Kilowatt Ours Interviews
Jeff Barrie - Producer/Director of Kilowatt Ours
Jeff Barrie graduated
from UCLA with a
bachelors degree in Environmental Studies and has spent the last 12 years
producing award-winning environmental documentaries for television and
classroom use, coordinating successful and highly visible grassroots
environmental campaigns, coordinating multimedia educational tours, and
building coalitions as a consultant for organizations such as Alaska Wilderness
League, Sierra Club, and Tree People.
Generation Earth, Barrie's 1995 film, has been used effectively as the cornerstone educational piece in a public/private program in Los Angeles County, reaching hundreds of schools with a waste reduction message and curriculum.
In 2000, Barrie coordinated and pedaled a 4,600 mile bike trek across America to raise awareness about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The tour featured a hybrid Toyota Prius support vehicle, and promoted fuel efficiency on one of the first cross-country drives made by a hybrid car.
Barrie founded Citizens for TDOT Reform in 2002 and led a successful effort to reform public involvement policies and advocate a more balanced transportation system in Tennessee.
He wrote, filmed and edited the Southeast edition of “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America” (2005) and the National edition of the film in 2007. Barrie founded the Kilowatt Ours organization, a project of Trust for the Future a 501c3 non-profit group in 2005.
