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Things are getting strange up in Hollywood

You couldn’t ask for a more illustrative Sign of the Times: rather than gift bags full of swag, this year’s Oscar presenters will be getting … carbon offsets. Recently the IRS has cracked down on the notorious gift bags given out at awards shows. In some cases those bags contain up to $100K worth of […]

Video of green moments at Oscars

ThinkProgress has a video montage of all the Gore-y moments at tonight’s Oscars ceremony.

Melissa Etheridge’s speech

From Melissa Etheridge’s acceptance speech for "I Need to Wake Up": … Mostly I have to thank Al Gore … for inspiring me … for showing that caring about the earth is not Republican or Democrat. We are all green. This is our job now. We can become the greatest generation — the generation that […]

Inspirational

After the announcement that An Inconvenient Truth had won for Best Documentary, director Davis Guggenheim made his way to the stage along with Al Gore, Laurie David, and others amidst a standing ovation from the crowd. Here’s what Guggenheim said: I made this movie for my children … All of us who made this film […]

Guess

… Davis Guggenheim, executive producer and director of An Inconvenient Truth. Congrats, messrs. Guggenheim and Gore. Well played.

Funny

Gore just appeared on stage with Leo DiCaprio. They discussed how the ceremony has gone green, and how everyone has a role to play in fighting climate change. DiCaprio kept asking him if there’s anything he wanted to announce. Finally, toward the end, Gore said he “hadn’t planned on doing this,” but the feelings of […]

That awful song, too

It won’t be long now until we find out whether Gore’s movie gets an Oscar. Rumor on the street has it the man "some bloggers" apparently call the "Goreacle" will be playing a role at the awards ceremony outside his possible acceptance speech. Perhaps a showstopping song-and-dance extravaganza with melting glaciers and drowning polar bears! […]

Pelosi hears from enviros on climate change legislation

Last Wednesday, Speaker Pelosi held a roundtable discussion on climate change in San Francisco, followed by a press conference.

She said -- no news here -- that she's determined to introduce an energy and climate package on July 4th, (energy) Independence Day. In preparation, she's instructed relevant committee chairs to move their bits of legislation through their committees by early June.

She got a lot of advice -- some of it, given that this is the environmental community, conflicting.

How do you choose yours?

I had nightmares after reading Nicolas Kristof's gruesome description of the Guinea worm -- a two-foot worm that eats through people and pops out of their bodies in the most unpleasant places -- in his editorial on Jimmy Carter's work to eradicate the disease. Beside the sleepless night, the article helped to solidify two things for me.

This is huge

Holy sh*t! This is huge: Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu of environmental measures, according to people […]