published March 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital After screening 155 films over the course of 12 days, the 18th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital ended last weekend. Grist recaps the highlights of the eco-conscious cinema event.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published March 26, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via The Beauty Stop Actress and animal lover Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend, Wladimir Klitschko, returned this week to Taiji, the town where Oscar-winning documentary The Cove was filmed, for what the actress called "a peaceful and relaxed conversation" about the town's infamous dolphin hunt--but didn't exactly get the welcome the... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published March 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via CSMonitor Perhaps agitated by the slew of conservatives who have criticized his action/fantasy movie Avatar --now the highest grossing film in history--as being anti-American eco propaganda , director James Cameron has returned fire. During a press conference, Cameron unleashed hi... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published March 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Story of Bottled Water Today is World Water Day - a day to celebrate and become ever more savvy about this incredibly finite resource that we all have to have access to in order to survive. Annie Leonard and crew are also on their game today, releasing a new "Story of..." video, this time on bottled water. ...
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published March 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Know Your H2O We have a weird relationship with water. We know it's a precious resource, we know that less than 1% of water on the planet is available for human consumption. And yet as a species, we have the craziest, most wasteful and polluting ways of dealing with water. World Water Day is approaching - March ...
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published March 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they're purchasing power from coal-powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources. That's why it's a little ironic - or perhaps incredibly sly - that Facebook is going to air the much awaited Earth Days documentary before the film even hits ...
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published March 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via S?rn @ flickr On Thursday, the Trust for Public Land released a roster of Hollywood A-listers and companies--including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, the Walt Disney Company, the LucasFilm Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros., Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, and Time Warner--who have collectively donated more than $3 million to ...
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published March 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron's green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple years ago, retro Chanel was all the rage, which was a great idea, until Reese Witherspoon discovered hers wasn't a ...
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published March 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Source: Merkley and Partners This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards , Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the S400 HYBRID and showcases the company's expanding repertoire of environmentally oriented vehicles. The ad is the first to ... Read the full story ...
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published February 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Metropolis, Original Film Poster, UFA Do you know which film inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? Or gave Superman's home its name? It is Fritz Lang's Metropolis . Lang produced his epic silent film in the brief period of stability and astounding intellectual productivity between the two world wars known as the Weimar Culture . With a budget equivalent ...
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