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Certainly there's uber-enviro Ed Begley Jr., who has his own green reality-TV show (Living with Ed) and whose greenness is so notorious that an episode of The Simpsons had him driving a car powered by his sense of self-satisfaction...
...nature, film and TV production isn't always the greenest undertaking in the world. Sets are built quickly and dismantled just as fast, with little regard for the long-term environmental impact. Productions can be energy-intensive, especially when shooting on location. And actors, no matter how green they claim to be on Entertainment Tonight, are accustomed to a certain level of luxury that carries a certain carbon footprint...
Bochner and his colleagues at the Environmental Media Association (EMA), where he's been a board member since 2000, are working to change that. He started by creating the EMA Green Seal, which is a badge of approval for productions that follow environmentally friendly practices. "You hit the targets, and you get the stamp of approval," says Bochner, who in his own career as a filmmaker helped ban the use of luan, a rain-forest mahogany wood often harvested in threatened Indonesia, in favor of more sustainable materials. "We want to make this the norm...
...hard to take Hollywood's greens altogether seriously - gee, if only we could all afford to shell out $22,000 for a shiny new hybrid - but Bochner's got a point: the nation does watch Hollywood. The TV and film industry tends to be on the cutting edge of social change, from civil rights to the war in Iraq, and that's true when it comes to the environment as well. From films like An Inconvenient Truth to high-profile attempts at carbon neutrality (by the Fox drama 24 last year), Hollywood is working to set the bar higher...
Three days later, Harvard (5-7, 1-0 Ivy) returned home with three more wins, including one against the league foe Big Green...