Dubai Expo 2020 was the first world exposition to be held in the Middle East. It said something about energy. It said something, unwittingly and despite itself, about the world’s hoped-for energy transition(s)… My editor at AramcoWorld pushed me discover how ‘sustainable’ it really was, which we indeed tried to discover…
“Being black, being born black, being raised black…. I came into it when I first started breathing,” said Elder John Johnson of the Blues. It was his last conversation with me before his death in November at age 84. He was a dear friend.
In 2007, I was director of a small environmental advocacy organization in Chicago… So in early spring that year, friend Greg Lochow and I set out to make a couple short films about the southeast side, the so-called Calumet area…