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State Farm pulls bike-bashing ad	David Roberts	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Remember that stupid ad from State Farm, where the natty professional laments that gas prices have gotten so high he's been forced -- gasp -- to ride a bike to work? Oh, the humiliation. Well, apparently the hubbub about the ad got so heated that it made its way back to State Farm. In response, they have pulled the ad. Streetsblog has the details, and deserves credit for generating the kind of blowback that might make the next big corporation think twice before dispa ...
Topics: bikes, cars, green living, placemaking, TV (all these topics)

'State Farm can get you back behind the wheel'	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Witness the humiliation as this distinguished professional is forced to ... my God, I can barely say it ... ride a bike to work. Do something, State Farm! Anything! "You know that place where you're swapping four wheels for two? Oh, man, I'm there." Says Streetsblog: "Yeah, I know that place. It's called a city." UPDATE: State Farm has pulled the ad.
Topics: bikes, cars, green living, placemaking, TV (all these topics)

Van Jones on Colbert Report	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Am I the only one who just doesn't much like the Colbert Report? The interviews, especially. Colbert always comes off like a dickhead -- that's his shtick -- but the guests are in a catch-22 as well. They look bad if they play along and bad if they try to play it straight. It just ends up being awkward and conveying virtually no information. Why bother? Jon Stewart is a notorious pitcher of softballs, but at least he actually tries to engage his guests.
Topics: air pollution, business, economy, funnies, green jobs, solar voltaic power, TV, Van Jones (all these topics)

Luda v. Lee Rapper, rocker compete in eco-reality show	Sarah van Schagen	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Rapper Ludacris and rocker Tommy Lee will be teaming up for a new eco-reality series called Battleground Earth. Together, the motley crew (!) will compete in various challenges aimed at highlighting green issues -- though the show is actually 'designed to emphasize entertainment over eco-preaching.' Hmm ... ya think?
Topics: celebrity, green living, music, TV (all these topics)

Value Advertised Gore-y climate ads are coming soon to a TV near you		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:11 PM on 01 Apr 2008 While it is not true that Al Gore is running for president (honestly, how do these rumors get started?), it is true that his Alliance for Climate Protection has officially launched a new "we" campaign. The ad campaign aims to spend $300 million over three years to create a sense of both urgency and solvability around the climate crisis. The first ad hits TVs on Wednesday, likening the ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, messaging, news, politics, TV (all these topics)

Al Gore's got some big bucks Thoughts on the newly announced 'we' campaign	Jon Rynn	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
So Al Gore announced a $300 million 3-year effort 'aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.' My question is, wouldn't it be better to spend that money on building grassroots organizations pushing for climate change legislation instead of spending it mostly, I presume, on advertising? If $100 million was spent each year on grassroots organizations in 30 major cities, that would work out to $3 million per each major metr ...
Topics: environmental movement, celebrity, business, politics, TV, Al Gore (all these topics)

Urgency and solvability: The "we" campaign Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection unveils ambitious $300 million ad campaign	David Roberts	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If you read Juliet Eilperin's great rundown in the Washington Post, you know that today marks the launch of a massive PR effort from Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. Gore has concluded that U.S. politicians will continue to be timid on climate change until the public demands otherwise. "The simple algorithm is this: It's important to change the light bulbs, but it's much more important to change the laws," he said. "The options available to ...
Topics: Al Gore, business, celebrity, climate, environmental movement, messaging, politics, TV (all these topics)

How I met your popster Clothing from Britney's guest role to be auctioned for NRDC	Sarah van Schagen	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Fallen popstar Britney Spears has a guest starring role on tonight's episode of How I Met Your Mother. And despite evidence that would predict otherwise, reviews suggest she pulls off the role fairly well. After the show, she'll be pulling off her clothes ...For charity, that is. Her wardrobe from the appearance -- including a navy print Juicy Couture dress, a yellow Nannette Lepore dress, and a cream Nannette Lepore cardigan with blue flower details -- will be p ...
Topics: green living, fashion, celebrity, NRDC, TV (all these topics)

Grist in space Do humans deserve to find life on other planets?	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
An explosion in our ability to detect planets in other solar systems has made astronomers increasingly confident that it's only a matter of time until we discover life on other planets. Astronomers just discovered methane on a planet 63 light-years from Earth -- a sign that life just might exist. Here's what Carl B. Pilcher, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, said following the discovery in this fascinating Washington Post article by Marc Kaufman. There ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, TV (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow? 'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Remember those 'downer' cows that got forced through the kill line and into the food supply in California's Westland/Hallmark beef-packing plant -- the ones caught on tape by the Humane Society of the United States? Rest assured, friends -- that was an isolated incident. Thus USDA assures us in a recent interview. Only ... not so much. For those who want to believe that downers ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Shouldn't those have been red colorless, odorless balloons? Competitive Whining, er, Enterprise Institute bashes Gore with all they've got	Sir Oolius	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A short while ago, Sir Oolius received a fundraising email from the Competitive Enterprise Institute asking for donations to help them with their new raison d'etre: yelling 'FU, Al Gore!' as loudly and as often as possible. The fruits of this effort are now upon us in the form of a national ad whining campaign: If carbon = life, then Al Gore ...Since it's Friday, here's another gem that's too bad even for the CWI to attempt to air nationally:
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, Competitive Enterprise Institute, TV (all these topics)

Nader on Stewart	David Roberts	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I missed this when it happened, but here's Ralph Nader on the Daily Show:
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, Ralph Nader, TV (all these topics)

Oh, goody! A book! The Business & Media Institute's new but not particularly special report	Sir Oolius	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm sure there's at least a chapter devoted to the two decades of TV broadcasts in which, no matter how irrelevant the context, the words 'global' or 'climate' or 'change' or 'warm' were inextricably linked to the words 'scientists disagree.' No? Instead, they offer us John Coleman's Medienkritik: Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism. 'The We ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, TV (all these topics)

Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA, on Stephen Colbert	David Roberts	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I don't think she says 10 words through this whole thing:
Topics: animal welfare, TV (all these topics)

The Mustache on David Letterman	David Roberts	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
David Letterman is a national treasure. And, not for the first time, I ask you to marvel at the ability of Tom Friedman to generate a memorable aphorism for literally any point he's trying to make. He's like a savant or something: (thanks LL!)
Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, TV (all these topics)

Tina Fey: 'Bitch is the new black'	David Roberts	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If you watch to the end of this, you'll find a spirited defense of Hillary Clinton. I was recently scolded for only posting Obama videos, but the thing is, all the interesting/funny videos this campaign have been from Obama supporters. I'm glad Tina Fey (who I worship) helped me balance the scales. Now, somebody send me a decent McCain video and I'll post it! Here's Fey:
Topics: celebrity, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, TV (all these topics)

Bruce Almighty An interview with green designer and TV personality John Bruce	Sarah van Schagen	29 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
John Bruce is living in a material world. But he's no cone-chested pop star -- he's a green designer. A green designer who, during the course of an hour-long conversation, speaks excitedly about various eco-building materials, professing his love for natural clay plaster and calling sunflower-seed-based particle board "super beautiful." He even credits his love of such materia ...
Topics: green building, green living, green products, interview, TV (all these topics)

Bam!	Sarah van Schagen	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
TV chef Emeril Lagasse kicks it up a notch.
Topics: TV, food (all these topics)

Journey to the bottom of the Earth CBS airs final segment of Antarctica series tonight	Katy Balatero	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
CBS has been televising a series this week on climate change impacts in Antarctica. Monday's broadcast spotlighted how climate change has affected Adelie penguin populations. The segment last night focused on scientific research in Antarctica and what it might mean for our understanding of global warming (see video below). You can tune in tonight at 6:30 pm EST to find out about waste and recycling issues in our least-inhabited continent.
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, recycling, scientific research, TV, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

The sound of one awards show greening Grammys go green(ish)	Sarah van Schagen	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Between a late-night dinner with a friend and finally watching Thursday's taped episode of Lost, I caught about five minutes of last night's Grammy Awards show (the five minutes of Brad Paisley singing "I'd like to check you for ticks ..." -- a strangely compelling song). But I was pleased this morning to see that the Grammys celebrated their 50th anniversary by going green for the first time. By partnering with the NRDC and others, the Recording Academy ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, music, TV (all these topics)

Turn on your TV today National Geographic's 'Six Degrees Could Change The World'	Joseph Romm	10 Feb 2008	Gristmill
I haven't read the book -- who has time? Oh, but TV or a YouTube video -- well, that's another matter: This Sunday, February 10th at 8pm EST on the National Geographic Channel, 'Six Degrees Could Change The World,' which offers a hypothetical look at how the world might change, degree by degree, if we don't curtail our emissions:At One Degree, the world will experience a new American desert, massive coral bleaching, and lost Australian rainforests. At Two Degr ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, TV (all these topics)

Planeteers in heaven Live-action Captain Planet film a no-go	Sarah van Schagen	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Dear children of the '80s,I heard a rumor last week that Warner Bros. studio had announced a live-action film version of the '90s cartoon series Captain Planet and was planning to release it in late 2009. Captain Planet, you say? Why, he's our hero! (Wasn't he gonna take pollution down to zero?)Sadly, though, I must report that I then contacted the Warner folks (and their bros) and found out that this rumor is, in fact, "untrue." I know, I know. I too am ...
Topics: green living, movies, TV (all these topics)

Idiot protest or brilliant parody?	David Roberts	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
I got a strange PR release today that sent me to this. I've read it over pretty closely and I still can't tell whether it's intended to be parody. If it is parody, it's quite clever -- really nails the self-righteousness arms race underway in the eat-your-own faction of the green movement. If it is serious, it may rank as the stupidest environmental protest ever, and that is against some fairly stiff competition.
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, TV (all these topics)

The bright side of the demise of TV programming Hollywood writers strike a blow for the climate	Joseph Romm	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Okay, you're annoyed you can't watch 24, or a full season of House or The Office -- and yes, The Daily Show is kind of lame these days. But on the bright side, as a U.K. Times headline notes: Viewers turned off by Hollywood writers strike 'may never switch TV on again.' Yet, as is so typical of the MSM, they completely missed the real story: the connection to global warming. Turning TVs off equals using less electricity equals emitting less carbon dioxide. ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, green living, TV (all these topics)

The Green Life goes on Sexy green Adrian Grenier to host new eco-show	Sarah van Schagen	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Mmm ...[Entourage star and �ber-hottie Adrian] Grenier has recently inked a deal with the Discovery Channel to star in a 13-episode series tentatively titled The Green Life, in which he'll travel the country -- presumably by patchouli-powered hybrid bus or something equally irritating -- and dole out advice about how regular folks can remodel their homes in an ecologically friendly manner. Um, I'm a "regular folks," Adrian! And you can green my lif ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics)

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