Jack Bauer on ‘24′ is used to dealing with threats to the world. And now he’s dealing with global warming. Not actually Jack Bauer himself, but the producers of the popular television series. They’re claiming that the seventh series is now the world’s first carbon-neutral TV production.
The producers, Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox’, hired consultants to calculate the production’s carbon footprint. Carbon emissions were reduced by such methods as using biodiesel in trucks and generators, using low-energy bulbs in the lighting, only electronically distributing scripts and installing sensors in the bathrooms and kitchens that made the lights more efficient.
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The threat of global warming has been the ‘Cinderella’ area of US policy. But no more. President Obama has made it one of the priorities of his new administration. Reducing America’s carbon footprint is the challenge that the new President has set the country.
First in the firing line is the automotive industry. The White House’s ‘New Energy For America’ Plan calls for:
‘One million Plug In hybrid cars – cars that get up to 150 miles per gallon – on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America’.
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