Farmers’ Almanac TV Helping Bloggers Raise Awareness About Environment

October 12, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Savannah,GA — In celebration of Blog Action Day on October 15th, Farmers’ Almanac TV is making video segments from its national public television show, Farmers’ Almanac TV, available to bloggers and webmasters everywhere, to help generate dialog about the environment.

Beginning on Oct. 12th, the videos will be available for posting on blogs, MySpace pages or web sites. Users can simply copy and paste the HTML code, available at the “Almanac Blog” on FarmersAlmanac.com.

According to BlogActionDay.org, more than 8,000 blogs, reaching 5.6 million readers, have committed to participate on Oct. 15th. On that day, bloggers will post about the environment in their own way, with their own ideas. Major blogs that have signed up to participate, include SEOMoz, eMoms at Home, CopyBlogger, LifeHack, Zenhabits.

“It’s our pleasure to provide video about sustainable topics that both entertain and inspire,” said Bill Chisholm, CEO of Farmers’ Almanac TV. “In today’s world, we are all farmers, as we tend to our families, our environment and our planet.”

Now producing its third season, Farmers’ Almanac TV is a magazine-style show that features informative segments on the weather, recycling, the local food movement, and other sustainable topics. Peppered throughout are hints and tips spanning a dozen lifestyle categories — gardening, cooking, natural cures, weather and others — taken straight from years of actual Farmers’ Almanac pages.

The video titles available for free syndication are:

• “Green Toe”: Green Toe, of Santa Barbara, California makes an effort to “make shoes with no chemicals, no leather, no plastic, no poison, no nuthin’ shoes that don’t hurt the planet.”

• “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”: Reduce, reuse and recycle is the mission at the Berkley, California Ecology Center, so much so that they are even running their recycling trucks on vegetable oil.

• “Wind Power”: Farmers' Almanac TV visits the American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas for a glimpse into the past, present, and future of wind energy.

• “Home ECOnomics: light bulbs”: Sustainable guru, Tommy Linstroth of Melaver, Inc., in Savannah, Georgia talks about the energy and cost savings of using compact fluorescent light bulbs.

These videos, as well as others from the national public television show, can be viewed for free on FarmersAlmanac.com. Just click on the video tab. And while you’re there, don’t forget to check out the long-term weather!

Farmers' Almanac TV is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buy The Farm, LLC, which owns the exclusive license for video and electronic media production of the Farmers' Almanac brand. The public television show is distributed by American Public Television. Farmers' Almanac TV and Farmers' Almanac trademarks are licensed from Almanac Publishing Company and are used by Buy the Farm, LLC with full rights therein.