A New Beginning

Hello and welcome to envirominute.org.

This blog has truly been 14 years in the making. Yes even before blogging and barely the internet were even invented.

14 years ago I worked for a then upstart network in the promotion and advertising department. I had an idea to use the talent from the various shows on the network to created 1 minute PSAs called "Envirominutes". Essentially it was a vehicle to not only promote the different talent at the network but to also try to inform and educate the viewers on environmental issues and provide them with ways of living a "greener" existence.

So I may have been a little ahead of my time. Apparently being "green" is trendy all of the sudden witness the cover of Newsweek's July 17th edition.

For me, it all started much ealier than this year. I think back to grade school and the beginning of Earth Day, wearing ominous buttons with a picture of the EARTH enveloped in a smog mask. Environmentalism really didn't become a large part of my thinking until I moved to California in the late 1980's. I remember becoming a paying member of many different organizations that supported a "greening" of the world as well as some well known animal rights and wildlife organizations too.

I've been a recycler for as long as I can remember. I would always think about what happens to each item I throw in the trash. How long will that sit in the landfill before it breaksdown or will it ever. Styrofoam, batteries, old electronics. I tried to recycle as much as possible and donate anything I didn't want to charitable organizations.

Well without boring you with my whole life history, here we are in 2006. The price of oil is over $75 dollars a barrel and gas is well over $3 a gallon where I live. Global warming is no longer fiction but scientific fact. That is of course unless you listen to some media types and politicians. My whole life has made a 180 degree turn over the last 3 years. After 45 years of never being married, I met my wife on a blind date in 2003, we were married in 2004 and we had our first child in 2005. You see my son is ultimately responsible for my growing passion for environmentalism.

Now that I've brought another life into the world I feel a "moral obligation" as Al Gore put it, to do whatever I can to make sure he has the same quality of life and environment that I have. Is there any better reason? Of course what really kicked me in the butt was the movie AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. I saw this film with my wife after having just returned from a family reunion in New Hampshire. One of my cousins works for the NH Department of Environmental Protection and is pushing hard on the adoption of biodiesel in the state. It was very interesting talking to her and learning more about biodiesel. Of course here in NY you can't buy a diesel car but we can burn biofeul to heat our house.

So many factors came together to bring me to this. It is my hope to use this forum to inform and educate anyone who wants to come in and look. It is also my hope to produce many enviromintues. Whether these live on the internet or make it into a syndication deal with maintstream media is not a concern of mine. I only want to produce informative, educational, motivational content that will help us all to save our planet. The world is really quite a mess right now, between our deteriorating environment to the wars in the Middle East. As an individual all I can do is to take action here at home and eventually in my community to help make a difference. If I believe I can make a difference. If I believe otherwise then there really is no hope for us.