CalCars and EnergyCS are in this new documentary that premieres at
the Silverdocs film festival this Friday, followed by a cable
broadcast on June 24. Following is a list of those appearing and a
brief description of the film . We haven't seen the film, so we don't
know much more than that we're in it. But the previews we've seen
(URL below) look very compelling.

Richard Wagoner, Chairman & CEO, General Motors Corporation
Elizabeth Lowery, Vice President Environment & Energy, General Motors
William McDonough, Principal and Founder, William McDonough + Partners

FROM THE SET AMERICA FREE COALITION:
Gary Bauer, President, American Values
Deron Lovaas, Vehicles Campaign Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Anne Korin, Chairperson, Set America Free Coalition
James Woolsey, Former C.I.A. Director

William Collins, Chair Global Climate Modeling, NCAR
Jon Fox-Rubin, President, CEO FiberForge
Amory Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Felix Kramer, Founder, CalCars.org (California Cars Initiative)
Greg Hanssen, V.P. Engineering, EnergyCS
Bill Reinert, National Manager of Advanced Technologies, Toyota Motor Sales
Sandy Spallino, Driver, Honda FCX
Stephen Ellis, Manager Fuel Cell Marketing, American Honda Motor Co.
Marc Cortez, Director of Marketing Solar Energy Solutions Group,
Sharp Electronics
James Dehlsen, Chairman and CEO, Clipper Windpower
Paul Westbrook, Worldwide Construction, Texas Instruments
Steve Penson, Construction Manager, Austin Commercial
Shauna Sowell, Vice President, Manager Worldwide Facilities, Texas Instruments

The New York Times documentary unit is producing a one-hour program
on geo-politics, the environment, and alternative energy solutions,
to be broadcast on the Discovery Channel on June 24, 2006. The
program will be reported by Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs
columnist, Thomas L. Friedman and will explore his ideas for a
"Geo-Green Alternative." This multi-faceted approach addresses the
problem of Americans financing supporters of terrorism through our
gasoline purchases, and points to viable options for decreasing
global warming while strengthening the U.S. economy by stimulating
American industry and innovation. As Tom puts it, "Green is the new
red, white, and blue. It's not just for tree-huggers anymore, but
for all patriots, strategic thinkers, and geo-politicians."

The documentary will examine a wide variety of developments taking
place across the energy spectrum. In China, where environmental
damage threatens the very survival of the nation, sustainable
development and innovation in "green" technology has become a top
priority government policy. In the process, the Chinese are becoming
formidable competitors for new industries and the next generation of
jobs as they create low-cost innovative products that will be in
great demand. Another phenomenon is how environmental issues are
bringing together "strange bedfellows" from across the ideological
spectrum. Old time environmentalists from the left have teamed with
prominent conservatives and leaders of the Christian right to protect
God's green earth. They emphasize the need to eliminate our
dependence on foreign oil as a national security necessity, pointing
out that we must not only stop enriching governments that support
the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, we also must protect our
country against the potentially devastating effects of a sudden cut
in energy supplies.

Other areas we will explore include hybrid car enthusiasts who are
converting their autos into "plug-ins," and are getting 100 miles to
a gallon of gas, and the current state of the hydrogen fuel
cell. "Flex-fuel" vehicles can now run on an assortment of bio-fuels
such as ethanol, which emits virtually no greenhouse gases and can be
made from almost any bio-mass, like sugar cane, corn, even certain
types of grass. (In Brazil, 40% of all fuel use by drivers is
ethanol.) Solar, and especially wind power, have made great advances
in practical technologies that are increasingly being used throughout
the world. We'll also look at new "clean and green" coal plants that
are being designed to sequester all CO2 emissions.

Climate change is no longer a matter for debate, but a proven problem
of potentially catastrophic proportions. As Tom discovers in the
course of our program, there is much we could do immediately, with
technology at hand, to break our addiction to oil. In addition,
developing technologies promise a future free of a sole dependence on
fossil fuels - a truly post-oil era. It can be done, if we have the
will and leadership to do it.

Previews at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13231593/site/newsweek/
Silverdocs listing: http://www.silverdocs.com/2006/films/addic.aspx


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