Tag: Movies - Page 11
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Hugh Hefner's Big Save, Oceana's Green Heroes, and More
We've been following the story of the fight to save Cahuenga Peak--home of the iconic Hollywood sign--for a few months now, ever since the Trust for Public Land called on some famous friends--Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson,
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James Cameron: Oil and Coal Lobbies Engaged in "Disinformation Campaign to Discredit Science"
Okay, so this is hardly news: it's been apparent for quite some time that coal and oil companies have been funding an ongoing campaign to confuse the public about climate science. Nothing revolutionary there; who would be surprised that
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Celebrities Speak Up for Dolphins, Stella McCartney Makes a Big Move, and More
The team behind The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary that explores the annual slaughter of 20,000 dolphins in Japan, have another outreach program in mind: They're collecting signatures on a petition to end the practice that they
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Don't Let the Earth Commit Suicide on Chatroulette (Video)
It's easy to be cynical about Earth Day. But it's not easy to create a cynical satire about Earth Day that involves Chatroulette. And yet that's what the ever-inventive folks over at Grist have done here, in this surprisingly charming video about an
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Brilliance of Octopus Inspires Filmmaker Mike deGruy To Save the Ocean (Video)
Some incredible talks have been coming out of TED's Mission Blue excursion, a trip to the Galapagos with some of the most brilliant ocean scientists and activists who gave talks about what's happening with our oceans.
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Jackson Browne Joins Mission Blue, the NRDC Honors Sheryl Crow, and More
Oceanographer and author Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize with a far-reaching wish: "to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the
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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity (Slideshow)
We love seeing celebrities use their influence for good--especially when it's for the green good. With their fame and star power, they can encourage fans to eat less meat, cut their consumption, and pay attention to what's
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Billions and Billions of 3D Glasses: Will Biodegradable Frames Discourage Reuse?
It is estimated that if the 42.1 million pairs of 3D glasses used at theaters to watch Avatar were laid end-to-end, they would stretch more than 3,987 miles. Avatar and Alice in
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Green Tips from the Cast of Glee, How to Celebrate Earth Day with the Stars, and More
With the smash hit Glee, about highs and lows of a high school choir, coming back to the airwaves on April 13, the singing, dancing cast has been showing up all over--and showing off their talent for making green choices.The
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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity
The beauty of culture is it's more a part of your life than you know. Artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers can use their fame and star power to get the green message out in their favorite medium, whether its on a Web site, Twitter feed, book page,
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Highlights from the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
After screening 155 films over the course of 12 days, the 18th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital ended last weekend. Grist recaps the highlights of the
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Hayden Panettiere Takes on Dolphin Hunters, Edward Norton Wants You in the Dark, and More
Actress and animal lover Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend, Wladimir Klitschko, returned this week to Taiji, the town where Oscar-winning documentary The Cove was filmed, for what the actress called "a peaceful and relaxed
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Avatar's DVD Release to be Environmentally Themed, Thanks to Climate Deniers
Perhaps agitated by the slew of conservatives who have criticized his action/fantasy movie Avatar--now the highest grossing film in history--as being anti-American eco propaganda, director James Cameron has returned fire. During a
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Annie Leonard Releases New Video on Story of Bottled Water for World Water Day
Today is World Water Day - a day to celebrate and become ever more savvy about this incredibly finite resource that we all have to have access to in order to survive. Annie Leonard and crew are also on their game today,
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Surfrider Foundation Calls Us Out on Our Water Cycle of Insanity (Video)
We have a weird relationship with water. We know it's a precious resource, we know that less than 1% of water on the planet is available for human consumption. And yet as a species, we have the craziest, most
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Earth Days Documentary To Debut On Facebook Before Airing on Television (Video)
Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they're purchasing power from coal-powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources. That's why it's a little ironic -
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Hollywood Donates Big to Rescue an Icon, Stars Flaunt Green Fashion at the Oscars, and More
On Thursday, the Trust for Public Land released a roster of Hollywood A-listers and companies--including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, the Walt Disney Company, the LucasFilm Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
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Cove Wins an Oscar, Makes an Activist Statement, Gets Cut Off
Congrats to The Cove and the entire team who made this world-changing documentary. The movie exposes the dolphin slaughter happening in Japan by doing some Mission-Impossible-style footwork to film the annual killing at one of
