Media Release
Jackgreen partners ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ release
25th January, 2007
Jackgreen announced today that it has partnered the DVD release of "An Inconvenient Truth", with Paramount Home Entertainment Australia. As part of the release, Jackgreen has agreed to make available a free copy of the DVD to all secondary schools in Australia and encourage the students to take up a carbon reduction challenge. Further initiatives will be announced in the near term.
"An Inconvenient Truth" has been one of the most successful documentary movies of all time, taking over $51 million at the global box office. Short-listed for Oscar nomination, the critically acclaimed documentary based on former Vice President Al Gore’s presentation on global warming, is a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress.
"The DVD encourages its viewers to make changes to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce the impact of climate change" said Andrew Randall, Managing Director of Jackgreen. "We feel that it’s important for kids to hear this message and take up the challenge to change their family’s footprint. We’re really excited about this opportunity to make this DVD available to secondary students."
Jackgreen is now a licensed electricity retailer in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland, and a licensed gas retailer in South Australia and New South Wales.
For information or comment please phone Andrew Randall, Managing Director of Jackgreen Limited on 8302 3812.
Archive Highlight
Published: Jackgreen News Issue #9 — October 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom — think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "travelling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.