{"id":308275,"date":"2010-02-11T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2449"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:48:24","slug":"green-hearts-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/308275","title":{"rendered":"Green Hearts on Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the historic DC snow <\/a>ever ends, I might head to the movies this weekend. Now, I’m a movie buff, so there’s not much I won’t see. But I admit to a particular soft spot for Garry Marshall productions. He’s got quite a track record on tv (creator of Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, and Laverne and Shirley, among others) and at the movies (director of Beaches, Pretty Woman, and the Princess Diaries, to name a few.) I admit it: I’m a sucker for his mix of light comedy and schmaltz. His newest movie, “Valentine’s Day,” opens Friday with a cast list reads like a who’s who of Hollywood stars: Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Patrick Dempsey, Ashton Kutcher, George Lopez, Jennifer Garner, and one of those werewolf kids from the Twilight movies. I am very much looking forward to every cheesy and predictable moment.<\/p>\n

But beyond the escapist fun the movie promises, it seems that during filmmaking, the producers made a conscientious effort to be as green as possible. This story <\/a>from the LA Times notes that just by switching to reusable water bottles, the production reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 67 metric tons. They also used solar-powered generators (you can do that in L.A.) and rented each star a hybrid car to get to work in each day. The whole process was documented and is now being used as an example for other filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Maybe there’s a trend in the works. At last week’s Grammy awards, the theme was “Grammys Go Green<\/a>.” The venue was powered by renewable energy and the invitations and program books were printed using recyclable products. No one is estimating the carbon footprint of transporting the musicians, their equipment, and entourages (never mind Lady Gaga’s costumes) but hey, every little step counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the historic DC snow ever ends, I might head to the movies this weekend. Now, I’m a movie buff, so there’s not much I won’t see. But I admit to a particular soft spot for Garry Marshall productions. He’s got quite a track record on tv (creator of Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}