Planet Green Tonight: G Word
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island 
on 06.11.08
Last week, our parent company, Discovery Communications, launched Planet Green, the first ever 24-7 TV channel dedicated to green living. With more than 200 hours of original green lifestyle programming, Planet Green is a fresh conversation about what it means to be environmental. We've been bringing you clips from the new shows and encourage you to use our channel finder so you can watch Planet Green in your home.
We've featured Wa$ted, Mean Green Machines, Hollywood Green, Renovation Nation, and Supper Club. Today we're bringing you the scoop on G Word. For those of you that have been following Planet Green you might be familiar with what it's all about since it premiered last week. We're sure you'll agree that being green is no longer just for granola-loving hippies. Or, shall we say (ahem) TreeHuggers?
“Green.” Does a day go by anymore without hearing the “G” word? But how do we apply it to our own lives? In Planet Green’s newest daily series, hosted by former MTV talent SuChin Pak, follow passionate, eco-leading experts who will give you the answers and show you real ideas that you can utilize across different categories: Home, Design, Gadgets, Food, Shopping, new Products, and Fashion. They’ll be out there probing, examining, questioning, and filling us in on the latest. This series is your one-stop center to truly help you make sense of all there is out there in the world of Green.
Forget what you think you know about what being green means and get ready for G Word...it's a lifestyle, an attitude, a state-of-mind, and it's shaking up the pop-culture landscape.
G Word airs tonight at 7:00PM only on Planet Green. To view the full lineup of Planet Green, visit the weekly schedule.
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I would be encouraged by this except for my sense that tree hugger supports policies that would worsen the wealth disparity problems in the United States and other countries. They seem to be pushing the idea that only high corporate profits will save the earth. I don't think so. You can bet Wal-Mart will be a major sponsor of the programing. Not something that will encourage non-biased programming. I would like to know who really owns Discovery Communications and what their true motivations are.
I would be encouraged by this except for my sense that tree hugger supports policies that would worsen the wealth disparity problems in the United States and other countries. They seem to be pushing the idea that only high corporate profits will save the earth. I don't think so. You can bet Wal-Mart will be a major sponsor of the programing. Not something that will encourage non-biased programming. I would like to know who really owns Discovery Communications and what their true motivations are.
Again, Green equates Green. Big Bucks! Here we have an opportunity to share with the world, however one must now upgrade thier programing. So it cost more to save. Someone please explain this more for less standard Americans have come to accept.
well, big business can be the change to a greener healthier life, and we can see that with companies like Organic and Natural Enterprise Group (or ONEgroup) an Australian based company who creates and manufactures Miessence the world's first Certified Organic skincare, haircare, personal care, health care and cosmetic products. independently certified to international food grade standards by some of the world's most respected organic certifying organisations, namely, Australian Certified Organic (ACO), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and IFOAM (Europe).
so if we support companies like this with our dollars, then big business might be forced to change their ways, and rather than cause destruction, they can support regeneration.
Our $ power is what makes big corporations big, so withholding our money from them, and demanding eco friendly products, they will have to sit up and listen, or go out of business.
also, don't forget, that the shareholders, everyday folks in the street, are demanding profits without caring what these corporations do to our planet
there are other wonderful eco companies like dr.bronners, who are totally committed to green products.put your money where your mouth is, and it may make the difference
I would love to see you do a section on the Stirling Engines and the new Sterling generators. I feel that this is the best advance in solving our electrical needs.
I just love your show, I am already hooked on it.
Thanks
I love Planet Green!!! BUT, the "green girls" on the "G Word" have got to go! They are classless, insipid idiots doing a lousey job of spreading an important message. They are not interesting, they are not funny and they don't pull off being knowledgable of the topics they cover.
Thank you.
Interesting to note all the air travel that takes place by the hosts and crew to go to distant places.
I'll buy that it does more good and bad though.
And yes, please try to curb the hippy vibe. It seriously detracts from the message. People who mean well but obviously are just spouting platitudes and often-incorrect conventional wisdom blur the message. Humanity is not just going to move into bamboo huts and eat leaves just because we can.
Real, large scale solutions that will actually make a difference will come from hard science and good engineering, not people who think an organic sticker means better. Often, it means worse, because the only reason people can do this whole "Organic" thing is because everyone else is being fed by normal farms with GM crops that are far more efficient in terms of space and yields. If all humanity tried to go "Organic" as currently touted, hundreds of millions at minimum would die.
Though that might go a long way towards that whole population issue, which is the real bull in the china shop that everyone seems to be ignoring. Funny how no one wants to talk about what we're going to do with 30 billion people who all want 4 kids and an American lifestyle.
The guy hosting this show needs to watch the network. In an episode I saw yesterday he was busy bragging about his recycling container in his own home. I fear that I am the only one who noticed that all of the recycling that he had collected was empty bottles of bottled water! SHAME! Perhaps filtering water from the tap would be wise before getting up on a soap box to preach conservation! The amount of water sitting on shelves in bottles is ridiculous. The fact that we spend energy bottling water and shipping it around the country makes no sense. Get with the program dude!