Here at mikeroweWORKS, we believe that everything was brown before it was green and that’s where people should start. Or so we think anyway. Watch the video and see what the term “Brown Before Green” actually means.
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Here at mikeroweWORKS, we believe that everything was brown before it was green and that’s where people should start. Or so we think anyway. Watch the video and see what the term “Brown Before Green” actually means.
17 Comments
GO BROWN!
I think some people have missed the point. IT’s going to take real work to “save the environment”, not sitting at a computer all day. It’s like you’re testimony to congress. If everyone leaves a check on the counter and goes on with life, nothing will get done.
Wow, I couldn’t agree more. What can Brown do for you apparently everything. I could not have said it better. Brown before Green, like in the dictonary. Thanks for all you do. – 4-H leader Joanna
Great job. Thats the most important thing I’ve got to say. Obviously that means I’ve got critique, but first and foremost. Great job man
The second thing is sorry. I am from Denmark. I might not get your language perfectly right but I am trying
I don’t see the green movement getting anywhere, for real, without getting their hands dirty or I should probably say our hands.
However, the spot I am in feels rather uncomfortable. My father worked as a smith most of his life until it made him sick. Then he became a fisherman, because the fresh sea air was better for him. Even now at the age of 80 he keeps working.
I’m a college boy, but I was raised with physical work and I’ve seen how that is great way to stay in shape, rather than going to the gym.
Believe me when I say you don’t need a college degree or loads of money, to work for the enviroment.
Saving water is not a bad idea, it saves money too. I’ve never had a drivers license, I had a bike and public transportation. It’s not bad either and actually it’s cheaper than owning a car. I eat expensive organic food, as long as I find it sensible, that means as local as the food can get and… Organic fish is just crazy, so I just get fish from the fishers at the harbour if ever… and you know… sometimes, those organic food producers, have a way of making tastier food.
Unfortunatly, with the growing population in the world, theres a chance that inefficient food production must stop and that includes organic food production :/
Get this though… low energy appliances. GREAT way to save money by saving energy and I could go on…
I am sorry, I am one of the smart people, but I am not gonna dumb myself down to be less intimidating, but I am allso sorry if I don’t know how to speak like ordinary people, even though I am trying. Hey I AM danish as well as smart. How can I ever be expected to feel understood in english?
The point is that smart people sometimes get a little, I don’t know… aloof? We sometimes forget how to speak with ordinary people.
But even so, last I checked, being smart wasn’t stupid. Getting your kids an education to give them a chance to improve on their own lives wasn’t bad… and even though some problems seems overwhelming and difficult, it has never been a good idea to ignore them and hope they go away has it?
“Hey dad, the barn is on fire! Oh, just ignore it son, it’ll go away.”
So if by far, the largest population of scientists, say that we are in trouble, is there any good reason not to believe it?
USA have definatly had their own share of natural disasters, and they have increased in frequency during the lasts years and while they may not touch people individually, how are you going to argue, before the victims, that nothing is wrong?
Dare you ignore the possibility that the scientists are right and just keep up life as it has been the last 50 years?
Ok so your point is another than what I am saying here, but really I am just trying to illuminate the green issue here.
I don’t see why green and brown should in any way oppose each other and heck as far as I understand brown before green it sounds like a good idea.
Most great enviromental work is done by people getting their hands dirty and yes I DO agree that there’s an industry feeding of the green movement.
But heres the flash news…Theres people making money off dead people. Funeral homes. Some make money of sick people. Medical companies.
Some make money of promoting the green issue.
Some cheat people out of their money covering it up as the green issues, but swindlers are gonna do that everywhere they can and they’ll hide in any kinda suit that fits their scheme.
Should the hard working people, fighting for the green cause, be blamed because this cause, is a most excellent target for swindlers?
I am sorry I understand why people are fed up with the green movement, but the problem won’t disappear and even if we do tend to build up a bit of drama, it doesn’t change the facts.
Here’s what I would like though. Smart people using some of our smarts, to actually listen to other people than ourselves. We do tend to do that a lot, I admit.
I’d allso like ordinary people to actually take our warnings seriously.
We do put a lot of time and effort into understanding the problems. We don’t just guess and we don’t build our arguments around wishfull thinking, but around serious research.
Ofc the fearmongers in the green industry has got it a bit wrong. Thinking that we can change the world with fear is stupid.
We are not afraid of culling the overpopulation of animals, but we can’t find any kind of overpopulation like the one of humans. That doesn’t have to mean that we should cull the human population, but we have to consider what we do, to keep this huge human population, safe. Not even the most die hard fanatic can argue the the world isn’t overpopulated.
Being green isn’t about putting the world before humans. It’s about keeping the world safe for humans and the future is looking rather grim. That is if we ignore the problems.
I claim thatI am one of the smart people, but even though I know fear wont help, I fear the future I am leaving for my daughter. I want her world to be a better place than what I am offering to her now, but don’t fear the future, put on your brown gloves and start working.
Dirty jobs is a masterpiece in showing how ordinary people can make a great uhmm… brown effort for the enviroment and help us all to a better world and even though theres people trying to swindle us out of our hard earned money, we can see that there’s allso a lot of good ordinary people out there, doing a great job to make it a safer future.
It’s true that the best enviromental work is done by people getting their hands dirty, but please don’t resent the people who knows stuff. Knowing stuff isn’t bad
BTW I make absolutly NO money writing this. I do this for free in my spare time. I should probably be enjoying a beer and watching the handball worldcup games instead, but here it is
Love it! My husband is in the brown almost all day long. It’s only green when he gets to mow it or bale it, but brown is the color of what happens on a ranch! Thank you for speaking up for all us who wallow in it or have to wash it out of our husband’s or children’s clothes! You are a voice of reason in the otherwise shallow media that has turned its nose up when it comes to everyday working people and smell green (like you said — the color of money and greed and envy!)….good job, Mike! Farmers and ranchers everywhere thank you.
I believe that e-thing was brown b4 green. My mother starting composting grass clippings in black plastic bags over 40 years ago next to the garage on our 30ft-wide lot. We had the biggest cukes on the block. I continued that tradition ever since. I try to encourage people to recycle plastic bags (I’ll take them to the grocery store 4 u); paper ( i’ll take them to the Abitibi dumpster 4 u b-cuz they turn the money collected into helping poorer residents);I take the newspaper from the office to the animal welfare (u can guess why on that yourself);I joined the park district as a commissioner so we’d have more flowers in our parks (a calming influence I believe), which means I have to plant them if I want them (and I do). I believe in Earth Hour (can’t we do without lights in the house for 1 hr once a year?). Wonderful video. Thank you Mike.
My dad worked as a heavy equipment operator for 38 years in the physical plant department of a major university. If there was snow, then Dad got up at 1AM and went to run the machinery to clear the roads and parking lots on campus. In the summertime, he worked in the sweltering heat to run backhoes to expose pipes so plumbing could be repaired. Dad was deaf. He wore a hearing aid, but it didn’t do him much good. One time a reporter for the college paper made a snotty comment in the paper about the misfits such as old guys who couldn’t hear, working for the physical plant. That really hurt my dad’s feelings. Besides, with running heavy equipment, no one can hear anything and they have to use hand signals anyhow! That spoiled brat rich daddy’s kid college student had no appreciation or understanding of how without my dad’s work, the university would not have been able to function.
I give horseback riding lessons and I find that the parents of my students want their kids to help me with the dirty work of caring for the animals so that they’ll understand what it is like to be on the business end of a stall fork.
Mike–I’m with ‘ya. However, do we really need to be monochromatic? We can be brown and green and many other colors at the same time–even red and blue! What IS important while we are doing good and proud work is to be thoughtful, to make the right choices for our health here and now, and for the people and critters after us. There is a balance and I firmly believe despite all the corporate green-washing it is the tidal wave of the future and a new economy ripe for independent businesses.
A Fullfilled Tradeswoman in Mossy Seattle.
I have spent most of my life in the working of the soil. My early years I worked on a family farm/ranch. Later years as a grounds supervisor. In the ranching world I would sit around the campfire (sheep camp) and listen to the men around the pot of well cooked mutton stew. They were perplexed by the environmentalist jargon. Who were these people? Yes, they the rancher had learned the hard way that overgrazing costs the entire system, but they learned and fixed the problem and worked hard to restore and actually made the system better. No flags waving, this was their life, either they make the range productive of they lose their way of life. Notice I did not say living because most people know that the family farm seldom makes real money, most of the time it is just from one year to the next.
I will be watching and listening to your process, it seems as though you know that it is all about the hard working, barely scraping by people, but at the same time it is all worth it to be a part of the glue that holds this way of life together.
I am an FFA member from Wyoming and I cannot tell you how much I agree! This inspired me! I wrote a speech on this very topic!
Unbelievable that someone that is so well known, has come out and said what the rest of us (who are fed up)with the green movement. I am all for the health of the planet and I try to teach that to my kids too. I have noticed that kids don’t play in the dirt as much as when I was a kid. We give them electronics and electric bikes/scooters, but what about letting them dig in the garden. My kids go to the vegetable garden and pick veggies and then look for worms to go fishing. We can wash the dirt off later. Maybe we should try from the ground up. I am proud that my boys think that you are cool. I really couldn’t ask for a better outside roll model. Thanks Keep up the good work. Maybe marketing some “BROWN BEFORE GREEN” Tshirts/sweatshirts, could be sold by FFA kids. That sounds like a good partnership to keep going.
Mike you ROCK! As an FFA Advisor, I was privileged to be at the FFA National Convention with 13 students and FFA members in Indianapolis where we were served a feast as we listened to your Keynote Address to the convention. You are spot on with your work initiative and your brown before green ideas. It is so refreshing to hear someone as famous as you who still has common sense and can realistically address the way we can work ourselves out of the silliness of the whole global warming, carbon sequestering, Al Gore stupidness that the mainstream press has gone mainstream with. We need someone like you to preach the gospel of the nobility of honest work, personal responsibility for our own safety and actions, and respect for the “trades” that are “how things get built and fixed” in this country.
Man you are onto something here. Keep up the good work.
YOU ROCK!
Mike,
It is great that we as a nation have a public icon such as yourself to bring to the people’s attention the need for change. You have done a great job showing us that college isn’t the only answer to a prosperous and enjoyable career both through your show Dirty Jobs and various talks you have given across the nation at conventions. We need more people like you up at the front line of the issue, people who do the dirty jobs speaking out and being heard.
I completely agree and support the movement to go brown before green. We need to get our hands dirty and save “our own little farms” as you said at a recent FFA convention before we can put a dent in the issue of saving the planet.
Didn’t watch the video (yet). Made me think of my dad – the brown part. He drove a bulldozer and other heavy equipment – i always thought it was cool. He usually came home covered in whatever type dirt he’d been moving that day. He’d take off his hat and the top of his bald head would be clean with a perfect ring all the way around. I still remember how he smelled after work (not sweaty) but just like a working guy.
Mike,
I think that you have the right idea about America’s work ethic. My husband and I have been discussing a trade with our son lately, too. Not everybody is college material or has that kind of interest and just how many lawyers or accountants do we need anyway. You can make a excellant income with much more job security with a trade like plumbing, hvac, welding, etc.
I think that this program you have started is a real benefit to the American people. It should be shown to children in grade school and high school. Best wishes with it. I’m sharing onto Facebook.
Thank you,
Cathy Kell
I enjoy your show, too!
Couldn’t have said it better! I am inspired and relieved that there are people so bold as yourself to say what has been on the minds of many people. I am thankful that someone with such a fabulous platform would be so inclined to get to the bottom of our “green” agendas. Heretofore the only people that have reaped benefit from the green agenda are the large corporations that are far from green (that have been the main perpetrators against the earth), wealthy Al Gore with his SUVs that idle in continuous waiting for the only man smart enough to see how the little people are destroying the planet, and the utility companies that can claim conservation is key while they raise prices in anticipation of fabricated crisis. Meanwhile our planet has not reaped benefit. It is sickening, but I have found hope in your message; I will surely spread the word! THANK YOU, MIKE! : )
This video only touches on the ever growing green bandwagon which has become big business saturating the airwaves and tv screens… I think the public is starting to finally ask questions about where this “green” thing is all headed? More jobs or job replacement? Mike, your good. Your onto a huge problem for the future.. I call it “Suit Syndrone”. There are far to many suit jobs and very little emphasis on the importance of regular jobs… We need both but its becoming one sided… Great “job”.. Nat