RED hits the silver screen
Posted by Dick Munson on April 21st, 2010
Two — count ‘em, two — new documentaries have premiered featuring RED founders Tom and Sean Casten. The first is Dirty Business: “Clean Coal” and the Battle for our Energy Future, which investigates the true cost of using coal. Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell tells the story, taking viewers to the West Virginia silicon plant where RED is developing a waste heat recovery project. Jeff said recently that this scene, which features the Castens and lots of hot, fiery, blazing images, is one of his favorites in the film.
The second is Carbon Nation, a “positive, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film about tackling climate change while boosting the economy.” That’s our kind of movie. The Castens appear in the film to lend their expertise about energy recycling.
Momentum is building for recycled energy. I believe it was Martin Luther King Jr. who said “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward efficient use of energy at industrial facilities.” Or something to that effect.
