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About
I’m Brian Fitzgerald, and I lead the campaign-winning and (multiple) webby-award-winning digital communications team at Greenpeace International. This blog is (mostly) a glimpse behind the scenes at Greenpeace and a repository for lessons learned and experiments in online activism and social media. It will also occasionally mention iPhones and bicycles. I am a digital hippy. I believe that Planet Earth is evolving a mammalian brain, and that the internet is knitting the neural cortex. We are the synaptic nerves that constitute its conscience.
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The Vaults
Category Archives: Arts
1982: Balloon crashes, ego smashes.
Last night, all of us involved in the Green my Apple campaign had a victory dinner feast at the lovely Zeina’s house. Zeina is Lebanese, and put together an outstanding culinary adventure for us. There was baked Feta with chili pepper — my mouth waters as I type those words — tabouli on lettuce leaves, …
Becoming Movie Literate with GTD
Jason Kottke wrote: Film critic Jim Emerson compiled a list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate: …they [are] the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They’re the common cultural currency of …

