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TV goes green
Global warming 'insurmountable' without Heroes! |
Joseph Romm |
01 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| So the fall season has begun and, as expected, shows from Boston Legal to Moonlight are going green -- even William Shatner got into the act. I'd be very interested in hearing from readers if any of their favorite shows had a green element. In the opening voiceover of the second season opener, genetics professor Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) says that humanity's problems, including global warming, are "insurmountable" without our Heroes. Shades of T ... |
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| Topics: climate, TV (all these topics) |
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Curses, Oiled Again
Chevron ad says renewables are great, oil is greater |
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28 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 12:14 PM on 28 Sep 2007 A new TV commercial on energy and the environment debuts this weekend. The swooping camera shots of glaciers and freeways will be familiar, but the voice-over may not: "Our lives demand oil." Yes, the 2.5-minute spot, airing in eight languages around the globe, is an effort by Chevron to urge humanity to seek out alternative energy -- while continuing to cling to fossil fuels. Aim ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, greenwashing, news, TV (all these topics) |
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Friday night sights
Tune in to the Live Earth Concert Special tonight |
Sarah van Schagen |
28 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A CliffsNotes version of the summer's 24-hour eco-music event will air tonight on MyNetworkTV. The two-hour "Live Earth -- The Concert Special" promises clips of the hottest performances from the seven-continent concert for a climate in crisis -- as well as tips for making eco-changes in your daily life. Check MyNetworkTV for local airtimes and channels. |
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| Topics: climate, music, TV (all these topics) |
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Bill Moyers on the legacy of Rachel Carson
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David Roberts |
24 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| You can watch the whole episode here. |
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| Topics: environmental movement, TV (all these topics) |
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Channel surfing summary
One show for dumb guys and one for smart guys |
biodiversivist |
23 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I channel surf (I'm a guy). I find something of interest and as soon as a commercial hits, I move on. I landed on Keith Olbermann's show, Countdown, just as he was launching into Bush. I sat there shaking my head in awe. When Olbermann lets loose, he is intelligent, courageous, and articulate -- the polar opposite of Glenn Beck, the smarmy bobblehead clown who also has a show that attempts to mix humor with news. One show is funny, the other comical. There's a differe ... |
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| Topics: politics, TV (all these topics) |
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Hey ...
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David Roberts |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ... did you hear that Al Gore won an Emmy? After the Nobel Peace Prize, what's left for the guy to win? |
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| Topics: Al Gore, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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Green with Emmy
A look at the Emmy's eco-efforts |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The carpet may still have been red at the Emmy Awards last night, but the entire production definitely had a tinge of green. As reported in Grist List on Friday, the event included a solar panel canopy over the grandstands outside, hybrid and alternative-fuel vehicles for transporting stars, locally grown and/or organic food in the catering areas, and a red carpet made from recycled plastic bottles. A short video clip from the show explains how Emmy organize ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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America's Next Green Model
ANTM models green advice |
Sarah van Schagen |
12 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The fact that I watch America's Next Top Model (it's fierce, y'all!) is no secret. But it looks like this season all that pointing and laughing and catty-remarking will be work-related. That's right, even ANTM is going green. (Should we call it ANGM now?) From Entertainment Weekly: [T]he fashion color this season is ... green! And not just for envy. "The transportation was a 'green' car with biodiesel fuel. The house went green not only aesthetically b ... |
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| Topics: fashion, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Colbert does the Borg
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David Roberts |
11 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lomborg never stood a chance: |
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| Topics: books, climate, energy, funnies, TV (all these topics) |
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Moyers on MTR
'Bill Moyers Journal' on religious resistance to mountaintop-removal mining |
Lisa Hymas |
06 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The upcoming episode of Bill Moyers Journal reports on evangelical Christians in West Virginia who are fighting against the scourge of mountaintop-removal mining. Check PBS listings for airtimes in your 'hood. This episode follows up on a 2006 Moyers special, Is God Green?. Our own David Roberts interviewed Moyers about it last year. Have you submitted a public comment yet about the Bush admin's proposed rule change that will clear the way for still more MTR ... |
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| Topics: mining, TV, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Living off the landfill
British reality show dumps participants into a trash-heap of trouble |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is an interesting concept for a reality show: Eleven unsuspecting volunteers are left marooned on one of Britain's biggest landfill sites for three weeks. Their challenge? To survive off the rubbish the rest of us have thrown out. How will they react when they are delivered to a huge, smelly British landfill site instead of paradise? And, how will our volunteers cope when brought face to face with the sheer scale of the typical British landfill? ... |
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| Topics: TV, United Kingdom, waste (all these topics) |
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Colbert on the Northern Passage
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David Roberts |
27 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Funny: |
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| Topics: Arctic, funnies, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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The Real World: Hollywood goes green
Sign me up |
Sarah van Schagen |
13 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in an energy-efficient house, work together, and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting green.From the press release [PDF]:The Real World house will include everything from solar energy solutions to bamboo flooring, recycled glass counters, some sustainable furniture and recycled vintage décor, energy star appliances, a solar heated swimming pool a ... |
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| Topics: green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Cane: the cellulosic Godfather
A new series pivots around ethanol |
David Roberts |
13 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Randomly, last night I caught the debut episode of the new CBS series Cane. It's about the Duque family, a Cuban-American clan in both the sugar and rum businesses in South Florida. At the outset of the show, the Duque's long-time rivals, the Samuels -- a drawling family of white Southerners -- offer to buy up their sugar fields, claiming that the sugar business is slow and the real action is on the rum side. "We'll do sugar; you do rum." Family patriarch ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, TV (all these topics) |
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Raising the next generation of consumers
TV watching inhibits learning |
JMG |
09 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Neil Postman and Jerry Mander have said that educational TV is a fraud for decades -- what you learn watching television is how to watch television. Period. The conceit of 'educational TV' is the same one that sells 'eat all you like' diet books and 'think yourself rich' plans to fools: the idea of something for nothing (someone else, smarter than you, will handle raising your kids -- just pop in the video). You learn to be human by interacting with humans, not applia ... |
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| Topics: green living, parenting, TV (all these topics) |
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The Daily Show makes a meal of Cape Wind opponents
Watch a video outlining the conflict over this wind farm |
Erik Hoffner |
08 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| "Nantucket Sound, blessed with a vast diversity of native life ... " Update, 11 Sep 2007: The video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc., unfortunately. |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, TV, wind power (all these topics) |
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Romm on the policy and politics of global warming
Watch him on 'OnPoint' |
Sean Casten |
08 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Very good piece here from E&ETV ($ub req'd). Worth the time to watch. Description:CAP's Joseph Romm calls conservatives 'deniers and delayers' on warming policy Author and Center for American Progress senior fellow Joseph Romm says if aggressive action on climate change is not taken soon, the effects on the planet will be dire. In his new book, Hell and High Water: Global Warming -- the Solution and the Politics -- and What We Should Do, Romm explains why he think ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, TV (all these topics) |
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The most trusted name in news
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David Roberts |
01 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Eric Boehlert wonders why, when anchors and hosts with better ratings get fired for ... poor ratings, CNN continues to promote Glenn Beck, who has, among other things, spoken glowingly of the John Birch Society and compared Al Gore to Hitler. |
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FOX News on global warming
Wrong |
David Roberts |
01 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From here: |
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| Topics: climate, TV (all these topics) |
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Jack Bauer is going to stop global warming
The TV show 24 will reduce its carbon footprint |
Chris Schults |
27 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Fans of 24 know that if there's one person that can stop climate change, it ain't Al Gore. It's Jack Bauer. If you are not familiar with Jack, here are some of his qualifications from the site Random Jack Bauer Facts: There are two hands that can beat a royal flush. Jack Bauer's right hand and Jack Bauer's left hand. Most people would need months to recover from 20 months of Chinese interrogation. Jack Bauer needs a shower, a shave and a change of clothes. ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, ecological footprint, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy, TV (all these topics) |
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Fox attacks the environment; I do a poor job defending it
Videos for your viewing pleasure, if that's the word for it |
David Roberts |
12 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Film director Robert Greenwald has been producing a series of videos exposing Fox News as a propaganda arm of the far right wing (is "exposing" the right word when everyone already knows it?), under the rubric Fox Attacks. The latest in the series is Fox Attacks: The Environment, which is about Fox's hackery on the subject of global warming. Here it is: Accompanying the video is a campaign by a grassroots coalition to spread the word about Fox's environm ... |
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| Topics: climate, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics) |
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E.O. Wilson on Bill Moyers Journal this week
Check it out |
Kate Sheppard |
05 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| On Friday, Bill Moyers profiles E.O. Wilson on the latest edition of 'Bill Moyers Journal.' (The show is his new spot on PBS that started airing in late April, and happens to have the same name as his old show that stopped running in 1981.) Moyers talks to Wilson about subjects ranging from his work cataloging every living creature on earth to religion to his vision for facing climate change. Check out a preview: The show also includes an update on the work of th ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, messaging, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics) |
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Bruce Willis on David Letterman
He takes on global warming |
David Roberts |
26 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Funny? (via Hugg) |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, TV, wind power (all these topics) |
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Jon Stewart on the G8
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David Roberts |
09 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: G8, international politics, TV (all these topics) |
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The real McCoy
Law & Order ... in the ocean |
Andrew Sharpless |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Playing hard-nosed Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy, actor Sam Waterston has thrown the book at the bad guys for years on TV's Law & Order. Bad guys on boats and beaches better watch out now, too, because Waterston recently joined Oceana's Ocean Council, a panel of academic, business, and philanthropic leaders who represent and support Oceana's efforts on the global stage. Also on the Ocean Council are actors Pierce Brosnan and Kelsey Grammar. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, oceans, scientific research, TV (all these topics) |
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