Comments on: HGTV Greenwashing Giveaway?

By: Crunchy Chicken: Planet Green Response | SCREAM to be GREEN .::. join the ecolution

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:40:03 +0000

[...] of the channel and there will be product placement in many shows. I bitched about this with the HGTV Green House giveaway. Many of these shows have been on other Discovery Channel owned channels. One of which is Mean [...]

By: GM Using Kids To Sell Hybrid SUVs | SCREAM to be GREEN .::. join the ecolution

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:06:31 +0000

[...] the answer. It shouldn’t be the future. It is not fixing any of our worldly problems. I guess HGTV didn’t get that message, either. Anyway…enjoy some [...]

By: nadine sellers

nadine sellers — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:57:59 +0000

if HGTV has so much funding to redistribute, it could grow a green conscience and spread the goodness toward truly innovative research.
by promoting small hybrids and off grid technologies, easy to maintain produce gardens and passive insulation/heating/cooling, and especially water conservation principles.

the shows are popular, the waste is appalling. recycling not smashing. minimalism not sensationalism.

curb your extravagant enthusiasm folks!

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:51:54 +0000

The story of this house’s environmental footprint goes beyond, well, its actual footprint. Where this house was located along with HGTV’s obsession of showing their dream homes in some sort of paradise only backs up everything that is wrong with how we portray the ideal way to live in America. When I talk about sustainability, I always try to think first in the non-political realm of spatiality. In other words, we simply don’t have enough space in the world to give everybody a little single-family home on an island. This is the real environmental issue. Moreover, it’s less about the gas mileage and more about the number of miles we make people drive to get to their “dream” home.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:22:11 +0000

LEED certification of an HGTV dream house? That’s awesome. But yeah, drop the Yukon already. GM is desperate and HGTV must have signed a deal with the devil since a huge GM SUV has been given away with the house every year…

But we all know HGTV could do better by investing that $1M or so in community projects instead of giving away a house that most people who win sell because they can’t afford the property taxes…