2011 Teen Choice Awards Goes Green: Impressed?
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Even if your not a "Belieber," a "Twihard," or a "Potterhead," there is still reason to be excited about the 2011 Teen Choice Awards. While many events claim to be environmentally friendly, Fox is incredibly serious about going green for Sunday's show, even if their methods do look kind of silly!
As part of its "Green it. Mean it" campaign, Fox partnered with Global Inheritance to allow the awards show to run entirely on renewable and volunteer produced energy. For the five days leading up to the show, both amateur and experienced riders came to Hollywood & Highland Center's central courtyard to pedal on 40 Schwinn bikes.
The stationary bicycles, hooked up to Global Inheritance's "Tour de Energy" bike station, produced kinetic energy that was converted to electricity and pumped back into the grid. The rest of the power needed for the awards show will come from local wind farms.
Because so many volunteers showed up to lend their sweat and support, the energy system ran nonstop and participants had to stand in lines to wait for a turn on the bikes. Also on site was an "Energy Playground" with a seesaw and a human hamster wheel.
The 2011 Teen Choice Awards, hosted by "The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco, will air live on Fox on Sunday, August 7th at 8 p.m. EST.
Even if categories like "Choice Male Hottie" and "Choice Movie Liplock" aren't your thing, the Teen Choice Awards' attempt to go green is surely worthy of some applause.
What about you? Are you impressed by the Teen Choice Awards' environmental efforts?
As part of its "Green it. Mean it" campaign, Fox partnered with Global Inheritance to allow the awards show to run entirely on renewable and volunteer produced energy. For the five days leading up to the show, both amateur and experienced riders came to Hollywood & Highland Center's central courtyard to pedal on 40 Schwinn bikes.
The stationary bicycles, hooked up to Global Inheritance's "Tour de Energy" bike station, produced kinetic energy that was converted to electricity and pumped back into the grid. The rest of the power needed for the awards show will come from local wind farms.
Because so many volunteers showed up to lend their sweat and support, the energy system ran nonstop and participants had to stand in lines to wait for a turn on the bikes. Also on site was an "Energy Playground" with a seesaw and a human hamster wheel.
The 2011 Teen Choice Awards, hosted by "The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco, will air live on Fox on Sunday, August 7th at 8 p.m. EST.
Even if categories like "Choice Male Hottie" and "Choice Movie Liplock" aren't your thing, the Teen Choice Awards' attempt to go green is surely worthy of some applause.
What about you? Are you impressed by the Teen Choice Awards' environmental efforts?
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The 'climate' is not at risk our liberty is.
If they were REALLY serious about 'going green', they would cancel the event to decrease the carbon footprint. Instead with will ride their corporate jets, drive their hummer limos and use all manner of fossil fuels then fan themselves on a solar turbine so they don't feel guilty.
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Second of all, no I am not impressed. Actually, when has Nick NOT been green? Nick is just full of eco-communists just like any other big business.
now only if everyone else would follow suit.
EVERYONE!!!!
In addition, all promotion of green technologies, a fine idea for stimulating the jobs market, serves as some sort of self-promotion or publicity. How else is the word going to get out but through populist means? Goodness me!
Just look at the awards given out, and who is receives them.
By the way, this website continually gets this wrong: The correct term is "Twitard" not "Twihard".
I mean Al Gore thinks he invented the internet for God's sake!!! How stupid can you be to believe anything that piece of sh*t says. And the science that he points to has been proven corrupt many times.
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