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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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"2012" Is Back, This Time With Good News
That first movie "2012" was fairly dramatic and yet pretty much only scary until you exited the multiplex. It was just far-fetched enough to make you think it would never happen. Though playing off a similar idea - that some type of catastrophic
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PETA Names Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities, Punky Brewster Teams Up with Target, and More
For its tenth Sexiest Vegetarian awards, PETA looked to the small screen, singling out two of television's favorite characters: The Biggest Loser's Bob Harper and House's Olivia Wilde.Harper, who helps motivate and guide contestants
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Gulf Coast Telethon Draws Celebrity Support, Woody Harrelson Supports Tree-Free Paper, and More
If you've been wondering why Hollywood hasn't come out in full force to support the Gulf Coast in the wake of the BP oil spill, you're not alone: The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder (who you also know as Boone from Lost)
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Forced to Cut Back, One Die-Hard Bacon Lover Learns to See the Merit in a Bit of Moderation
In my social group of foreigners living in Istanbul, the high price of pork products -- unpopular eats in a predominantly Muslim country -- is a constant lament. But in the countries we hail from, according to the
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"Finding Nemo 2" Parody Posters Inspired by Oil Spill
If you thought the adventures of a wayward clownfish were heartwarming in Pixar's Finding Nemo, chances are you'd walk away from its imagined sequel a bit depressed. On the heels of the next installment of Toy Story, and
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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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Top Chefs Help Michelle Obama in the Garden, Pierce Brosnan Speaks Out for Whales, and More
Michelle Obama enlisted the help of chefs from around the country -- including Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, and Cat Cora -- for the next phase of her Let's Move! campaign, which is aimed at decreasing childhood obesity rates.
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The Cove Screenings Canceled in Japan as Protests Mount (Video)
After working diligently to raise money to translate The Cove into Japanese, and advocating like crazy to get it allowed into theaters in the country, the team behind the ground-breaking documentary is finding it is being met with little enthusiasm.
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Don Cheadle Named UN Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, Rue McClanahan Remembered, and More
Photo via The Urban Daily Don Cheadle, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role as hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, spent World Environment Day in the namesake country's Volcanoes National Park, where he announced the winning
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BP Can't Stop the Massive Oil Leak - Can Hollywood?
BP's attempts to stop the gushing oil geyser it unleashed upon the Gulf of Mexico have only sounded like Hollywood plot contrivances: Lower a giant 'top hat' over the leak! Let's go for operation: 'top kill" to blast the thing
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Save Tigers with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ask Jennifer Aniston to Kick Her Plastic Habit, and More
Photo via Examiner Leonardo DiCaprio -- who has his own environmental foundation, lends his voice to multiple documentaries, donates to the NRDC and other charities, and is developing his own eco-hotel in Belize -- has one more commitment to add to his
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Isabella Rossellini, The Green Porn Star
Ever since she was a child, legendary model and actress Isabella Rossellini has been fascinated and amused by animals and their intricate rituals. Wanting to share her passion with the world through film, she chose a premise no one can say no to. Sex.
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Mario Batali's Meatless Monday, Lauren Bacall's Student Aid, and More
If you think coming up with one meatless meal each Monday is hard enough for your family, then imagine what Mario Batali's up against: the celebrity chef (and Gwyneth Paltrow travel partner) has decided put at least two vegetarian
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The Truth and Fiction of Nature Documentaries
"The natural world on film has never looked better," Good writes, "Which, in a way, is a pity." While spectacular nature documentaries inspire people to preserve threatened wildland, they go on, these same films can lull viewers into
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Ben Stiller and Friends Help Haitian Schoolchildren, John Leguizamo Hits the Streets, and More
In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, actor Ben Stiller launched the Haitian School Initiative as part of his Stillerstrong campaign to build immediate, temporary education facilities for children displaced by the quake. He
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Is Pandora Possible? James Cameron's Home Tree Initiative
CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of
