Word: planet
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...first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior to the planet that still sustains every aspect of our lives...
...offers tips for eco-living from his solar-powered house in Studio City, Calif.--see him energy-audit Cheryl Tiegs!--while Sundance airs its documentary block "The Green." MTV will set The Real World: Hollywood in a "green" house. Next year Discovery launches 24-hour eco-lifestyle channel Planet Green, a plan validated this spring when the eco-minded documentary Planet Earth became a huge hit for Discovery. "Green is part of [Discovery's] heritage," says Planet Green president Eileen O'Neill. "But as pop culture was starting to recognize it, we realized we could do a better job positioning...
...cultural institution, spawning the award-winning Bat Boy: The Musical, driving the plot of Mike Myers' So I Married an Axe Murderer and appearing as a sly joke in Men in Black, when alien hunter Tommy Lee Jones cited it for delivering the "best damn investigative reporting on the planet." It presented a world so big anything could happen, not if we released too much carbon dioxide but if we made the more base error of cross-mating...
...When something is in its beginning stages, it’s impossible to really detect what the trajectory is,” he says. “With the organic movement, there’s quite a shift in world consciousness, concern for the survival of the planet, and people are changing their lifestyle...this bodes well for organics...
...What happens is that people with a special relationship to the earth start to get squeezed out...this is about building a relationship with the land. If all you have is something cheap from the grocery store, that’s not necessarily going to transform the planet...it’s going to require some economic resources to make it happen...