Posted in Policy Matters, tagged Al Gore, Big Oil, climate crisis, coal special interests, conservation, dnc, environmental policy on August 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Al Gore did a fabulous job yesterday, of nailing down the three key environmental challenges facing our country.
First, is the interdependence between climate crisis, economy, and national security.
And it just so happens that the climate crisis is intertwined with the other two great challenges facing our nation: reviving our economy and [...]
Posted in Communication Strategies, tagged Al Gore, climate change, climate crisis, eco-hero, enironmental education, Environmental Activism, Global warming, hero generation, planetary emergency on April 9, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Al Gore premiered his brand-new slide show at the TED Conference earlier this year. The video just came out on YouTube. I could not contain my excitement as I listened to the whole 30′ of what I think is Al Gore’s best presentation to date. Passionate, inspiring, and loaded with crucial facts, not [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, climate crisis, coal, environmental policy, Global warming, google, google.org, information tools, plug-in cars, renewable energies on March 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I had the privilege to attend the last Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment Energy Seminar, featuring Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, for Google.org, the philanthropist arm of Google.
The folks at Google have a plan and it makes lots of sense. They have two major initiatives currently at work:
To [...]
Posted in Communication Strategies, tagged climate change, climate crisis, Communication Strategies, Global warming, peak oil, seven sins on March 15, 2008 | 23 Comments »
I want to discuss the ‘peak oil‘ video, referred to by Kyle in his comment yesterday. ‘Cassandra Peak Oil’ was released in December 2007 and was viewed 19,814 times. Not bad for ‘peak oil’ . . .
Kyle thinks this is a great example of the smart use of sex to sell [...]
Posted in Communication Strategies, tagged Al Gore, climate change, climate crisis, climate fight, environment, environmental psychology, Global warming, Green Psychology on March 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I just watched two short video clips of a recent talk from Al Gore at the American School in London. Very inspiring . . .
The first video explains why it is so difficult for us to sustain our awareness of global warming:
This is where a national advertising campaign with a thousand [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, climate crisis, climate solutions, environment, Global warming, Green Psychology, organic, permaculture, Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, retrofitting, suburban sprawl, suburbia on March 10, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Yesterday, Kyle sent me this mail:
I was youtubing it, enjoying my new broadband, and came across this interview snip with David Holmgren, founder of the “permaculture” project:
He’s talking about the future of suburbia, and is rather more optimistic than that bigot Kunstler. What I got out of it was that he [...]
Posted in Communication Strategies, tagged Al Gore, climate change, climate crisis, climate fight, climate grief, DotEarth, environmental advertising, environmental journalism, environmental policy, Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, inconvenient truth, New York Times, The Path to Survival, World Changing on March 7, 2008 | 11 Comments »
In one of his articles in the WorldChanging blog, Alex Steffen raises the question: ‘Who Will Tell the People? And How?‘
There’s enormous pressure here in the U.S. on environmental groups, scientists and public officials; pressure to play ball, to support targets that are politically safe, to be moderate. But this is not a situation where [...]
Posted in Policy Matters, tagged Al Gore, climate change, climate crisis, environment, environmental policy, Global warming, overpopulation, population on March 6, 2008 | 21 Comments »
Gary Peters was first introduced to me by Jeff Huggins. Since then, I have had the opportunity to read Gary’s comments on DotEarth, and to appreciate his perspective as a geography expert, and someone with informed views about the complex issues facing our [...]
