I thought I would share the documentary “The Corporation” by Joel Bakan today; YouTube has the whole video in 23 parts. This documentary is extremely informative and hopefully makes you question modern day corporations. Part 1 is listed below.
Enjoy!
It’s always nice to see celebrities take action for what they believe in. Some celebrities are against fur and animal testing, others try to help poverty-stricken areas and some are environmentalist.
There are lots of perks to being famous, one of which is money but more importantly, you’re known. Your face alone can sell people on things, that influence alone gives you immense power. One of the biggest things I’ve seen here in Los Angeles is the Prius Effect. I don’t know what sparked it but lots of celebrities started buying Toyota Priuse’s and they became cool, now they’re everywhere.
This trend has started up again with Leonardo DiCaprio, he will be one of the first to have a Fisker Karma, the electric sports cars. Cars like these are great, it’s amazing that people are swapping out their twelve cylinder Lamborghinis for EV’s like the Tesla Roadster and Fisker Karma.
In my opinion these cars are the revolution for electric vehicles. You have to make something appealing in order to make it popular and with cars its all about the styling and performance.
Everyone knows that using plastic bottles is unsustainable. Plastic is one of the hardest things to recycle because there are so many different types and it doesn’t biodegrade. Pepsi is helping solve this problem by creating the first 100 percent recycled soda bottle.
This bottle will be made completely out of recycled plastic and will drastically change the impact of their 7up lines emissions. This EcoGreen bottle will be launched in Canada for the 7up line only.
If the bottle is a hit, you will probably see Pepsi implement this technology into all of their other bottled products. Next time you go to the market keep a lookout for the EcoGreen Tag !
A new partnership between Sprint and Vespa encourages you to recycle your old cell phones. We have covered E-wastes in previous post, cell phones are the perfect place to start in eliminating E-Waste. Most people have old phones just laying around like bricks, Sprint wants those old phones. They will recycle them and you will be entered to win a new Vespa scooter.
The winners of the contest will also receive a new Samsung Replenish. This is a sweet deal to help the environment and promote alternative transportation. This is all part of Sprints new goal to be Zero waste by 2017.
Party for the Planet
Saturday and Sunday, April 9 & 10, 2011
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location
The Los Angeles Zoo and K-EARTH 101’s Earth Day Expo 2011, themed Billion Acts of Green, features education, conservation and recycling information in an interactive and fun Earth-friendly environment. The two-day event includes a bevy of information booths, fun crafts and the opportunity to meet K-EARTH DJs. All activities are free to GLAZA members and with paid Zoo admission.
I don’t know about you but I’m definitely going!!!
In 2008, Toyota announced that it had reached 1 million worldwide sales of its Prius hybrid. Then in 2010 it reached 2 million sales around the world, today Toyota announced that 1 million Prius’s have been sold in the U.S. alone. It’t no wonder why where ever you go you will always see a Prius. Here in Santa Monica, you cant see more then 10 cars without one being a Prius, thats probably why Toyota has filmed there most recent commercials in Santa Monica.
Prius’s have saved Americans around 881 million gallons of gas, $2.19 billion in fuel costs, and 12.4 million tons of CO2 emissions, when compared to the average car. We cant wait for the new hybrid and plug-in arrivals Toyota is set to release.
Chris Perry, who worked at Pixar for many years, created an incredible animated short that aired to day, for World Water Day. Titled The Incident at Tower 37, the film tells the story of a company that is siphoning off all the water from a pristine lake, until they figure out that they’re ruining an ecosystem — and the message comes from a rather extraordinary hero.
Perry States “Humans exploit the natural world, harnessing it selfishly for their own use. Tower 37 is about the natural world fighting back… The film tells the story of one person’s transition from ignorance to awareness. Tragically, it happens too late to save them. But it shows we have the capacity to understand our broader impact on the world and, ultimately, do something about it. My personal hope is that we all recognize the ticking clock and act responsibly sooner rather than later.”
Created by the Bay Area environmental group, Green Sangha, this “parody with purpose” raises awareness about the alarming situation associated with excessive use of plastic bags.
From solar transforming school performance in East Africa to creating hundreds of solar entrepreneurs in developing countries, the work of Solar Aid tackles development, clean energy and climate change at the same time. They’re also getting pretty creative in their fund raising efforts too. Their latest effort sees them recruiting real live superheroes who can fly bikes, meditate underwater, throw offgrid parties, and even make it rain in England. It’s impressive stuff.
The video below gives a flavor of just how creative the supporters of this London-based charity are getting. In an age of Facebook and Twitter, the notion of a simple sponsored fun run seems a little old—so turning the creativity over to your supporters and seeing what happens is a great way to shake things up a little.
The elite group of Hot 100 fundraisers will each aim to raise at least $1000 for the charity by any means they see fit, and they will be supported along the way with regular pub meet-ups and other networking opportunities. They’ll be motivated by the opportunity to win a trip to Africa too. Check out Solar Aid’s Hot 100 page for more details.
Less than a week after Chinese New Year, California legislators have introduced a bill to ban the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins used in a traditional Chinese soup.
Every year tens of millions of sharks die a slow death because of finning. It is the inhumane practice of hacking off the shark’s fins and throwing its back into the sea, mutilated and still alive. The sharks either starve to death or eaten alive by other fish.
Since the 1970s the populations of several species have been decimated by over 95%.
We are rapidly degrading the ecosystem by removing a keystone species. A ban is the right thing to do in order to help maintain a healthy balance and stop this inhumane practice.