Ecomagination has published my interview with Randy Olson, a most unusual kind of filmmaker. For the first half of his career, Olson pursued the career that is the dream of many a geeky adolescent: marine biologist. By the young age of 38 he actually achieved it. He earned a tenured professorship in marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. But upon achieving his dream he found it wasn’t quite a fit with his personality and aspirations. You see, Olson harbored another unrealistic fantasy, that of being a documentary filmmaker. He thought he could do both by working as a full-time academic and making movies on the side. But that’s before the scientific community met his plan with derision and scorn. [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, midway through a flight from Frankfurt to Montreal, the pilot of our Air Canada flight came on the loudspeaker and said, “Passengers on both the right and left side of the airplane may want to raise your blinds and take a look at Greenland.” We did, and collectively gasped. I have flown over Greenland before, but never with this little cloud cover or with this crystalline clarity. [...] BP axes Tony Hayward, McDonald’s cooks up some localwashing, NASA gives us a pop quiz…. and more of the latest sustainability news. [...] On Wednesday I have an interview at the Pentagon with Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, who is in charge of a hugely ambitious program to green the Navy. What should I ask her? [...] From this week’s summary: Our Gulf of knowledge about the oil spill, Indonesia’s rainforests held for ransom, big news from Nissan and Zipcar, and some welcome news for the food movement. [...] News and solutions of the week from the world of cleantech and sustainability. [...] A roundup of the week’s news in sustainability and clean tech. [...] This week’s cleantech and sustainability news from around the Matter Network. [...] Top News: This week, President Obama startled both his allies and critics with a plan to permit drilling for oil off the Southern Atlantic states and in the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile the Secret Service, in a stroke of karmic justice, denied the president’s request for a hybrid limo. [...] On a recent trip to India, I came to understand one reason why India’s per-capita electricity consumption is 15 times less than that in the United States. [...] |
 David Ferris is a journalist who writes about eco-business and eco-technology for publications like Popular Mechanics, Sierra magazine and Forbes. Learn more. |
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