Grist asked me, if you had one minute in an elevator with President Barack Obama what would you say to him on energy and climate change policy? Check out my response alongside responses from Gavin Newsom (Mayor of SF), Vinod Khosla (Silicon Valley investor), Evon Peter (Executive Director of Native Movement), Terry Kellogg (1% for the Planet), and others. Check it out HERE.
Monica over at Earth Savers and syndicated through Green Girls TV did a nice little interview. You can check it out over at EarthSavers.typepad and TheGreenGirls.
Questions include: What does Global Warming mean to you? How is it affecting you? Who inspires you into action? If you can ask a person to change just one thing, what would it be? and more…
ph: Anouk Morgan; bamboo shirt by The Battalion.
I got a great talk lined up for UCFers on the 9th for their Global Perspective Lecture Series about an Expanding Role for Youth in Climate Change. There’s a lot of great energy coming from everyone, so I’m really looking forward to this particular talk. The Focus the Nation UCF crew has also been tre cool in helping out on a few logistical items after the discussion. (Note: We’ll have some direct action lined up for you (if you so choose) after the talk). No more talks with nothing to offer. That’s not a good style if you want to see $hit get done, so be sure to stay afterwards. I’ll be hanging out for an hour or so too before I have to head out, so be sure to stop by.
In the meantime, I’m catching up on writing before meeting up with a Miami-based photographer and crew. We’ll be shooting fashion editorials on sustainable style for Vicious and City Luxe tomorrow. Looks as if the weather will hold out.
As you all know, I try to update a new ACTION you can do every week under the new “CONNECT” > “Act” section of my website. This week I’ll be hopping on a “Green Jobs” Conference call this Thursday, August 28th at 1PM EST.
If you want to be “in the know” about the latest happenings on the green-collar jobs front and the upcoming National Day of Action, hop on the horn and REGISTER so we all know how many peeps we got ringing in and from where.
The GREEN JOBS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION is 9.27.08. I’ll be deep in the heart of Mozambique during the time, so maybe I’ll do a satellite broadcast out in Mozambique to show some support and to bridge that connection with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world.
I arrived back to New York City super late after a much-delayed bus trip from Binghamton. I’ve been out of the city for a week and much to my own surprise, I was happy to be walking back to my pad at 2AM and seeing the streets all alive with hustle and bustle.
I have a couple weeks of back-to-back meetings, some castings, a couple shoots, and some down-time, but I’m kicking off my next talk at University of Central Florida’s Global Perspective Lecture Series. Theme is “Environment and Global Climate Change” - a topic, which the administrators told me, was chosen by the students. We’ll have about 400 peeps checking in and I see from the agenda that we got some great sponsors chipping in. Should provide for some good debate and discussion. You can check out all of my upcoming talks here.
September 9, 2008 - University of Central Florida Global Perspectives Lecture Series (UCF, FL)
“We Can Kick Climate Change One Step at a Time”
A keynote addressing community and global youth action on the climate change front. Find out what young citizens are doing around the world; the relevant political topics of the moment,;where the movement is; where it needs to go; and a young citizen’s role in pushing for immediate and effective change. Personal stories from the frontlines included. A riveting, emotional talk guaranteed to rile the crowd.
10:00-11:00AM informal class visit; 3:00-4:00PM Keynote address. OPEN to the PUBLIC!