Ok, we made fun of The Biggest Loser yesterday for purporting to teach contestants how to exercise without electricity. (The sidewalk ... it's just like a treadmill, except you end up somewhere different than where you started!) But I was pleasantly surprised that the show, in which overweight people compete to lose weight, took on the green theme with gusto.
Last night's challenge was introduced with stacks of empty pizza boxes and other trash to show the losers how much waste they produce over a year of eating. Then the truly impressive part: Two giant trucks dumped out a heap of 148,000 soda cans representing the number of sodas the contestants had consumed in their lifetimes. There was a little lecture about recycling, followed by the challenge. The two-person teams had to race to the pile, pick up as many cans as they could, run up a very steep ramp, and toss the empties into a recycling bin. This looked like it would be pretty exhausting even if you didn't weigh 300 pounds. The pair with the most cans after half an hour won two cars. But not just any cars—they were hybrid SUVs. So, thumbs up to The Biggest Loser for taking the green theme and running with it.
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Nov 7, 2007 9AM #
Don't hybrid cars just shift the ecological cost away from our air and toward the battery factory in Canada? :-)
Nov 7, 2007 9AM #
Wow! I'm pleasantly surprised too!
I guess it makes sense -- if I were a producer on the show, I'd be leary of being made fun of for heading for the nearest sidewalk. But a hybrid SUV?? Nah. It's the same as a regular car for impact., isn't it??
Oh man, I wish more people could see that imagery of how much material they consume in their lifetimes ... and how many of those bottles actually become recycled pile jackets and other products??
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