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Frosty the No Man
Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies (all these topics) |
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An environmental A to Z for 2006
The year, alphabetically |
Kit Stolz |
29 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| When it comes to global warming and the environment, everything seemed to change in 2006 -- at least in terms of public awareness. Here's an A-to-Z accounting of just some of those changes: A is for An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's scientific but surprisingly human documentary on the threat of climate change, which was expected to take in at most $6-7 million at the box office but went on to gross over $45 million, the biggest documentary of the year and the thi ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, biofuels, energy, green living, James Hansen, Kyoto Protocol, lists, movies, politics (all these topics) |
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Cut the crap: The Meatrix 2.5
Moopheus and the gang partner with 'Fast Food Nation' |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| They've seen the family farm become a factory farm. They've learned the truth about industrial dairy facilities. And now they're trying to escape the perils of a meatpacking plant. They are Leo, Moopheus, and Chickity, the animated stars of a series of short films by Free Range Studios and nonprof Sustainable Table. This latest version of the Matrix spoofs is Meatrix II½, and this time, they've partnered with Fast Food Nation to promote the film and help raise awa ... |
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| Topics: food, movies, vegetarianism and veganism, video (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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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. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Food for thought: A short review of <cite
The film opens nationwide Friday |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Image: © Fox Searchlight Find out what author Eric Schlosser has to say about the film.I wasn't sure what to expect when I sat down in the mostly empty theater for the press screening of Fast Food Nation last month. The book is fascinating ... but fact-heavy and not character-driven. I knew this movie was a narrative, following the lives of fictional workers producing (and marketing and serving and eating) food at fictional fast-food chain 'Mickey's.' I had se ... |
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| Topics: food, movies (all these topics) |
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Show Time
A green-carpet report from the Environmental Media Awards |
Yolanda Crous |
10 Nov 2006 |
Main Dish |
| I adore pop culture. I live for the environment. But I rarely have a chance to indulge my two obsessions at the same time. So when I was invited to cover the Environmental Media Awards, I did an Ashlee Simpson-esque jig. Fashion! Hybrids! Great hair! Really, could a gossip-rag-reading, E!-network-loving enviro ask for anything more? (Well, maybe Britney Spears on my Us Weekly Fantasy League team, but ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, movies, TV (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, insanity, movies, parenting (all these topics) |
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The Moral of the Story
A review (and a preview) of the documentary The Great Warming |
Kate Sheppard |
30 Oct 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| The Great Warming aims to do what other climate-change books, TV shows, and films haven't. In lieu of purely scientific or data-based persuasion, it appeals to viewers' sense of spiritual and moral responsibility. On that level, it succeeds. Debuting in American theaters on Nov. 3 but already making the rounds in the country's churches, the film takes regular folks and lets them ... |
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| Topics: climate, God and the Environment, green living, movies, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Hybrid placement
Prius makes an appearance in Last Kiss |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| So I've just returned home from a showing of Last Kiss, the new Zach Braff flick -- which, PS, pales next to Garden State -- and I'm excited to report that not only does Braff's character drive a Prius throughout the movie, but the car actually gets mentioned in the first two lines. As the film begins, the lens is focused knee-height at a number of women (with very nice legs) walking at a crosswalk. The camera then pans up very slowly to focus on the front of a bl ... |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, electric vehicles, hybrids, movies, Prius (all these topics) |
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Fast Food Nation: the movie
Check out the trailer for the biggest food politics movie, well, ever |
Tom Philpott |
05 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Eric Schlosser is serious about raising maximum hell with the fast-food industry. He's got a new book aimed at deprogramming kids from their burger, fries, and a Coke fetish (reviewed here). And now he's somehow managed to get a big-studio fictional movie made based on his classic book Fast Food Nation. Check out the trailer: Traffic meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Food politics goes Hollywood. Wow. I've met several young people who claim that Morgan Spurlock's ... |
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| Topics: books, food, movies (all these topics) |
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Something Fishy: An interview with film director Alan De Herrera
The documentary filmmaker talks about his film on California sea lions |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Avast, mateys! 'Tis been too long since me last post. The good ship Something Fishy, she been a'travelin' far and wide to find ye the juiciest sea-worthy stories yet untold. This week, I introduce you to Alan De Herrera, a documentary filmmaker whose latest work, Sea Lions: An Unforgettable Encounter, delves deep into the lives of California sea lions. Circus veterans for more than a century, California sea lions are entertaining animals, and as a result, are on ... |
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| Topics: interview, movies, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Electric Car director on Daily Show
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David Roberts |
04 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, appeared on The Daily Show last night, and did pretty well.Video below the fold. |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, movies, TV (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: Game on!
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, green living, movies, video games (all these topics) |
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The new trailer for An Inconvenient Truth
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David Roberts |
12 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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EMA Awards 2006: Call for entries
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Chris Schults |
30 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| The Environmental Media Association is seeking entries for their Sixteenth Annual Environmental Media Awards. (You might recall that Vanessa McGrady covered last year's event for Grist.) Categories include: Feature Film Made for TV Movie Television Episodic Comedy Television Episodic Drama Reality Program (New!) Children's TV Program: Animated & Live Action Daytime Soap Opera (New!) Documentary: Short (under 45 minutes) Documentary: Feature (over 45 m ... |
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| Topics: innovation, movies, TV (all these topics) |
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Scientists: Gore is right
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Interview with Lawrence Bender
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David Roberts |
09 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| There's an interesting interview with Lawrence Bender, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, on TruthDig today. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Electric car questions
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David Roberts |
09 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Tomorrow I'll be chatting with the folks behind Who Killed the Electric Car? (I saw it this evening -- it's quite good.)Any questions y'all would like me to ask? |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, movies (all these topics) |
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It's that kind of movie
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Kyle Smith's review of An Inconvenient Truth
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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The Truth Is Out There
An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news (all these topics) |
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An Inconvenient Truth opens today
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David Roberts |
02 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide today. Go see it. Take your friends. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Blah blah Pollan interview blah
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David Roberts |
31 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Dozens of emails flagged. More than 15 tabs open in Firefox. Well over 100 unread entries in the "green" folder of my RSS reader. These signs all point to one fact: I'm a bad, bad blogger. I'll try to catch up a little tomorrow. Do check out my interview with Michael Pollan. He's a smart cookie, and honestly one of the best pure prose stylists in the non-fiction world, IMO. And here's a question for you: the interview we published is 2,000 words, roug ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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