Tag: Television - Page 8
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Emma Watson's Next Green Fashion Line, and More Celebrity News
With the second-to-last installment of the "Harry Potter" film series premiering in theaters this weekend, actress Emma Watson announced plans for her next project: Another fashion collaboration. This one, which follows her
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"Revenge of the Electric Car" Trailer to Premiere When Facebook Fan Page Hits 10,000 Fans
Image: Screen grab of their Facebook page Update: Revenge of the Electric Car (Official Trailer!) A Full Pendulum Swing I'm pretty sure that most TreeHugger readers have seen Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, or are at least
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The Story of Coal (Video)
Visualizing What is Invisible to Most of Us One of the problems with burning coal is that most people never come anywhere near it, so they don't see the impacts that it has. They don't have a clear mental picture of what their electricity use means, and
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Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols Find Perfect Harmony, Ted Danson vs. Oil Drilling, and More
"One Tree Hill" actors Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols -- who talked to Planet Green about the personal impact of trip to the post-oil spill Gulf Coast with Global Green -- have been vocal about their support for the
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Today Would Have Been Carl Sagan's 76th Birthday
Billions and Billions of Thanks for Your Life's Work! Today would have been the 76th birthday of Carl Sagan, a great popularizer of science, as well as an astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist. If you are not familiar with doctor Sagan,
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Dog Plays With His Dolphin Friend... Every Day
And now, something a bit lighter... I thought this video, which shows a white labrador jumping in a harbor and playing with a dolphin, was just too good not to show here. It doesn't reveal anything very
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BP CEO: We Were Unprepared for Spill
The big news on the BP spill front today is little more than an admission of the obvious: Ex-BP CEO Tony Hayward (of the "I want my life back" fame) told the BBC that his company was indeed unprepared for the
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How Climate Denial Becomes Fact in Right-Wing Media (Video)
Do you ever wonder why roughly half the citizens of United States believe that climate change isn't being caused by humans, or that it isn't real at all? Despite the fact that carbon dioxide has long been established to be the dominant man-emitted
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Bill Clinton's Vegan Sex Appeal, Pamela Anderson Strips for Charity, and More
PETA is still months away from naming its Sexiest Vegetarian Alive winners for 2011, but one newly-vegan celebrity is gaining early buzz as a front runner: Bill Clinton. The former
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5 Breakthrough Robots Built to Mimic Animals (Videos)
Biomimicry -- the art of mining nature for design solutions and technological breakthroughs -- has been behind some of the most promising, most pioneering robots to be created in recent years. From mule-imitating military walkers to butterfly-inspired
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Big Oil Spent $70 Million on Anti-Clean Energy Ads this Year
This is only one such anti-clean energy TV ad that Big Oil paid for this year. It's also full of misinformation and outright falsehoods. Oil companies outspent the clean energy industry 10 to 1 Sensing that the anti-regulatory attitude championed by the
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Chevy Volt Commercial Puts Emphasis on Driving Range
Total Range of About 350 Miles It looks like GM has decided that the longer total range of the Chevy Volt compared to its all-electric competitors is the selling point that they want to highlight. The commercial above isn't too bad, but it isn't too
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Ellen Talks Turkey, Comedians Fight Malaria, and More
Comedian -- and vegan -- Ellen DeGeneres is the face of Farm Sanctuary's annual Adopt-a-Turkey Project, which encourages supporters to rescue a turkey this Thanksgiving (instead of roasting one). Find out how
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Dean of Invention's Joanne Colan Dishes on Game-Changing Gadgets
Planet Green is launching a new series this Friday, October 22nd called Dean of Invention. Viewers get to follow inventor Dean Kamen and co-host Joanne Colan as they travel the globe looking for the most mind-blowing,
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President Obama to Appear on MythBusters to Help Get Kids Excited About Science
Considering the dismal state of American knowledge of climate change science, and seeming dwindling enthusiasm for science and math more broadly, every little bit of
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Glenn Beck: Environmentalists Will Strangle You in Your Sleep (Video)
We all know how Glenn Beck feels about environmentalists -- his standard line holds that they're some kind of undercover socialist agents looking to overthrow the American way of life. That's not an exaggeration, either -- that is essentially the
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Stephen Colbert: Goats are Stealing Jobs and Destroying America! (Video)
Image: Screen grab from Colbert Report Are Goats the New Bears? We've written often about goats being the greenest way to clear brush (see Goats Spotted in San Francisco, Rent-a-Goat, and What is Yahoo! Doing with Goats?). But according to Stephen
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The Week in Pictures: Banksy on the Simpsons, Formaldehyde in Blowouts, and More (Slideshow)
If you're a fan of "The Simpsons"--or Banksy, for that matter--you have undoubtedly seen this week's intro segment, directed by the mysterious and world-renowned street artist, which attempts to show the ugly side of consumerism--watch the video,
