Your Environmental Road Trip (YERT.com) is a year-long eco-expedition through all 50 United States. With video camera in hand and tongue in cheek, Mark, Ben, and Julie explore the landscape of America's unique approach to environmental sustainability.
Ben, Julie, Mark, and a green leaf bug jump into funky good times in a mini-park in a parking space. Park it and watch.
YERT discovers that you can't buy happiness, but you sure can "bike" happiness - 500 people "peddling" good cheer on the streets of Boulder, CO. Welcome to Happy Thursday - Boulder Cruiser Ride style.
Watch experts discuss super-green homes, and learn how your home can be where the carbon isn't.
Gerald Iversen, National Coordinator of Alternatives for Simple Living, gives us a few options for keeping things simply marvelous-- even during the holidays.
Once known as the "Tree Planters' State," Nebraska provides fertile ground for earthen ideas and well-tended trees at Dancing Leaf and the Arbor Day Farm. And the YERT theme played on giant xylophones.
YERT is challenged by the complexities of corn, exploring biofuels, land use, and surprisingly corny food products.
YERT takes a look at a couple of creative entries in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathalon. We went on custom guided tours of the houses built by MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before they moved the houses to Washington D.C. for the big event.
YERT wakes up dark and early to search for green businesses from the top of Chicago's City Hall to the triple bottom line. Then we try to estimate the monetary value of our planet and all its citizens. No problemo.
The YERT team takes stock after the first 3 months of road tripping and shares some challenges, highlights, and a pretty giddy ditty.
After hitting the streets to explore CAFE standards with unsuspecting Wolverines, YERT gets under the hood at Ford's innovative Rouge Factory, which also happens to have the largest green roof in the world! Then we dance. Barely.
YERT visits Hull, Massachusetts, to learn more about their wind-energy program, not to mention the papa, mama, and baby-sized windmills in the area. A big thanks to Andrew Stern for the guided tour!
Good things are taking root all over this beautiful state. Explore the seeds of a new economy, and how they all grow well together.
We discover that politicians need to Live Carbon Free or Die in the New Hampshire primary. The passion of author Bill McKibben, Congressman Paul Hodes, and a variety of concerned citizens cuts to the heart of the matter - and even through the loud music of the rally, mostly.
Join YERT for a nourishing conversation about peace, sustainability, community, and everything in between with the intentional community at the Addams-Mellman House in Bath, Maine. (44 minutes long)
YERT heads to Maine and decides to get all wet! Watch Mainers and Mainiacs sound off on water rights... and water wrongs.
YERT explores thoughtful arguments for and against the offshore wind farm proposed in Nantucket Sound, then goes to the beach for some additional... um... investigation!
Things seem to grow well in this great little state-- watch turkeys mate, cows debate, and alpacas salivate.
We found ourselves charmed by the easygoing pace and not-too-subtle wisdom of the City Farm in Providence.
All indicators point to nonpoint source pollution making gigunda gunga gunga grow in Barnegat Bay!
Got a question for Uncle Sam? These kids have questions... and answers... and questioning answers. Don't ask.
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