Tag: Movies - Page 12
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Green Gowns on Oscar's Red Carpet
Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple
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Mercedes Unveils Tree of Innovation at Oscars
This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the S400 HYBRID and
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!F Film Festival: Black Sea Eccentric Fights for Coasts
If the Turkish Black Sea town of Ordu retains any of its original character and natural beauty, it's due in large part to the efforts of eccentric windmill-tilter Enis Ayar, the 'tavern keeper without a tavern' profiled in a new film.
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Documentary Investigates Plight of Millions of 'Climate Refugees' (Video)
The changing climate is causing upheaval and unrest on a large scale--rising sea levels, more severe storms and flooding, and worse droughts are already rendering populated parts of the world uninhabitable. In some places, this is
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'Opinionated Palates' Recruit Istanbul Food Sleuths
If Istanbul shopkeepers notice a strange jump this week in the number of people moving slowly through their stores, peering closely at the cans and boxes and bottles on
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Zebra Finches Compose Rock Song on Electric Guitars (Video)
Ever wondered what kind of song birds would write if they were given access to electric guitars? Well, here's your chance. French artist and composer Celeste Boursier-Mougenot has created a piece intended to make audiences reconsider how they perceive
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!F Film Festival: Thai Director's Lost 'Agrarian Utopia'
The "heavenly home in the field" that is the Thai title of the experimental documentary/drama Sawan Baan Naa is increasingly unattainable for the farmers depicted in the the movie, a film-festival
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Someone Winning the Lottery Doesn't Mean There's No Recession, So One Big Snowstorm . . . (Video)
. . . Doesn't mean there's no climate change. It took the media that still has a respect for science its sweet time, but now we're finally getting some decent rebuttals to the ridiculous notion that snowy weather somehow disproves
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Forget the Iron Curtain: Berlin Film Festival Raises Recycled Curtain on Metropolis
Image: Metropolis, Original Film Poster, UFA Do you know which film inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? Or gave Superman's home its name? It is Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Lang produced his epic silent film in the brief period of stability and astounding
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Meat-Free GOOP, Eco-Friendly Valentine's, and More
Gwyneth Paltrow's weirdly-named GOOP website and weekly newsletter are full of the actress's favorite things--destinations, recipes, meditation techniques, detox plans, fashions, books, and more--for die-hard fans looking to
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Oscar Time: Eco-Docs Get Nods
Yesterday the Academy Awards announced the nominees for the big Hollywood Oscar extravaganza on March 7. Of course, Avatar is among the ten candidates in the
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NBC's $50 Million Eco-Mistake, the Golden Globes' Green Scene, and More (Video)
During his last weeks as host of The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien trotted out surprise guests and big-name comedians--like Robin Williams, Adam Sandler, and Ricky Gervais--who all took their own shots at NBC's decision to replace O'Brien
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Sundance Film Fest 2010 Debuts New Hot Eco-Docs
This year's environmentally-conscious Sundance Film Festival opens today in Park City, Utah with Hollywood heavies and aspiring filmmakers abuzz. Last year, it premiered a
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The Year 2009 in 60 Seconds
Here is your zen moment for the day. Pour yourself a cup of tea, relax, sit back and enjoy a year of seasons captured by Eirik Solheim and edited into a time lapse video which captures the pure beauty of nature's changes over the course
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Watch Frank Capra's 1958 Film on Global Warming (Video)
Yes, there were movies being made about climate change as early as the 1950s. Dave Roberts has a great column in Grist today about the short memory we have in American political culture, and how this applies especially to climate 'scandals' and
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Top Stories from Tonic: Global Soap, Good Riddance Day, Zhu Zhu Game and More!
Can you think of any better way to recycle hotel soaps than sending them over to refugee camps that could really use them? Neither could we. "Helping Ugandans Find Refuge in Global Soap."
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Big Oil and Coal Climate Disinformation Campaign 101 (Video)
Pulitzer Prize winning Ross Gelbspan has been one of the leading lights in exposing the climate change disinformation campaigns waged for decades by coal and oil companies. His message is of the utmost importance, and comes at a
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"End of Suburbia" Producers Working on New Film
"Resilience means more than just preparing for climate change," says Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene. "It means looking
