The Greening Of Hollywood

Lately, it seems like Hollywood and the environmental movement can’t get enough of each other. The wave of eco-friendly films seems to have been sparked by the success of last year’s March of the Penguins. “Whether this trend speaks to mere copycatting or a shared morality isn’t clear. Either way, Hollywood has sensed an opportunity to capitalize on high-profile debates about mounting planetary issues: oil, land-hogging McMansions, oil, frequent natural disasters, oil, melting glaciers, oil.”