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“’Deep Green’ was AWESOME.  I just….WOW!  And the shorts beforehand, particularly the ocean one that I have more of a connection to. Everything was just excellent…Bravo….What a great documentation of what is going on. What a great way to show people how to make a difference. On the way home, the consensus in our car was that it was better than ‘Inconvenient Truth.’  Bravo, Bravo, Bravo. Great show.” -Jeff Dulcich, Pacific Seafood

“‘Deep Green’ is the most engaging environmental movie I have ever seen.  The average person can relate to it and understand everything.” -Sandy Chelico, Artist

“I’ve been rolling your masterpiece in my mind since the event and wanted to know I thought it was magic.  The topical and important message, production value, music and your special delivery were complete and from this perspective—a life achievement.” -Bradford Fletcher, Managing Director, Grubb and Ellis Company

“We showed ‘Deep Green’ in Ubud on the evening of April 22nd, as part of Bali Earth Day celebrations. The screening was held at a private villa, Villa Gaia. Healthy buffet dinner was first served, with ice teas and juices, followed by a speaker, Mr. Stephen Palmer, owner and founder of Surfer Girl and Little Tree, a new store in Kuta selling eco-friendly building materials. His speech tied in very well with Deep Green. The 60 or so audience was glued to the screen.” -Paula, BALI  UBUD Yoga

“I watched Deep Green last week, and it’s phenomenal! You’ve done a really good job focusing on the solutions, and keeping an optimistic tone while still conveying the message that we need to change our ways. It got me particularly excited about China!” -Lionel Bony, Director, Office of the Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

“I think ‘Deep Green’ is a fantastic educational film. Your film is a great tool for those of us interested in educating the public about energy use and impacts. One big strength of the film from an educator perspective is that it covers the subject very thoroughly, does a good job with each topic and is solutions oriented (as opposed to the too-often seen doom & gloom approach). I was pleased to see that you addressed consumer habits, and particularly pleased that you highlighted the role that eating meat plays in one’s Carbon Footprint. Too often there is emphasis on renewables and energy efficiency and little on consumer and eating habits.  A few other things I really liked about the film: The weaving of examples and stories from China throughout the film. I perceive an intention here that I very much appreciate.  The way you made things that could have been complicated, accessible to a general audience.  The scene with you in the classroom with kids as the credits rolled at the end was very powerful. Thank you for creating great energy education resource!” -Matthew Inman, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Science Teacher & Energy Educator

“’Deep Green’ is a brilliant combination of inspirational hope and a call to action based on clear urgency… I am an ecosystems biologist and have worked in the field of environmental education for decades, mostly in water but finally now on climate change (last 6 years).  Your film was a huge help to me because I often feel overwhelmed by the scale of the global threat/challenge and the forces aligned to convince people they don’t need to act. But what Deep Green shows is that many, many people do see the need to act and they are already doing something substantial (even profitable) to move us to a clean energy future.  This is highly encouraging and energizing.” -An Environmental Educator

“Your movie is magnificent.  You have done an incredible job.  I’ms crossing my fingers that it gets the recognition it deserves worldwide.” -Dorothy Atwood, Sustainable Consultant

“I was blown away by how professional and articulate the film is, really the best I’ve seen on the overall topic of responding to climate change.  You are an engaging host, clear in your explanations of causes and solutions, and you engaged wonderful people to tell their stories.” -Michael O’Brien, Green Building Program,  Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (Oregon)

“Deep Green is a breakthrough in revealing energy efficiency’s key role in addressing the challenges of climate change.” -Peter Wilcox, Senior Manager, Commercial Sector, NORTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE

“Just wanted to say how impressed Bunny and I were with your project and I mean WOW! It maintained its momentum and optimism, was very well focused, informative and the videography and animation were truly superb.  I really liked how you kept bringing it back to the personal level…and you didn’t go preachy—basically saying “this is what I did and it wasn’t that hard, you could do this too.” -John Hinds, Carpenter

“It was a personable, informative, very hopeful, and appreciative film of cultural diversity.  What you have done fills the “honorable” category of what it is to be human, conscious, and generative…you left your own “footprint” about the carbon footprint which spoke to ensuring a sustainable future through a fundamental re-visioning of what a belief in unity must encompass.” -Anne Sauter, Buddist Teacher

“You have taken a great chance, and you have won—a great achievement.  It’s a superb work by any measure.” -Jim Newcomer, former Executive Assistant American Ambassador to Taiwan Transition PDX Hub Group

“I was extremely moved by the film and am putting “Deep Green” squarely in the top three most important climate change films ever made.” -Stiv Wilson, Wend Magazine

“It’s inspiring to see a film that an extraordinary caring person made. Wow.” -Mary Twombly, Nurse

“John and I were amazed by ‘Deep Green.’ I think you can see by my subject  line that I’m filled with superlatives. Beyond the highest quality  photography, sound, true-story, etc. etc., what moves me the most is that  your story and pursuit brought the global issue down to the personal level  and you made it so those of us who thought we’ve changed bulbs here and  downsized on somethings there, and dig our kitchen garbage into the soil  and compost and ride the bus to work (John) and drive a hybrid (me/my mom’s), you’ve shifted the feeling of hopelessness and dread which can  seep in around the corners of our heart and soul and restored hope and  motivation to keep trying, to keep speaking up, to do the little low  hanging fruit things that we can, and do and advocate for the harder to  reach ones as we go….During some of the interviews I was struck how the use of background music was  helping me to flow along and with it, and have my mind and body not  mentally wander, i.e. the interviews never felt like’”talking heads.’  s God/Gia/Creator (whatever name we call this flow of energy, creativity and Spirit, out there and in us)….whatever we call the divine and  mysterious and its call to us, God knows we need to know what you’ve  discovered and shared and done, so we can in our own ways exercise our creativity and go and do likewise in our own ways and places.  It’s evident that many caught the green-Matt-bug as they were attracted to your vision and project and saw the universal in you.  Thank you for listening to the inner call which drove and propelled you.  You’ve been a vehicle, vessel and tool. You opened yourself. You’re one of  the prophets, now, you know. (If you’re willing to have a little theo-language used to describe what’s happened, as regular language falls short when something this big is under way/under foot/working from the s inside to find an externalization).” -Jennifer Grosvenor

April 22, 2010 – Re: Seeing Your Film Deep Green (as Part of the Clackamas Community College Sustainability Lecture Series) – “Thanks again for showing Deep Green today.  We talked briefly, and I wanted to send you further appreciation as well as simply connect.  I was moved by a number of the scenes and was grateful to find the film in sync with Lester Brown’s sense of urgency. You did a superb job of instilling it with a constructive sense that I’d think future audiences, especially younger people, will appreciate.  I loved the photography inside power plants where you and others were surrounded by pipes and generators, and particularly at one point the beauty of a piece of glass being shaped, I think it was, into a luminous circle–the colors it assumed before the craftsperson took it away from the fire and we saw it was a glass tube.  That was just one of the spots where the beauty took me in. I also thought there was quite a bit of beauty in the image of the solar tower seen across a field, behind a town I think it was, the gold glow of the focal point showing how all those memories everyone has of car windows glinting off blasts of late afternoon sun were showing us one of the direct ways to tap into the solar system’s energy.  I think this solar tower was shown twice—and glad it was.  Additionally, the visual of solar panel materials being constructed was striking, the luminous blue squares that looked too simple, perhaps, to be able to work as they do. My sense was that this image communicated a sense of the kind of paradigm shift we’re seeing–where “clean” means what it used to mean and “clean energy” truly will be able to offer us a new chance, where we’ll experience perspectives we might not have had before–and perhaps a more elegant working relationship with matter.  I also appreciated the beauty of the people you interviewed. Perhaps it was your earnestness or the way you might have let people know you represented hundreds of thousands of others who were right there with you (i.e., or they will be as the film takes on even more of a life of its own).  I’d think viewers of Deep Green will be grateful and benefit from the information and perspectives and way the information has been put together.  In the film, I admired how you took responsibility for your own education and for making your contributions to climate change lighter until they eventually were Net Zero.  The audience could identify with you, and I think the purpose was clear:   to let people from many parts of the world share what they know;  to establish the findings of peer-reviewed science; and  to let us see enough evidence of where we’re going to be able to imagine being there. I think Deep Green showed ways to perhaps transcend old political or ethical/cultural battle wounds, by giving us enough details we could picture what shifting to the new paradigms might mean.  I thought the film asked everyone to make a shift not only to renewable energy systems (or Net Zero) but to a more renewable belief in the species, if you will.  ‘Deep Green struck me as good medicine for this, as a vision shared with us through evidence we can assemble into a more wide-screen picture of where we could be going. One student recently framed the reasons to study sustainability in a way that stayed with me–”to help civilization heal.”  I want to say that this film is one of the best I’ve seen especially in tone and scope, with clear explanations and global perspective, and its ongoing attitude of learning (I thought you were a superb “guide” or teacher).  Also, I was relieved the film communicated in real terms the urgency we need to have, and the ethical imperative. I liked the examples from China, which (by the way) might be a good way to motivate certain people who’d be worried about not falling behind China.  Or from another angle, some people in this country might be tired of pretending they’re better than the rest of the world, and those scenes from China could possibly help loosen some of us up.  For sure, China has much potential, and from what was shown this includes many civic-minded individuals who’re working to be responsible. We do, too, of course, though our decision-making processes are much more chaotic. But more than these reasons, I just liked the people that were included. I felt commonality with them, with their attitudes, and my basic thought is that, by giving the people enough room to reveal something of their personalities and approach to what they were doing, their depth and earnestness, the film can help people feel kinship.  Sometimes I’m not sure where to draw a line between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ when one of the neighborhood jays lands and my first thought is that “someone’s there.  Investigative well-realized documentaries such as yours can give people tools (ideas, projects, leads, directions, memes, visions), and Deep Green struck me, as mentioned before, to be the most up-to-date, multifaceted I’ve seen.  Also, it’s appearing at the right time and could help many see where we’re going and why.  The film’s packed with layers of meaning, which makes it particularly appropriate for students of sustainability in its broader sense. Please know I’ll do all I can to help Deep Green reach people who’d appreciate what you’ve done.  Thank you, man—good energy to you,” -Jim Grabill, College Sustainability Professor