Actually, it was more of a NOscar night for me since I don’t watch TV, but I did click around Oscar.com a lil bit:
I’m not sure that the Oscars could ever qualify as a green event, what with the flights in from all over the world and lots and lots of bright lights. That said, the 79th Academy Awards is at least giving a nod to environmental issues, with a big “Go Green” button displayed on its homepage….
The site goes on to list a number of environmentally-friendly choices that one can make — although the list doesn’t seem to have a direct link to the production of the Oscars itself (The last point, in fact, specifically encourages farmers to cut down on pesticides). What the production team did to minimize the environmental footprint of the celebrity-studded event remains unclear.
Turns out though, that during the Oscars, Gore and others talked a bit about the greening effort. Cool! More on Worldchanging Los Angeles.
Amongst other things, the gift bag contained a 100,000 lbs CO2 offset for each presenter/performer. That might be just enough to offset the SUVs
(See here: http://news.com.com/2061-11128_3-6162176.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news)
Man – I was just writing about this for worldchanging. Back to the drawing board :)
Comment by Robert 'Groby' Blum — February 26, 2007 @ 11:53 am
It’s kinda fun that they’re cracking down on the shwag bags now at the IRS –
Comment by Siel — February 26, 2007 @ 10:33 pm
I really don’t think we should give Hollywood any credit for their eye rolling claim of “going green”. It’s nothing more than typical entertainment industry lip service and sound bites. Lest we forget that the movie industry is the second most polluting industry in Southern California… only petroleum manufacturing gives off more emissions. And something tells me petroleum is a bit more important to our society and economy than stupid effing movies. Any Oscar speech about how “green” the movie industry is becoming is no different that BP opening a “green” gas station. LIke I said in my post about the Helios House, “sustainable” is the marketing buzzword of the 2k’s, and who’s better at marketing than Hollywood? Perhaps Al Gore should add “How Many Movies Do You See A Year?” to his Carbon Footprint Calculator on the Inconvenient Truth Website.
Thanks for all the traffic, diverting of public transit services, and generally disrupting real peoples lives for your masturbation fest Hollywood! Very sustainable indeed!
Comment by Fred Camino — February 27, 2007 @ 11:25 am