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Environmentally speaking
September 8, 2006

Has any DVD been as environmentally correct as Paramount’s planned release for An Inconvenient Truth? Following the theme of Al Gore’s $22.8 million-grossing global warming exposé, the DVD (street Nov. 21, prebook Oct. 10; $26.99) packaging includes 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper, inks and coatings, with no inserts, laminates or plastics—“so as to make the smallest environmental footprint possible,” says the press materials. And the studio is donating a portion of the DVD sales to the Alliance for Climate Protection. Next step: Getting the trucks delivering the DVDs to run on Ethanol.

ALTERNATIVE FUELS

Or maybe electricity. Oh, nevermind. Sony on Nov. 14 (prebook Sept. 21; DVD $26.96) tells us Who Killed the Electric Car?. The Sundance and Toronto festival documentary, narrated by Martin Sheen, unravels the controversy and theories about the demise of GM’s EV1.

ALTERNATIVE CULPRITS

Meanwhile, in Acorn Media’s DVD of the British miniseries Eleventh Hour (street Sept. 26, order now; $29.99), Patrick Stewart plays Professor Ian Hood (no, not Professor X) and battles “rogue cloners, ruthless polluters, resurgent viruses and other menaces at the very frontier of contemporary science,” according to the back of the box. Sounds like he could use some help from Storm—and maybe Al Gore.

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