Big Fun with Global Warming from Climate Cartoons (previously known as Project 3650), was honored last week by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with the Emmy Award for Best National Public Service Announcements/Broadband. Winners of this year’s Humanitarian, Public and Community Service Emmy Awards were announced during a luncheon ceremony at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
An animated short film by Mark Greene of Pecos Pictures, Big Fun with Global Warming was co-sponsored by the Sierra Club and features Stinky, a nasty little office worker who thinks global warming is ‘a bunch of hooey.’ ‘Pecos Pictures specializes in taking complex political issues and presenting them with a humorous twist, but we’re dead serious about the issues involved,’ says Greene.
Climate Cartoons is a non-profit organization run by animators, producers and distribution experts, including professionals from Colossal Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. The group’s mission is to gently lure people into earth-friendly behavior via entertaining animation. ‘What if we could make American families laugh while showing them how to solve the climate crisis?’ Al Gore asks in response to the project. To view the short and learn more about Climate Cartoons, go to http://ClimateCartoons.org
