An Inconvenient Truth (movie)

Earth's greenhouse gas levels approach 400-ppm milestone

2013-05-01 05:25:00

The ratio of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is flirting with 400 parts per million, a level last seen about 2.5 million to 5 million years ago, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The Institution this week...

It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet

2013-04-22 05:00:00

Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...

Participant Media hopes more filmgoers will get its messages

2013-03-13 05:00:00

In "Snitch," a thriller set in the dangerous drug world, Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes to work as a drug informant to free his jailed son. The PG-13 film from Participant Media features a street fight, a car chase and a gun battle — high-...

Al Gore, still energized

2013-02-06 00:00:00

Al Gore hails from Tennessee, but when he comes to California next week, he'll be coming back to his spiritual home. In 2000, Californians gave him a double-digit lead — 1.3 million votes — over George W. Bush for president. His documentary,...

Sundance 2013: From Kutcher to Pussy Riot, five storylines to watch

2013-01-17 07:30:00

The Sundance Film Festival can seem like a most indecipherable hybrid: It’s a movie-industry gathering, a wannabe Mardi Gras, a celebrity pit stop. It's also, of course, a place where some of the most memorable films of our time began their...

Participant Media to create pro-social cable channel

2012-12-17 14:39:00

Participant Media, the film company behind "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Charlie Wilson's War," has acquired two cable channels and plans to combine them to form a new network featuring programming with social themes. The channel, which does not yet have...

Ted Danson dives into 'Oceana'

2011-04-26 00:00:00

"I've always been kind of a shill," says Ted Danson. "The guy out in front of the tent saying, 'Thank you so much for watching "Cheers," come on in and let me introduce you to the marine biologists who have something really important to tell you.'" The...

Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming

2011-04-26 00:00:00

"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a...

Embrace the bad to find the good

2007-01-14 00:00:00

Here's a short list of things I do to avoid writing: do the dishes; do laundry; do the Internet (Playbill.com, the Drudge Report); read the paper; install shelves; help my kids with their homework; follow the Red Sox; go to the gym; listen to podcasts ("...

The First YouTube Election

2006-09-06 00:00:00

AT CLOSE TO 20 MILLION video-hungry users a month — and growing — YouTube.com has become a magnet for budding filmmakers, marketers and entertainment industry executives looking for new ways to reach viewers. Now, with the campaign season upon...

Sole Technology skates toward a green future

2009-04-19 00:00:00

Pierre Andr� Senizergues can make skateboards do anything. When he was in his 20s, he steered them from the Paris suburbs to Venice Beach and turned them into the key to an apartment he could afford when he started winning skate competitions. In his 30s,...

Documentaries delight Hollywood's politically engaged

2009-02-20 00:00:00

The documentary category is where Hollywood wears its conscience on its sleeve, and this Oscar season's nominees have the politically engaged members of the industry buzzing more than usual over the range and variety of topics. Partly, that's because the...

Did he? Did she? Did they? Tongues are wagging over the two-year affair that Al Gore is alleged to have had with Larry David 's ex-wife (and producer on "An Inconvenient Truth" ), Laurie David. Laurie's agent tells People the report is "patently false," and Laurie herself says it's untrue. Either

2010-06-18 09:39:20

Former Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper (C) and cast members of the nominated documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' arrive at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood , California , 25 February 2007.

2010-06-01 10:08:03

Keating was inspired to go green after watching Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth".

2010-04-10 20:36:35