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Choose Reality

I’m super excited to be working with The Climate Reality Project, the latest climate awareness effort by Al Gore. The campaign aims to “focus the world’s attention on the full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis. To remove the doubt. Reveal the deniers. And catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us.”

Watch the video for the first event, 24 Hours of Reality, which the FearLess Cottage helped produce, along with the talented folks at Brooklyn film studio m ss ng p eces:

On September 14, there will be live streaming presentations from Al Gore and others all across the globe giving the latest information on what’s going on with all the dirty weather and political issues that are blocking action on climate change.

For the latest news and updates, follow The Climate Reality Project on Twitter and Facebook.

Robyn O’Brien at TEDxMileHigh

Robyn O’Brien is a good friend of ours at the FearLess Cottage. Here she gives her powerful personal story of going from a Wall Street analyst to a mom who learned things about her kids’ food that she simply couldn’t unlearn.

Common Cycles: Put Your Ass on Our Grass

I had my first appearance on the FearLess Revolution show last week to discuss the launch of Common Cycles. Watch here.

(Photo by Nick Todd)

It’s time for a food fight

This video is the first in a series featuring Jeffrey M. Smith on the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. The videos were created by my FearLess teammates Alex, Isaac, Kim, Matt and Art.

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The Intersection of Design and Sustainability

Here’s a little presentation I gave last week as part of an AIGA Colorado event at the Denver Art Museum. The night was an introduction for the local creative community to the Living Principles, which is the sustainability platform embraced by AIGA. The main speaker for the evening was Alex Bogusky, who I’ve been working with for the last several months on the FearLess Revolution and our new initiative, COMMON.

My talk was a bit of a transition from the Living Principles to Alex’s presentation. I’ve never really done this kind of thing before, but the opportunity came up and I thought it could be fun. The fact that I was getting over a cold definitely didn’t help my lack of public speaking skills. But there was a sold out auditorium there to see Alex and thousands more watching a live stream, so luckily my nerves went away just before going up and it was indeed a lot of fun.

Thanks a lot to Evelyn and Charles of AIGA for giving me the opportunity. And to a lot of other people who have helped inspire these ideas: Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff, Alex Steffen of Worldchanging, designer Bruce Mau, my girlfriend Amy Breunissen, my good friend Brent Sainsbury, and of course Alex Bogusky who has helped me fear a little less in pursuit of innovation, creativity and happiness.

Thanks for watching,
Jeff Oeth

(Additional references: Chris Jordan & Pangea Organics)

The GrowHaus

This post by Ellen Sabina originally appeared on JustMeans, a blog on sustainable business.

Finding healthy sustainable food in the middle of the city can be difficult, particularly in areas that qualify as food deserts. Such is the case in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, where the nearest real grocery store is a Walmart supercenter that is three miles away. It’s industrial, it’s low income, it’s primarily Latino. But it also happens to be home to a very large greenhouse taking on a very large sustainable food project.

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