Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
This is a fabulous documentary about the Enron scandal.
It's for everybody who works in finance.
And anyone else with any savings in the stock market.
Unfortunately, bigger scandals have occurred since then.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wZi2cNV98&feature=related
Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Who Killed The Electric Car?
Who Killed The Electric Car?
Little known to me, and the rest of the general public, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and Honda sold electric vehicles in the mid 1990s.
They performed fabulously. GM's EV1, designed as a family car, actually accelerated faster than a Corvette!
Most anyone who leased one, wanted to own it. Yet still, GM and most other companies refused to allow their customers to buy the cars, then repossessed, and crushed most all of them. The exception was Toyota, which sold a few hundred of their RAV4s.
Who Killed The Electric Car? is a fabulous documentary about the story, which I highly recommend to everyone.
There are number of myths circulating about the subject, which the documentary disproves. One being, the range of the batteries was not far enough. To see why, check out the official website.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
or purchase the documentary from Plug In America
http://www.pluginamerica.org/wktec.shtm
Or watch the documentaries on Youtube.
Who Killed the Electric Car Part 1 of 10
See some more electric car links here:
Real life EV Stories:
http://www.pluginamerica.org/learn-about-plug-ins/real-life-ev-stories.html
GM's EV1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
http://ev1.org/
Info on the Honda EV:
http://www.hondaev.org/acar.html
EV Album
http://www.evalbum.com/
Suzuki Samurai
http://www.evalbum.com/1059
Dave Muse claims to have owned an electric car for 25 years.
http://www.squidoo.com/cheap-electric-car
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/apeweek
Electric Cars Are For Girls
http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/index.html
Little known to me, and the rest of the general public, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and Honda sold electric vehicles in the mid 1990s.
They performed fabulously. GM's EV1, designed as a family car, actually accelerated faster than a Corvette!
Most anyone who leased one, wanted to own it. Yet still, GM and most other companies refused to allow their customers to buy the cars, then repossessed, and crushed most all of them. The exception was Toyota, which sold a few hundred of their RAV4s.
Who Killed The Electric Car? is a fabulous documentary about the story, which I highly recommend to everyone.
There are number of myths circulating about the subject, which the documentary disproves. One being, the range of the batteries was not far enough. To see why, check out the official website.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
or purchase the documentary from Plug In America
http://www.pluginamerica.org/wktec.shtm
Or watch the documentaries on Youtube.
Who Killed the Electric Car Part 1 of 10
See some more electric car links here:
Real life EV Stories:
http://www.pluginamerica.org/learn-about-plug-ins/real-life-ev-stories.html
GM's EV1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
http://ev1.org/
Info on the Honda EV:
http://www.hondaev.org/acar.html
EV Album
http://www.evalbum.com/
Suzuki Samurai
http://www.evalbum.com/1059
Dave Muse claims to have owned an electric car for 25 years.
http://www.squidoo.com/cheap-electric-car
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/apeweek
Electric Cars Are For Girls
http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/index.html
The SOLD Project
The SOLD Project
Recently, I have had the honor of meeting Rachel Sparks, and seeing the great documentary she has produced: The SOLD Project.
It is about young girls (and boys) in Thailand who are tricked into, abducted into, or sold into, prostitution. It is a very moving documentary.
When I saw it, I remembered what Benizir Bhutto said when I saw her speak once. She wanted to build a society where every child was "fed, clothed, sheltered, protected, nutured, educated, and loved". In other words, child prostitution is the antithesis of such an ideal.
See the trailer here:
more videos here:
http://www.vimeo.com/thesoldproject/videos
the website here:
http://thesoldproject.com/
and the blog here:
http://thesoldproject.blogspot.com/
The organization is now creating non-profit groups to help prevent village girls going into prostitution. One method is education in the villages. Another is the creation of scholarships to pay for the schooling of young girls who are at risk of becoming prostitutes.
See how little it takes, and consider donating, here:
http://thesoldproject.com/organization/scholarship.php
Recently, I have had the honor of meeting Rachel Sparks, and seeing the great documentary she has produced: The SOLD Project.
It is about young girls (and boys) in Thailand who are tricked into, abducted into, or sold into, prostitution. It is a very moving documentary.
When I saw it, I remembered what Benizir Bhutto said when I saw her speak once. She wanted to build a society where every child was "fed, clothed, sheltered, protected, nutured, educated, and loved". In other words, child prostitution is the antithesis of such an ideal.
See the trailer here:
more videos here:
http://www.vimeo.com/thesoldproject/videos
the website here:
http://thesoldproject.com/
and the blog here:
http://thesoldproject.blogspot.com/
The organization is now creating non-profit groups to help prevent village girls going into prostitution. One method is education in the villages. Another is the creation of scholarships to pay for the schooling of young girls who are at risk of becoming prostitutes.
See how little it takes, and consider donating, here:
http://thesoldproject.com/organization/scholarship.php
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Documentary: FUEL
The documentary, FUEL, is a must see!
http://thefuelfilm.com
I met the director, Josh Tickell, and his wife, Rebecca Harrell, at one of the openings in Santa Monica. They are very smart, and very enthusiastic about their subject.
And Josh knows what he is talking about. He was a very early adopter of using waste vegetable oil to drive diesel engines, and drove around the country in his veggie van.
The film looks at the problems of using imported oil. And a lot of things you probably haven't heard about. As much as I am interested in, and read about alternative energy, I was surprised by a number of the points the film brought up.
One being huge health problems that oil causes. His own mother, living in the New Orleans area, exposed to the many oil refineries there, had multiple miscarriages! Hurricane Katrina caused an oil spill bigger than the Exxon Valdex. That Rudolf Diesel originally invented the diesel engine to run on vegetable oils, and mysteriously and suddenly disappeared. That the prohibition of alcohol in the twenties is arguably linked to repressing the use of alcohol as a fuel for transportation.
But unlike a lot of documentaries, it offers solutions to the issues. He looks at multiple realistic ways to eliminate the use of imported oil. Wind, solar, conservation, algae to create biodiesel, buildings that produce food and energy.
This film not disappoint you. See the trailer here:
And see the whole show in the theater
http://thefuelfilm.com/theaters
http://thefuelfilm.com
I met the director, Josh Tickell, and his wife, Rebecca Harrell, at one of the openings in Santa Monica. They are very smart, and very enthusiastic about their subject.
And Josh knows what he is talking about. He was a very early adopter of using waste vegetable oil to drive diesel engines, and drove around the country in his veggie van.
The film looks at the problems of using imported oil. And a lot of things you probably haven't heard about. As much as I am interested in, and read about alternative energy, I was surprised by a number of the points the film brought up.
One being huge health problems that oil causes. His own mother, living in the New Orleans area, exposed to the many oil refineries there, had multiple miscarriages! Hurricane Katrina caused an oil spill bigger than the Exxon Valdex. That Rudolf Diesel originally invented the diesel engine to run on vegetable oils, and mysteriously and suddenly disappeared. That the prohibition of alcohol in the twenties is arguably linked to repressing the use of alcohol as a fuel for transportation.
But unlike a lot of documentaries, it offers solutions to the issues. He looks at multiple realistic ways to eliminate the use of imported oil. Wind, solar, conservation, algae to create biodiesel, buildings that produce food and energy.
This film not disappoint you. See the trailer here:
And see the whole show in the theater
http://thefuelfilm.com/theaters
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