Oscars

Oscars Trade in Gold for Green

Submitted by crizzab on Monday, March 26, 2007.

You might not have known what it meant to be "greened" prior to February 25th. But if you saw Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore's comedic routine at this year’s Academy Awards, you probably got the idea.

Should We Throw Stones in Green Houses?

While researching the “greening” of this year’s Academy Awards, I came across a lot of bloggers from within the environmental community itself bemoaning the ceremony. A number of hardcore greenies were claiming that the Awards greening effort hadn’t gone far enough. The cars might have been electric, but why didn’t they run on vegetable oil? Materials had been printed on 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper, but why not 50 percent? The Oscars had been made partially from recycled material, but why weren’t previously-awarded statuettes reclaimed, refurbished, and re-awarded? Whoopi Goldberg only uses hers as a door jam and Cuba Gooding Jr. lost his at a bachelor party in Miami!"

While researching the “greening” of this year’s Academy Awards, I came across a lot of bloggers from within the environmental community itself bemoaning the ceremony. A number of hardcore greenies were claiming that the Awards greening effort hadn’t gone far enough. The cars might have been electric, but why didn’t they run on vegetable oil? Materials had been printed on 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper, but why not 50 percent? The Oscars had been made partially from recycled material, but why weren’t previously-awarded statuettes reclaimed, refurbished, and re-awarded?

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