Liam Cohen-3/26/09-talking with Josh Tickle

The other day I talked to Josh Tickle.  Josh Tickle is the director of the movie Fuel.  He is a visionary and tried to show us all how to be green and use efficient fuels.  I called him and talked with him and recorded the call to use in my robotics presentation.  When I called I asked him various questions like why did he try to spread his message.  I also asked him why he decided to spread his message via film.  What was striking to me was his extensive knowledge of Green cities such as Portland, Oregon, and what they are doing.  He taught me that there are cities that are actually doing this without having trouble.  Like the people of Portland actually got an efficient carpool system running.  (a carpool system is where different people who work in the same neighbor hood take the same car to the same area so they can still drive cars and emit less CO2).  Somethings that I would like to take home would be the knowledge of different ways to be green, like taking more public transportation.  My goals for the next visit would be to go to a company like Green Watt.  I would like to explore the inner workings of the technology that allows us to be energy efficient, like they have a car that runs on hydrogen and I would like to know how it works, exactly.  But I would have to say I learned a lot.  Some of the most important things that I learned were that taking public transportation can decrease your carbon foot print by a lot.  Secondly I learned that cities that can organize people to ride bikes or share cars can really make their environment much, much cleaner.  The last and most important thing that I learned was that being sustainable really depends on what the person wants to do or what they can do but these people even if they can not do one thing to be sustainable to do another, it really just all goes back to you.