Tag: Movies - Page 6
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Culture and Celebrity
Anyone who thinks that the importance of pop culture is limited to what Charlie Sheen tweeted yesterday and who's at the top of the pop charts is severely underestimating the impact that celebrities, events, music, films, books, art, and social media can
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Ocean Film Fest 2011: 20 Recipes For Lionfish, Eat Up to Save Coral Reefs! (Video)
While saying the only sustainable fish to eat is the incredibly invasive lionfish might be a bit of a stretch, there are a few activists who openly encourage diners to eat the fish in order to protect
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Ocean Film Fest 2011: Plight of Cod In The Baltic Proves The Complicated Politics of Sustainable Fishing
How can we both fish sustainably and profitably? The balance seems to slip through our fingers more often than not. It's either the difficulty of getting accurate projections from scientists, or bad political policies, or
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Ocean Film Fest 2011: Landscapes At The World's Ends Is a Stunning Visual Journey (Video)
It's not often we get to sit back and enjoy traveling through the polar regions with just music and a compelling set of images. But that's just what filmmaker Richard Sidney allows us to do with a work that encompasses both still
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Harrison Ford's Green New World and More Celebrity News
Facebook offers plenty of eco-focused games to fill your time in between status updates and photo tagging, but the newest one, Ecotopia, has some very big names behind it -- including Harrison Ford, whose
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Polar Bear Spy Cam Eaten By ... a Polar Bear! Plus Mother & Cub Cuteness (Video)
What happens when you place spy cams all over the arctic in order to track polar bears?
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They Came For The Gold Hightlights Small-Town Defeat of Big-Scale Mining (Video)
Argentina is one of the richest areas left for precious metal mining. Over 400 mega-mines are already in operation and many more would like to get started. However, they are not always welcomed. They Came For The Gold, They Came
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Powerful Sweet Crude Film Documents Protests Against Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta (Video)
The first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival launched this weekend and with an impressive line-up of environmental documentaries, not the least of which was a powerful film called Sweet Crude. It is the story of the oil
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"Plastic State of Mind" Music Video Helps Get Plastic Bags Banned (Video)
I attended the first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival this weekend and mixed in among the serious documentaries about everything from precious metal mining to bird conservation were a few choice shorts that thankfully use
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The Coral Gardener's Innovative Idea for Restoring Reefs in Fiji (Video)
The first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival launched this past weekend and while the crowd was as small as one might expect for a brand new niche film event, the quality of the films presented were of
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Introducing Le Greenboy, the Eco Superhero Cleaning Up Paris (Video)
Walking around Paris, you have to be careful where you step- between cigarette butts and piles of dog doo that the city's residents just won't pick up, the French capital can be a dirty place. But Paris has got a new
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Behind-the-Scenes Green at the Oscars, Justin Bieber's Birthday Wish, and More
You may have been focusing on the big winners, the best- and worst-dressed lists, and the fairly awkward host banter, but behind the scenes of the Academy Awards last Sunday, the NRDC's Allen Hershkowitz and his team
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'A Few Brave People' Fight to Protect Turkey's Black Sea Region from Destructive Dams
The fight by residents of İkizdere and other Black Sea valleys to protect their homes from dam development is the subject of a moving new Turkish documentary, 'A Few Brave People.'
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10 Best Movie Scenes Where Bikes Steal the Show (Slideshow)
Last night, living rooms across the country tuned into the 83rd Academy Awards, and green wasn't excluded from the red carpet, with stars everywhere contributing to green causes and environmental
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10 Best Movie Scenes Where Bikes Steal the Show
Last night, living rooms across the country tuned into the 83rd Academy Awards, and green wasn't excluded from the red carpet, with nominees contributing to green causes and nominations for environmental documentaries "Gas Land" and "Wasteland" -- even if
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The Greenest Oscar Nominees, Stephen Colbert Takes on Sea Shepherd, and More
While you're putting the finishing touches on plans for this weekend's Oscar viewing party, don't miss Ecorazzi's guide to the greenest nominees up for awards this year. From Nicole Kidman's alpaca farm
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Edward Norton Fights Shark Finning, Ricky Gervais Protects Animals, and More
The movement against shark finning has already brought together advocates including January Jones and John Kerry -- and in California, where legislators have proposed a bill that would block the sale of the fins, another
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"Carbon Nation," Focusing on Climate Solutions, Hitting Theaters Soon (Video)
It took "An Inconvenient Truth" and then "The Age of Stupid" to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were
