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Stephen Hawking: Another Geek Gone Eco

Hank Green

No big story here, but Stephen Hawking, who has previously called for manned exploration of space in an attempt to get all our eggs out of this one basket, says that global warming is a far greater threat than terrorism. Hawking made his remarks as a coalition of scientists pushed the 'doomsday clock' (an unnecessary and extremely frightening representation of our nearness to apocalypse) forward a couple seconds closer to midnight. At the ceremony, Hawking said, "as citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day."

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Search Engine Optimizers Going After Climate Change

Hank Green

The first every SEO world championship has begun. The competition surrounds two words that aren't quite words 'Globalwarming' and 'awareness2007.' The entire SEO community is now scrambling to create the most highly rated websites for those two terms. The winner will have the highest ranked site on major search engines when users search for "globawarming awareness2007."

Search Engine Optimization is kinda a dirty game, where people vie for keywords with sites designed, not for people, but for algorithms. The results can be seen now by searching for "globalwarming awareness2007." The sites aren't really global warming resources and they aren't very pretty to look at. But that's not what pure SEO is about. Real search engine optimization utilizes forms of this dirty SEO, but it also draws links and traffic by having great content. So far, none of these sites are going after that angle.

But still, it's pretty cool that they chose keywords with a grander meaning. From their press release, "targeting a significant cause as well as trying to make a global difference. The project focuses on creating world consciousness of our continuous planet heat rise."

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Watch Charlie Rose Tonight

Hank Green

If you get PBS, which you should, if you have a TV, which I don't (*sigh*) you should watch Charlie Rose tonight. First they'll be talking about Green Tech., Hallelujah, and then about Web 2.0. Huge names, like John Doerr of KPCB, a venture capital firm, K. R. Sridhar of Bloom Energy and and Scott Mcnealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems will be discussing our energy future. These three folks have actually worked together quite closely in developing America's energy future, behind the scenes of course, and with a heck of a lot of investment capital.

If I could invest my net proceeds from EcoGeek into any venture these three guys set up, I would do it instantly, confident that, even if the money didn't return to me thousand-fold, it would be influencing the future of our world positively.

I'm very excited to hear what they will say tonight on Charlie Rose. Has anyone else noticed how much popular that show has gotten since they started putting it on Google Video free? I heart Charlie Rose...

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Tom Friedman: EcoGeek

Hank Green

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This video shows Tom Friedman hitting Tim Russert with a very well organized impassioned monologue on the future of green technology and the environmental movement. Frankly, this video makes me proud to be covering green technology and the future of the environmental movement here at EcoGeek. Thanks Tom.

Tom Freidman has been a columnist for the New York Times for about a long time now. He's won three Pulitzer prizes (when he won his first, I still thought they were Pullit Surprises (because I was three.)) He's probably the most influential newspaper columnist in the world and it is a very big deal that five of his last ten columns have been about energy and the green movement.

For more on his environmental philosophies check out Charles Lockwood's recent interview with Tom Friedman.

Finally, I suggest watching this excellent episode of Charlie Rose from May of this year. Charlie Rose isn't actually the interviewer, but John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, does a fine job in his stead. If you've got some free time, it's very worth watching.

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Gore Officially Campaigning...Poorly

Hank Green

I know this isn't officially a politics blog, but I like Al Gore, I believe that he is an EcoGeek, and I would love to have an EcoGeek president.

Check out this interview. The guy asks Gore a couple of very interesting questions to which Gore gives very interesting answers.

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The second interesting question first: If climate change is such a big deal, then couldn't you pretty much save the world by becoming president? Isn't that a good enough reason to run?

Gore answered "I think it's still to early, I can't use that answer for much longer." But it isn't an answer he's been using for very long. At the beginning of An Inconvenient Truth, he didn't use that answer at all. It was a flat "no," which only transformed into a "maybe" a few months ago.

Gore was also asked about the Iraq War, and basically whether he, as president, would retreat defeated from the Iraq War. Instead of using his famous "Bus Crashed, Fire Bus Driver" metaphor, he stumbled, said some incoherent B.S. and then moved onto the next question.

It was like Y2K Gore All Over Again! What he's doing here is trying to seem more thoughtful about Iraq, a very divisive issue, while relying on climate change to be his main bedfellow. What he's actually doing is looking like a total weenie again, which is exactly what lost him the election in 2000. So Gore is officially campaigning, and he's officially looking like a dipstick doing it....alas.

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