Re: Does the media give the green movement a fair shake?

Description: It's too easy to peg someone just as a tree-planter and park-builder, Carter says.

Transcript:  I’d like to see a difference, sometimes, in the way media covers me, frankly, you know, as an environmentalist.  I think, it’s real easy to, sort of, peg me as a person who is just planting trees and doing parks.  You know, which is great, and I love it, and I will, you know, “Look at some of the things I’m most proud of.”  But there’s, also, a real economic agenda associated with it.  And I think that the media is not so hip to really say, “Hey, oh, this is like a strategy to move people out of poverty.  This is a real strategy, you know, that’s designed to, like, do poverty alleviation and remediate the environment.”  And those are the kind of things that, you know, me and Van, in particular, are really interested in pushing.  But again, I think that-- so on a whole, I think, we’ve gotten some tremendous support, you know, from really, really smart folks in the media.  But at the same time, I think it’s, kind of, like, they don’t quite know what to do with us.  I really believe that.  But hopefully that will change, because I’m seeing signs of it.

Recorded on: 3/17/08