Planet Green’s Alter Eco family will host a special fundraiser To celebrate the airing of Pharmaka’s Alter Eco episode and to raise funds for Pharmaka’s annual programming and operations budget.
The event will be held at a private residence in the Los Feliz area. Pharmaka is a 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to creating a creative and sustainable community in Downtown Los Angeles through cross cultural programming and contemporary art exhibitions.
No man, or person for that matter has gone further than Timothy Tredwell, in their quest for environmental justice. Tredwell, better known to pop culture fanatics as the Grizzly Man is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict who devoted the last 13 summers of his life to living among the grizzlies in Alaska’s Katmai National Park while attempting to understand them better and credited his newly found passion for wildlife adventures for his recovery.
The Grizzly Man Diaries premiered on Friday, August 29th on Animal Planet at 9 PM. Check below for the upcoming episode listings of the series which captures his last weeks on earth.
Episode 1: In The Sanctuary Friday, August 29 9-9:30PM ET/PT
As the episode begins, Tredwell contemplates the dangerous situation at his new campsite. There are a lot of bears around and he was decide how he will spend his time interacting with all of them.
Episode 2: Aunt Melissa - Friday, August 29th 9:30-10PM ET/PT
Timothy comes across one of his most important study bears, Aunt Melissa. She is in a creek engaged in a fierce battle with another bear named Squiggle.
Episode 3: The Two Timmy’s - Friday, September 5th 9-9:30PM ET/PT
He introduces viewers to his assistant and kindred spirit, Timmy the Fox. The two Timothy’s have a history and he is pleased to spend time with Timmy’s family and his son Banjo.
Episode 4: The Salmon Run - Friday, August 5th 9:30-10PM ET/PT
Timothy witnesses a false salmon run, which is a spot in the creek where there isn’t enough water for the salmon to make it over the rocks. The false run is causing many salmon to die prematurely.
Episode 5: The Cycles - Friday, August 12th 9-9:30PM ET/PT
Its mating season at the grizzly sanctuary and Tredwell is going to be intimately exploring what this all entails.
Episode 6: Fight Day - Friday, September 12th 9:30-10PM ET/PT
Its late in the season and an unusually large number of bears are congregating around the back creek. Tredwell witnesses a fight between two alpha males as they fight for the affection of a female.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 resulted in the swift and total collapse of the Twin Towers. But the Pentagon, which suffered the same kind of blow, largely withstood it. World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed only hours later, even though it had not been directly targeted. What were the unique forces inside each building that determined whether it stood or crumbled, and how? The world’s leading forensic engineers have spent years analyzing the structural consequences of the attacks, and this hour will take viewers deep inside their investigations to explain why the results were so drastically different for each building.
According to the September issue of Health Magazine yogurt can fight gum disease. The news article states that “Japanese researchers found that people who ate just 2 ounces of yogurt per day (about one-third of a serving) nearly halved their risks of advanced gum disease, which begins with gingivitis, or inflammation around the gums.”
The Mythbusters Shark Week 2008 episode aired on July 27th and the myths tackled in this Shark Week special: Do dogs attract sharks? Are magnets the new wave in shark repellent technology? Do flashlights really attract sharks?
Myth #2: Does Playing Dead Prevent Shark Attacks Some myths believe that trashing around means that you are most likely to get attacked by a shark than playing dead. So they chum the water and put the cast members in the water to see if playing dead actually gets you anywhere.
The six-part series premiered on the channel on August 20th and comes from co-creators Michael Selditch and Stan Bertheaud. The series follows a group of students at Tulane University’s prestigious School of Architecture in New Orleans.
The premise of the show is different from much of the designs shows that we may be familiar with such as HGTV Design Star. These are students so there are no eliminations, however, students submit competing designs for an affordable home in Katrina-battered New Orleans.
The stakes are high as the winning model will be built during the course of the school year and put up for sale, enabling one fledgling architect to begin his or her career with a high-profile splash.
Watch a 1-minute clip from episode 1 of the series where the students are beginning thier first design where they are designing thier 3rd home for residents of New Orleans. Watch as New Orleans’ residents speak about the struggles they face with obtaining a new home.
Olympic athletes don’t have one track minds. They don’t train for hours on end just to showcase their skills, if only for a matter of seconds, for the chance of winning a gold medal once every 4 years. They are also health conscious and pushing environmental issues to their millions of fans across the globe.
This isn’t the only commercial and Tara isn’t the only Olympian speaking. WildAids campaign features 15 athletes in their “World Champions for Wildlife” Campaign, including American swimmers Kirk and Amanda Beard, Ethiopian world marathon winner Haile Gebrselassie and Chinese athletes like Houston Rockets basketball star Yao Ming, that country’s most famous export (and the sport’s tallest player at 7 feet, 6 inches).
You can read the entire article by clicking here. You can also learn more about WildAid, you may visit their website at www.wildaid.org.
Watch some of the various 30-second WildAid PSA’s below.
On August 19th, Paramount Home Entertainment released the first season of the hit new series Transformers Animated: Season One on DVD!
The DVD has all of your favorite Autobots and Decepticons and they are animated and ready to battle for robot supremacy. According to Paramount, these “Robots in Disguise” are back and better than ever in a collection that Transformers enthusiasts everywhere will be sure to love! Make sure that you grab your copy of Transformers Animated: Season One.
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