News > Sundance Loves the Environment!
April 12, 2007
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Usually I'm as cynical about the Hollywood machine as the next guy. I can't imagine anything they ever do is for anything other then the pursuit of the almighty dollar, but in the last two weeks or so I've started to feel a little gooey in my innards about the choices some of the bigger names are making. Barack and Hillary say no to Fox? Great! Discovery Communications to make a ten part mini-series all about how to save our Earth? Yes! Don Imus calls the girls at Rutgers "nappy headed hoes"? Aweso-...oh wait, that guys a jerk.
But still, with global warming "suddenly" making a palpable effect on America's moron population (snowed out games in April, what?) powerful people are starting to make changes to try to save this godforsaken planet before it becomes Waterworld.
The latest to throw their considerable hat in the ring? The Sundance Channel. From this point forth, every Tuesday night starting at 9pm, the channel will air a block of shows entitled "The Green", dedicated to educating the public about an assortment of ways we can let our planet live for just a little while longer. Shows will include, "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" - an hour-long that focuses on green solutions to modern day problems - and "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash", a show chronicling the history of America's dependence on oil.
Robert Redford's Sundance Festival was originally knocked by critics because of it's down-home love of films a little bit like these. Redford has always been a huge advocate of the environment and I'm glad he's finally showing his true colors in such a dramatic public way.
