Can you say genetically modified petroleum?  Yes!  1 out of 3 companies focused on “bugs!”  LS9 founding member, Vinod Khosla: Labeled the #1 VC multiple times by Forbes and Fortune.  Recently labeled as one of the nation’s most influential renewable fuel advocates.

LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company^TM, is a privately-held biotechnology company pursuing industrial applications of synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels.

LS9 is developing Renewable Petroleum biofuels: new, clean, and sustainable fuels that fulfill our long and short term energy needs. Derived from diverse agricultural feedstocks, these high energy liquid fuels are renewable and compatible with current distribution and consumer infrastructure.

LS9’s products, currently under development, are designed to closely resemble petroleum derived fuels, but be renewable, clean, domestically produced, and cost competitive. In addition to biofuels, LS9 will also develop industrial biochemicals for specialty applications. (Hmmm…applicatios such as…?)

Leo summed up his experience on the 11th Hour, as compared to a scripted fictional film:”When you make a movie, you know, the director is God,” he told Access. “But God is the director when you make a documentary.”

The world is waking up.  After Green Living goes Mainstream we’ll start to see another round of celebrities filming documentaries of their spiritual journeys - bringing gurus, ashrams and spiritual practice into the mainstream media.  When tragedy or crisis hit, we are called to look within and find some greater than ourselves.  We are on the cuspt of a very serious world wide crisis.  Celebrities are bringing spirituality, love of the land and love of each other through simply being green.  (All this just for using green product cleaning supplies — start switching today!)

Clif Bar & Co., a manufacturer of all-natural and organic energy and nutrition food and drinks, has announced that its field marketing team has brought eight biodiesel-powered pickup trucks into its fleet. The eight new Dodge Ram 2500 turbo diesel trucks will replace gasoline-powered vehicles and reduce the fleet’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by an estimated 40 percent—about 60,000 pounds of CO2 per year.

Did you know there is a biodiesel magazine? Yes… If you’re thinking biodiesel is just Woody’s latest cool thing gone mainstream…you may enjoy reading up…over 6,000 people are gathered at a conference this week to address b2b biodiesel info…it’s worth a surf just to expand your education and outlook. Biodiesel is one of my Top 3 interests of my life to DATE!  Bring on the education.

http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/what.aspx

WORLD WITHOUT OIL is an alternate reality event, a serious game for the public good.

It invites everyone to help simulate a global oil shock. People participate by contributing original online stories, created as though the oil shock were really happening.

The game’s masters rank the participants (“players”) according to their contributions to our realistic portrayal of the oil shock. The game also places value on player-created communities, collaborative stories, and collective efforts.

Special thanks to Ted McElwee of www.tedmcelwee.com for the link.

Bassnectar aka Lorin really…an SF DJ with a cult following — takes a different spin on “Living Green” — This video is great music, great bm scenes.  This year, burning man, is  30,000 people in the desert — focused on a Green Theme — the underground is about to get clean, get noticed and cause a big scene all across the US.

I predict the media will expose, open, enlarge and bring Burning Man into the mainstream consciousness at a larger level than ever before…thus bringing the vibe, the music, the fire, the movement and THE INTIMACY to the mainstream.

Will you be apart of it?  Nourishment, Intimacy, Celebration, Clean, Green.  Take Your Next Action Today and Live Your Life this Way.  (If you want it..then YOU have to do it.)

As urth.tv says…U are the message.

Turtle Island Films presenting two new films including Quest to Save Turtle Island and Texas Gold Movie

Watch for theshiftmovie.com  (currently paswod protected — should open shortly.)

Crude Impact , the film already launched.

I predict in two years our Academy Awards Ceremony will have a new category in film — A category focused on Green/Green Global Citizens — etc.  We are going to begin to honor the film makers who are waking the planet up through their documentaries and moving stories about our planet.

A Greener Apple? Steve Jobs apologies…  “Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not properly recycling its old products. Whatever other improvements we need to make, it is certainly clear that we have failed to communicate the things that we are doing well.”

Bottom line: Apple is on board and waking up — Just wait till the Apple Logo gets relaunched as Kelly Green within the next 8 months.  I see a whole new marketing campaign ahead.  It’s an obvious one to me — Who would have thought Granny Smith’s could increase the sale of IPOD’s and Final Cut Pro software to move with the growing trend toward consumer generated media.