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?
