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<i>GoGreener</i> Special Airs On PBS
<i>GoGreener</i> Special Airs On PBS
- Genre : More Music
- Type: News
- Author : Super Admin
- Date : Fri, 26 Mar 2010
Being green was never easy in the past—just ask Oscar the Grouch and Gumby. Then again, it ain't easy being a puppet or piece of claymation, but that's all speculation…
However, these days, it's never been easier to live "green" and truly preserve our environment. New PBS special GoGreener illustrates a host of hassle-free ways for everyone to live a healthier, cleaner and "greener" life without breaking the bank and having to buy some sort of crazy solar energy convertor and recycling machines from Blade Runner. We digress though…In fact, GoGreener's official site and the special feature so many methods of living Greener through utilization of simple everyday resources, and it's incredible how easy it is to be "Green!"
John Vernile, a founder of GoGreener and a driving force behind the PBS special sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about the special, ways to be greener, the musical side of GoGreener and so much more in this exclusive interview.
Check out GoGreener on PBS around Earth Day and read our interview below!
What do you feel like separates GoGreener from other documentaries about this subject?
GoGreener was created to address the need for a quick, accessible overview of the most impactful things a person and families could do to make the most of the products and resources that they use everyday. We particularly wanted to focus on the no and low-cost ways that could you immediately save money and energy. Many other green shows tend to focus on high tech, high-dollar solutions like solar, wind and geothermal, we wanted to get the "low-hanging fruit" information in one place and in an accessible way without that.
We also wanted to remove the sometimes polarizing language that surrounds coverage of environment and green issues and get down to the most common motivating factors for mainstream Americans, especially for people that believe that "Save The Earth" themes to be animistic, left-wing, add to government regulation or don't relate to them. People that are motivated by save the earth messages have a plethora of sources and programs. There is little need to add to that.
The traditional language that surrounds green issues is increasingly a dividing issue to Americans and does not need to be. To borrow a worn-out cliché, it's not a red versus blue issue. Let's focus on what we all can agree on and move forward. We all want to make the most of the dollars we spend. Waste has never been part of traditional American thinking, nor has dependence on things we can’t control for ourselves as both individuals and a nation. Self-reliance is a notion that started the American Revolution. The last 50 years of cheap oil and Madison Avenue marketing has sidetracked us. Efficiency isn’t anti-American and innovation has been at the center of American since the beginning of the country’s founding.
Another key theme of GoGreener is localism, it's looking first to the community where we actually reside for what sustains us. Whether you are looking at food, energy creation or other products and services it makes a huge difference in energy saved not having to ship goods across the planet. It's also important to the local jobs that are saved and created by buying local.
This is not to say that the show is anti-foreign. Localism is a concept that works for everyone whether you live in Topeka or Timbuktu. There are some things that you can’t grow locally, like coffee and it makes sense to continue that trade. We just need to try to make more of what we consume locally whenever we possible. We are all for local specialties. It what keeps cultural diversity alive, it’s imbedded in our human DNA.
All that together is what makes GoGreener a little different than other TV programs on the subject. It is something that all of us appreciate innately.
Where did the inspiration for this project initially arise from?
The driving energy behind GoGreener was compelled by remnants of the 9/11 attacks. I remember being on one of the first flights out of New York about five days after the events on the way to Wales and seeing the plume of smoke from the World Trade Center. The smoke of the horrible event traveled all the way up the Hudson over 30 miles north following the river at the center of the building of our nation and just past my house in Tarrytown. My lady and I stood at the front of our home the
However, these days, it's never been easier to live "green" and truly preserve our environment. New PBS special GoGreener illustrates a host of hassle-free ways for everyone to live a healthier, cleaner and "greener" life without breaking the bank and having to buy some sort of crazy solar energy convertor and recycling machines from Blade Runner. We digress though…In fact, GoGreener's official site and the special feature so many methods of living Greener through utilization of simple everyday resources, and it's incredible how easy it is to be "Green!"
John Vernile, a founder of GoGreener and a driving force behind the PBS special sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about the special, ways to be greener, the musical side of GoGreener and so much more in this exclusive interview.
Check out GoGreener on PBS around Earth Day and read our interview below!
What do you feel like separates GoGreener from other documentaries about this subject?
GoGreener was created to address the need for a quick, accessible overview of the most impactful things a person and families could do to make the most of the products and resources that they use everyday. We particularly wanted to focus on the no and low-cost ways that could you immediately save money and energy. Many other green shows tend to focus on high tech, high-dollar solutions like solar, wind and geothermal, we wanted to get the "low-hanging fruit" information in one place and in an accessible way without that.
We also wanted to remove the sometimes polarizing language that surrounds coverage of environment and green issues and get down to the most common motivating factors for mainstream Americans, especially for people that believe that "Save The Earth" themes to be animistic, left-wing, add to government regulation or don't relate to them. People that are motivated by save the earth messages have a plethora of sources and programs. There is little need to add to that.
The traditional language that surrounds green issues is increasingly a dividing issue to Americans and does not need to be. To borrow a worn-out cliché, it's not a red versus blue issue. Let's focus on what we all can agree on and move forward. We all want to make the most of the dollars we spend. Waste has never been part of traditional American thinking, nor has dependence on things we can’t control for ourselves as both individuals and a nation. Self-reliance is a notion that started the American Revolution. The last 50 years of cheap oil and Madison Avenue marketing has sidetracked us. Efficiency isn’t anti-American and innovation has been at the center of American since the beginning of the country’s founding.
Another key theme of GoGreener is localism, it's looking first to the community where we actually reside for what sustains us. Whether you are looking at food, energy creation or other products and services it makes a huge difference in energy saved not having to ship goods across the planet. It's also important to the local jobs that are saved and created by buying local.
This is not to say that the show is anti-foreign. Localism is a concept that works for everyone whether you live in Topeka or Timbuktu. There are some things that you can’t grow locally, like coffee and it makes sense to continue that trade. We just need to try to make more of what we consume locally whenever we possible. We are all for local specialties. It what keeps cultural diversity alive, it’s imbedded in our human DNA.
All that together is what makes GoGreener a little different than other TV programs on the subject. It is something that all of us appreciate innately.
Where did the inspiration for this project initially arise from?
The driving energy behind GoGreener was compelled by remnants of the 9/11 attacks. I remember being on one of the first flights out of New York about five days after the events on the way to Wales and seeing the plume of smoke from the World Trade Center. The smoke of the horrible event traveled all the way up the Hudson over 30 miles north following the river at the center of the building of our nation and just past my house in Tarrytown. My lady and I stood at the front of our home the
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