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FYI for your FYI: Wanted – GIRLS WITH CAMERAS!

I’m attracted to older men, but for some reason George Clooney just never did it for me. But I’ll tell you what did do something: his energy behind FYI (Film Your Issue).

He is helping promote and judge a special 30-60 second “issue film” competition. It’s open to our peer group of 18-26 and you will be showered with a panoply of gifts if you win, including laptop, internship, broadcast on mtvU, and film fest love. I think everyone over at the Global Warming Guru’s (i.e. Gore) camp (i.e Current TV) should participate.

Eco-Chick, Energy, Global Warming, internship, MTV, tv

Buying Something you Truly Value

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by Summer Rayne Oakes · 03/20/06

(as told in the March 19, 2006 issue of NY Times Magazine from “Consumed” by Rob Walker)

A few years ago, Dwayne Ball went to buy a gift for a friend who had cancer; Ball was looking for something meaningful. He chose a teapot from…Ten Thousand Villages T. It was nice-looking and could be used for tea meant to relieve the effects of chemotherapy. Also, like everything else for sale at the store, it was made by an artisan in the third world who (as the store’s clerks and signage informed him) would be fairly compensated. “So there were multiple motivations,” Ball says. Aside from aesthetics and functionality, it had ‘spiritual value.’”

Cancer, Eco-Chick, magazine, Tea, tv

Greenpeace TV

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by Jennifer Cross · 02/21/06

According to a survey by Salary.com, the average worker admits to wasting 2.09 hours per eight-hour workday (not including lunch and scheduled break times). Participants in the survey sited “personal Internet” use as the biggest distracter from their workday.

It is well known that the Internet does have the ability to beckon us away from end-of-the-month budget reviews, proposals with a 5 p.m. deadline and other important work-related duties that we are actually paid for. It’s essentially inevitable. But at least now there is a way to waste away your 2.09 hours, be entertained, and become better informed about environmental issues, and it’s through Greenpeace TV.

The Friday the 13th ad that can be found on Greenpeace’s UK site urges us to “Tell Tony Blair nuclear power is not the answer to climate change.” We are encouraged to do so by watching a highly convincing act of terrorism whereby a highjacked plane flies straight into a nuclear power plant while a British family watches from the seashore.

Another great ad that will eat up three minutes and 29 seconds of your day is told to us from the perspective of some great apes. The spot begins when a family’s house is torn apart with a chain saw (an analogy to the ape’s ancient forest being sawed down by international loggers). The apes pose the great question, “Why destroy ancient forests for wood and paper when it could all come from responsibly logged wood and timber?” That’s a great question indeed.

In addition, you can eat up your time by watching clips about everything from E-Waste in Hong Kong to the fictional Greenhouse Olympics. They are well-produced, high quality and likely will bring you a better chuckle than skimming through listings on match.com