Warner Bros. LEED Certified Stage 23
Warner Bros. new 21,600-square-foot Stage 23,
was just unveiled and is pending LEED certification. It incorporates
the latest knowledge of sustainable design and construction practices
such as local and environmentally preferred construction materials --
including Forest Stewardship Council-certified lumber, which is
harvested from responsibly managed forests; recycled steel and metals;
non-toxic paint and adhesives; and concrete foundations with 35 percent
recycled fly ash. Rain water around the stage is allowed to percolate
into the ground instead of running off into the Los Angeles River
thanks to the perimeter of pervious asphalt.
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Matt Damon's Eco-Tip
41pounds.org stops your junk mail and catalogs — protecting the
environment. Junk mail wastes an incredible amount of natural resources
and contributes to global warming. The nonprofit service covers your entire household for five years, saving...
Time No credit card offers to shred or unwanted catalogs.
Trees Keep 100+ million trees in forests, cooling the
planet.
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Climate Junk mail produces more C02 than 9 million cars.
Planet We donate to your favorite charity when you sign up.
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Greening Hollywood: The Electric Revolution
Who hasn't heard of Director/Producer/Actor George Clooney's predilection for Hollywood's coolest new toy, called the Tesla. As a wrap up to Alt Car Expo, film director and electric car lover, Chris Paine, hosted a fundraiser at his L.A. home for Plug In America. Paine's new film, Revenge of the Electric Vehicle will be out in '10. Some of the guests attending were James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, Chelsea Sexton, electric vehicle evangelist, featured in Paine's first film, Who Killed The Electric Car?
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Greening Hollywood: Water Unifies for Running Dry
Jane Seymour - Water is a non-partisan, global,
humanitarian crisis. And that's why I'm involved with it. It's not
something we know about. We all worry about oil, and the oil crisis,
but we can live without oil, if we have to. We absolutely cannot live
without water. You can survive without food for a few days but you
can't survive without water.
Water is a huge issue. I narrated the first Running Dry which is
all about the world, all about what's happening globally in terms of
water issues including the United States. And this is a brand new one,
The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry? It's very specific to the
environment of the Southwest and I narrate and host this one as well.
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Greening Hollywood: For Love of Water
FLOW is Irena Salina's award-winning documentary about the global water crisis. Documentary is produced by Steven Starr and also
focuses on solutions to the crisis by highlighting the people and
institutions developing new technologies that could offer a practical
turnaround from where we're headed. Interviewees include T. Boone Pickens.
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Greening Hollywood: EcoTainment Creating Good Content About Doing Good
This year's highlight of the Hollywood Goes Green conference was the speaker panel on
EcoTainment. I was asked to and had the honor of moderating this panel
of informed creatives. The panelists included Steven Starr, producer of
FLOW, For Love of Water, the documentary that was being shown just days
later at the United Nations to help commemorate the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Two other panelists were Rachelle Carson, star of Living With Ed and Joe Brutsman producer of Living With Ed.
Carson had a last minute unavoidable cancellation but Brutsman was able
to discuss how the climate for pitching Eco-themed TV shows had changed
significantly in the past three years since he and the Begleys had
gotten their reality show on cable TV. He said his motto is, "Reality
TV means you'd better know how to do everything."
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Electric Jedis
"Today, at $120 per barrel oil, we ship to OPEC and all the oil
producers, net, every year, about $620 billion dollars. And if oil is
up at $135 [per barrel] where it was for awhile, we'd be shipping $700
billion a year, which is the same amount of money that everyone was
arguing about with respect to the Wall Street Bailout."
"But we send that amount every year to OPEC and we don't get
anything back for it. We are indirectly funding terrorism. This is the
only war the U.S. has ever fought, except the Civil War, where we pay
for both sides. It is madness. We have got to move against oil
dependence. Not just foreign oil dependence, but oil dependence, as
quickly as possible."
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Greening Hollywood: Tinseltown's Green Summer Scorecard
It
can't possibly be true, but, indeed, summer is coming to a close, and
with it Hollywood's Summer Blockbuster Season. So, in addition to
scoring at the box office, how did summer '08 measure up on the Green
scorecard?
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