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Earth's greenhouse gas levels approach 400-ppm milestone
The ratio of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is flirting with 400 parts per million, a level last seen about 2.5 million to 5 million years ago, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The Institution this week...
Tags: Al Gore, Oceans, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Global Warming
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It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Conservation, Nobel Prize Awards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Participant Media hopes more filmgoers will get its messages
In "Snitch," a thriller set in the dangerous drug world, Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes to work as a drug informant to free his jailed son. The PG-13 film from Participant Media features a street fight, a car chase and a gun battle — high-...
Tags: Fiction, Snitch (movie), Action (Movie Genre), Movies, Contagion (movie)
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Al Gore, still energized
Al Gore hails from Tennessee, but when he comes to California next week, he'll be coming back to his spiritual home. In 2000, Californians gave him a double-digit lead — 1.3 million votes — over George W. Bush for president. His documentary,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Al Jazeera (tv network), Gun Control, Democracy, Movies
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Sundance 2013: From Kutcher to Pussy Riot, five storylines to watch
The Sundance Film Festival can seem like a most indecipherable hybrid: It’s a movie-industry gathering, a wannabe Mardi Gras, a celebrity pit stop. It's also, of course, a place where some of the most memorable films of our time began their...
Tags: WikiLeaks, Celebrities, Lake Bell, Sundance Film Festival, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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Participant Media to create pro-social cable channel
Participant Media, the film company behind "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Charlie Wilson's War," has acquired two cable channels and plans to combine them to form a new network featuring programming with social themes. The channel, which does not yet have...
Tags: Davis Guggenheim, Oprah Winfrey, OWN (tv network), Jack Reacher (movie), Meghan McCain
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Ted Danson dives into 'Oceana'
Los Angeles Times"I've always been kind of a shill," says Ted Danson. "The guy out in front of the tent saying, 'Thank you so much for watching "Cheers," come on in and let me introduce you to the marine biologists who have something really important to tell you.'" The...Tags: Biology, Celebrities, Water Pollution, Fiction, Environmental Pollution
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Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming
"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled.
As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a...Tags: Michelle Obama, Energy Resources, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution, United Nations
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Embrace the bad to find the good
Special to The TimesHere's a short list of things I do to avoid writing: do the dishes; do laundry; do the Internet (Playbill.com, the Drudge Report); read the paper; install shelves; help my kids with their homework; follow the Red Sox; go to the gym; listen to podcasts ("...Tags: Arthur Miller, Entertainment, Tony Awards, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Theater
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The First YouTube Election
AT CLOSE TO 20 MILLION video-hungry users a month — and growing — YouTube.com has become a magnet for budding filmmakers, marketers and entertainment industry executives looking for new ways to reach viewers. Now, with the campaign season upon...Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, Computer Networking and Internet, Lobbying, Elections
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Sole Technology skates toward a green future
Pierre André Senizergues can make skateboards do anything. When he was in his 20s, he steered them from the Paris suburbs to Venice Beach and turned them into the key to an apartment he could afford when he started winning skate competitions. In his 30s,...Tags: Energy Resources, Paris (France), Leonardo DiCaprio, Movies, Social Issues
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Documentaries delight Hollywood's politically engaged
The documentary category is where Hollywood wears its conscience on its sleeve, and this Oscar season's nominees have the politically engaged members of the industry buzzing more than usual over the range and variety of topics.
Partly, that's because the...Tags: Civil Rights, Disasters, Emergency Incidents, Entertainment, University of California, Los Angeles
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