Save My Environment.

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I just saw Aaanold Schwarzenegger on Good Morning America, discussing his very positive moves to make the state of California greener. You have to hand it to the guy. He sure keeps on reinventing himself, from bodybuilder, to movie star to Republican woman-groping governor, to gentle green giant, fighting for the environment. He is a smart man. And likable.
I wanted to bring you the video of this mornings interview, but found this much more amusing parody of Schwarzenegger doing Hamlet. Infinitely more satisfying, I think.


Pimp My Environment
Schwarzenegger brings green message to New York
by joshua rhett miller / metro new york

UPPER EAST SIDE. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted a “tipping point” in environmentalism, one he boasted will originate in California and will eventually move into mainstream culture.
During a speech yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Schwarzenegger likened the environmental movement to bodybuilding, a sport that had a “very sketchy” image in its early stages. But as physical fitness gained popularity and its positive health effects were realized, bodybuilding became widely accepted.
“Like bodybuilders, environmentalists were also thought of being kind of weird, strange and fanatics,” Schwarzenegger said on the latest stop in his East Coast trip to promote the cause. “They were like Prohibitionists at a fraternity party. But I believe this is about to switch over. It’s about to switch because it’s going to be powered not by guilt, but by something much more positive, by something much more dynamic, by something much more capable of bringing about real big change.”
Schwarzenegger said California is leading the way by imposing the country’s first statewide cap on gases that are blamed for global warming. The law, which was passed last year, requires California to reduce emissions by 25 percent by 2020. The state also refuses to purchase electricity from states that derive it from coal and Schwarzenegger has ordered a 10 percent cut in the carbon content of transportation fuel.
“A tipping point will occur when the environmental movement is no longer seen as a nag or a scold, but it is seen as a positive force in people’s lives,” he said.
When he ran for governor in 2003, Schwarzenegger said he was hounded by environmentalists about his gas-guzzling Hummers. Now he’s on the cover of Newsweek, balancing a globe near the headline, “Save the Planet — Or Else.”
“They didn’t even believe when I talked about that I would protect the environment,” said Schwarzenegger, whose two Hummers now use biodiesel and hydrogen fuel.
Schwarzenegger will host an upcoming episode of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” in which he and host Xzibit will make over a 1965 Chevy Impala to use biodiesel fuel. The show will air on Earth Day.
“That is what you have to do,” he said. “You have to make things cool, to make things sexy and cutting edge. And so we don’t have to take the cars away from the people — the SUVs, the Hummers and the muscle cars.”
On the team
California cannot solve global warming alone, Schwarzenegger said. It can, however, push other states and nations into action.
This week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a report that said the city emits 1 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases. His administration is working to reduce that.