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The Movie

MattBriggs

“Environmental Solutionist”

There’s a growing buzz surrounding a new documentary called Deep Green—a film that takes a positive approach: instead of leaving us scared senseless concerning the condition of our environment, it provides a wealth of solutions that clearly illustrate, in the words of the film promotion, “We can fix this.” Read More »

Solutions

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6 Steps Towards Net Zero

Replacing your most used incandescent lights with LEDs ranks as the #1 bang-for-the-buck energy efficiency and anti-global warming action by the respected energy think tank The McKinsey Company. (Skip Compact Fluorescents---the dumbed down cheap new designs don’t last and will leak mercury when they blow.) Read More »

News & Updates

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The Oregonian, July 2011

His nine-year journey toward living green began small: planting an organic garden and using low VOC paint. It grew larger: installing 47 solar panels and other systems to help his home achieve net zero carbon emissions. And eventually gigantic: making a $2 million documentary film, "Deep Green," Read More »

Deep Green doesn’t sugarcoat the potential negative impacts of climate change, but it dwells instead on taking action. Some of the material is quite surprising. Who knew, for example that China has extensive wind farms, with turbines in Mongolia producing 41 percent of the nation’s wind energy, or that China plans to add 100,000 megawatts of new wind power by 2020, the equivalent of 200 average coal-fired power plants?... — Eugene Register-Guard

We see Energy Efficiency as the cheapest, cleanest, fastest energy there is. — Barbara Finamore Director, National Resources Defense Council – China

The kind of lifestyle you choose determines all the rest. — Wei Zhang Architect, BDCL Design International (Beijing, China)

Climate protection is not costly, it's profitable. It's cheaper to save fuel than to buy fuel. Somewhere economic theorists got the sign wrong, so we've been talking about cost, burden, and sacrifice— when we should be talking about profits, jobs, and competitive advantage. — Amory Lovins Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

If we wait until 2050 to cut carbon emissions by 80% , the game will be over---we'll probably have reached the point of no return. We're talking about 600 million people at least being displaced by rising seas. This is not a world we want to leave for the next generation. — Lester Brown Founder, Earth Policy Institute

When you are eating from the Industrial food system, you are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gases. — Michael Pollan Bestselling Author & Professor, UC Berkeley

There is no more time for incrementalism. We wasted that time 30 years ago in the last energy crisis. We need bold, big, audacious moves. — Marc Porat CEO, Serious Materials, CalStar Cement

Deep Green is a template for getting off fossil fuels. — LA Times

Deep Green offers hope instead of despair. — The Oregonian

Instead of leaving us scared senseless concerning the condition of our environment, it provides a wealth of solutions that clearly illustrate, in the words of the film promotion, ‘We can fix this’.… — Organic Connections

People will be moved by your behavior, what you do, not what you tell them. — Huang Ming CEO, Himin Solar Energy Co, Ltd. - China

We are part of family---the global family. Although you may think that what you do will not affect me, in reality we affect each other every day. — Dr. Shi Zhengrong Chairman and CEO, Suntech Power Holdings Co, Ltd – China

This is no ordinary exploration of the climate crisis….Briggs hits home not only because he describes amazing, seemingly futuristic technology, which is happening right now, but shows in cold hard facts how much the average person as well as industry will save in energy costs by being more efficient and designing buildings using the simple principles of high school physics. — Adventures in Climate Change