Meet the Tour team

Meet the Emilys!
From Geography to running, my Green Tour partner, Emily, and I have a ton in common. We're super excited about the trip. Here is our definite plan so far: we're departing from San Diego June 14th and heading straight to Santa Cruz. (Several LA County spots, such as West Hollywood, Pasadena, and Santa Monica, are on the Tour list, but I'll be traveling there later in the month). From Santa Cruz we'll head to Oakland and Berkeley. Then Santa Rosa, Bodega Bay, Occidental, and Arcata. On June 20th we'll head into Oregon and stop in Eugene, Salem, and Portland.

There are so many places to see, and I know we'll end up adding a ton of spots along the way.

Intro: San Diego to Portland

From recent displays in the media, such as Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" to the explosion of hybrid cars and energy-saving home products, the recent concept of ‘going green’ is undeniably popular in mainstream America. Certain spaces are: labeled as ‘green’, sought to ‘go green’, built to display ‘greenness’, and epitomized as ‘anti-green’. My combination film and Master's thesis research project aims to examine the ‘green’ spaces of everyday life in several locations located in route from San Diego, California to Portland, Oregon. The California and Oregon landscape is filled with numerous cities, towns, farms, businesses, small communities, and private neighborhoods that are both self-proclaiming ‘green’ progress sites and publicly praised locations for certain ‘green’ policies.

With my camera, my willing production assistant, and our huge passion to explore all sorts of 'green' possibilities, I am going to take a GREEN TOUR from San Diego, California- a city rapidly trying to join the increasingly popular national trend of ‘greening’-to Portland, Oregon- a city that tops the ‘green city’ charts and stands as a model for numerous ‘green’ project ideas- stopping at a variety of ‘green’ spots to encounter the multiplicities of everyday ‘green’ implementation and environmental ethical relations.