Post Bonnie Hunt, Earth Day

Hi friends,

What a week! I'm going to have to do 2 separate posts here because there is so much to cover and it keeps going! 9 days left until we depart for our cross-country eco-video project and it's moving very fast now.

Carrick and I flew out to Los Angeles on Monday morning from Boston for the Bonnie Hunt Show, which taped on Tuesday afternoon. We got in at 6:00pm Monday night, sunny and beautiful at 90 degrees of course. We stayed closeby the studio where the show taped and went over for the taping at 2:00pm, and Carrick's segment was about halfway through the show. Several friends recorded it and I am working on getting a copy to upload to YouTube so everyone can see it. We haven't seen it ourselves, actually! Here is a pic from the segment:
Carrick did a great interview with Bonnie and had a wonderful time! She gave him a digital video camera and invited him to send in some video from our cross-country journey, so we'll make sure to do that! We flew out soon after the show was over, taking off at 6:00pm, because we had Earth Day events back home we didn't want to miss!

So, we landed in Boston on Wednesday morning at 5:00am, then drove to Southboro for a quick nap and then did a presentation at Fay School for 400 kids at 8:00am. From there we drove over to UMass Medical School for their Earth Day Fair, giving a presentation at lunchtime and handing out fliers for the afternoon. We were so very fortunate to have two great media stories done! Worcester News Tonight did an interview with Carrick and me, which broadcast on Channel 3 then was rebroadcast on New England Cable News that night, all over New England! Here is the link for the video, and I'll try to embed it here as well:
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/04/22/Father-son-to-cross-country/1240442649.html

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette also did an interview with us:
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090423/NEWS/904230630/

We left the fair in the mid-afternoon and came back home, 3 days gone and needing sleep! Speaking of sleep, it's almost that time...

Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org

Carrick on the Bonnie Hunt Show

Hi friends,

We just got a call today from the Bonnie Hunt Show and they want to have Carrick on their Earth Day show to talk about everyday eco-tips people can do, and talk about our cross-country eco-video project! The Bonnie Hunt Show (www.BonnieHunt.com) is a national daily talk show, on here in Massachusetts on ABC at 10:00am. Carrick and I are flying to Los Angeles on Monday morning then returning Tuesday night, with the show taped at 2:00pm on Tuesday. On Wednesday (Earth Day) we are booked to give a presentation for 400 kids at the Fay School in Southborough, then off to the UMass Sustainability Fair in Worcester for the rest of the morning and early afternoon. The show will air Wednesday - you can go to the Bonnie Hunt website and find out where and when her show airs in your area.


Flying all the way out to Los Angeles to give eco-tips? I did ask if it was possible to tape our segment in Boston and edit that into the show, but no dice. Can't drive there in the veggie Beetle. Trains would take too long (remember I'm still working hard to get ready to leave in less than 3 weeks). At least the plane will be full - we got the last tickets on our flights. In the spirit of trying to walk the talk, we'll at least be using TerraPass to offset our flights. TerraPass is a carbon-offset program that takes donations for clean energy projects to offset the environmental impact of traveling and home energy use.

Big thanks to our friend Don at HydroCarbonAholics Anonymous for the donation of a GPS for our project! Don writes a great blog at www.HydroCarbsAnon.blogspot.com that we're subscribed to, with his take on our oil addiction and some possible ways out. Our new Magellan GPS will be a huge help on our cross-country journey. Besides all the directions it also shows where the libraries and playgrounds are - important places to know about on any long trip!

We have something special planned for Earth Day next week, so stay tuned for that!

Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org