Zoe Ball is going to be presenting an environmental television series. The prime-time week long series entitled Extinct will be aired on ITV in December, and will be co-presented by Zoe and Sir Trevor McDonald. It is thought that Extinct will be the first “carbon neutral” terrestrial TV series.
Zoe has revealed that she and husband Norman Cook are living a greener lifestyle since being invited to do the programme.
“We use energy-saving lightbulbs at home and we’ve got a compost bin, so our waste foodstuff goes in there.”
“We recycle like lunatics and we’ve been trying to buy vegetables and stuff from the local greengrocers and not from supermarkets, so you don’t get loads of packaging.”
“We haven’t gone quite as far as a compost toilet yet.”
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Zoe’s also been doing loads with Oxfam Unwrapped today – check out the SmartPlanet story here:
http://www.smartplanet.com/news/people/10000274/interview-zoe-ball-on-oxfam-unwrapped-pointless-presents-and-her-green-family.htm
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This is great we need more shows like this. Check out this Green Home Show promoting awareness to the Green Movement Coming next year to TV, looks good.
It is produced by Carbon America.
Carbon America intends to promote awareness of the world’s green movement and America’s carbon footprint reduction. Their strategies is to show America and the world how being green can be affordable and the return on investment to the planet and our pockets can be sizable. Their intention is to help the global environment by appealing to the general public through the mass media. Specifically, by capitalizing on “Green Game Shows” and “Green Reality Show” trends.
The Show is called “America’s Gone Green” along with two spins off shows “Green Improvements” and “Green Seeding”
“America’s Gone Green”
The Game format is as follows.
The purpose of game show is for America to determine which contestants home is the greenest and has the smallest carbon foot print while retaining mass market appeal or “green sex appeal”. Once the home has been qualified contestants receive cash to improve on their homes and carbon footprint and compete with other qualifying round winners.
The format will be similar to other shows consisting of Subject Matter Experts (SME) as panel judges intermixed with celebrities or other notable figures that are currently identified with the “Green” movement. These SME judges could include professionals and members of organizations such as LEED, Green Building Council, and Energy Star.
The final winner will receive a lump sum cash prize donation for to their favorite Green organization.
The process will consist of qualifying rounds and a final round elimination. Outlined below are the proposed recommendations for each round.
Check out the rest of the Game info at http://www.carbonamerica.net
Looks great, I think these guys got the right ideas appealing to the mass media, what do you think?
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