Introduction to GetRealList
I originally created this site as a way to contribute to the national dialogue and help educate my community about issues that concerned me. It has since become an essential part of my work as an energy journalist and communicator.
The History
GetRealList began as a series of occasional emails that I distributed to friends in the wake of 9-11, in an attempt to help us figure out what the attack was all about. The list finally outgrew the confines of regular email distrubtion, so I rebuilt it as the blog you see today, which is now on its third major revision.
But before the GetRealList, I had a brainchild that I built my first Web business around, and that was Better World, which was an online magazine about environmental and social responsibility. I invite you to check out the back issues and see what I was on about before I became more focused on politics and particularly energy, and peak oil. (Some years later, I sold the domain betterworld.com to an excellent company that recycles millions of books annually and creates libraries where there are none in Africa and elsewhere.)
Credits
I should mention too that Better World and the GetRealList represent much more than my labors alone; lots of people have contributed substantially of their time and skills to make them happen. These are all incredibly talented, brilliant, generous souls and I’ve been lucky to have so much of their help. I’d like to give a shout out to a few of them here:
Rob Gilde
Lee Thompson
Jason Williams
John Camacho
Chris Rimple
…and lots of others I’ve forgotten to mention. You know who you are.
Can I become a subscriber?
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You can also send me a personal note.
–Chris Nelder
Editor