Interview with James Hansen post-Copenhagen

Here is an important post-Copenhagen interview with James Hansen, Director the Goddard Space Science Institute.

Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change Adaptation

Here's an important message from journalist and climate change writer Ross Gelbapan.

Move your Money

Help send the megabanks that contributed to the financial meltdown a strong message: Move Your Money out of them and into community banks and credit unions. Help build your local economy.

I strongly urge you to check out this web site and view the short video. Take this simple yet powerful action. And write to your City and County representatives about shifting public monies into local banks if they are not deposited there already.

Move Your Money

Very Interesting Documentary on Social Networking

Here is an amazing documentary highlighting an enormous shift in our culture, driven by the internet, that may one day transform the way we govern ourselves, own corporations and businesses, and inspire more participation in politics. It's an hour long and takes awhile to develop, but by the end my mind was fired up with the many possibilities generated by the film.

Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

Shai Agassi's plan for electric cars

Here is a bold plan to convert our transportation model from one based on fossil fuels to one based on electrons created with renewable energy. And this energy is estimated to cost just 2 cents per mile (not including infrastructure costs, of course) by 2020. Yes, we also need to invest in effective and large-scale mass transit systems to make owning a car less of a necessity. But we need to scale electric car use as quickly as we can if we're going to blunt the worst effects of global climate change.

It's bold visions like this that offer the kind of hope we need. Yes, we will have to find a way to recycle all the materials from the cars we replace, but what an opportunity for jobs, eh?

Brain Magic

OK. We can't be serious Greenheads ALL of the time, can we?

Check out this wonderful magician on TED. Yes, TED.

He's very, very good.

Paul Hawken

I recently had the profound opportunity to interview and photograph writer/businessman/visionary Paul Hawken at his new offices in Sausalito. Here are a few images from that shoot. I will write more about the experience in a subsequent post but the main takeaway I got was that "there are no insignificant actions" when it comes to working towards a more sustainable world. Sometimes the overwhelming vastness of the challenges before us seem to be insurmountable, but Paul remains bullish on sustainable enterprises and an optimist nonetheless. He's now focused on several exciting new ventures in the field of biomimicry.