Technics: TV: A UN-backed new webTV-channel in England, Green TV, hastens to environmentalize us

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The Brit internet tech news-source online, The Register UK reported in April (Team Register) that "Green.tv in the pink after promising launch,"–that is, this screentv channel is doing well after an auspicious start.

The people behind green.tv - the first broadband TV channel dedicated to environmental issues - are cracking open the nettle wine after notching up 250,000 hits in the first week of being online.

Set up with the backing of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), green.tv has set its sights on becoming a major resource on information on the environment covering everything from climate change to children's stories on wildlife.

CompuScreenTV, by Anaximaximum:

The online broadcaster went live at the beginning of April and features content on matters such as preserving natural resources, pollution and climate change.

Ade Thomas, green.tv's Director, said: "With green.tv we've brought together the audience pulling power of television with the chatroom and blogging interaction of the internet to create a truly powerful new medium, one that reaches out to a global broadband audience - an audience which, importantly, consumes most of the Earth's valuable resources."

The last time I checked out the site, however, I didn't get much of anything.

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The Brit online technews source, The Register reported recently that the UN has gone webcasting at a site called Green.tv. If the foregoing click-up doesn't work, here's a copy-&-paste URL: [http://www.tcgreens.org/tv/]. Pasting doesn't work either?; it didn't for me, so I went to Technorati tags, found a list of URLs purporting to be the real McCoy. After clicking about, I finally came upon green tv, a very plain site with lots of links - but I don't see any TV anything. It seems already the site is overwhelmed with the volume of surfers, curious, and devotees. Going live-link April 1, in a week's time, it had already attracted upwards of a quarter million hits.

refWrite's TechNotes, by Owlie Scowlie

Set up with the backing of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Green.tv has set its sights on becoming a major resource on information on the environment covering everything from climate change to children's stories on wildlife.

The online broadcaster went live at the beginning of April and features content on matters such as preserving natural resources, pollution and climate change.

Its got chatrooms, accoutrements, and probably even paraphernalia like green-tea cups for sale. But I couldn't check out that assumption because my browser, sturdy as it is, couldn't connect to the site, popular as it be.

But, hey, the outfit lost in virtual unaccessiblity is not to be confused with another Green TV, a straitforward wildlife website (with a penchant for supplying teachers with "environmental and educational videos" for the classroom). Take a look at their gorgeous work, "Counting Sheep," when you stop. This is a site for real wilderness-love. There's also a "Rogues Gallery" of photos featuring many species you may enjoy as much as I did. - Owlie Scowlie

ecologics, environment, tv, greentv, tvgreen, unenivronment, environmentuntv, wildlife

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