Dr. Seuss’ irascible orange speaker for the trees has come to life in Paramount’s animated version of The Lorax, a film that drew the ire of the extreme right for the heavy-left-leaning rhetoric employed through song and dialogue. As full disclosure, I tend to side with the sardonically expressed opinions about the threats to the environment, but […]

 

 

There’s plenty to be said for Gasland, the Oscar-nominated, 2010 documentary from Josh Fox, who grew up and currently lives on the Marcellus Shale, “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” in Pennsylvania. In fact, his land is so valuable that he was offered 100,000 an acre by a handful of companies seeking the “ocean of natural gas” […]