PBS: Edens Lost and Found

The PBS series Edens Lost and Found aired the hometown Seattle episode tonight. See the teaser here. While overly romanticizing the ruined opportunity for transit that was the $100 million waste called the Seattle Monorail Project, the episode is otherwise well done, emphasizing Seattle’s green aspirations. The biodiesel segment is excellent. The Seattle biodiesel community has done more to mitigate CO2 emissions and empower real change than the Monorail Project could engineer. And that lack of imagination, powered by greed, is what separates true citizen powered change from the wolf in sheep’s clothing that was the Monorail political animal. Hard work and transparency, openness and cooperation as demonstrated by Lyle, articulated by Tom K, and Tom Marier at Propel’s Laurelhurst location, and the balanced ambition of Seattle Biodiesel’s growth, are proof that ground up energy can affect positive change. Real change is hard work. Go Seattle!