<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for The green films on show this year at Sundance]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by AnnaKay http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:59:23 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/1 Crude

This movie should be interesting. Here is an amazing account of the toxic mess that Texaco and Chevron have created in the Amazon rainforest.  This is a Bloomberg article that appeared couple days ago.  You will want to read this.  Here's the link:  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer ...

Also, check out this blog to learn more about the contamination: http://www.thechevronpit.blogspot.com

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This movie should be interesting. Here is an amazing account of the toxic mess that Texaco and Chevron have created in the Amazon rainforest.  This is a Bloomberg article that appeared couple days ago.  You will want to read this.  Here's the link:  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer ...

Also, check out this blog to learn more about the contamination: http://www.thechevronpit.blogspot.com

]]> Comment #2 by biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:36:05 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/2 On the topic of "No Impact Man"

It has become cliché for some guy to drag his whole family kicking and screaming into his Eco-experiments. Tom Friedman and Al Gore would probably live in solar powered yurts instead of gargantuan mansions if their spouses would let them get away with it : )

I did the no impact thing when I first arrived in Seattle many years ago. I lived a few miles from my job, rode my bike everywhere, and saved everything that I could not recycle for a year, eventually stuffing it all in a dumpster.

My conclusion? This was the wrong way to attract the attention of the ladies.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

]]> On the topic of "No Impact Man"

It has become cliché for some guy to drag his whole family kicking and screaming into his Eco-experiments. Tom Friedman and Al Gore would probably live in solar powered yurts instead of gargantuan mansions if their spouses would let them get away with it : )

I did the no impact thing when I first arrived in Seattle many years ago. I lived a few miles from my job, rode my bike everywhere, and saved everything that I could not recycle for a year, eventually stuffing it all in a dumpster.

My conclusion? This was the wrong way to attract the attention of the ladies.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

]]> Comment #3 by Tasermons Partner http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:31:50 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/3 Use a dating service...

My conclusion? This was the wrong way to attract the attention of the ladies.

One should note that it is also rather cliche to participate in eco-ventures with the primary purpose of attracting a mate.

It also seems to reek of desperation.

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My conclusion? This was the wrong way to attract the attention of the ladies.

One should note that it is also rather cliche to participate in eco-ventures with the primary purpose of attracting a mate.

It also seems to reek of desperation.

]]> Comment #4 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:21:21 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Sundance-with-me/4 I don't mean to be "Crude":

     I love the foundation money liberals who descend upon Sundance Film Festival hoping for some sort of accolades, notoriety. Discussing the latest environmental disaster film with their extended pinky fingers while sipping herbal tea. The Amazon was a long way to go to make a film on corporate energy pollution. It may be more PC and plugged into the obvious recognizable subject matter, easier to relate to because the Amazon has instant name recognition, hell you are halfway to first place for an Environmental Documentary Film with just the word Amazon alone.
     The toxic ash pond that made headlines in Southern Appalachia "Tennessee" is just a small puddle compared to the toxic coal waste water impoundments in Kentucky and West Virginia that are opened up on purpose on night shifts just to gain some more volume and keep from building another pond. A Toxic cocktail of coal cleaning chemicals and heavy metals that dot the landscape of the Eastern Coal Fields, hundreds of impoundments that leak, run over and fail on a regular basis. The large coal slurry pond that failed in Martin County Kentucky a few years ago was 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill and polluted 150 miles of creek and river tributaries running all the way down to the Ohio river.
     Don't get me started on Mountain Top Removal that not only destroys the forest or vegetation as Amazon deforestation does but destroys the mountains, valleys and clear water streams forever. Thousands of acres of deciduous Appalachian forest already destroyed and the practice of MTR has now been accelerated by George Bush's midnight rule and regulation changes to the E.P.A.. I see films made here sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation that point out extreme situations particular to the area, painting the whole area and the people in a bad light with the hopes of winning a prize at Sundance with no regard to the damage they do to the region, the people or our cause for stopping Mountain Top Removal. It is no wonder the nation has just wrote this region off and considers us and the southern Appalachian Forest as expendable. Sometimes I wonder about how much coal corporate money is behind some of the films about Southern Appalachia.
     There is an environmental disaster on the scale of the destruction of the Amazon basin going on right in your back yard. Especially when you consider the regular strip mining, MTR, coal chemical waste impoundments and the thousands of tons of nitrate explosives used for blasting in this area. You don't have to go all the way to South America to find deforestation, chemical pollution of the water ways or heavy metal toxic pollution of the waterways on a massive scale. It will be difficult also to be seen as credible environmentalist when you condemn the deforestation and corporate pollution in one country while it is legal and ongoing on a massive scale in your own home country.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.





]]> I don't mean to be "Crude":

     I love the foundation money liberals who descend upon Sundance Film Festival hoping for some sort of accolades, notoriety. Discussing the latest environmental disaster film with their extended pinky fingers while sipping herbal tea. The Amazon was a long way to go to make a film on corporate energy pollution. It may be more PC and plugged into the obvious recognizable subject matter, easier to relate to because the Amazon has instant name recognition, hell you are halfway to first place for an Environmental Documentary Film with just the word Amazon alone.
     The toxic ash pond that made headlines in Southern Appalachia "Tennessee" is just a small puddle compared to the toxic coal waste water impoundments in Kentucky and West Virginia that are opened up on purpose on night shifts just to gain some more volume and keep from building another pond. A Toxic cocktail of coal cleaning chemicals and heavy metals that dot the landscape of the Eastern Coal Fields, hundreds of impoundments that leak, run over and fail on a regular basis. The large coal slurry pond that failed in Martin County Kentucky a few years ago was 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill and polluted 150 miles of creek and river tributaries running all the way down to the Ohio river.
     Don't get me started on Mountain Top Removal that not only destroys the forest or vegetation as Amazon deforestation does but destroys the mountains, valleys and clear water streams forever. Thousands of acres of deciduous Appalachian forest already destroyed and the practice of MTR has now been accelerated by George Bush's midnight rule and regulation changes to the E.P.A.. I see films made here sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation that point out extreme situations particular to the area, painting the whole area and the people in a bad light with the hopes of winning a prize at Sundance with no regard to the damage they do to the region, the people or our cause for stopping Mountain Top Removal. It is no wonder the nation has just wrote this region off and considers us and the southern Appalachian Forest as expendable. Sometimes I wonder about how much coal corporate money is behind some of the films about Southern Appalachia.
     There is an environmental disaster on the scale of the destruction of the Amazon basin going on right in your back yard. Especially when you consider the regular strip mining, MTR, coal chemical waste impoundments and the thousands of tons of nitrate explosives used for blasting in this area. You don't have to go all the way to South America to find deforestation, chemical pollution of the water ways or heavy metal toxic pollution of the waterways on a massive scale. It will be difficult also to be seen as credible environmentalist when you condemn the deforestation and corporate pollution in one country while it is legal and ongoing on a massive scale in your own home country.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.





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