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And the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature goes to ... Guess	David Roberts	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
... Davis Guggenheim, executive producer and director of An Inconvenient Truth. Congrats, messrs. Guggenheim and Gore. Well played.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

If you don't watch your slideshow, how can you have any pudding? An Inconvenient Truth to show in U.K. schools	Kate Sheppard	06 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Despite getting a frosty reception in U.S. public schools, the (Oscar-nominated) film An Inconvenient Truth will be distributed to every secondary school in the U.K.Environment Secretary David Miliband and Education Secretary Alan Johnson made the announcement last week, citing the film's ability to illustrate the enormity of the climate crisis without leaving viewers feeling defeated.'Children are the key to changing society's long term attitudes to the environment. ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Federal Way sees the light. Sort of. Lifts moratorium on Gore movie, still doesn't get it	Eric de Place	24 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Good news: the Federal Way School Board just lifted its moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth. Unfortunately, coverage in the Seattle Times, the largest paper in the region, was disappointing. It mostly treats the decision as a simple controversy without ever explaining that there is, in fact, only one right answer about the reality of human-induced climate change. To paraphrase my earlier rantings: this is not a matter of personal opinion for lay people; it's a matter o ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

If you hadn't heard Al Gore and the Oscars	David Roberts	23 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. I'm on record predicting it will win. Should we start a betting pool?
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

This Just (W)in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth nominated for best-documentary Oscar		23 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
This Just (W)in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth nominated for best-documentary Oscar Sure, Dreamgirls may be getting all the pre-Oscar press, but a little flick we like to call Dreamy Al has picked up two nominations of its own. There's the Best Documentary Feature nod for An Inconvenient Truth, not all that surprising, and then there's ... Best Song? That means we might get to see Melissa Etheridge belt ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, green living, movies, news (all these topics)

Follow-up on Federal Way schools and Gore's movie School board official defends the decision	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Remember the story about how the Federal Way school board put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth? David Larsen, the now-extremely-embattled vice president of the Federal Way school board, has a piece in the Seattle Times today, explaining what the school board really did and why they did it. First, I should say that despite the delight I and many others took in lampooning the decision, people in Federal Way are not idiots. Larsen's not an ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies, education, Washington (all these topics)

Climate change with Al Gore A dispatch from Gore's climate training sessions	Andrew Dessler	11 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I'm blogging from Nashville, where I just spent two days hanging with Al Gore and shooting the sh-t about climate change. OK, it wasn't just me and Al -- there were about 200 other people there. This meeting is part of Al Gore's effort to train 1000 people to go out and deliver his Inconvenient Truth talk. The meeting started off on a low note when I found out that Cameron Diaz had been in the session before mine. Damn. My session was actually devoid of anyon ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate (all these topics)

Best story of the year so far Al Gore's movie booted by wacky school board	David Roberts	11 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Congrats to Seattle P-I enviro reporters Robert McClure and Lisa Stiffler for unearthing the funniest story I've read in a good long while. Here's the nut: The school board in Federal Way, a southern exurb of Seattle, just put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth, based largely on the complaints of one parent, Frosty Hardison. The glory is in the details. Right off the bat we get this: "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither doe ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies, Washington (all these topics)

Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth First sex, now science? What will they tell the kids about next? The parents of a high-schooler in Federal Way, Wash., have complained to the district's school board about a teacher's plan to screen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the board has put a moratorium on the film. "Co ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics)

Have Some Class: Week of Action Reserve a free copy of An Inconvenient Truth for your campus	Sarah van Schagen	09 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The kids over at Campus Climate Challenge and Truth on Campus are gearing up for a Week of Action January 29th through February 2nd. The five days of demonstrations will kick start the Challenge's second semester and 'put the heat on a new U.S. Congress and a returning Canadian Parliament to begin aggressive national power shifts on global warming.' As part of the Week of Action, the first 1,000 campuses to register their actions will receive a free copy of An I ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies (all these topics)

Prediction Gore: Oscar winner	David Roberts	04 Dec 2006	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth will win the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary. You heard it here first. On a related note: below the fold, you can watch video of Al Gore's surprisingly funny appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. (Thanks to Treehugger for uploading the video.) Click To Play FYI, Gore will also be on Oprah tomorrow. But y'all knew that already.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (all these topics)

Insidious much? Al Gore out, Big Oil in for public schools	Kate Sheppard	28 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Gristmill readers have been knocking at our proverbial door to make sure we've seen Laurie David's article from Sunday's Washington Post. It details the National Science Teachers Association's (NSTA) rejection of 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth for use in science classes across the country, and it's definitely worth some Gristmill grinding.Accepting the DVDs would place 'unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporte ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

A public service announcement Something you need to know	David Roberts	20 Nov 2006	Gristmill
The DVD of An Inconvenient Truth is released tomorrow. Speaking of which, it's entirely possible that AIT will win the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary. Wouldn't that be something.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Scary movies Children, anxiety, and global warming	biodiversivist	06 Nov 2006	Gristmill
I found this post over on the Climate Ark blog. Hello, My 8-year-old daughter has just come running to me in a flood of tears. Why? Because she thinks the world is going to end sometime soon and it's the fault of me and, to a lesser extent, my generation. That's why. Why does she think that? Because she takes it for gospel that over bearing boffins like yourself know more than ordinary folk like me. Does it make you feel good? Making an eight-year-old girl with a ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, insanity, movies, parenting (all these topics)

An Inconvenient Truth in Dutch: Thanks Maurits! The greatest email ever	David Roberts	10 Oct 2006	Gristmill
On Sunday, we got one of the greatest emails ever. Here it is: Dear Gristers! Last Friday Al Gore was presented the first copy of the Dutch version of his book 'An inconvenient truth'; he also attended the grand opening of his film in the prestigious Amsterdam Tuschinski film theatre and introduced his film there. All of this would not have happened without YOU. I (I am the founder -in 1982- and director of a small environmental communication agency near Amste ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, books (all these topics)

Media Shower: Game on!	Chris Schults	26 Jul 2006	Gristmill
I don't know if anyone else pays attention to the Google ads in Gristmill, but I just clicked on an ad for the game Xeko Mission: Madagascar and, wow, it sounds really cool! I'm all for creative ways of educating the public and this seems like a great way for families to learn about ecosystems. And speaking of gaming, I direct you to this New York Times article by Clive Thompson titled 'Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time'. Here's a taste: Video games have ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, green living, movies, video games (all these topics)

The Writing on the Wal-Mart Al Gore takes his green message to Wal-Mart headquarters	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Jul 2006	Muckraker
Picture Al Gore standing in a modest auditorium deep in America's heartland before an exultant crowd of Wal-Mart employees, comparing their campaign to lighten the company's environmental footprint to the Allies' righteous struggle in World War II. This after Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, likened the giant retailer's greening efforts to the wo ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, business, climate, Muckraker, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

The new trailer for An Inconvenient Truth	David Roberts	12 Jul 2006	Gristmill

Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Scientists: Gore is right	David Roberts	27 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Ah, so the MSM isn't useless after all! This AP story by my beloved Seth Borenstein is just delicious: WASHINGTON - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. But wait! What do conservative op-ed writers think about it? Where's the balance, Borenstein? And just to further tickle me, we get this little jab at the end: While more than 1 million people hav ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Interview with Lawrence Bender	David Roberts	09 Jun 2006	Gristmill
There's an interesting interview with Lawrence Bender, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, on TruthDig today.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

It's that kind of movie	Adam Browning	08 Jun 2006	Gristmill
A friend sent this email -- her review of An Inconvenient Truth -- at 1:18 AM last night.Dearest Friends, Tonight I watched Al Gore's new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and I was so tremendously moved by it, that I was compelled to write to you all. As a bleeding heart liberal/ lifelong environmentalist, going into this movie I thought, "This will be interesting, but I've probably seen and heard much of it before." In fact, I even thought, hey, if ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Under the Covers: An Inconvenient Truth Gore's new book is full of truths, pretty pictures	Sarah van Schagen	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
I hold in my hand a copy of Al Gore's new book An Inconvenient Truth. Though subtitled 'The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it,' this is not the photo-less, textbookish, only-a-few-graphs-and-charts-to-save-you from the sea-of-endless-sentences-and-paragraphs-of-boring-text that you might have (and I definitely) expected. This is a coffee-table book, people! There are pretty, pretty pictures! And fonts large enough for crotchety Aunt ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, books (all these topics)

Kyle Smith's review of An Inconvenient Truth	David Roberts	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
In the right-wing tabloid New York Post, movie critic Kyle Smith has a review of An Inconvenient Truth that virtually defies mockery. It almost invites sympathy. Right off the bat, there's this: But there is wide disagreement about whether humans are causing global warming (climate change preceded the invention of the Escalade) and about whether we should be worried about the trends. Um, no there isn't. His implication that he is our only hope ... is rid ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

The Truth Is Out There An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
The Truth Is Out There An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today Having proved a hit in its limited run, An Inconvenient Truth -- the documentary about Al Gore's quest to raise public consciousness of global warming -- opens in wide release today. For better or worse, the nation's chattering classes will view the movie's reception as a barometer of public interest in the issue. We're just say ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news (all these topics)

An Inconvenient Truth opens today	David Roberts	02 Jun 2006	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today. Go see it. Take your friends.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

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