Oscars Go Green

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  If anyone was watching the Oscars this year, you could definitely sense the push for the environment and how more people are becoming more aware of how important it is that we take action and try to protect our Earth.  Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was nominated for an Oscar and they ended up taking one home! Also, Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio were presenting together on their thoughts on the issue and urging the world to take action.  When they were up there, Gore said how this year there were many more actions taken to make the production of the Oscars more environmentally friendly.  I thought I would research into this a little bit to find out just exactly what they were doing to help prevent more harmful things from happening to our environment.

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One thing I found was that many of the cars that the stars were showing up in were the latest brands of hybrid cars. As we all know from our studies this year, these cars are much more environmentally friendly since they run on a battery which is re-chargeable.  This means that much less gasoline has to be used, which then ultimately means less harmful greenhouse gas emissions produced from the car.  In one of the articles that I found on this issue, it was said that “this year was the first time many stars seemed to want to talk about environmental vehicles rather than their designer clothes and movie roles.” Many more stars, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, are becoming aware of these issues and are making it known to the public how important it is that we also let others know about these issues and take any actions that we can in order to help improve our environment.  Another thing I found in my research was that the famous Orlando Bloom is building a new house in England and he’s making sure that it is environmentally friendly.  He started talking about with someone after he arrived at the Oscars in his hybrid car.  He said, “It’s as green as I can make it.  It’s got solar panels on the roof, energy efficient light bulbs – newer technology basically that is environmentally friendly.”  I think that this is really important that all these people that are talked about all the time are getting involved in this issue.  I mean if you think about it, whenever any of these starts some sort of new fashion trend, everyone else follows that trend practically within the next day.  Hopefully, this new trend of being aware of our environment will soon rub off on everyone as well, and we will then hopefully begin to see an improvement in the quality of our environment.

 

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The telecast producer of this year’s Oscars mainhttp://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070222/ENTERTAIN/70222004/-1/ENTERTAIN05 goal was “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.”  All the people involved in the production realized how easy it can be to make a difference for our environment by simply doing things such as carpooling or turning off the lights when you leave the room.  On the website: (http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/?pn=green) there is a very extensive list of the many things all of us can do to reduce these threats to our environment.  I encourage you all to visit it and to even carry out some of their suggestions. 

Overall, I think the Oscars were very successful in making it known to people the situation our world is in, and their feelings toward this issue I hope will continue into the future.

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/ENT02/702240371/1148/rss25

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070222/ENTERTAIN/70222004/-1/ENTERTAIN05

http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/?pn=green