Tag Archives: Documentary film

The Gift

This is a documentary I shot last year about dear friends of mine. Please feel free to share with anyone you think would benefit from this amazing perspective on life. Very inspiring. The Gift is a life affirming documentary about … Continue reading

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Don’t Let the Energy Blowback Get You Down

February 26, 2013 By Matt Palmer Woody Allen once said, “Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once.” Wouldn’t it be amazing if we knew everything at the same time, that the answers to our biggest problems … Continue reading

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Competing Solutions for the Energy System

February 20, 2012 By Matt Palmer I am linking two articles today, post State of the Union, that lay out solutions for dealing with the world’s growing energy challenges. Both writers, Bjorn Lomborg and Amory Lovins make good points and … Continue reading

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Creating Change in the Energy System

February 6, 2012 By Matt Palmer “The Art of System Thinking in Driving Sustainable Transformation” is a great article from The Guardian about how systems thinking can help in the design of sustainable systems. Change of the scale we need … Continue reading

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Water Down – Nexus Point

by Matt Palmer January 31, 2013 The amount of fresh water used globally for energy production is going to double by 2035 according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This news is a concern for all of … Continue reading

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A New Year = New Energy Solutions

January 10, 2012 By Matt Palmer This is my first post for the new year, after a bit of a break, and a nice holiday with family. My intention for this year, apart from completing financing for “Unintended Consequences” and … Continue reading

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Newtown Inspiring Change

December 17, 2012 By Matt Palmer The events of December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut shook our world. Since then, many us have read numerous articles, opinion pieces, rants, and essays trying to make sense of something that makes no … Continue reading

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Eco Porn vs Eco Ruin Porn: Are We Desensitized?

December 6, 2012 By Matt Palmer Have we become desensitized to beautiful pictures of nature, or blasé about too many pictures of ecological devastation? It is an interesting question to consider because if that is true it has tremendous impact … Continue reading

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System Thinking With Empathy and Outrospection

December 4, 2012 By Matt Palmer The 99%. The 47%. The Right, The Left. The Centerists. The Deniers. The Environmentalists. The Elite. And on, and on. Labels. Social stratification. Dividing points. Intractable positions. I win if I can make the … Continue reading

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Discontinuous Improvement, System Thinking Will Save Us

November 28, 2012 By Matt Palmer I came to system thinking by accident. I arrived really just by asking questions about energy. In 2005, I read a brilliant book by Paul Roberts “The End of Oil“.  The book introduced me … Continue reading

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