Eric Bana offsets carbon emissions of new film, "Love the Beast"
Regardless of your view on global climate change, you must admit that the issue of carbon emissions has become a hot topic over these last few years, and automobiles have taken the brunt of the criticism. Celebrities often seem to be leading the low-emissions charge, or they at least like to appear that way by driving fuel sippers like the Toyota Prius or sometimes the fully electric Tesla Roadster. Not this time. Eric Bana, star of box office productions like Hulk and Troy, is apparently quite the gearhead, and he's also concerned enough with the environment to offset all the carbon emissions of his upcoming new flick, Love The Beast.
The title character of the new movie is an Australian Ford Falcon coupe from 1973 – hardly a bastion of clean motoring – that was modified to take part in the Targa Tasmanian Rally. Bana's production company hired a team of specialists to calculate the carbon emissions spent by the crew in the making of the film, and the appropriate number of trees will be planted to equal it all out.
[Source: Reuters]
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Paul 10:56PM (2/24/2009)
So he planted a few trees did he? How many centuries will it take those trees to suck up the carbon they emitted? It's all so pathetic.
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jharlan 11:11PM (2/24/2009)
Again, symbolism over substance. It's not what you are accomplishing, It's the appearance of accomplishing something to impress the rest of the PC crowd. Still, it's better than nothing (just barely).
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stuart may 6:13AM (2/25/2009)
When the trees die and decay and their carbon is released back into the atmosphere how would he have saved anything ???
I don't know why politicians buy that 'a tree is a carbon sync' stuff ... all the carbon gets released at the point of decay.
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Tormod 9:33AM (2/25/2009)
It's not quite that simple. Some trees and plants don't get to be completely oxidized, typically due to lack of oxygen. After all, that's how all the fossil hydrocarbons were made.
stuart may 11:57PM (2/25/2009)
yes - you're right (or partially right - I'm not sure).
Any part of the tree not in the soil would release it's carbon upon decay.
If the root system is kept in the soil then the carbon from the root system should get trapped within the soil (unless it's disturbed and up rooted of course).
I think this is correct ! - I have been wrong once before ;)
Timothy 10:54AM (2/25/2009)
I think this is great...not only because I think filmmaking is awesome, but also because they are helping reduce their negative impact on the environment! It's definitely a win-win.
Timothy
Washington DC film school
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Yikes 11:00AM (2/25/2009)
quote-----Celebrities often seem to be leading the low-emissions charge, or they at least like to appear that way by driving fuel sippers like the Toyota Prius or sometimes the fully electric Tesla Roadster.----------------
Yes, "appear" is the key word. Celebs love to preach to us how WE should do this or that, as they are driving away from the Oscars in a Prius to go jump on their private jet......
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russellgeister 6:50PM (2/26/2009)
funny this car is not as enviromentaly unfrendly as it looks its 35 years old how many cars have most people had in that period of time and how much energy and resouces went into making them.this car was made in Australia in 1973 its almost all steel and can be recyled we didn't start the use of plastic external parts until the 80's and then the 1st fully plastic bumpers didn't show up till 1983
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