Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice , Reviving the World's Oceans
How can our country adopt a carbon pollution policy if Republicans won't even come to the negotiating table? All seven GOP senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee are now boycotting hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, taking denial...continued→
Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Solving Global Warming
Sigourney Weaver is just awesome. What else can you say after watching her performance this morning on Fox and Friends. The show introduced her segment as a promo for the new James Cameron film, AVATAR, but Sigourney politely switched topics...continued→
Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Reviving the World's Oceans
NRDC's film, Acid Test, with Sigourney Weaver, premieres tonight at 10:30pm ET/PT (channel finder) on Discovery Planet Green. (Read USA Today's coverage of the film.) Please tune in and spread the word. We decided to make Acid Test about a...continued→
Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Reviving the World's Oceans
I've had the privilege over the last several months to write, co-direct and executive produce a startling half-hour documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. ACID TEST explores the impending catastrophe of ocean acidification -- which scientists call the OTHER carbon problem. (The...continued→
Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Moving Beyond Oil
I've been fascinated by CNN's "live audience reaction meter" during the presidential debates. The meter's green and orange lines rose and fell as 30-or-so undecided male and female voters in CNN's focus group indicated how they felt about what the...continued→
Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in The Media and the Environment
Hurricane Ike spilled at least half a million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the wetlands of Louisiana and Texas, according to a review of federal data by the Associated Press, released today. As proponents of...continued→
