Gore announces the first “Green” oscars, wins for “An Inconvenient Truth”
Posted by: mtaylor, in In the NewsAl Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio announced that the Academy Awards this year was the first “green” production in the history of the awards ceremony. With so many celebrities thumping a dogma of greener living, it is good to hear that their expensive awards show is taking consideration of the environment. However, little proof of this announcement was evident. You can read about how to make your lifestyle more earth-friendly on the oscar’s go green page.
Little specifics can be discerned in reading that page other than the following:
This year, the Academy, the Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin and the entire production team endeavored to select supplies and services with a sensitivity toward reducing the threats we face from global warming, species extinction, deforestation, toxic waste, and hazardous chemicals in our water and food. With guidance and assistance from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-partisan environmental and advocacy organization, we learned that it was easy (and often cost effective) to make simple changes to reduce Oscar’s ecological footprint. Here are a few of the things we learned (with help from the NRDC website www.nrdc.org):
So at least it’s a step in the right direction. If nothing else, a mainstream, highly publicised event has made a statement with their wallet, instead of just their opinions.
In other news, I found “organic” frosted mini wheats for sale in a local supermarket. Having found an “organic” frozen pizza the month before, I’m not sure what to think about this, but at least I’m not surprised. The point I’m trying to make is, just because someone labels their product or event with an eco-positive tag doesn’t really mean much without discolsure. For instance, “All-natural 7-up”, which contains high fructose corn syrup, a notoriously industrialized food additive.
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