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Green Porn

Posted on 26. May, 2010 by mlamond in Clean up the World, Uncategorized, green media, greenblogs

Yes its a cheap subject line for a blog and we’re bound to attract several viewers who will no doubt be disappointed by my witterings – however, there is a serious point to be made here.

Type ‘Green Porn’ into Google and you’ll be amazed by what comes up (stop it!). While I was expecting to be inundated with a list of smutty sites that would require me to explain my site visit history to my partner as being for ‘research purposes’ – the reality was surprising.

There certainly appear to be plenty of sites that do indeed offer ‘Green Porn’, usually based around sex outdoors (or so I suppose, honest!) but top of the search and dominating the listings was ‘Green Porno’ a series of short films written and directed by Isabella Rossellini.

The series began in 2008 and currently airs on the Sundance Channel – http://www.sundancechannel.com. Each film looks at animal sexual behaviour and Rossellini enacts the mating rituals of various insects and animals with cardboard cut-outs and foam-rubber sculptures. Some of them are pretty funny and hats off to Ms Rossellini for having the kahunas to embark on such an exercise.

My search also threw up links to two very interesting and different blogs. The first was from Trewin Restorick, CEO of NGO Global Action Plan (http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/green-porn-how-do-you-make-low-carbon-economy-sexy-150210).

Trewin commands a considerable amount of respect in UK sustainability circles and his blog was based around a meeting he attended which had posed the rather hackneyed but worthy question of ‘how can you make a low carbon economy sexy?’ He’d suggested turning the question on its head and asking – ‘how can you make sex low carbon?’ As he goes onto say a project measuring the carbon footprint of the adult industry would be extremely interesting, particularly given the profusion of server space it must now swallow.

The second blog was written by Liz Langley. I know nothing about Ms Langley but was impressed with the directness of her piece – ‘Why Using Sex Toys, Watching Porn, and Going Green Is an Easy Fit’!

Her discussion was based on the increasing adoption of porn into the mainstream and the fact that such acceptance was allowing the industry to become greener. Its quite a graphic piece in places and readers of a sensitive disposition might be offended but its a good argument (Though to be honest her tale of hair bands made from re-cycled condoms had me thinking of ‘There’s Something About Mary’). Anyway you can read her piece at – http://www.alternet.org/sex/126664/why_using_sex_toys,_watching_porn,_and_going_green_is_an_easy_fit/?page=entire

So this being the Green TV blog was this really just an excuse to ‘do research’?

Well – yes and no! Two years ago Green TV launched a sub-channel called ‘Green Sauce’ of video content that we thought was ‘Adult’ in nature – you can watch it here:

http://www.green.tv/greensauce

Some of the films in the channel have proved to be perennial favourites with viewers and also with our syndication partners.

However, we haven’t received any films that we deem suitable for ‘Green Sauce’ for over six-months and we’re starting to worry that credit crunch and recession may have discouraged filmmakers from producing films with green themes that are sexy (I’ve had to phrase that very carefully!).

Is this the case? Let me know!

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