Don Carr

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Bare-knuckle content and communications for a better world.
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We Don't Need Another Green Anti-Hero

Can Hollywood get beyond its stereotypical portrayals of environmentalists?

Got to write about AppleTV's #Extrapolations again, this time for Civil Eats.

From the iconic Got Milk? campaign to the ADM scandal in The Informant!, to Extrapolations final dinner, Scott Z. Burns has long woven food and farming issues into his work. https://civileats.com/2023/04/20/apple-tvs-extrapolations-connects-food-agriculture-and-climate-change/

Apple TV’s ‘Extrapolations’ Connects Food, Agriculture, and Climate Change

Scott Z. Burns, the creator of the series about life during climate change, discusses how his food and farming background shaped the show.

Civil Eats
Matt Zoller Seitz raves about How To Blow Up a Pipeline: "The result fuses technically proficient, impressively assured filmmaking to the urgently contemporary subject matter in an increasingly rare way in American commercial cinema."
#HowToBlowUpAPipeline
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-movie-review-2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline movie review (2023) | Roger Ebert

A lean, relentless, unabashedly political thriller, told like a heist movie.

https://www.rogerebert.com/

For last week's Sierra Magazine review of Apple TV's Extrapolations I interviewed show creator Scott Z. Burns.

He had a lot more to say about climate change and storytelling that didn't make it into the piece.

https://doncarr.substack.com/p/the-full-future

The Full Future

BRM Talks With the Creator of Apple TV's New Series on Climate Change

Black Rhino Media
Future Imperfect

Apple TV’s new cli-fi series, Extrapolations, envisions a future that feels all too close to the present

You Can’t Say Hollywood Doesn’t Recycle

Despite a Twister Remake, the Climate Crisis is Still Woefully Underrepresented Onscreen.

https://open.substack.com/pub/doncarr/p/you-cant-say-hollywood-doesnt-recycle?r=ex41&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

You Can’t Say Hollywood Doesn’t Recycle

Despite a Twister Remake, the Climate Crisis is Still Woefully Underrepresented Onscreen.

Black Rhino Media

You Can’t Say Hollywood Doesn’t Recycle

Despite a Twister Remake, the Climate Crisis is Still Woefully Underrepresented Onscreen.

https://open.substack.com/pub/doncarr/p/you-cant-say-hollywood-doesnt-recycle?r=ex41&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

You Can’t Say Hollywood Doesn’t Recycle

Despite a Twister Remake, the Climate Crisis is Still Woefully Underrepresented Onscreen.

Black Rhino Media
"Overall, the report concluded, the unchanged score is largely a result of failures to make needed changes on farmland to reduce pollution." https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/report-uss-largest-estuary-chesapeake-bay-earns-d-plus/2023/01/05/074009d2-8d1f-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html
Report: US's largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay, earns D-plus

An environmental group has given the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in its “State of the Bay” report — the same grade it gave the watershed two years ago

The Washington Post
“How can we be assured that other segments of the pipeline aren’t equally prone to failure?” https://www.reuters.com/article/pipeline-spill-tc-energy-keystone/keystone-pipeline-break-spilled-diluted-bitumen-complicating-cleanup-idUSKBN2SZ1P8
Keystone pipeline break spilled diluted bitumen, complicating cleanup

The oil spilled from TC Energy Corp's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TRP.TO" target="_blank">(TRP.TO)</a> ruptured Keystone pipeline was diluted bitumen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday, adding complications to the cleanup.

Reuters

New from Black Rhino Media:

I interviewed the former Earthworks Energy Director about his new role as head of New Mexico's just announced environmental crime task force. https://doncarr.substack.com/p/the-thin-green-line

The Thin Green Line

New Mexico Convenes the State's First Environmental Crime Task Force

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