this film contest will have an international component added to it in January.07.the idea is to use as a starting point a reponse to Inconvenient Truth proposals on climate change and how we can change and respond to this scenario creatively.
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Climate change…
If you don't just talk the talk but walk the walk and leave a barely visible footprint…Catch it on camera, inspire us, and win PRIZES!
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tabber.gifTreeHugger on Oprah and... Rush Limbaugh?!
We're still all very excited about our appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show (go Simran!). You can see the video segment above.
We all know that a media appearance can lead to another. Martha Stewart might have helped us get noticed by Oprah (who knows?). But what does Oprah lead to? Well, in this case, it seems to be Rush Limbaugh. We did not expect that one.
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tabber.gifTreeHugger on The Oprah Winfrey Show!
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The Martha Stewart Show got us warmed up, and today we turn up the heat with Oprah Winfrey! Bad metaphor aside, today TreeHugger’s Simran Sethi is bringing the leading environmental website into daytime’s leading spotlight, The Oprah Winfrey Show!
The show focuses on global warming. While the venerable Al Gore will be teaching Oprah and the world how to reduce their carbon emissions, Simran will be demonstrating how TreeHuggers do Christmas. From the tree to the trimmings, Simran will show that the holiday notorious for increasing waste by 25% is preventable, with simple and stylish solutions of course!
And TreeHugger further embodied the holiday spirit by donating the organic Christmas tree featured on the show (and purchased locally at Chestnut Charlie’s to The Women's Transitional Services of Lawrence, KS. Get into the spirit and upload your solution here!
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tabber.gifGlobal Warming Gone Wild
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If you didn’t catch it already, check out Al Gore’s appearance on the Jay Leno Show. He promoted the recent DVD release of him film An Inconvenient Truth and during the typical late-night banter, told Jay that they are considering releasing an uncensored version called “Global Warming Gone Wild, featuring Hot Glacier on Glacier Action.â€
We applaud Al for being strategic. Whether intentional or not, he helped spread the word to a larger audience using a little comic relief and let’s admit, a little sex. We all know people’s ears perk up with mention of that. Sell it, Al! Al will also be on Oprah tomorrow for some more hot, glacial action.
Talking about the cause is great, but doing something about it is even better. Don’t forget to upload your solution to global warming right here!
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tabber.gifRelease of Climate Change Performance Index 2007 Results Followed by Defensive Spin and Confusion
index%20of%2010%20largest%20CO2%20emitters.jpgImmediately following release of the “CCPI†report , the worst nations for C02 emissions (see graphic table) issued defensive sounding statements to the press. For example, according to Associated Press, “China defended its climate protection efforts Tuesday after being ranked near the bottom of a report on countries fighting climate change. "The Chinese government attaches great importance to this issue and we have acceded to the Climatic Change Framework Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular briefing.â€â€ We heard similar puffery from the US spokes-person. And, is it just us or do the UK and a few other rankings seem out of whack? Certainly counter-intuitive. What we want is clarity for responsibility, stretch improvement goals, and performance against clear, sensible metrics. Let us know if you can come up with a scenario that would bring these about.
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Via IOL:- Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky rejected UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's charge that there was a "frightening lack of leadership" at climate talks in Nairobi, saying "We think that the United States has been leading in terms of its ground-breaking initiatives."
Via PlanetArk:- US mayors who fight global warming at city hall, on city streets and at the city dump swapped strategies this week at a snowed-in summit in Utah, and some hoped the federal government would follow their lead.
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tabber.gifWorldCoolers: Social Networking for Climate Change Action
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Social networking has brought the power of the rapid response network to the masses. Once the tool of political and business operatives looking for a leg up in the PR wars, the power of rapid response is now available to everyone from activists wanting to rally the troops with an email action alert, to teenagers looking to humiliate an ex-boy or girlfriend with a barrage of MySpace bulletins. Mass rapid response is messy... it's also incredibly democratic.
Tech start-up Collactive has thrown its hat into the rough-and-tumble world of social networking applications, and one of its first offerings, the Worldcoolers desktop, is designed to give people concerned about the climate crisis the means to connect with one another, organize their efforts, and reach out to the larger community. According to the software's website,
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[2] Comments :: Post a Comment. Tazilon said: "A GREAT idea on how to cool the world (from a mete... [read]
tabber.gifOprah Wants to Know about Your Global Warming Concerns
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It's been just over a year since Oprah Winfrey had Leonardo DiCaprio and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer on her show to discuss climate change. Apparently, Oprah and co. aren't finished with this important topic, as the "Be On the Show" section of Oprah.com lists two global warming-themed questions (" Are you worried about global warming?" and " Is your family worried about global warming?" ) on the "Upcoming Shows" roster. A reader need only click on the linked questions and fill out the form, and s/he could find her or himself on the way to Chicago as a guest of the Oprah Winfrey Show.
We can't think of a group of people more prepared to answer these questions than Treehugger readers, so we encourage you to tell your story at Oprah.com. Let Oprah know that not only are you and your family concerned, but that you're also taking concrete steps to lessen your own carbon footprint. More than likely, you've even got good ideas about how we can address the climate crisis at the local, national and international levels. When you send your information to Oprah's people, we'd really (really!) appreciate it if you mentioned that you learned about these potential shows at Treehugger. ::"Be On the Show" at Oprah.com
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tabber.gifChildren Demand a Future: Will Blair Listen?
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Tony Blair is no stranger to tough political negotiations. However, even he may have found it hard to explain to this bunch why he is unwilling to sign up to year-on-year targets for greenhouse gas reductions. Six school children, between the ages of 8 and 17, met the Prime Minister at Downing Street last week to highlight their concerns about climate change and what it means for their futures. The six who represent the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, handed in petitions from nearly 150,000 people calling for a climate change law that would commit the UK to reducing its emissions by at least three per cent year on year. The group was also involved in a lively discussion with Tony Blair on the need for the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and set an example to the rest of the world.
Jenny Avery, aged 17, from Northants had no fears about meeting the Prime Minister and telling him exactly what she thought:
“I wasn’t nervous about meeting Tony Blair as climate change is a very important issue and we wanted to let him know that young people care. We are the ones who will have to live with it when we are older.â€
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tabber.gifWind Turbines Sprouting at Ski Resorts
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foundation for wind turbine at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort
We have noted before that our snowboarding obsession, where we drive two hours each way to be electrically winched up a hill to ride down a clearcut trail on artificial snow made by pumping huge amounts of Georgian Bay water using massive KwHr of electricity, is not exactly treehugger correct. Ski resorts can see the writing on the wall as well, as global warming shortens the seasons and increases the costs for snowmaking; Warren notes how Aspen Skiing Company is building LEED ,and Eric describes Vail buying offsets. Mammoth Mountain Resort in California sits on top of a volcano and is drilling for geothermal to heat its buildings. Jiminy Peak is the first to install its own wind turbine, but there are now 19 ski resorts relying on 100% wind power, and 47 resorts using some kind of renewable energy. I feel better already. ::New York Times
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tabber.gifNanosolar: Printing Solar Film Like Paper
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Nanosolar is a company based in Palo Alto, California, which uses an innovative technique to produce a kind of "solar film". To make the film, Nanosolar prints CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenium) onto a thin polymer using machines that look like printing presses. There is no costly silicon involved in the process, and, ultimately, a solar cell from Nanosolar will cost about one-fifth to one-tenth the cost of a standard silicon solar panel. Nanosolar is only a few years old, but it has laid plans to take on multinational corporations, such as BP and Sharp, in the solar industry.
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tabber.gifMiÅn — ‘06 Ecodesign Award Winning Footwear
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MiÅn is a relatively new company. A subsidiary of Timberland. It’s chief designer is Martin Keen, who lent his name to another footwear company of the same name. Anyhow, MiÅn is a very Twenty First Century looking sandal. What you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends. Or some might see it as a high performance pair of Crocs. But the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA) saw it as a leading light in EcoDesign. Awarding it a Bronze Award in their ‘06 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Though, strangely, the awards site is shy on details about how they came to this conclusion. They talk vaguely about “radical reductions in energy use and waste generation.†And mention a “repertoire of ecologically sensitive materialsâ€, but only note one: a corn-based film. Plus they cite a “first ever†Eco Metrics label modelled on the FDA nutrition label. (Great idea, but think others, like Worn Again, have been doing this before.) Don’t get me wrong, ....
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