Monday, November 20, 2006

"Planting Peace" Dr. Wangari Maathai

Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai at Faneuil Hall in Boston. She is the leader of the Green Belt Movement and has assisted women in planting more than 40 Million trees on their farms, schools and church compounds, while she served in the National Council of Women.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Nuclear Power is NOT the Answer

Dr. Helen Caldicott speaking in the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, on September 21. 2006

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Saco River - Old Orchard Beach Mural

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Saco Riber and Old Orchard Beach in the Fall. A wall mural is being painted.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Igor visits Boston

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We had a good walk through the MFA, Copley Square, Boston Common, Downtown and Waterfront.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

AltWheels: Mike Strizki in Boston

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Mike Strizki is demonstrating his hydrogen powered car. He produces his own hydrogen from the electricity generated from the photo-voltaic installation on his roof. The remote controlled car is powered from the hydrogen of the car, fue cell and electric motor.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

AltWheels: Electric Comuta-car/Duxbury

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Two students from Duxbury, MA. are showing their work at AltWheels, Boston City Hall Plaza and their contribution to reducing the carbon foot print.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Art and Work in Vermont

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As we settled in to fix the supports for the house on the moving slopes, we collected water, each morning from one of the best springs in Vermont. Bill Commerford takes his notes and they grow into wonderful paintings of early Vermont Fall.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Solar Boston Harbor Islands

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A visit to the Boston Harbor Islands with the Harbor Express to document solar and wind technology in use.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Youth Rap - Global Warming

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Braintree Village Youth are exploring the making of video about global warming, inspired by Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth"

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

4th July 2006 Aerosmith Boston


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4th July event at the Esplanade in Boston unites the Boston Pops with members of Aerosmith.

Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth" book signing


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Al Gore at Harvard Book Store signing "An Inconvenient Truth".

Hull Wind 2 Dedication

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Members of the community of Hull and friends gather for the dedication and ribbon cutting of the second wind turbine in Hull, MA.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Hull Wind Boat Trip

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Mass Energy organized a boat trip for their customers and friends to visit Hull Wind 1 and see and hear close up, what turbine looks and sounds like. The new turbine on top of the land fill was barely visible in the haze.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Dragon Boat Festival Cambridge/Boston

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The Dragon Boat Festival was held this year on June 10. 2006 on the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge.

Monday, May 29, 2006

Grand Canyon

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Some impressions from a trip to the Grand Canyon with music from Emerald Web - Traces of Time.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Jagger's 3rd Birthday Party

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During our visit to Sedona, Arizona with Mark, we celebrated Jagger's 3rd Birthday.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Breakdance @ EarthDay Party

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Performance at "Artists For Humanity" EpiCenter in Boston during their EarthDay Party.

Tidal Energy - Reef Restoration

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Dr. Thomas J. Goreau and his team received an award in the IDEAS Competition at MIT, Cambridge, MA for the tidal energy devise and reef restoration project. For more information contact his web site at: http://www.globalcoral.org/

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Pow Wow Afternoon

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During our visit to Pineridge S.D. to film a Diabetes Outreach Program with the Black River Project, we had time to enjoy the dancers and singers at the annual Pow Wow.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Lakota Youth: Russell Blacksmith

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Arlette's son Russell tells us what it is like to keep teaching traditional values in local schools.

Lakota Voices: Arlette Loud Hawk

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During our visit to Pineridge S.D. to record the memories of the Elders, regarding the Treaties, we found one family helping us understand their culture. Arlette Loud Hawk was 14 years old, when the shootout at Wounded Knee happened in 1975.

Monday, May 01, 2006

MIT EarthDay 2006

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Display of practical, small scale solar technology at MIT Earth Day and a discussion of one possible solar commodity product, a solar rechargeable reading light.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Solar Schools Boston

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Dr. Sajed Kamal explains the new solar (photo voltaic) installation
for the Boston Arts Academy from his roof top.
Then we visit the opening ceremony.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

DDBB at Harpers Ferry

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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band came to Harpers Ferry, in Allston, MA. two months after Katrina and I had a chance to find out, how they survived the storm. Sousaphone player Kirk Joseph, the youngest of the Joseph family, is always happy to see me. His brother Waldren and I started doing video 35 years ago.
My friend Bill Commerford came along to capture them in watercolor.

Friday, April 07, 2006

Hull Wind 2 Up

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It was perfect weather today to install all three blades for the new turbine in Hull, MA.
Just as the Vespas installers told us, one hour per blade. Some wonderful sunlight on the new
Wind Turbine before the next rain comes in.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Charles Gayle - Bill Commerford

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A piano performance by Charles Gayle on April 1. 2006 at MIT and documented by Bill Commerford, watercolor.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Hull Wind 2 Preparation

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Visiting Hull,MA for the beginning of installation of its second Wind Turbine. The first section of the tower is moved up to the top of the land fill. We visited Hull Wind 1, making electricity quietly and clean.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Solar Dynamo

Click on picture to see a video of a solar/dynamo flashlight/radio modified to charge AA batteries thus becoming the flashlight, radio, and extra set of batteries recommended to have on hand in case of emergency as well as a permanent source of low voltage DC power day or night.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Ghana 2002 Remembered

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While documenting a medical mission of the Black River Project, we were invited by Ni, to visit the village of his Grandfather, where surface gold mining is a tradition. We travelled from Kokrobite to that remote place.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Austin Energy's Michael Osborne

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Michael Osborne of Austin Energy made this presentation and introduced the audience to blogging as a way to communicate the vision. His http://www.earthfamilyalpha.blogspot.com
is a wonderful site to visit regularly.

NESEA Public Forum 2

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Experts in energy conservation are speaking out in a Public Forum during NESEA's "BUILDINGENERGY 06" conference March 8. 2006.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

European Residential Roundtable

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Excerpt form roundtable discussion about European work in low energy housing, during Buildingenergy 06 conference in Boston.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

NESEA Public Forum 1

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During NESEA's BUILDINGENERGY 06 conference in March 2006, Jim Braude of NECN narrated a Public Forum on: ENERGY: Crisis or Opportunity. We will be showing excerpts from this event as we can provide them. The speakers are: Johnathan Edwards-SmartPower, Gina McCarthy, Commisioner for Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Steven Winters, President, Steven Winter Associates.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Solar Toys at AltWheels 2005

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During an exhibition of alternative energy for transportation, AltWheel 2005, our friends are demonstrating solar energy as educational toys.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Geometry Study

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George Mokray brought me to Carl Fasano's class at RISD for their finals. I added some Enja "Fire and Ice" for your enjoyment.

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Evolution of the cube

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It has been 30 years of studying the cube and its embedded tetrahedron. Some more studying of Buckminster Fullers "Synergy" and now we can study this information on this model.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Solar light - bicycle

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It takes steady effort to teach about energy alternatives. PV (photo-voltaic) collectors charge batteries for bicycle lights.

Solar light - bedroom

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There are ways to save energy. Photo-voltaic cells can stand in your south facing window and provide adequate light while reading in bed.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Happy Birthday Alex & Eric

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What kind of energy future do we want to give them?

In Memory of Martin Luther King Jr.


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Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, at Faneuil Hall, Boston during a Memorial Celebration honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 2006.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Hull Wind

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We are revisiting Hull Wind in October 2003, where Malcolm Brown is explaining, how the turbine works. The second turbine, Hull Wind 2 is being prepared for erection. Foundations have been poured on Monday, January 23. 2006.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Kente cloth weaving

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While documenting a medical mission of the Black River Project to Ghana, Africa, we visited the Sanzule refugee camp. We were introduced to life in a camp with little support. This weaver was a rare example of creativity.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Uncle Scam

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One afternoon in Harvard Square, Cambridge, in the middle of January. Uncle Scam is warming up to some rays of sun light. Where is the snow? Rain coming again! Is there Climate Change? We better pay attention and act.
Look for Uncle Scam at: http://www.unclescam.org/

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Helen Caldicott speaks out on nuclear issues

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Excerpts of remarks by Helen Caldicott at the conclusion
of the 25th anniversary of the Nuclear Weapon Freeze Campaign and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies Symposium at MIT on Nonproliferation and Disarmament: "The Way Forward"
On October 22. 2005

Saturday, January 14, 2006

HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI 60 years after the A-Bomb

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Last August we travelled to Japan to with David Rothauser, of Memory Productions, to film the stories of Atom Bomb survivors, "HIBAKUSHA our life to live" a mixed documentary.

We meet Japanese and Korean survivors of this tragic attack in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

120 ft blades for Hull Wind 2

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Werner Grundl interviews Andrew Stern, VP Operations, Hull Wind.
Hull Wind produced 6,000,000 kWhs of energy - as of December 1. 2005

I want to be a kid

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I want to be a kid by Jerzy of the Red Rock. He likes rap and needed to say something about the environment

Yumi Kukichi on Peace Economy

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Yumi is teaching about Peace and live style change as a way to stop war economy. We met her in Tokyo as she was introducing a Japanese reporter who is following uranium victims and polluted locations world wide

Arrival of second turbine for Hull Wind

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as the end of 2005 is approaching the second wind turbine for Hull is arriving.

Videosphere

We have been filming together for 15 years. It brought us to the Indian Reservations, Refugee camps in Ghana, Africa, the Caribbeans, sailing on a schooner for a month. Everywhere we go we record the voices of the people and their culture.
This summer we were part of filming the story of the HIBAKUSHA, the A-bomb survivors. We use video to form a closer tie with our distant relatives of the human family, promoting world peace and love.