Hi friends,
Here's the latest news for our cross-country eco-video project, Our Renewable Nation:
It's official - we were recently contacted by the Sierra Club asking if they can use a video we made for their upcoming national campaign to promote home energy conservation. The website www.sierraclubgreenhome.com will post our video 'Our Energy-Efficient Home' that we entered into the Home Depot Video Contest last fall. They have also asked to give our video to Sierra Club's affiliates to distribute on the internet as well. Since several videos from our upcoming eco-video series will be a great fit for their website, we'll be sharing those with the Sierra Club as well. This is a great collaboration because we are interviewing several people from the Sierra Club's Cool Cities campaign in our video series, as we focus on several of the Top 10 Green Cities in the U.S. and interview representatives from each city to tell us what their city has done to earn their place in the top 10. Publicity from the Sierra Club will be so helpful for us in promoting our cross-country eco-video series!
We have also signed up to partner with www.GoGreenTube.com, which is a video-sharing website similar in format to YouTube but is focused on green living videos. It's a great site for all aspects of green living. We'll be embedding our video series on our website through GoGreenTube, which also helps us to stream videos to schools which block video sites like YouTube. We will also be posting our video series to the other video sites like YouTube, but GoGreenTube has agreed to feature our new videos on their homepage as we finish and upload them through the fall. It should be a great collaboration!
We also have an exciting new fundraising project to tell you about, but it deserves it's own special message, and I also need to get the website updated to include it. Look for more details later this week!
Be well,
Colin & family
www.OurRenewableNation.org
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Our Interview on GreenMuze
Hi friends-
I thought you'd be interested in reading an interview we did with GreenMuze, an online green magazine. We were contacted by GreenMuze after they saw the post on Treehugger.com that featured our video project. I've been interviewed a number of times about the veggie Beetle and sometimes the resulting articles can be... a little off. I was glad to see how well this one came out: http://www.greenmuze.com/community/people/784-the-eco-family-activists.html
Please feel free to add a comment at the end of the article!
We are adding several new desinations to our project. We'll be stopping by TerraCycle while traveling through Princeton, NJ - TerraCycle makes product packaging from recycled materials. Go to their website, www.terracycle.net and check out all the different products they package; you will see brands you know and use! I'm also working on getting an interview with Enviro Energies, which produces the Mag-Wind vertical-axis wind turbines for homes.
We just got accepted as a speaker for the Maine Environmental Educators Association 2009 Annual Conference at the end of March, and we are exhibiting at the Massachusetts Environmental Educators Society Annual Conference in a few weeks. These will be great opportunities to spread the word about our cross-country video project and network with people in the teaching community.
Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org
I thought you'd be interested in reading an interview we did with GreenMuze, an online green magazine. We were contacted by GreenMuze after they saw the post on Treehugger.com that featured our video project. I've been interviewed a number of times about the veggie Beetle and sometimes the resulting articles can be... a little off. I was glad to see how well this one came out: http://www.greenmuze.com/community/people/784-the-eco-family-activists.html
Please feel free to add a comment at the end of the article!
We are adding several new desinations to our project. We'll be stopping by TerraCycle while traveling through Princeton, NJ - TerraCycle makes product packaging from recycled materials. Go to their website, www.terracycle.net and check out all the different products they package; you will see brands you know and use! I'm also working on getting an interview with Enviro Energies, which produces the Mag-Wind vertical-axis wind turbines for homes.
We just got accepted as a speaker for the Maine Environmental Educators Association 2009 Annual Conference at the end of March, and we are exhibiting at the Massachusetts Environmental Educators Society Annual Conference in a few weeks. These will be great opportunities to spread the word about our cross-country video project and network with people in the teaching community.
Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org
Monday, February 2, 2009
PEYA Award and Yale Film Festival
We got two great pieces of news this last week about our project!
Carrick is going to be nominated for a Presidential Environmental Youth Award for 2009. All nominees are sent certificates signed by the President of the United States, and the 10 regional award winners receive a presidential plaque at an EPA-sponsored award ceremony in Washington, D.C. The deadline for nominations is in October, so we'll see what happens!
Carrick and I have been invited to participate in the Environmental Film Festival at Yale University in April. The festival will include screenings of narratives and documentary films, features and shorts, and student projects, coupled with conversations with filmmakers,
panel discussions, and workshops for students interested in producing environmental films. Admission to screenings and special events will be free and open to the public. The festival will run from Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - Sunday, April 19th, 2009. I'll update the specific date and time we'll be in the schedule once I find out.
Today I visited one of the local high schools as part of the Focus the Nation program, which is a national teach-in program involving millions of students, faculty, staff and visitors at a thousand or more educational institutions around the country in a discussion of Global Warming solutions. Last year I participated in Worcester, showing our veg-oil powered Beetle and talking to one of the environmental science classes about climate change and sustainability. In the class I visited today, I helped speak about renewable energy and sustainability, and showed a few of our videos. It was a fun experience. I did notice, however, that the Environmental Science textbooks they had were 20 years old...
I've been getting a number of suggestions lately to sell our finished eco-video series to make some profit. The idea of providing our eco-video series free to schools nationally is at the heart of what we're doing. The important thing is for this kind of information to get to as many people as possible. When Carrick and I conceived of this video project, we never intended to produce something that we could profit from. Our profit will be the experience of the journey, traveling the U.S. and meeting many wonderful, generous people!
Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org
Carrick is going to be nominated for a Presidential Environmental Youth Award for 2009. All nominees are sent certificates signed by the President of the United States, and the 10 regional award winners receive a presidential plaque at an EPA-sponsored award ceremony in Washington, D.C. The deadline for nominations is in October, so we'll see what happens!
Carrick and I have been invited to participate in the Environmental Film Festival at Yale University in April. The festival will include screenings of narratives and documentary films, features and shorts, and student projects, coupled with conversations with filmmakers,
panel discussions, and workshops for students interested in producing environmental films. Admission to screenings and special events will be free and open to the public. The festival will run from Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - Sunday, April 19th, 2009. I'll update the specific date and time we'll be in the schedule once I find out.
Today I visited one of the local high schools as part of the Focus the Nation program, which is a national teach-in program involving millions of students, faculty, staff and visitors at a thousand or more educational institutions around the country in a discussion of Global Warming solutions. Last year I participated in Worcester, showing our veg-oil powered Beetle and talking to one of the environmental science classes about climate change and sustainability. In the class I visited today, I helped speak about renewable energy and sustainability, and showed a few of our videos. It was a fun experience. I did notice, however, that the Environmental Science textbooks they had were 20 years old...
I've been getting a number of suggestions lately to sell our finished eco-video series to make some profit. The idea of providing our eco-video series free to schools nationally is at the heart of what we're doing. The important thing is for this kind of information to get to as many people as possible. When Carrick and I conceived of this video project, we never intended to produce something that we could profit from. Our profit will be the experience of the journey, traveling the U.S. and meeting many wonderful, generous people!
Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org
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