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How you inspired me to reclaim the way we tell stories about the environment

leahl
Hello Good People of Current!
I'm working on this awesome project~ and I was thinking about how my time with speaking with you, reading your comments and reactions to the good news and bad inspired the creation of this project. And I got to thinking...OMG! I have to tell them!

It's called People and the Planet, and it is all about how people are
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peopleandtheplanet/people-and-the-planet

Here is the even longer piece in Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leah-lamb/sex-pandas-kittens-and-sw_b_695770.html
I have a dream of creating stories that reconnect people to the planet, and reclaim the way we tell stories about the environment. What? You say. Reclaim? Yes. Reclaim. Let me tell you why.

After nearly two years of consuming and producing environmental video and blog content for Current's Green Channel, I nearly crawled away in a deep depression about the state of the world. I suffered from too-much-eco-news-itis. So I sublet my house, and retreated to a cabin perched on a cliff on the Lost Coast to complete my novel (and escape the world as we know it). I unplugged from the Internet (as best I could), and plugged into the planet. I spent the last three months walking in the woods, walking by the ocean, and consuming information from a different source: the natural world. I've never been happier.

What happened is that I started to see a huge disconnect between my experience in the environment, and the news I consume about the environment. And then I started thinking about the key reasons about why I went into producing media: to motivate, mobilize and inspire people to be stewards for our planet.

Houston. We have a problem. Because I don't know about you, but that majority of news I read about the environment these days sucks......
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  • Dfg
  • EthicalVegan
  • leahl
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      leahl  

    • Awe...thanks for much for you kinds words and support~ I can't tell you how much it means~ and how serious I was when I said it was my time spent with you that inspired the creation of this initiative.

    • 1 year ago
  • Wetdog
  • tverdell
    • tverdell  
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  • leahl
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      leahl  
    • tverdell:

      ummmm....by infusing the world with the stories that remind us why we need to keep up the good work? :) Honestly~ I think you have landed on the question of the hour. How do we continue in the face of so many losses all at once?

    • 1 year ago
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  
    • leahl:

      My own opinion is that "cap and trade" is not a loss at all---I think we should all be dancing in the streets celebrating. I think cap and trade is an elaborate scheme by banking/financial groups/individuals to enrich themselves further and extend even MORE control over consumers. "Cap and trade" is just a way to allow polluters to continue to pollute, and it will magnify the economic advantage between those who pollute and those who do not pollute. And, on top of that, no one anywhere will be in a better position to gauge the financial and competitive position of the companies who do the trading than the bankers and traders who handle the exchanges.

      Cap and trade is the LAST thing in the world we want. C&T would mean a flood of investment capital to the worst polluting companies and industries we have.

    • 1 year ago
  • pandaman2105
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      pandaman2105  

    • awesome Leah, this is an invigorating idea everyone should be supporting!
      I've enjoyed following you on twitter and keeping up with all that you've been working on.

      can't wait to see more!

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • Interesting to know what you've been up to. I envy your financial ability to leave civilization for 3 months and hide out in a cabin in the woods.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • leahl
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      leahl  
    • Dagum:

      ha! don't over romanticize it! I sublet my house and moved to a place where my only expense would be groceries and my student loans. All I can say is thank god for video skype!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Leah:

      So great to see you here. I totally understand your point and think your project is a wonderful idea and will gladly take a look at it. Connecting to the planet is the one way people then begin to understand how important it is be good stewards, and these stories will also help connect others as well. There is nothing more fulfilling than a walk in a natural setting.To me is it is truly being home. Good luck with this and I hope you post more about this project. And please tell us more about your novel. I just started my book today on the global water crisis and solutions. It's going to be a long process but one I look forward to. Thanks for the inspiration you gave here.

    • 1 year ago
  • leahl
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      leahl  
    • JanforGore:

      I definitely will keep you guys up to date and reply to this thread! Thanks for you support Jan~ and all of your continued passion and dedication to delivering the information.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • MPGomatic
  • ezrierin
  • thetrimsmith
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      thetrimsmith  

    • Do the same thing almost every weekend, I love going deep in the woods for days. Away from Civilization, and just enjoy my Mother (earth).

    • 1 year ago
  • hunzedog
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • Long time no see . . . now we know why.

      You had to leave the world . . . in order to find the planet.

      . . . and I agree, Houston, we have a problem!

    • 1 year ago
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