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15 Green Actors
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01 Jun 2007 |
Main Dish |
| See which actors made the Grist green spotlight, and then nominate your own picks in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Photo: Steve Granitz / WireImage Leonardo DiCaprio Once "king of the world," this star often flies commercially and drives himself around in a hybrid Toyota Prius. In 1998, he started the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to promote environmental causes. More recently, he's been working on 11th Hour, an environmental documentary fea ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, celebrity, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, lists, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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The Airing of 'The Green'
Robert Redford chats about the new green programming on the Sundance Channel |
Amanda Griscom Little |
17 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| The Airing of "The Green" Robert Redford chats about the new green programming on the Sundance Channel By Amanda Griscom Little 17 Apr 2007 Robert Redford. With his legendary Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford brought sex appeal to the business of independent filmmaking. Now, with his Sundance cable channel, he's aiming to do the same thing for another underappreciated art form -- eco-themed television programming. Tonight, the channel launches "The Green," a block of ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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The Sundance Green party
Green glitterati come out to toast new eco-programming on Sundance Channel |
Amanda Griscom Little |
13 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Look, Ma, Green's on TV!
Discovery and Sundance channels plot green programming |
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05 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Look, Ma, Green's on TV! Discovery and Sundance channels plot green programming Good news: soon you can be green without leaving your couch. Next year, Discovery Communications will start up an around-the-clock channel focused on eco-friendly living. The already-existent Discovery Home channel will be rebranded as Discovery PlanetGreen and beamed into 50 million homes, starting off with a series called "Ten Way ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Sundance: Robert Redford hates climate change
And other adventures in touching celebrities |
Kate Sheppard |
19 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Robert Redford, interview, green living, celebrity, movies (all these topics) |
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From Roberts to Redford
What's on our radar this week |
David Roberts, Sarah van Schagen |
28 Jul 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By David Roberts and Sarah van Schagen 28 Jul 2006 The Brockovich is back America's sweetheart (back off, Witherspoon!) Julia Roberts has agreed to serve as a spokes-star for clean-energy developers Earth Biofuels, joining fellow Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and country singer Willie Nelson. We're glad she's green and all, but still, let's hope she burned that unsettling sprite get-up from Vanity Fair. Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage.com Photo: Tesla Motors. Electric st ... |
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| Topics: green living, Grist List, lists, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Sundance Channel Green
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Chris Schults |
20 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Attention and Release
Democrats jockey for attention with their latest energy plans |
Amanda Griscom Little |
08 Jun 2006 |
Muckraker |
| As GOP leaders bluster about gay marriage, flag burning, and the "death tax," Democrats are struggling to get a word in edgewise about the bevy of proposals they've been drafting to address more substantive national concerns -- namely, soaring gas prices, dependence on oil from an increasingly volatile Middle East, and global warming. These are among the hot-button e ... |
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| Topics: Congress, energy, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, legislation, Muckraker, politics, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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The Revolution Will Be Localized
Sundance getaway converts mayors into climate activists |
Amanda Griscom Little |
14 Jul 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Salt Lake City played host to mayors getting up to speed on climate issues. City leaders from around the U.S. were treated to a rare bird's-eye view of the environment earlier this week at the Sundance Summit, a three-day mayors' retreat on climate change hosted by Robert Redford in Salt Lake City and at his 6,000-acre resort nestled beneath Utah's Mount Timpanogos, near ... |
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| Topics: Bill Richardson, climate, green living, local politics, Muckraker, politics, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Actual urgent message from Robert Redford goes unheeded
The Onion: funny. |
David Roberts |
12 Apr 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Who's the Greenest of Them All?
NRDC's new Santa Monica building may be the most eco-friendly in the U.S. |
Amanda Griscom |
25 Nov 2003 |
Powers That Be |
| Do you realize we are gathered in what must be the greenest building in the United States?" Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Frances Beinecke asked a crowd of well-scrubbed Californians gathered for the opening ceremony of the organization's new SoCal headquarters in Santa Monica. Swilling mimosas and nibbling croissants on the building' ... |
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| Topics: California, energy, green building, NRDC, renewable energy, Robert Redford, United States (all these topics) |
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Still the Sundance Kid
Robert Redford gets heated up about the Bush environmental agenda, clean energy, and more |
Amanda Griscom |
13 Nov 2003 |
Main Dish |
| He played the Sundance Kid, the sharpshooter sidekick to Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy in the 1969 classic; he built the Sundance Village in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah; he founded the Sundance Institute for independent film and theater production and established the Sundance Film Festival. But all the while, Robert Redford has been doing an altogether mo ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, interview, politics, Robert Redford, water pollution (all these topics) |
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All the Anti-president's Men
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14 May 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| All the Anti-president's Men Robert Redford, in a letter made public on Friday, has royally dissed an invitation from U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to attend a press event with her later this month to release a California condor into the wild. Norton invited Redford after learning that he was critical of her policies. She noted that he had starred in the 1975 thriller "Three Days of the Condor" and suggested that ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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