published July 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is such a big fan of nature that her environmentally-friendly home includes a retractable roof that provides natural cooling -- while giving her an unobstructed view of the outdoors and the local birds. And this week, she partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association for radio spots that draws attention to the threats ...
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published April 16, 2011 and has No Comments
An overcrowded bus in Istanbul. Image: Scene from " Overdrive ." The Istanbul most visitors see -- the Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of ferries on the Bosphorus, bargaining in the bazaar, and bustling nightlife -- lies within just a few of the city's more than 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is the one I watch ...
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published March 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: by Vivien Killilea/WireImage Facebook offers plenty of eco-focused games to fill your time in between status updates and photo tagging, but the newest one, Ecotopia, has some very big names behind it -- including Harrison Ford , whose Conservation International teamed up with Talkie game studio to develop and release the game. ... Read the full story on ...
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published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Image via YouTube video The first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival launched this weekend and with an impressive line-up of environmental documentaries, not the least of which was a powerful film called Sweet Crude . It is the story of the oil industry's presence on Nigeria's Niger Delta, but more importantly, the movement against the oil companies that ...
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published February 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: John Steven Fernandez /Creative Commons While you're putting the finishing touches on plans for this weekend's Oscar viewing party , don't miss Ecorazzi 's guide to the greenest nominees up for awards this year. From Nicole Kidman's alpaca farm and Jeff Bridges' anti-bottled water stance to the environmental films competing for best documentary, see which iss... Read the ...
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published February 21, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Wikimedia Commons The movement against shark finning has already brought together advocates including January Jones and John Kerry -- and in California, where legislators have proposed a bill that would block the sale of the fins, another A-lister offered his support. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published February 20, 2011 and has No Comments
van jones, via Ted Talks It took " An Inconvenient Truth" and then " The Age of Stupid " to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were short on presenting solutions, leaving many feeling powerless. ...
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published February 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images If you've left your Valentine's Day plans until the last minute (again), then Alicia Silverstone can help: The eco-minded actress took to her website, The Kind Life , to list some of her favorite ways to put a green spin on your celebration. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published January 21, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Wikimedia Commons After his most recent trip to the Sudan in an effort to draw attention to the war-torn nation, George Clooney came home with an unpleasant souvenir: malaria .... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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George Clooney Gets Malaria, the Green Set of "The Good Wife" and More
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published January 13, 2011 and has No Comments
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called " comprar, llençar, comprar" , meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the documentary in Spanish on RTVE (Spanish national TV). It tells the secret history of ...
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