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It’s no time for change, says ad from Gingrich’s group 3
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago
The people who brought you the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” energy plan have launched a new TV ad opposing the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, or, as the new 30-second spot calls it, the “national energy tax.”
Lazy Eye

Can a lazy environmentalist really change the world? 6
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Lazy Environmentalist Josh Dorfman is dedicated to cutting out the typical green-minded guilt-trip crap and helping people find eco-solutions that not only fit their lifestyles but improve them.
Same Batshit Channel

The digital TV conversion is here—are you e-ready? 2
Posted 1 month ago
All TV broadcasts have now gone digital. Here's how to green your transition.
Goode Will

George Will hates greens, cartoons ... and shopping 4
Posted 1 month ago
Noted Post crank says Mike Judge's show is just the smack in the face our current "chorus" of planet-savers needs.
Must-see TV on ABC tonight — “Earth 2100: Is this the Final Century of our Civilization? 3
Posted 1 month ago
Tonight at 9 pm Eastern on ABC, “Bob Woodruff explores what might be the worst case scenario for civilization.”
The Importance of Being Unearnest

Liberals aren’t laughing at Mike Judge’s new show, but not for the reason you think 15
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
The animated eco-satire The Goode Family premiered last night, and got blasted by the press. Is it because, as some are suggesting, the press is full of liberal elites who can't laugh at themselves? Or is it because the show just ain't funny?
America's other first family

Lessons in fast-food greenwashing from The Simpsons 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sunday's episode of the Simpsons begins with a wickedly good greenwashing story.
Ad-ing to the chorus

‘Jobs of the Future’ ad pressures GOP to support climate bill 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The progressive group Americans United for Change unveiled a new TV ad today that seeks to put pressure on Republicans to support President Obama’s energy plan.
Michael Pollan defends food on Colbert Report 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Interior Sec. on Daily Show 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A Moranic Idea

Memo: Climate change denier wants to give you instant on-air ‘balance’ 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Say you're a harried cable news producer with 24 gaping hours to fill with finished material every day of the week. Say you're constantly in need of articulate guests to offer a diversity of viewpoints. How do you do it? One way is to take up offers from climate denialist Marc Morano. Here's the invitation he recently sent out.
It's all goode

“The Goode Family,” a new cartoon, makes enviros cringe 19
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
"The Goode Family" is an animated caricature of every Whole-Foods-shopping, hybrid-driving, African-orphan-adopting, vegan-dog-having do-gooder you've ever met. Watch the trailer.
Auto-Tune the News: Katie Couric on arctic sea ice 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Sound the alarm

Frontline explores “Poisoned Waters” of Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
PBS' Frontline tomorrow night reflects on the state of the nation's waterways some three decades after the Clean Water Act. "Poisoned Waters" airs April 21 at 9 p.m.
Map to the future

PBS’ Planet Forward brings a new kind of show to explore new kinds of energy 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
For Planet Forward premier, host Frank Sesno creates a rapid-fire cable-news-paced disusssion that succeeds in being both informative and civil. (Why hasn’t anyone else though of that?)
Furadan shame

U.S. corporation poisoning Africa’s lions 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon this weekend on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan to Kenya, where it's being used to poison lions, leading to an 85 percent drop in their population.
Did you know Alice Waters invented the slow food movement!? 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
On the greenness of Jimmy Fallon’s set 0
Posted 4 months ago
All Set

Umbra on LCD vs. plasma TVs 5
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Resolution Will Be Digitized

Umbra on the digital conversion 4
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago