[Greenbuilding] Eco-Town (from Grist.org)

[Leslie Moyer]

    Leo, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Hollywood Anymore


      DiCaprio-produced series will rebuild tornado-ravaged Kansas town

It's official: Nine months after the rumors began, Leonardo DiCaprio has 
confirmed that he and a partner will give birth to ... a reality series 
on green building. DiCaprio will executive produce the 13-part 
/Eco-Town/ on the Discovery Channel's Planet Green arm, launching in 
2008. The original notion was to upgrade Anywhere, USA, for a show 
called /E-topia/, but the new series will focus on rebuilding a Kansas 
town that was hit by a tornado in May. The tornado caused 10 deaths, 
displaced almost all of the town's roughly 1,500 residents, and leveled 
homes, a hospital, and other buildings. And we're not saying Leo and his 
peeps are crass, cold-hearted vultures, but how excited do you think 
they were when Mother Nature wiped out a town called -- wait for it -- 
Greensburg? "This is not about a TV show and about a cable channel that 
reaches 50 million homes," says Discovery Communications CEO David 
Zaslav. "We're the number one non-fiction media company in the world, 
but we also want to make a difference."

straight to the source: CBC News 
<http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=9615>, 15 Jul 2007
straight to the source: /The Washington Post/ 
<http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=9616>, Reuters, 
Kimberly Nordyke, 13 Jul 2007
straight to the source: E! Online 
<http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=9617>, Natalie Finn, 
13 Jul 2007
see also, in Grist List: Leo-topia 
<http://www.grist.org/etc/gristlist/2006/10/20/index.html>