Route
This is a ROUGH map of the YERT route! The "House" icon always sits where YERT is today. Click on the film projectors to see YERT videos from the area.
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Detailed Itinerary
Arrival Date — State/City/Event/Selected Interviews
06/30/2007 — YERT Launch Party in Pittsburgh, PA
07/04/2007 — YERT Launch from Pittsburgh, PA
07/11/2007 — New Jersey
07/17/2007 — Rhode Island
07/19/2007 — Massachusetts
07/26/2007 — Maine
07/31/2007 — New Hampshire
- Bill McKibben (noted author/activist - featured in YERTpod9: Voting With Your Feet in New Hampshire)
08/04/2007 — Vermont
08/10/2007 — Montreal
08/12/2007 — Toronto
08/14/2007 — Michigan
08/21/2007 — Illinois
- Sadhu Johnston (City of Chicago's Chief Sustainability Officer - featured in YERTpod12: Gettin' Da Green Bidness in Illinois)
08/29/2007 — Iowa
09/02/2007 — Nebraska
09/07/2007 — Colorado
- Dr. Elizabeth Holland (senior scientist at NCAR, a lead author of latest IPCC climate report)
09/14/2007 — Utah
- Mayor Rocky Anderson (Salt Lake City, UT)
09/21/2007 — Idaho
09/26/2007 — Washington
- David Korten (author, "The Great Turning")
10/04/2007 — Oregon
10/11/2007 — California (North)
- Dr. Andy Frank (UC Davis professor and pioneer of PHEV automobile technology - featured in YERT video Pick a Car!)
- Dr. Donald Kennedy ("Science Magazine" editor-in-chief, Stanford University president emeritus)
- Dr. Kevin Danaher (founder, Green Festival)
- John de Graaf (author, "Affluenza")
10/15/2007 — California (South)
10/19/2007 — California (North)
- Deepak Chopra (noted author/speaker)
10/27/2007 — Hawaii
11/08/2007 — California (North)
11/12/2007 — Nevada
11/18/2007 — Arizona
11/27/2007 — New Mexico
- Larry Littlebird (Native American poet, director, actor, story-teller, community builder - featured in YERTpod28: An Agri-Culture of Permanence in New Mexico)
12/04/2007 — Oklahoma
12/09/2007 — Kansas
- Dr. Wes Jackson (geneticist, founder of The Land Institute)
12/14/2007 — Missouri
- Bob Berkebile (noted green architect & LEED pioneer, principal at BNIM Architects)
12/21/2007 — Kentucky
01/01/2008 — Tennessee
01/08/2008 — Arkansas
01/13/2008 — Texas
01/26/2008 — Louisiana
02/02/2008 — Mississippi
02/07/2008 — Alabama
02/12/2008 — Florida
02/24/2008 — Georgia
03/01/2008 — South Carolina
03/06/2008 — North Carolina
- Dr. Rob Jackson (Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change, Duke University)
03/14/2008 — West Virginia
03/18/2008 — Maryland
03/23/2008 — Delaware
03/24/2008 — Virginia
- Joel Salatin (iconic visionary local farmer from Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," author)
03/31/2008 — Washington DC
- Christopher Flavin (president, Worldwatch Institute)
- Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA)
- Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY)
- Alisa Gravitz (executive director, Co-op America)
04/06/2008 — New York State
- Liz Walker (author, director & co-founder of Eco Village at Ithaca)
04/11/2008 — Connecticut
04/16/2008 — New York City
- Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig (Research Scientist at NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
- Robert Fox, Jr. (noted green artchitect, Partner at Cook+Fox Architects LLP)
04/23/2008 — Ohio
04/30/2008 — Indiana
05/05/2008 — Wisconsin
- John Norquist (former mayor of Milwaukee, WI)
- Calvin DeWitt (noted evangelical Christian leader and professor of environmental studies)
05/12/2008 — Minnesota
- Krista Tippett (host of Speaking of Faith radio program)
05/19/2008 — North Dakota
05/23/2008 — South Dakota
05/28/2008 — Wyoming
06/04/2008 — Montana
- Jen Boulden (senior vice president and co-founder of Ideal Bite)
- Bryony Schwan (executive director of The Biomimicry Institute)
06/11/2008 — Canada
06/15/2008 — Alaska
- Dr. Vladimir Romanovski (permafrost expert, professor of geology and geophysics)
- Deborah Williams (climage change activist, president of Alaska Conservation Solutions)
06/29/2008 — Canada
06/30/2008 — Boat ride from Alaska to Washington State
07/04/2008 — YERT completes initial travel phase in San Francisco, CA. What's next? Read all about our upcoming videos and the YERT Movie at our blog.
07/11/2008 — YERT Celebration in San Francisco, CA at the Temple eco-nightclub. 6-9 pm. Everybody is invited! (click here for details)
08/09/2008 — YERT Celebration in Pittsburgh, PA at the Rachel Carson Homestead. 3-7 pm. Everybody is invited! (click here for details)