Thirteen Goes Green For Earth Day
April 22nd, 2008 by Ethan
The legendary Public Broadcasting System (PBS) channel, Thirteen/WNET has just re-launched a newly re-designed website. In honor of the launch coinciding with Earth Day, the website producers have jammed the site with incredible green content from recent programming and other stories spanning many years.
One of the featured stories/videos on the site is the New York Voices piece on the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Disaster that GBK originally covered back when it first aired.
Much of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits on top of a 55-acre oil spill that is 50% larger than the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. Decades of oil refining on the industrial Newton Creek left 17-million gallons of oil under the ground and in the water. About half of that oil has been cleaned up - leaving some 8 million gallons. And many residents in this working-class neighborhood want to know why ExxonMobil–the company believed to be mostly responsible for the spill–isn’t cleaning up the spill more rapidly, and why the State hasn’t pushed ExxonMobil and others harder.
The video — like pretty much all of PBS’ stories — is a must watch.
Check out some more Earth Day-appropriate must-see-tv care of GBK’s favorite public television channel:
EGG: The Arts Show
Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and the Impermanence of Nature
[Ed. note: Andy Goldsworthy is this GBKers' favorite artist hands-down, don't pass this one up!]
Charlie Rose/NewsHour
Clinton and Obama Face Pennsylvania on Earth Day
[Ed. note: Obama by 3 points in PA, you heard it here first! Update: Doh! Clinton by 9.2%]
Teaching & Learning Celebration
Green The Ghetto: Majora Carter Speaks
[Ed. note: Btw, we love Dr. Carter and Sustainable South Bronx, we just don't talk about her much b/c she's not in Brooklyn!]
Bill Moyers Journal
Earth Day Wayback Machine: Moyers 1973
[Ed. note: Check out the hair!]
[Wide Angle]
Growing Up Global - Eco-House: Learning to Live More with Less
On a personal note, I grew up watching the award-winning PBS program Nature and owe a great deal of my interest and inspiration in the natural world to watching series, like ‘Flight of the Condor,’ as a child on Channel Thirteen.
While the memorable and inspiring voice of Nature — George Page — passed away in 2006, the program is still developing stunning new work after 25 years of production. Check out their recent episode The Gorilla King, 
which follows, “The life of Titus, silverback leader, from birth to present reign, spanning a tumultuous period in the history of a species and a nation.” It is a remarkable story stretching back to 1974 and the renowned and brilliant work of primatologist Dian Fossey.
Shop the Nature store.
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[...] I love how other sites, especially local ones, in our community are picking up on our newly re-designed thirteen.org website and Earth Day. This could not be more appropriate, since this year Teaching and Learning Celebration focused on science and global awareness. http://greenbrooklyn.com/thirteen-goes-green-for-earth-day/2008/04/22/ [...]