Tag: Animations
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Shloppity Shlop! Here Comes Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax"
The Once-ler, a clear-cutting industrial polluter. Images courtesy of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures The Lorax, champion of the environment, is coming to the big screen in an animated 3D (or rather "Tree-D") movie featuring Danny
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How to Be and Who Is Green at Primavera Sound (or any other) Festival
Alright, staying at home and listing to music online would have much less impact on the planet, no doubt, but there is something about some 100.000 people getting together during 3 days to enjoy the latest (and not so latest; Pulp and Nick Cave are
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What Could the Oil Spilled in the Gulf Have Been Used For? Animated Video Explores the Answer
Chris Harmon, an animation artist and designer, wondered that question—what would the estimated 100-180 million gallons of oil be used for, if it hadn't been spilled into the Gulf? Harmon says he spent a month
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"Nuclear Boy" Video Explains Japan Radiation Crisis With Poo
For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things up. That's precisely why Nuclear Boy was created in the
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TEEB Little Things by Lawrence Chen (Video)
This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called "Little Things" by Lawrence Chen. I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you
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11 Best Holiday Movies and Their Subtle Green Messages (Slideshow)
You might not realize it when you watch them again and again year after year, but some classic holiday films are sending messages above and beyond 'don't be a Scrooge.'
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Spread the Word on Prop 23 With These Compelling Videos From SHFT
When Adrian Grenier and I founded SHFT.COM we made a deliberate choice to be apolitical. Our mission was to position sustainable ideas and designs and focus on the
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11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages (Video Slideshow)
While some of your favorite childhood cartoons came with a pretty obvious green message -- "Captain Planet," anyone? -- other animations go for a more subtle impact. From the animal testing in "The Secret of NIMH"
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11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages
You can learn a lot from cartoons -- even when you don't know it -- and those lessons go beyond sharing and caring to imparting important information about pollution, deforestation, vegetarianism, and other environmental issues. But while some of them are
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7 Lessons Learned from Toy Story 3
If you thought the Toy Story movies were about overcoming differences to become friends, then you missed some of the more subtle lessons: That stocking your kid's toy room can be an exercise in sustainable, eco-friendly choices
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It's So Hard to Be Good! John Altschuler, Executive Producer of The Goode Family
For thirteen seasons, King of the Hill cast its lens on a conservative, red meat-loving, pickup-truck driving Texas family. John Altschuler, along with Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge (the team also responsible for Beavis and Butthead and the film Office
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Heath Ledger's Green Music VIdeo, Lady Gaga's No-Fur Policy, and More
The Heath Ledger-directed Modest Mouse video for "King Rat," released Tuesday, follows the animated adventures of a ship helmed by whales on the hunt for humans--harpoons and all.Ledger developed the video to draw attention to
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High Tech Dinosaur Show in Itself a Dinosaur
The Low-Tech times reports on a novel self-recursive high-tech dinosaur show touring the globe that appears to be more enviro-trouble than it's worth. First, click the link and endure the crazy high bandwidth site design that
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Blast From the Past: Captain Planet
The captain is back, and yes, he's as cheesy, not to mention dated—hello Soviet Union!—as we remember. THE POWER IS YOURS...to watch episodes online at Mother Nature Network.More
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The Totoro Forest Project Art Exhibition In San Francisco
Yesterday, when I wrote about Satoyama, I was delighted to discover the Totoro Forest Project Art Exhibition in San Francisco. What a wonderful idea - animators, anime artists and designers who
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Incredibly Beautiful PS3 Game Connects Players to Plants (video)
A new game for the Playstation 3 has players fly through meadows as a gust of wind in a flower's dream. The goal is to carry petals to other flowers in order to progress to the next level. But the higher goal is to appreciate the
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Green Theme At International Manga Summit In Kyoto, Japan
In Kyoto, Japan, the 9th International Manga Summit was held on September 6-8, 2008 and the main theme for this convention was "Environmental Innovation". Those in charge of the summit note:
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Cool Animated Video: Humans As Virus
Humans as a viral infection of earth. Some of you may have suspected that already. Let's hope it is an adolescent thingy that Earth will recover from soon, to live a long and prosperous further life. Let's hope
