This could sustain me…

• Posted: April 11, 2008
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• Author: Christina
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• Filed under: about me,blogging,technology,video
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• Tags: hotness, makemesustainable, squadcast, sxsw, videos

Apologies to David and Ben for any sexual harassment -- what can I say, I'm human!

This was one of my favorite inter­views from SXSWi — and not because of the eye-candy (well, not explic­itly), but because the site/service that Ben and David have started is so inno­v­a­tive, intel­li­gent and impor­tant. I’ve never been overtly eco­log­i­cally con­scious. I recy­cle, I try to save water/energy, I saw An Incon­ve­nient Truth in the the­ater — twice — but I’m not a green lov­ing evan­ge­list. Talk­ing with those two guys and hear­ing their ratio­nal and real­is­tic spiel about the state of Earth and what real peo­ple can do to reduce our car­bon foot­print was not only enlight­en­ing — but inspiring.

Here are two guys that are my age (actu­ally, I think they are younger) who are truly doing some­thing to get the mes­sage out and make sus­tain­abil­ity more than just a buzz­word. Go to MakeMeSustainable.com and con­sider sign­ing up for your own pro­file (you can even link it with your Face­book or OpenID account). It’s really easy to fill out your basic car­bon pro­file and then pledge (or com­mit to things you already do) to reduce the amount of car­bon you emit each year. Via Twit­ter, Steve Law­son (@solobasssteve) told me about a sim­i­lar site based in the UK, A Year of Liv­ing Gen­er­ously.

I’m not going to lie, these guys absolutely made me blush. Movie star hand­some AND smart. Yeah, I totally, totally love my job. Apolo­gies to David and Ben for any sex­ual harass­ment — what can I say, I’m human!

Two other inter­views that I really, really enjoyed (and haven’t already posted) were the adorable Chris Saad from DataPortability.org (see it here) and the always dynamic Gary Vayn­er­chuk from Wineli­braryTV (see it here).

And while I’m in SXSWi recap mode — I didn’t get to inter­view Sunir and Saul from Freshbooks.com (I was run­ning the cam­era — hence you can blame me for the bounci­ness — hey, a direc­tor is NOT a DP (unless you are Soder­bergh…)!!) but meet­ing them and hear­ing their story was great. That’s a com­pany I want to do busi­ness with. And inter­view­ing Kevin Marks from Google OpenSo­cial was a true honor — and a great way to end what ended up being one of the best weeks of my life.

Out!

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