I love this...awesome idea!  Now, let's not any of us get all self-righteous about this and reach for reasons to criticize. ["The electricity wasted to curl Jennifer Lopez' hair could power an entire African village for 10 years."] This really is quite a departure from the normal materialistic Holywood experience.  Heck, I would have thought it cool if TerraPass (or other company) would have offset merely the celebs big night.

And, if global warming becomes the hot trend ("environmental stewardship is the new black"), good deal! Hey, educate then convert...or convert then educate.  Whatever.

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It's a water drop, right?

Terrapass, as a for profit offsetter is especially suspect.  Did they actually "donate" these offsets in return for publicity?  As the contents of the "$100k" gift baskets were donated for advertising and tax writeoffs?

Did Terrapass get an advertising expense tax deduction for that?  What a mess.  In that case how much of the celeb's offset was payed for out of the huge federal deficit?

I favored tax credits to encourage renewwables and conservation, but now I'm wondering about that too.  Only those who don't need the tax credits would get them.  

These celebs could surely afford to buy their own offsets.  Or maybe their own solar panels and electric cars instead?

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When Gore & Leo discussed the "Green" Oscars, I wondered what they meant.  This is an awesome idea to replace the gift bags with something meaningful that might make an impression on the unknowing public.  

Support anything that helps.

     I thank TerraPass for getting celebrities to go green.    
     It is obvious celebrities fly private jets.  I understand concern about security (how many actors publicly in favor of gun control pack heat on their Learjets).
     There is a sane solution.  If you fly private jet, you produce your own fuel from carbon dioxide.  The same way a plant does.  So, if you consume five hundred gallons of jet fuel to fly to the Oscars, you produce five hundred and ten gallons of fuel.
    We should also discuss how we waste energy on meat.  How many of actors last night are vegetarians?   According to PETA it takes 40 times the energy to produce a pound of protein from beef as from soybean.  We should encourage celebrites to disdain from meat.
        And last we should stop the biggest threat to the planet, development and growth.  I practice family planning.  I have no children, and plan on one child and adoption.
   

Perhaps the Oscar folks are suggesting these "sculptures" be used to plug up certain greenhouse gas emissions. Wink wink, nudge nudge...

How big are those babies anyway?

NJD