A Tribute to George Carlin
In his own words, on the environment.
He will be missed.
David Anderson is the Founder and Publisher of Green Options Media. He started his first blog on the nexus of energy and environmental issues in 2006, and has focused exclusively on renewable energy, sustainability, green business and environmental politics ever since. David graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego with degrees in Political Science/International Relations and Sociology, and minors in Biology and Law. David lives in San Francisco, and tries to stop thinking about GO Media long enough each week to eat, sleep, and play some ultimate frisbee.
In his own words, on the environment.
He will be missed.
I don’t post much for GO (some publisher I am), but I was just doing a little morning news browsing over coffee today, when I came across this gem in one of the infinite useless articles about oil prices:
Concern about high oil prices led Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest producer, to call a weekend summit between oil producers and oil consumers to address the issue before
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At the GO office here in downtown SF, we see a lot of interesting stuff. After coming back from lunch to see a protest going on right outside our building, I went down to investigate. Turns out, Chevron’s only SF office (ironically, their “green solutions” office) is in the building next to ours. Who woulda thunk.
The gathered crowd, led by local members of the nonprofit watchdog AmazonWatch, was primarily protesting Chevron’s escapades in Ecuador. When the company [...]
So, I have a confession. Jeff had to publish my mostly-finished post for our anniversary this week, because I was asleep on a plane. I was invited to Chicago for nine hours (no thanks to the weather) on behalf of GM, to tour the laboratory of Coskata, the auto manufacturer’s newest–and perhaps smartest– investment. The few bloggers and journalists who braved the cold met with the company’s executives for Q&A and a lengthy PowerPoint. (Obviously, GM paid my way for the trip. I’d never pay to go on a trip where air time > ground time.)
I won’t go into the details of the tour, the PowerPoint, the partnership, the process that Coskata uses, the partnership that Coskata announced on the 6th with one of the largest ethanol refinery builders, (under embargo–we can expect details of partnerships like this to literally leak out consistently over the next year, similar to the strategy that GM is using to re-release all of its SUV lines as hybrids) or anything else, because they’ve all been covered so well here:
GroovyGreen’s coverage of the tour and PowerPoint
GM Announces Biofuel Partnership: Cheap, Green Ethanol?
Economic Conditions Shifting in Favor of Ethanol
Coskata partnerhship with ICM Announcement
Update: EcoGeek has a post up too, but they don’t link to any of ours. 
A year ago today, Greenoptions.com went live to the public for the first time. Jeff remembers those first exciting hours of our launch, but I trace the most important moments back to the start of a parallel timeline.
In the early days of our little startup, it was sometimes hard to tell exactly where we were going. We knew that Treehugger had built a successful content model by catering to the significant number of people who self-identify with that term. We wondered if it was possible to do the same, but with a brand and content focus that would help draw ordinary people towards a more conscious mindset, by meeting them where they are.
With that in mind and no funding secured, I attended the 2006 SF Green Festival as just another festival-goer, passing out user surveys to help nail down our demographics. Without a booth, I was quickly asked to stop or leave, but I vowed to be back next year, with both a booth and a greater sense of purpose.
Just a quick update from the front lines here in the oil-soaked Bay Area…
While cleanup continues, thousands of consumers and anti-consumers will get back mingling and browsing around the hundreds of socially conscious businesses exhibiting at the ‘fest. It stuck me as a particular irony that such a tragedy should befall the only area of the US where the environment is a big enough deal that the idea of a plastic bag monster doesn’t seem all [...]
Each year in recent memory, General Motors (GM) has invited the press and other key influencers out to the famous Milford Proving Grounds to spend a day testing out its upcoming model year line of vehicles on a closed course. The company has learned a lot from their last (hilarious) attempt to leverage social media, and for the first time ever, they decided to bestow the same access upon writers from around the [...]
Welcome to the first official entry of a multi-part series documenting the green business, building, marketing, branding, and festival-izing conferences that are ramping up as the summer comes to a close (including Opportrunity Green). I’ve previously provided a first-hand account from WINDPOWER 2007 and Green Festival Chicago, and missed countless others.
I recognize all the benefits of green building, but, as I’ve never owned any kind of [...]
Yesterday I hopped down to LA for the first day of WINDPOWER 2007, the wind energy industry’s annual conference and trade show. It’s not an event that will make a lot of waves in the media (despite high-profile speakers), but I wanted to provide GO readers with an inside look at how the wind industry sees itself and what that means for the rest of us. However, it’s such a huge event that even one [...]
When we left off with Part I, Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center was asking “who is going to receive the benefits of exploding investments in green industries?
