Comments on: Jeff Goodell: Citizen Journalists Can Save Environment

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:22:19 +0000

neighBORROW is a “green” web-based start-up that facilitates the
borrowing and lending things among neighbors or other groups. neighBORROW
combines the traditional notion of borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor
with modern technology, using the Internet to facilitate borrowing and lending of
nearly anything among people in local networks. The website, currently in pBETA, uses
accountability metrics such as deposits, user reputations and borrowing history and customizable
privacy settings to help ensure the safety of its members’ property. Users have the flexibility to
decide what and with whom they are willing to share by participating in private and public networks.
These “neighBORROW-hoods,” have been created in apartment buildings, dormitories, offices, and other
natural localities, and have been used to pool and catalog extensive online inventories of CDs, DVDs,
video games, books, tools, sporting equipment, baby items and many other durable goods.

By: Sarah Soltow

Sarah Soltow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:57:31 +0000

Since reading Big Coal two years ago, I have been internalizing Goodell’s ideas that ‘reinventing’ the energy industry is the prime hope for our future- as a people and as a world.
I would like to find some more directed/concrete ‘pathways’ to act upon this information and help carry the ideas forward.

By: Periodismo Ciudadano

Periodismo Ciudadano — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:14:54 +0000

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By: Nathan Ketsdever

Nathan Ketsdever — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:53:58 +0000

I like the language about “re-inventing our energy system”

Great interview.

By: David Poulson

David Poulson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:05:55 +0000

This interview itself is a great example of what Goodell discusses. True, it is conducted by a former journalist and a current journalism academic. But it could have been done by anyone equipped with a simple flip camera and access to this conference. A good example of untrained citizens interviewing untrained citizens to bring fresh light to an environmental issue is on our site at http://greatlakeswiki.org/index.php/The_future_of_Pine_River See the video interview of the Bushwhacker Canoe Challenge.