Press

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For press or interview requests, please contact Mark Dixon at mark@yert.com, 412-204-6098. Find endorsement quotes, production photos, logos, graphics, synopses, reviews, awards, and head shots at our Press Kit.

YERT in the Press

• 3/29/12 - The Davis Enterprise highlights YERT kicking off the Cool California Challenge. "Following a standing ovation, Dixon answered enthusiastic questions..."
• 3/6/12 - YERT is reviewed in the Eco-Cinema Blog. "These three eco-travelers illustrate well how humans can become a 'welcome species, not a dominant one.'"
• 3/2/12 - Big Sky Documentary Film Fest Features YERT in Video. Jeri followed Mark and Brendon around during their visit to Big Sky, then created this cool video.
• 2/27/12 - YERT is reviewed in Clean Energy News. "The crew at YERT.com is tirelessly going from city to city to screen its powerful documentary."
• 2/24/12 - YERT visits Bainbridge Island, WA. "Dixon was influenced by Bainbridge-based YES! Magazine and Fran and David Korten, co-founders of the Positive Futures Network."
• 2/16/12 - Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home. "...casting off their successful careers and old consumer ways, as well as any heavy political baggage and mind-numbing works of policy wonks, the YERT film crew has managed to pull off the impossible in the world of cinema: A deeply absorbing and often hilarious road trip that confronts the badlands of our nation's spiraling descent into dirty energy darkness, only to emerge along the solar roadways and wind-swept plains into the myriad possibilities for new power and sustainable living."
• 11/29/11 - Transition Voice reviews YERT. "This film . . . inspires with hope, insight, and humor to illustrate some very important ideas from all over the country."
• 10/17/11 - Traci Cumbay mentions Ben and YERT in her funny summary of a day at the Heartland Film Festival, written for Punchel's blog. "...he made a dope-sounding documentary called YERT (Your Environmental Roadtrip)."
• 9/15/11 - Director Ben Evans is interviewed for Energy Burrito. This is a great in-depth interview all about the film and its creation. Part two of the interview is here.
• 9/14/11 - YERT in Pittsburgh's City Paper. "There a lot of centered, grounded, caring, thoughtful people occupying what the media calls the environmental fringe."
• 9/12/11 - The YERT Feature Film is featured in the sustainability programming at University of Kentucky.
• 4/13/11 - YERT is highlighted in the Rider News prior to the YERT screening and presentation there during Earth Week 2011. "YERT has taken its adventure and turned it into a feature film celebrating the American spirit in the face of adversity."
• 4/9/11 - Great American Environmental Road Trip: YERT Film Wins EFFY 2011 Audience Award: Interview With Filmmakers. Jeff Biggers brings the news about YERT's Audience Award at the Yale Environmental Film Festival to Alternet, with a full-length interview.
• 4/8/11 - YERT Blockbuster: Your Environmental Road Trip Film Wins EFFY 2011 Audience Award: Interview With Filmmakers. Jeff Biggers is right on top of the big news about YERT's Audience Award at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, running a full-length interview.
• 4/3/11 - YERT's feature film premiere was positively reviewed on SustainableFocus.org, noting ". . .the world premiere of "YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip" had us feeling just as hopeful and motivated as "Bag It." . . .the narrators were charismatic, the story was creative and well developed, and the environmental issues were well presented. "YERT" covered a wide range of topics and had a bit of something for everyone."
• 3/10/11 - The Village Voice highlights the Louisville, KY connection to the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, noting "Three Louisvillians are getting some good recognition at Yale University these days." (Actually two, because Mark doesn't live in KY, he lives in PA ;-)
• 8/31/10 - The YERT film trailer is featured on the Huffington Post. Many thanks to Jeff Biggers for posting Ben's Big Coal faux-mercial from the Coal Free Future Project, right next to the YERT trailer.
• 8/2/10 - YERT's video, Solar Roadways: The Prototype, is featured on TechCrunch.com.
• 7/22/10 - Ben and Mark interviewed for the premier episode of Live a Damn radio-- created by Michael Parrish DuDell (EcoRazzi.com and VEGdaily.com).
• 6/27/10 - Chris Moore, a talk show host on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, PA, invited us on his show to share adventures and solutions we encountered during our road trip.
• 6/18/10 - YERT's video, Solar Roadways: The Prototype, is featured on the Conscious Media Network and has received over 77,000 views through that site alone.
• 6/17/10 - Ben was interviewed about green living for an episode of GritTV.
• 6/24/09 - Mark is interviewed by PopCity in Pittsburgh - "YERT received so much support in Pittsburgh, that they decided to start the trip here..."
• 3/04/09 - Ben and Julie are interviewed by the Courier Journal in Louisville, KY - "The Evanses were living and performing in New York two years ago when the trio set out on a yearlong trip...."
• 11/27/08 - YERT is interviewed by Bill O'Driscoll at the City Paper - "...if they learned one thing about environmentalism, it's that most people are for it ... if it doesn't make them look like weirdos...."
• 10/5/08 - YERT's video about cave-dwelling Dugout Dick is featured on SurvivalBlog.com - SurvivalBlog is all about "Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times."
• 9/26/08 - YERT is Featured on Living on Earth - Our favorite national environmental radio program, LOE, interviews Julie and Mark.
• 8/8/08 - The National Catholic Reporter features YERT and highlights several fun YERTy interviews.
• 5/28/08 - YERT Interviews Krista Tippett, Host of Speaking of Faith - See a clip from our interview at the Speaking of Faith blog.
• 5/21/08 - YERT featured on Celsias - This Celsias podcast features a fun and in-depth interview with Ben and Julie from YERT.
• 4/21/08 - Voice of America features YERT (text) (audio) (video) - "VOA's Rosanne Skirble caught up with YERT... at the National Mall in Washington."
• 3/8/08 - YERT appears on The Weather Channel's "Forecast Earth" show! - YERT shows up right after the Climate Quiz, about 40 seconds in.
• 1/12/08 - YERT mentioned in The Tiny Green House blog - "Sustainable Asheville and tinygreenhouse.org present: YERT! --Your Environmental Road Trip!"
• 1/2/08 - YERT mentioned in Sean MacInnes' blog - "...the YERT crew will be staying with my family for a few days as they pass through Nashville, TN."
• 12/12/07 - Within Reach meets YERT at GreenFest 2007 - "Within Reach, a sustainability journey, met up with another eco-journey film, called YERT."
• 11/28/07 - San Francisco Chronicle writes a full article about YERT! - "3 friends on the road, urging America to jump on green bandwagon"
• 11/6/07 - YERT mentioned in newsletter for Iowa State University's Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - "...check out this six-minute clip featuring Rob Anex, associate professor of ISU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Keith Kutz of the Iowa Energy Center."
• 11/2/07 - YERT mentioned in Ethicurean blog - "...a highly entertaining detour into Iowa’s maze of maize."
• 10/30/07 - YERT in Iowa State University's News Service - "...Anex told them about the beauty of perennial grasses as an alternative to ethanol from corn grain."
• 10/28/07 - YERT in Random Roger's blog - "...a threesome doing something very interesting."
• 10/26/07 - YERT featured in Earth2Tech.com - "A bit like a green de Tocquevilles, or perhaps a video-enhanced 'Environmentalism in America.'"
• 10/1/07 - YERT featured on PSFK blog - "...we’re anxious to keep up with series and find out what some of the more unsuspecting states have to offer..."
• 9/29/07 - YERT's Vermont video is featured on TreeHugger.com - "...a green economy is seeded in Vermont. That's it, we're moving. Who wants to ride shotgun?"
• 9/6/07 - YERT in WCFCourier newspaper near Waterloo, IA - "Each state in America is saving the planet in its own, unique way."
• 8/23/07 - YERT mentioned by fellow filmmaker Mara Ahmed - "it was late at night and painfully cold. i was telling them how i’m allergic to hummers."
• 8/6/07 - YERT interviewed by The Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Satellite Radio - "...a year long eco-expedition through all 50 United States."
• 7/26/07 - YERT featured in Jamestown Press, RI - "Their journey brought them to Jamestown last week to visit the Dutra Farm and the Watson Farm."
• 7/23/07 - Allegheny Front radio piece about YERT - " Chucking it all and going off to save the planet isn't practical for most people."
• 6/29/07 - YERT Launch Party mentioned in IHeartPGH - "...I can only imagine that there are great stories all over this country. That is why I envy this project."
• 6/28/06 - YERT interviewed by The Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Satellite Radio - Our first live interview with Josh Dorfman
• 5/6/07 - Mark interviewed on The Falcon and the Dove podcast - "...an environmental road trip ... to learn what individual states are doing for the environment..."
• 4/14/07-4/15/07 - YERT video shown at EarthDance Film Festival in Berkeley, CA
• 4/19/07 - YERT awarded 2nd prize for "Bear Necessities" video on TreeHugger "Convenient Truths" contest - "...collecting snow to send to the North Pole may not be the most effective way to help polar bears..."
• 2/13/07 - Bonnie at Ethicurean.com introduces their readers to YERT! - "...a helluva plan for a road trip — a year-long “eco-expedition” covering all 50 United States."
• 1/10/07 - First online mention of YERT, by the awesome EdgyMama - "Mark showed up on our doorstep yesterday afternoon with a hi-def video camera and a lot of verve."