Filmmakers’ Responsibilities to Society
I met a delightful woman at yesterday’s “boot camp” in preparation for the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit. Barbara Kerr Condon, who has a great deal of experience in this arena, and is in the process of producing a film called “Three Times A Lady,” an uplifting romantic comedy. She believes that filmmakers have a responsibility to enhance our civilization, rather than to degrade it. Barbara quotes Frank Capra, who said: “Movies should be a positive expression that there is hope, love, mercy, justice, and charity…It is the filmmaker’s responsibility to emphasize the positive qualities of humanity by showing the triumph of the individual over adversities.”
Do you know what happens in the process of the fermentation of yeast and grape juice to making the 26.2 million tons of wine made each year on planet Earth? When this subject arose at today’s session in which my team and I helped coach the presenters at the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit, I have to confess that I thought the emissions were limited to a relatively inconsequential amount of CO2, as I am (very vaguely) familiar with the Kreb’s Cycle. (Recommendation: Make sure you haven’t had a drop to drink if you expect to make any sense of this, as described 
Changes in the temperature in the past decades have brought the worst natural disasters that wreaked havoc everywhere in the world. From hurricane Katrina in 2005 that claimed more than a thousand lives in the country to cyclone Nargis in Myanmar where more than 100,000 lives were lost.
The world has suffered from several fatal disasters. News of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other phenomena have shaken us. Most people say that it is nature’s own way of taking revenge against humans’ cruelties. However, could it be nature’s cruelty and not any form of revenge? We have this ecological concept about the balance of nature, and how true is it that humans are pushing down too hard on the other end of this balance? 
I just got back from a day-long session in which I mentored presenters for the 2013 production of the Clean Business Investment Summit. CBIS is a group with a long list of greats: intentions, sponsors, fellow volunteers, statistics (in terms of investment dollars raised — $110 million), and ideas (I saw two presentations today that left me breathless).
Here’s a 
Gary sent me this, and I thought I’d publish it for him, as I’ve always been so impressed with his insights:
Lots of businesses and individuals are trying to do their part to go green, including local fire departments.
Deteriorating environmental conditions and rising energy prices are prompting many businesses and individuals to adopt eco-friendly practices.
Here’s the radio show I did on Conservative Nation Radio the other night, in which I discussed 
