These are questions that lead to a journey around Europe. For 2 years the BLOOM film team spoke to experts and researchers in the field of bioeconomy, was filming in factories, universities and labs and made a documentary, which consists of 5 episodes on different topics: How can a shirt be made of wood? Microalgae that produce hydrogen? What can we do with food waste? And why are sugar beets or bacteria used to made bioplastic?
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European forests have never before suffered so intensive clear-cutting as now. It is absolutely irresponsible that you are not talking about the devastation that wood industry is causing to the biodiversity of European forests while “green-washing” it as something nature-friendly. Talking about wooden shirts without any word about the biodiversity loss that current stemwood-profit centered forestry is causing, sounds very much like a greenwashing. The worst devastation is happening in boreal and temperate forests right now. See what happens in Sweden: https://www.skogsmissbruket.org/english Current practice of wood usage in Europe is an ecocide! https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/ Forest annual logging rate in Estonia has increased 2-3 times during last few decades. In Estonia government is already allowing previously protected forests to be clearcut by removing the status of being protected in order to make unsustainably intensive logging legal. Formerly protected forests are being cut down in order to report it as renewable energy! Hemiboreal forests like in Estonia have few tree species but majority of forest species are not trees. Total number of multicellular forest species in Estonia for example is over 16 000: most of these are insects (ca 10 000 forest insect species) and fungi (over 2000 forest species in Estonia are fungi). Dead stemwood is crucial habitat for a large fraction of forest species and current forest management practices ignore completely the crucial role of coarse dead wood micro habitats for every forest ecosystem. It takes far more than 100 years to restore all relevant micro habitats in forest for biodiversity. Irresponsible destruction of whole forest ecosystems for cheap wood must be stopped and clearly announced non-sustainable economy! Loss of forest biodiversity is current and very urgent crisis which can not be ignored!