this was taken from www.oscar.com.....
"This year, the Academy, the Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin and the entire production team endeavored 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. With guidance and assistance from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-partisan environmental and advocacy organization, we learned that it was easy (and often cost effective) to make simple changes to reduce Oscar's ecological footprint. Here are a few of the things we learned (with help from the NRDC website http://www.nrdc.org/)"
what i would like to know is WHAT exactly did they do that made this the "greenest" oscar ever? did celebrities carpool (HA!) in hybrid cars? were all the lightbulbs fluorescent? were the secret envelopes printed on recycled paper? what was so green? if being environmentally friendly is going to be preached throughout the 4 hour show (especially when an inconvenient truth won an oscar - which is now on my list of movies to watch), they could at least point out specific examples of what they've done. something like this sets a good example for the rest of us - we all look at what celebrities are doing, it gets reported in the news or entertainment shows, and then all of a sudden everyone's doing it. think brangelina....
anyhoo, that's my only observation from the show last night. i actually watched the entire show, and most of the red carpet walk. did anyone else think there was going to be a wardrobe malfunction during jennifer hudson's dreamgirls performance? i was just waiting for it :-) ellen made a fabulous host, i wanted to die laughing when she gave the "screenplay" to martin scorcese and then asked steven spielberg to take a picture of her with clint eastwood. she's too funny!
anyways, for my first oscar show, i thoroughly enjoyed it. of course, i multi-tasked during the acceptance speeches, cuz seriously, i don't have the patience to sit through that.
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i have the movie if you want to borrow it.
at the NRDC site it says the Oscars did this:
The effort included offsetting carbon emissions of the pre-show, the red carpet event, the telecast, and the Governor's Ball; incorporating environmental features into the greenroom design; promoting recycling and reducing waste generated by the annual event; and using recycled materials in paper products, including the Oscar ballots themselves.
thanks for the info! i didn't actually make it over to the nrdc website....i got all worked up from oscar.com, and then i started researching my vacation stuff :P
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