Baseball may be red, white and blue, but it’s also global green. The MLB has partnered up with the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental action group that has advised the Oscars, Grammies, and now Major League Baseball on (green) red carpet events. Teams all across the nation are instituting different ecological practices, from energy saving bulbs as field lights to recycled toilet paper, depending on what the NRDC’s Team Greening Program tells them. Other initiatives include no-flush urinals to save water, chemically benign cleaners for the grounds, and computers that track energy use, so if the bill is running too high, air conditioning can be shut down in some parts of the stadium. All this and the A-Rod/Madonna scandal. Welcome to our world, baseball.

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The Dark Knight, Warner Brothers’ sequel to Batman Begins, beat all estimates this weekend by opening with approximately $155.3 million in ticket sales. Was it the most profound film ever made, a step backward or simply an outstanding entry into the superhero genre? The final performance by Heath Ledger is sure to leave fans debating for years over whether his or Jack Nicholson’s is the definitive performance of Batman’s iconic arch-villain.

You might not get a chance to see the film in an all solar theater, but maybe you can drive to see the third installment in a car powered by water? We got pretty excited seeing this video on YouTube a couple years ago, but our friends at TreeHugger give that aspiration a thumbs down. If you really could run a car on water, we’d have seen some real data on it by now.

Teasing us with panaceas like autos you can run on tap water? That’s almost as cruel as The Joker.

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PS: Why is Christian Bale assaulting his mother and sister? Method acting?

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Thanks to Juno’s success and the real-life pregnancy of Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears, teenage pregnancy is the hottest thing since rehab. To exploit this trend, Hollywood gives us Baby Borrowers, a reality tv show featuring teen couples attempting to parent babies, work full-time minimum wage jobs, and pay bills.

Besides the scary fact that parents actually donated their young children for the honor of being on a reality tv show (aka no big cash prizes to be found here), this social experiment is hardly experimental. Teens find out that… get ready for this… parenting is hard! The only one of the “borrowers” who seems in on the joke is Sean who purposely agreed to be on the show to prove to girlfriend, Kelsey, that they aren’t ready to be parents. He happily gloats to the camera that “this is pretty good for my plan” when the real mother of the borrowed baby (who’s been watching the events unfold on a flat screen tv in a nearby house) stops by to scold Kelsey and him for their inability to change the baby’s clothes or give her a bath. Even if the tvs used for surveillance on the show had been given the Energy Star rating, they don’t have the opportunity to save energy when they’re turned off because the real parents (smartly) never stop watching the borrowers. Whereas viewers don’t have any excuses.

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