Monday, April 25, 2011

theGreenScreen.tv Episode 007: Service

theGreenScreen.tv host Bill Rogers speaks with Mary Doyle, Publicity Director with the York County, Maine Shelter Programs. She explains how they have found that saving energy as they create energy through renewables has saved taxpayers plenty of funds even as residents have been helped through better facilities that they care about.

Jennifer Lewis-McShera speaks of how Clay Hill Farm in Cape Neddick,Maine has brought the eco-benefits of their restaurant and banquet facility to celebrate the many shades of green the place inspires. In their Green Wedding Giveaway they have brought hundreds of thousands to celebrate how commitment to a wedding partner can be a model to live green.

Peter Frumhoff, senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, continues his series Ask the Scientist with a look on what CAN be done to combat the worst aspects of climate change.

Monday, April 18, 2011

theGreenScreen.tv Episode 006: Local and Hyper Local

theGreenScreen.tv host Bill Rogers speaks with members of our local community.

Rian Bedard runs eco movement consulting & hauling whose power and rationale comes from the compost all around us. Rian brings a clip from one day in the life of a compost hauler and shows us where it all goes.

Ann Bliss is a board member of SeaREI, the Seacoast Area Renewable Energy Inititiative, which brings the concept of barn raisers to solar with their "energy raisers" in which members assist one another to put more solar on more homes and businesses.

Dan Freund brings his shortstream.tv which looks to the very local Portsmouth community as inspiration for media as immediate as it is short.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

theGreenScreen.tv Episode 005: the .org show 2

In Episode 005 of theGrenScreen.tv we visit the University of New Hampshire and student "Casey on Campus" who presents how others can follow her lead and take facts and figures to their school's administration to get real and positive action on campus climate change. Host Bill Rogers speaks with Bill Burtis of the connection between organizations and the political landscape of New Hampshire as it relates to energy and climate. We look at the Clean Air - Cool Planet sponsored conference on energy policy with visits from 2007 presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, John McCain and Dennis Kucinich. Then Senator Barack Obama presents his energy plan in Portsmouth while a 2007 candidate for President. Dari Sassan of the NH Office of Energy and Planning and Tom Rooney of TRC Energy Services Group present on the recent Local Energy Solutions Conference. And our Bald Guy on Climate Change visits his mom to learn of a pioneer in thermal solar energy. Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists continues in his series "Ask the Scientist" to address how human actions can be a primary driver of climate change.

Monday, April 11, 2011

theGreenScreen.tv Episode 005: the .org show 2

In Episode 005 of theGrenScreen.tv host Bill Rogers speaks with Bill Burtis of the connection between organizations and the political landscape of New Hampshire as it relates to energy and climate.

We look at the Clean Air - Cool Planet sponsored conference on energy policy with visits from 2007 presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, John McCain and Dennis Kucinich,

Barack Obama present his energy plan in Portsmouth while a 2007 candidate for President.

At the University of New Hampshire Casey on Campus ; presents on how students can take facts and figures to their school's administration to get real and positive action on campus climate change.

Dari Sassan of the NH Office of Energy and Planning and Tom Rooney of TRC Energy Services Group present on the recent Local Energy Solutions Conference.

And our Bald Guy on Climate Change visits his mom to learn of a pioneer in thermal solar energy.



Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists continues in his series "Ask the Scientist" to address how human actions can be a primary driver of climate change.




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

theGreenScreen.tv Episode 004: the .org show

In Episode 004 of theGrenScreen.tv host Bill Rogers speaks with Beth Tener of New Directions Collaborative who brings clips from

-Mt. Wachusett Community College and their move from energy laggard to leaders.

-Beth also presents how Health Care Without Harm helped Boston Hospitals take a wider view of health by integrating sustainability to a community both inside and around the hospital structures.

We also speak with media relations executive Bill Burtis, media who tells how Clean Air - Cool Planet and their affiliate NE Carbon Challenge ; find the solutions embedded in communities.

In a Now or Never Podcast we learn of the formation of the NE Carbon Challenge as Julia Dundorf and Denise Balha combine forces to teach their friends and neighbors how they can "Save 10,000 pounds."

Finally we see a clip from the recent My Energy Plan video contest featuring Ted Johnson and the work he has done around his house to make the most of the energy all around him.