Green is Universal hosted an Employee Eco-Fair in honor of Green Week. Food was provided by The Green Truck, and delicious as always, and fun, interactive materials from The Nature Conservancy, Green Mountain Energy and SolarOne. Check out a few highlights below.
Green is Universal and Green Living Technologies partnered to bring a green wall to the NBC Experience Store in 30 Rockefeller Plaza for Green Week 2010. Watch students and teachers from The Bronx’s Discovery School install the wall, and talk about the impact the program has had on their education.
And here are a few pictures of the Living Wall and Window Farm that were installed in the NBC Experience Store windows during Green Week.
Below are a few pics of The Green Truck’s first stop of the week – 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Employees and passersby alike were excited to receive a free vegan burger and iced tea from The Green Truck – specially wrapped with Green is Universal blue sky and butterflies in honor of Green Week!
To find out more about The Green Truck, menus and locations visit http://www.greentruckonthego.com/.
Learn more about what employees like Scott Strobl and Karen Fung are doing to help NBC Universal make green strides at Universal Studios.
These are just a few of the highlights you can expect this Green Week!
Check out this great new video of NBCU Stars talking green.
We’re so excited to share our cleaner, greener, and leaner Green is Universal site. We’ve recycled a lot of the favorites (like our brand butterfly!) and added new features you can use and peruse. But what do you think? Take a look around. Green lives here:
Learn about our commitment to the environment and the changes we’re making in the industry to make the greatest green strides we can at Sustainability at NBCU.
Take action! Big social change happens just one person at a time. Visit Act to get tips and tools – and join us in the fun of going green.
Watch is our video entertainment area. Tune in for sneak peeks at our 4th annual Green Week and check back for the green-themed programming guide.
Play is just for fun. Try out some of the cool tools to take action or get mobile and social networking apps that educate and entertain.
Spend some green on something green. Shop at the NBC Universal store. And coming soon – our own Green is Universal sustainable shop with environmentally focused merchandise from the web, including our fun merchandise from NBCU.
We’ve also added a newsletter. If you are interested in getting monthly updates from us about what’s going green at NBCU, sign up here!
NBCU has the whole country seeing green from coast to coast this week. Effecting over 40 television and digital properties, green themes have been incorporated into story lines and discussion topics as part of a collective effort to integrate environmental issues into the cultural dialogue and to raise eco awareness.
Kicking off the week on the football field, the NBC peacock will put its green feathers on display with the Sunday Night Football broadcast, featuring a Green Week announcement as well as the presentation of a ‘Green Highlights at NBCU’ reel. Moving into the week, the Today Show will feature four green segments per day, focusing on such issues as green cleaning, green moms, home energy diets, and the water crisis, and on NBC Nightly News, Anne Thompson will have special segments on a variety of environmental news topics. Days of Our Lives will feature green themes in story lines, as will The Office, 30 Rock, Outsourced, Parenthood and Law and Order. Carson Daly will feature the new Chevy Fuel Cell Equinox all week and The Biggest Loser will focus on green training tips.
On Friday night, Dateline will feature an hour-long interview with Prince Charles regarding his commitment to global environmental issues, followed by the presentation of his documentary, Harmony, an NBC feature film television special.
All other members of the NBCU family will focus on green themes as well. Tune into msnbc for The Morning Joe, where Joe, Mika and Willy get fresh – fresh and green, that is – as they launch a 5-day special designed to educate America on alternative sources of energy, the debilitating dependence on foreign oil, and how each person can help by making small changes in their everyday lives.
On Bravo, Project Runway will go to a waste management recycling plan for an innovation challenge, and outfits will be made with spare parts. Work of Art will use an appliance graveyard as a canvas, and on Top Chef, big city chefs head to the country for fresh ingredients. On Shear Genius, stylists use what’s in their kitchen cabinet, from eggs to oatmeal and peanut butter, to style their clients’ hair. Real Housewives will offer green tips and Bethanny Getting Married? will incorporate a green storyline.
On Oxygen, Russell Simmons will show how he fits green into his schedule., and Tori & Dean are focusing on green themes as well. CNBC’s Mad Money will feature one green stock per day, Fast Money will focus on green trading, The Strategy Session has Herb looking into a green company and The Suze Orman Show will demonstrate how fiscally responsible can be environmentally responsible.
Even The Weather Channel gets into the act by integrating green topics and lifestyle tips into programming all week. Telemundo’s Alerta Verde will do the same, and NBC affiliated local media stations will feature stories on how to go green locally.
And the list goes on, over 40 programs strong… all the way through November 20 and then beyond. And even after Green Week concludes, the NBCU peacock will still be strutting its green feathers everywhere it goes… because Green is Universal.
By Scott Fields
By Trevor Curwin, DVICE.com
Commuter Cars’s Tango
T600, the world’s quickest and “most luxurious” two-seater electric
car, has hit the streets and may soon be scooting between lanes of
backed-up traffic near you.
Shorter than an average motorcycle, the Tango is about five inches narrower than Honda’s
Goldwing touring motorbike, and about five inches taller than Honda’s
top-selling Civic, meaning you can park it virtually anywhere. It also
means, in states like California where motorcycles can legally split
lanes in traffic, you can cut valuable time off your commute.
The Tango goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, with a tip speed of 130 mph.
It’s said to be designed to survive 200mph crashes, with four times
more protective steel in each door than a typical SUV. It retails, in
kit form, for $108,000 (estimated assembly time = eight hours), with
delivery “within six months.”
