GREEN IS THE NEW RED, WHITE & BLUE AND “AMERICA THE GREEN” PODCAST BRINGS THAT HOME WITH FLYING COLORS.
Santa Fe, NM — Call it the tipping point, a wake-up call or even the duh moment but “Green” is in the air. South Dakota at 107 degrees. Monsoon-like flooding in the Northeast. The Greenland ice sheet melting twice as fast as five years ago. Suddenly the Earth has started to speak out and not so subtly. The question is: What can we do?
As communicators for Irv Weinberg, John Biethan and Carolyn Parrs, the answer was simple: “America the Green” - a podcast they conceived right after viewing Al Gore’s film Inconvenient Truth. In the first two weeks of America the Green’s launch, iTunes picked them up, featured their show and off they went with flying colors. (All green, of course).
“What’s needed are not just big solutions but many people doing small things that add up to big things,” says Irv Weinberg. “When enough people reach a critical mass of consciousness and don’t leave it for the next guy or girl to do it for them, real change happens. It always does.”
That’s the mission of America the Green. Each week from Santa Fe, New Mexico, the team speaks up and out with green business leaders, local community activists and forward thinkers from sea to shining sea in order create permanent, positive change through the greening of America.
Their podcast begins by alerting their listeners with an eco wake-up call like: “The average person spends approximately 90% of their time indoors. According to the EPA, six out of ten homes are ‘sick’. Meaning that they are harzardous to your health to live in.” Then with a mix of passion and humor, Parrs, Weinberg and Biethan discuss the problem and more importantly, real solutions, with an invited guest. “Be the change you want to see in the world,” is their motto, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.
According to Carolyn Parrs, “Rarely does anything change from the top down. It all happens in the trenches. And that’s you and me and a million other Americans speaking out and making it happen in our own, unique way.”
America the Green is produced by Digital Green Marketing and engineered by Biethan, a recognized Podcast Producer. According to Biethan, “Podcasting is an online social media bringing together like minded people who not only share common interests but a desire to form a social community to communicate, interact and share their interests. Unlike traditional media which is passive, Podcasting engages the audience in an interactive experience whether they have a computer or not.”
DGM is a division of Mind Over Markets, a Santa Fe marketing communications firm owned by Weinberg and Parrs. Mind Over Markets and Digital Green Marketing are dedicated to helping socially responsible companies take their businesses to the next level of success through proven, high-level marketing strategies with breakthrough use of the New Media. Biethan, Weinberg and Parrs’ personal and professional commitment is to apply their depth of skills, abilities and insights to companies and organizations whose products, services and values help create positive change and serve the public good.
Listeners can check out America the Green at www.AmericaTheGreen.com or Mind Over Markets at www.MindOverMarkets.com.
For more information call 505-989-4004.
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Our guest: Gail Larsen, Founder of Real Speaking, is a communications coach, speaker and workshop leader who has a passion for planet and the power of the human voice.