JK on the blogs - 13 - TMOE special edition
Here’s a roundup of blog posts which reference “This Moment on Earth”, JK and events that occurred on the promotional tour that JK and THK have recently completed.
Josh Marshall of TPM hung out with JK prior to the taping of The Colbert Show segment and has some great video which he divided into two parts: Part 1 Part 2
Bob Geiger had a interesting conversation with JK which he posted in its entirety at his blog, BobGeiger.com, and cross-posted summaries at HuffPo and DemUnderground.
JK did a little blogging himself on dailykos in “Making Environmentalism a Voting Issue“
Jill Owens of Powell’s Books reports on an interview with JK and THK in “This Moment with the Kerrys“
Dan Whipple has an amusing approach to his tale of his encounters with JK and THK and the book event in Colorado in “The Kerrys, the Environment, the West and Me“
From the denverpost.com eyelens blog, Tim Chase posts his account of JK & THK’s appearance at The Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver in a post simply titled “John Kerry“
From Pamela Leavey at The Democratic Daily comes her account of being “In The Green Room with John Kerry at the Tavis Smiley Show”
The Sierra Club Compass blog highlighted JK’s appearance on The Daily Show in “This Moment on Comedy Central”.
Ecotalk blog links to audio clips of Betsy Rosenberg’s conversation with JK and THK about This Moment on Earth.
In The Democratic Daily, Pamela Leavey notes that This Moment on Earth is on both the New York Times and Washington Post best seller lists.
On a blog titled A Likely Story, Kathy writes about her experience with JK & THK at The Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver talking about TMOE
Dan Whipple recounts his view of the session at The Tattered Cover on the blog Colorado Confidential in a post titled “John and Teresa Kerry on the Environment”.
At the Jack and Jill Politics – Jill solicits questions for a conversation about environmental issues and TMOE in her post titled “Ask Questions, Get Answers from John Kerry on the Environment“
From dkos community member Shayera on her own blog, “excuse the mess… that was just my head” come several entries with pictures and some commentary on book tour event she attended with the Kerrys. What I did tonight - More from last night, with narrative! - Senator speaks—More info
Hekebolos talks about his impressions of the book and book tour event on his blog in a post titled “A Moment on Earth with John and Teresa Kerry” which he cross-posted at dailykos here. He also participated in a bloggers’ conference call with JK and THK which he recounts in “Senator Kerry talks to bloggers on the environment”, also cross-posted to dailykos here
SteveAudio posted his notes on the bloggers’ call with JK in a post titled “Science has failed our world“
SusanG, frontpage editor at dailykos, reviewed TMOE in this post: Book Review: The Kerrys’ “This Moment on Earth”
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A blogger named Eternal Hope did a detailed 5-part book review of TMOE which was posted at dailykos and Eternal Hope’s own blog, Conservatism is Dead.
—John Kerry, Part 1: Making America America crosspost at dkos
—John Kerry, Part 2: Rachel Carson crosspost at dkos
—John Kerry, Part 3: Good Intentions Gone Wrong crosspost at dailykos
—John Kerry Part 4: The Price of Chemicals crosspost at dkos
—John Kerry Part 5: The Burden of Proof crosspost at dkos
Beachmom posted 2 diaries on dailykos; one about the Seattle event titled “Kerry gets down to brass tacks in Seattle” and the second titled “Moral leadership needed to stop global warming: Q & A with the Kerrys“
Chuck Currie on Street Prophets posted a short blog post with a complete audio clip of the blogger call with the Kerrys’ in which he participated called “John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry Talk About Their Faith, Oregon“
Rick Albertson at Democracy Cell Project wrote an account of the blogger call that he participated in called “Your mother needs you—please help her now“
Sandnsea at dailykos wrote about her blogger call in “John & Teresa Kerry Speak With Bloggers“
kerrygoddess at dailykos wrote a diary titled “John and Teresa Heinz Kerry Discuss ‘This Moment On Earth’ on ‘The Today Show“
mloutre and donnamarie joined up at dailykos with two diaries that covered the liveblogging of the climate change debate between JK and Newt Gingrich. mloutre’s covers the first part in “Live-blogging the Kerry-Gingrich climate change debate” and donnamarie’s the second part in “Live Blog: Kerry-Gingrich Climate Change Part II
From Diane’s Big Green Purse, a blog about buying green, comes a discussion with THK which draws from TMOE to talk about how a local business buying locally can be green and sustain the local economy. The post is titled “Teresa Heinz Kerry Supports Marketplace Change“
From SwiftSpeech! Blog, “I spent the last few days listening to the audio version of this book. It’s good. It makes the point, over and over again, that ordinary people, caring about their local environments and doing extraordinary things to protect them and restore them to health, make all the difference.” Look for the post titled “A moral issue and a matter of life and death”.
WeLoveJohnKerry.com weighed in with a quick comment about the Colbert show yet-to-come and TMOE’s appearance as #1 on Amazon’s non-fiction best-seller’s list.
Shaun at Upper Left has a report with pictures of the Seattle stop on the TMOE tour
Andrea at Exploratory blog also made the Seattle tour stop and talks about it.
Oregon Public Broadcasting has a short post about the program, Oregon Territory, that the Kerrys appeared on with audio links.
One of the people featured in TMOE created a product called gDiapers. One of the founders recounts his encounter with the Kerrys at the Seattle book tour event on the blog, gDiapers: the early years.
Michael Creasy’s Blog mentions JK & THK’s stop at Microsoft in Seattle to meet with environmentally focused people there.
Mentioned before on JK blog:
JK & THK on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC
These blogs have a quick mention of the book:
The Feminist Bloggers’ Network
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Thanks, great work monitoring the info on John Kerry. Thanks also for mentioning Muriella’s Corner…muriel
Thanks for the links, jk.com! And for the round-up. I had no idea so many folks were weighing in on TMOE! All this extra reading is helping to take my mind off the fact that I had to miss the Women’s Health & the Environment conference today. Well done, all!
And also thank you to Violet! This is a great resource. But I can’t help but wonder why we are not having these discussions on the John Kerry website. There is so much to talk about, and I am sure many people are privately very concerned about the environmental situation. Why are we not spending more time introducing discussions about the book as well as these other issues?
Allison
Thanks for the update. Any word yet on where the Senator will be apprearing on May 15th in DC?
I have my copy of TMOE, I have read some really interesting chapters already but I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book this weekend ( I am taking a break and enjoying earth day) and then sharing my thoughts.
The senator and his wife seem to be on the go a lot, I hope they take a breather now and again.
On Saturday, April 21 at 11:30 pm and Sunday, April 22 at 9:30 am and at 1:45 pm
This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
sen. John Kerry (D-MA)& Teresa Heinz Kerry
http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=8064&schedID=484
p.s. This will be on C-Span 2.
Is TMOE being disucussed on C-SPAN 2 at the times listed above? Is it an interview?
I haven’t finished the book yet myself; but I have noticed one area of technical difficulty with the book, which is that you can’t always tell who is the author—John Kerry or Teresa—of the various chapters or subchapters.
For instance, the name “Teresa:” as the author of a particular subchapter in Chapter One, “The Art of the Possible,” suddenly appears to begin the subchapter, “Reinventing a City”; and then you see her name again to begin Chapter Two, “A Body of Evidence.” And then you don’t see either one of their names again until the name “John:” appears in a subchapter of Chapter Three, “A Matter of Justice.” Then it isn’t until Chapter Four, “The Water of Life” that the name “John:” appears again right at the beginning. And again you find his name at the beginning of Chapter Five, “Global Climate Change: The Decisive Decade.” Then his name appears again in a subchapter of Chapter Five, “Turning Our Backs on the Future.” Then again he begins Chapter Six, “Drill, Then Drill Some More: Energy Opportunity Lost.” Again Chapter Seven begins—“Prospecting for the Future”—with “John:” And then there is no name attributed to the “Conclusion.”
So what happened to Teresa as the book progressed? I never saw her name again after the first couple of chapters, but I must assume that she wrote within some of the other chapters. Or maybe not.
But that’s my only confusion with the book, and that is just a technical problem. Other than that, it is a really informative and fascinating collection of very pertinent information.
Jeanne,
The answer is yes to both questions.
It’s actually an important point because you need to know as you are reading the book who is authoring the chapter that you are reading. It’s a foundational thing; and without that knowledge, you are left a little groundless. I think this is why I am having some trouble finishing the book, or just reading it as a whole, as much as I am enjoying it.
Do you think somebody could clarify who is authoring which chapter of the book in a posting on the John Kerry website? I, for one, would appreciate it a lot.
Allison
I’ve posted some pictures of today’s Cambridge book talk at the DU Kerry group. Both John Kerry and Teresa looked absolutely great!
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Violet,
Thanks. I’ll tune in and watch it.
LadyLove,
Ch. 1 was written by both. Ch. 2 & 3 by THK. Ch. 4-7 by JK and the Conclusion was written by both of them as well.
Violet:
Well, that wraps that up. Now I can settle down to reading the book without distraction. Thanks!
Actually, Violet, I don’t think what you say above is all that accurate. I assumed that you were speaking from some kind of knowledge and didn’t investigate it any further; but obviously there are a few discrepancies because, as in the case of Chapter One, Teresa’s name suddenly appears as a subchapter; so apparently they began Chapter One together and then Teresa finished the chapter starting with “Reinventing a City” by herself. And I suppose I could assume that Teresa writes all of Chapter Two and Chapter Three up until you see the name “John:” So anyway, that’s about as close as I am going to get for now, and I suppose it’s clear enough. Thanks again.