I’ve always been something of an environmental “nerd”. In sixth grade I had Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock – though I can’t remember now how much of it I actually read. The point is that I’ve always had an innate sense that the environment is under stress and that society needs to change the way it accounts for and interacts with our natural world.

Now, I may not have thought of it exactly in those terms back in 1970 (yes, I’m that old – and they sure don’t write songs like they did back then anymore!), but nonetheless, it was always a feeling I carried around with me.

As the years went on I pursued my passion and love for music and established a career as a live sound engineer and musician.

But never did my concern for the environment wane, nor my notion that I could write good, er… well. I studied and read and learned as much as I could about environmental issues. Slowly the overarching issue became climate change. By then it was 1990 or so, and not on very many people's radars.

Along came the internet and web, and before too long this environmental nerd became an online nerd as well.  I could write anything I wanted! But was anybody listening? It didn't matter because Web publishing was, like, so cool.

All of this came together (thank goodness for a great job as a soundman to pay for it all) and in June of 2006 – it was the week that Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth opened, but please don’t blame this on Al – I started the blog GlobalWarmingisReal.

We’ve come a long way since that time, and I now freelance as an environmental writer for, among others, the popular blog TriplePundit.com and GlobalWarmingisReal is an established authority on issues concerning climate change (Google thinks so, and who's going to argue with Google?). From governmental action (inaction mostly) to the plight of the polar bear, (can you say "canary in a coal mine"?). And speaking of coal mines, we love to take on the vested interests ("The Wall Street Journal and Dick Cheney Are Lying to You About Domestic Oil Production"), disingenuous deniers ("Senator Inhofe Eaten by Frustrated Polar Bear"), and ill-informed masses ("Where Would Jesus Drill?") in hopes that if we keep pushing back a new and sustainable energy economy will slowly emerge.

Slowly people started listening. GlobalWarmingisReal is growing. The mission is expanding.  

I am building a team of writers to report and comment on these important issues, the interrelationship of all we do in society, and its consequences in the natural world. I’m taking GlobalWarmingisReal beyond the simple Wordpress blog, meeting and networking with people in the "real world” – innovators, scientists, nerds like me. We’re helping to build one vital part of what I call the “three-legged stool” of addressing climate change:
GlobalWarmingisReal is joining an army of grassroots movers and shakers trying to utilize our talents to effect change, while watching and encouraging the other two “legs of the stool” – business (the market) and government – to do their part.

In the near future I’ll be asking my backers to, perhaps, write a guest blog, help me create a video, or just keep Wordpress working when I can’t figure it out. Maybe you know someone I should talk to and write about (or meet in person), or have a great idea for a post or a series of posts (and maybe you want to write them too!). Anything for the cause.

Changents is a perfect fit for GlobalWarmingisReal. Heck, together maybe we can change the world.

Are you game?