Posted by
Average Voter on Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:50:39 PM
If you are wondering what the
Oscars are doing to reduce their impact on the environment, well, they have learned a few things.
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 www.nrdc.org):
If you read the list of things they learned, it's quite impressive. Last year they bought
carbon offsets, just not clear on what they did this year.