Presentations
YERT Presents to Schools, Colleges, Businesses and Community Groups
The team from YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip - is available to give presentations filled with environmental fun and film as it shares highlights from a year's journey exploring weird, wild, and wonderful approaches to sustainability all across America. Pick from the following presentation formats or request your very own. To schedule a presentation near you nationwide, contact Mark Dixon at 415-672-5537, mark@yert.com. For presentations near Louisville, KY, contact Ben Evans at 917-657-7253, ben@yert.com.
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Green Business
 Bob Berkebile, Renouned Architect YERT visited dozens of green businesses to uncover the tactics, strategies and philosophies that help them thrive. We share their wisdom and blend it with a selection of fun and informative stories and videos that will educate and motivate you and your company to envision and grow into a deeper shade of green. Expect clips of Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, renowned architect Bob Berkebile, Green Festival founder Dr. Kevin Danaher, and more!  Dr. Kevin Danaher, Co-Founder of the Green Festival |
Green America
 Joel Salatin, Iconic Philosopher-Farmer The YERT team searched every state for Americans of all stripes who are working to build a better relationship with the planet. This video-enhanced presentation takes a fun look at the greenest people, grandest ideas, dirtiest encounters, simplest livers, most sustainable states, and the most powerful solutions we encountered all year-- not to mention the garbage that we kept in our car the whole time. You'll meet uniquely green folks like 92-year-old cave-dweller Dugout Dick, and philosopher-farmer Joel Salatin (from The Omnivore's Dilemma). Are you bogged down by bad news about climate change, water scarcity, fishery depletion, and peak oil? You'll leave this presentation re-energized and smiling.  Dugout Dick, Cave Dweller |
New Media Tactics
 
Your Environmental Road Trip would not have been possible without the help of countless new media tools and software. We've spent the last three years deeply entrenched in cutting edge technology, deploying dozens of videos to thousands of viewers with the help of Facebook, YouTube, blogs, Google Docs, and a continuously evolving suite of new tools. If you are seeking to harness the power of the internet to convey a more compelling message to a broader audience, then this event is for you. We go under the YERT hood to explain how it all happened, the lessons we learned, and how you can avoid our mistakes.
Jen Boulden, Co-Founder of IdealBite.com |
What They're Saying...
YERT has presented to live audiences all around the country, including the Bioneers Conference in Portland, ME, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture 2009 Conference (PASA), GLUE Conference '09 in Milwaukee, WI, Duquesne University, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Bowdoin College, St. Joseph's College of Maine, Slippery Rock University, Arcadia University, Albright College, NYU, Dickinson College, and a number of elementary and high schools. We're already booking events for Fall '09, so give us a call-- we'd be delighted to stop by your event, too. See what they're saying about us in the quotes below...
"The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) was proud to host YERT as a presenter at our 18th Annual Farming for the Future Conference in February 2009... Mark integrated stories, humor and film clips with interviews of significant faces in food, politics and sustainable agriculture into a fun and educational program" -Allison Shauger, Director of Educational Outreach, Conference Program Coordinator
"YERT's Mark Dixon is professional, enthusiastic, and entertaining. The presentation materials are fascinating and information-rich stories, and yet the presentation, both in substance in style, is totally accessible. He allows audience members to feel like they can contribute to the conversation, to sustainability efforts, and to spreading the message. Our participants shared a few pieces of feedback that are superlative, but are still underselling Mark's efficacy.
'My eco-awareness has increased by at least 300%, thanks to his efforts.'
'I felt Mark's presentation skills were top notch and his positive attitude was infectious -- at least.'
'Mark was articulate, exciting and very passionate... I wish him the best of luck and plan to keep in touch with him.'
I have also received at least five emails from participants commenting on a YERT video that they shared with their friends/colleagues/family after seeing Mark's presentation. He has the effect of whetting the sustainability appetite -- making people more curious about sustainability efforts, and, I think, more likely to go home and actually do something differently." -Sarah Szurpicki, Co-Founder GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange)
"My graduate students were very impressed with the delivery of information... The video quality and visuals are of the highest quality..." -Prof. Robert Sroufe, Duquesne University
"Video was funny but very insightful to the audience. Made me want to do more myself." -Sustainable MBA Student, Duquesne University