In just a few hours hundreds of Hollywood’s elite will be strutting down the red carpet hoping they will end their evening clutching television’s highest honor—-the Emmy Award.
Only this year, the red carpet is being tinged with a hint of “green.” As in eco-green. Yes, the entertainment industry is contributing to the global cause by launching a “Green with Emmy” campaign. (Clever.) Not only will the show’s Shrine Auditorium location be powered by renewable energy for the month of September (a combination of solar energy, wind energy and hydropower), but stars will also be gathering under a solar panel canopy, which has been pitched over the Red Carpet grandstand. Show designers say the panel will help reduce the amount of power pulled from generators and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. (By the way, after the show, the solar panel system is being donated to a middle school in Chatsworth, California.)
And get this… remember how I mentioned that the red carpet is being tinged with “green?” Well, I didn’t lie. This year’s red carpet has been made entirely of recycled plastic bottles and was driven to Los Angeles in hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. The same vehicles that will transport some of Hollywood’s biggest names to the Shrine.
But, the “Green with Emmy” campaign doesn’t stop there. Even the food is part of the eco-movement. According to show producers, locally grown and/or organic foods will be served to production staff, press and event guests.
I plan to watch the show… well, at least part of it. You see I’m torn because another program I have been waiting weeks to watch airs during the Emmy telecast (no, I don’t have TiVo). It’s National Geographic Channel’s documentary “Inside the Living Body.”
The buzz around this show has been incredible. The entire series was shot in high-def, and allows you to see the human body’s inner workings in sharper and clearer detail than almost any doctor has ever seen during surgery. The show tracks the body’s amazing birth-to-death evolution by using a combination of computer imagery and endoscopic photography (tiny cameras attached to long, thin rubber tubes). The cameras travel to the nooks and crannies of one “everywoman” over her 70-year life span. Through this elaborate examination process you get to see the goings on inside your mouth, throat, heart, lungs, digestive tract, blood vessels and reproductive organs.
You also learn cool facts. For example, did you know humans shed as many as 30,000 dead skin cells every minute? Or, that an adult skeleton is replaced every seven to 10 years? And that the food we eat is transported some 30 feet before it is digested?
“Inside the Living Body” airs Sunday at 8 p.m. EDT.
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