Greg Reitman Featured in Movie Maker Magazine

When it came to getting attention for Fields of Fuel, the 2008 documentary he produced, Reitman put his entire focus on one week in mid-January…

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(LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2008) — Greg Reitman, president of Blue Water
Entertainment, has announced that his new documentary “Rooted in Peace” is now in
production…

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(LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2008) — Hollywood’s “Green Producer” Greg Reitman and
best-selling author and environmentalist Josh Tickell will screen their documentary “Fields of
Fuel” at AREDAY (American Renewable Energy Day)…

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Nearly five decades after Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, we are here at the National Mall where approximately 2 million people are prepared to converge on the historic inauguration of our new president, Barack Obama.

Pretty symbolic to have inauguration day be the day after the celebration of Martin Luther King.

When you think about Dr. Martin Luther King, he’s the dreamer. But Barack Obama is the actual dream.

It had to happen sooner or later, and I’m glad that it happened sooner.

Some of the things that Martin Luther King talked about in the days that he was on the trail for civil rights, that’s coming to, it’s manifesting now, and it means a lot for us. It’s a year where we have our first African American president. A time that a lot of people thought that they would never see. I’m only 32, and I never imagined that I would see it.

Rosa Parks sat, Martin Luther King walked, and Barack Obama will fly.

And even though that’s kinda hokey, I think it’s true.

The promise that America holds is that every participant, citizen, and those who hope to become citizens, has an opportunity to get that dream realized.

All nationalities voted for him, and they did not judge him by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

There’s a spirit of hope in everyone, I mean, just look at the number of people that came. You know, the economy’s doing not well, but everybody’s here. Because we believe that tomorrow starts a brand new day.

Have to be here, have to be here to see it, history.

It allows us to bridge that Gap between hatred and love. So now folks are starting to see each other in the store and open the door for each other. Folks are starting to speak to strangers, and this is what the dream was really about. It really wasn’t about electing a president, its about the world becoming what the world really was supposed to be, and that’s one. And as the beetles say when the world become one, each will prevail.

This is our best opportunity in years, with the Obama administration, because one, they want to go green, and they want to go renewables, and they want to get off of foreign oil.

Getting off our addiction to fossil fuel and helping the rest of the world economy get off of fossil fuel is going to be a great empowerment for this planet.

I lead our national effort to address the largest single source of global warming pollution in the United states, which is coal. Are you going to move forward and start investing in clean energy, or are you simply going to go out of business because you don’t have an answer to address our most pressing problems?

I’m a patriotic American. I know I don’t have long to tell the story. I’m 80 years old. So get out and tell the story, hope younger people like you are going are going to pick it up and take the responsibility forward.

I know that from this point on we have our chance to redeem the heart of our country.

Hope for the future in this instance is president elect, who is very serious about transitioning off of fossil fuel and hopefully on to other sources, like a transportation system fueled by electricity or fueled by renewables.

Well if you go with the 200,000 mega watts of power that the dept. of energy in April ‘07 came out that we will need in the next 10 years, if you do that with wind in the corridor from Texas to Canada, you will create a lot of jobs. You’ll start off the first year with 138,000, and by the time you are in the corridor for 10 years, manufacturing and everything else will come in, and you will have created 3.5 million jobs.

This is about placing our earth and sustainability at the center of every action that we take and our own lives.

Hi this is Greg Reitman, and we are live at the green inaugural ball and we are doing a two-minute video blog called “on the green line,” and we have today Jerry Rice, associate producer of Fuel. Hi Jerry. Hi Greg, it’s great to be here, it’s an exciting moment in history, and I wouldn’t have missed it. Jerry, what does the green ball mean to you personally, There’s lots of balls, There’s the peace ball, the purple ball, the Illinois ball, When someone says a green ball, what does that resonate in terms of the meaning for you?

Well, I think the green ball is all about new beginnings, new beginnings for America.

I think the world is really aware that it’s the whole world that is at stake.

It’s not only up to our future president Obama. That sounds good, doesn’t it, president Obama.

We have elected Barack Obama to be our next president of the United States. This is a party. We’re here to celebrate.

That’s what it’s all about tonight. Its’ about celebration, but it’s also to look forward and
to mingle with like-minded individuals, to celebrate, and hopefully an environmental president.

We have an overcoat, which is composed completely of door hangers from the Obama campaign. What’s the lining made of? Can we check the lining? Yeah, sure. It’s 100% recycled material.

We said that by 2015 we’re going to be carbon neutral as a company. We have our considered products, which is all about creating sustainable products. We said that 100% of our footwear by 2011 is going to be considered, and we look at the same thing for apparel by 2015. So I think Sustainability is all about a journey, and we want people to see that we’re on the journey to get better and better.

AREDAY is designed to bring people together so that we can, right now, at this critical moment, address the issue of how are we going to bring the carbon down?
So how can we work as a foundation to bring the world more into balance?
What else could people of good conscious do, but still every day fight, as hard as they could, to save humanity and save the world?
The goal is to not use any gasoline or diesel, and it feels really good to drive a vehicle that doesn’t use any petroleum.
There are people around the country using their own leadership ability to create opportunity. All of us can be a part of creating change wherever we are.
You will go between 20 and 50 miles on a charge.
The hydrogen stores the energy better than the other fuels, so you get most of energy back when you burn it than you do with most other fuels. It’s a good storage for energy. It’s an energy storage vehicle.
T Boone Pickens, who has taken a real interest in wind, and is building a 4,000 megawatt wind farm, It will be the largest in the world.
There are so many things being done today that seem so obviously wrong headed, and so many relatively easy things that seem right headed.
Like love, and understanding, and cooperation, and consideration, and respect
I feel like when adults tell me and my peers that o.k., so, you are going to be the leaders of tomorrow.
I always ask them, Why? Why tomorrow? We can be leaders today.

It’s a night of awareness. That’s what we’re trying to do, is raise awareness. It’s a time of year when the whole world is looking at Hollywood. We want to say to the world that it’s an opportunity for us to each day take steps in our lives to do small things to make the world a more sustainable place. We are here live at the Global Green Award…

I think it’s about being humble about how much there is that I need to change. I think it’s about being simple and knowing that voting green is absolutely enough. We need an administration that is fighting the global warming problem. These gorgeous cars, like the Karma that you see out here, represents how far environmental consciousness and the people who make style have come together.

This car is a Fisker Karma, was designed by Henrik Fisker, who is a well known automotive designer. He has designed a lot of Aston Martins in the past and BMW Z8. Henry gave us this car, Fisker Karma, which is an electric plug-in hybrid.
And how many miles to the gallon?
This car can run for 50 miles just purely on electricity. No fuel whatsoever.
How much is it?
$80,000 is the base model, $100,000 equipped.
It must be really ecologically sound for that kind of money.

would you marry me…if it’s a green wedding…

We have the type 1E. This vehicle gets the equivalent of 300 miles per gallon. It goes 120 miles per charge. It’s all electric.
It’s all electric, so there is no bio fuel, alternative fuel?
Sure, there will be next year a series hybrid, coming after this. But this vehicle is all electric, 120 miles per charge, it’s extremely safe. It has air bags, it has Formula 1 crash protection. It’s just a very different innovative way to build a vehicle

Evidence of Evolution happens to be my boyfriends line, it’s green, sold at Barneys, Evidence of Evolution.

And my makeup line, Josie Maran cosmetics, which is all green and sustainable.

Our whole band has done an extensive greening of our tours. Everything from requiring at all the venues that there is recycling, to making sure there’s no plastics, we only use glass bottles or reusable bottles on stage, our bus runs on biodeisal now.

I drive a BMW right now, but I really want a Prius. I have Prius envy.

Oliver, what kind of car did you drive tonight?
Tonight I’m driving a Hybrid.
Why are you driving a hybrid?
Because it’s soundless.
Who are you voting for the Oscars?
Obama

So we’re live at Solazyme’s HQ, where we are about to drive the first algae biodeisel car in the world. When everyone sees the Solazyme logo, they keep saying, what is this?

When you went and got your car filled up with gas last, the gas was made from oil that originated with algae maybe 100 million years ago. Because algae is the original oil producer. This is very robust. Our technology is to take those organisms, which are the best oil producers on the planet and to condense that process into a few days. And to do it in a way where you can use it in pre-existing commercial production infrastructure, so that you can compress this process in a few days. The algae make the oil for you, you turn it into diesel fuel. And you drive away in your car.

He’s been working on biodeisel for 12 years, algae for renewable energy would be the company that would start. We were featured in a movie with Josh.

Sitting here at Sundance with you for the premiere of his film, Fields of Fuel, which is bringing our technology out into the open. It’s the Solazyme Mercedes is the first of it’s time. Would you ever imagine a future Mercedes car running on a fuel source made of algae? Wow, you are really driving that car on something you made from algae? This is pretty amazing, that I’m driving on algae right now.

We brought this to the world through Fields of Fuel. The car is off the showroom floor. The performance of this car is unbelievable! We’re here in Park City, it’s freezing cold as you know, and dumping snow and this Mercedes is driving all around town. They have optimized algae to make the ideal oil, so you have an oil profile, you take that oil and put it into the reaction, and what these guys did was they actually optimized the oil, so would have the best cold temperature properties around. We have the really, really clean ASTM spec. As biodeisel goes, it’s extremely high quality biodeisel.

The technology is going to be commercially available even within the next 2 or 3 years. The ability to make this oil in very large quantities and make it in very high quality is here today. We want to get this technology commercialized as rapidly as possible and bring the environmental benefits to the planet.

And if you want to get a new fuel out to the marketplace, who better to work with than the guys that control it from soup to nuts.

Chris Payne, the director of Who Killed the Electric Car.
I have my own ticket.
So biodiesel on the streets
Biodeisal in the movie
Veggie van rolling down, left and right on the street.

We are at the New York Times brunch. What does one say to America? You say thank God we are green, and thank God we are renewable, and thank God Fields of Fuel made Sundance.

I have been a big biodiesel enthusiast for a long time. I’ve been driving my own biodiesel Mercedes for over a year now, and I am a firm believer that it is the way to the future. No doubt that Fields of Fuel is going to be a catalyst in bringing biofuels and biodiesel to US of America. And it will definitely make a huge difference in our lives.

I’m Michael . I met Josh in August. I brought the ? organization in and came up with about $70,000 around Thanksgiving when they really needed it. Thought I should come up…

So you were driving in a biodiesel car all across Park City. That’s great. And what’s your feeling about the movie? I love it. I’ve seen it about 6 times.

What do you think when people see all the regular cars coming down then they see your biodiesel car coming down? They all give us thumbs up.
How do you feel about driving a biodiesel car, do you feel different? I won’t go back. I haven’t for 2 years.

My name is Caroline Lebresco. I’m one of the senior programmers of the Sundance Film Festival. I want to welcome you to this next installment in our American documentary competition which is full of incredible films, of which today’s offering is no exception. This is a program really about energy.

Your persistence in helping with this film have made a huge difference and are going to make a huge difference in this world. So, Thank you. Enjoy the movie.

I’m a conservative. I liked how it was practical solutions. It was real solutions. It was practical solutions. I am very, very supportive of that.

Been a very active disinformation campaign around green energy. Of the vegetable producers in the world, less than 7% is used currently for bio diesel; putting things like switch grass in algae.

What I got most is how much ignorance there is about things that are so simple. Michigan is suffering so much. Detroit is suffering so much.

We really reached out to Detroit. We spoke to all of the automotive manufacturers. None of them wanted to talk. We went to Sweden, all the automotive manufacturers wanted to talk.

He said he’s making the feature film, and he told me about it. He showed me pictures, talking about his journey. And I’m like, it’s genius.