This is the first time EDF Energy has ever aired a TVC. Which is part of a full scale multi-media advertising campaign that goes live on Sunday (6 January 2008) with this 60 sec TV advert made entirely from recycled film clips. The soundtrack featured in the advert, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, has been adapted from the original version written by Joe Raposo for Sesame Street in 1970. In this case the song is used to highlight that while it may be difficult to change behaviour over night …
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April 22nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I LOVE this advert. I think its one of the best adverts ever. I disagree though that global warming is caused solely by us (humans) and CO2 emissions. The temperature of the earth has varied over time for example, look at the last ice age. Since then the earth has warmed up which is NOT as a result of our emissions. HOWEVER I still feel strongly about saving energy and lowering emissions and it is common sense to save power as it will undoubtedly save you money.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
To add to what i put below, I think that it is important that big countries such as USA and China work harder to lower emissions as although emissions are not totally responsible for climate change, they are a factor. The UK is only responsible for 2% of emissions whereas the USA and China ‘contribute’ a lot more. It is everybodies responsibility to maintain and not poison our planet.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Électricité de France
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Is EDF Energy a french company?
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
EDF energy is the british subsidiary. But yes thats why EDF stands for Électricité de France. its the national power supplier. By the way i’m not some expert on EDF, i just went on wikipedia. Obviously you didn’t have the sense to do that.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
this is a fantastic advert, i love it
June 19th, 2009 at 12:31 am
“look at the last ice age”
Whta the fuck are you talking about, the last ice age took hundreds of years to come about. we are seeing a temperture rise that has happened faster than any temperture rise in geological history.
June 20th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Brilliant advert, Kudos to Euro RSCG London for making this
June 27th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Are you an idiot?
China may pollute more but they have 19% of the population, the UK has less than 0.1%. It’s fair that 1.3 billion people pollute way more than 65 million people, if you look at per capita emissions then the UK is one of the biggest polluters.
Why are British people so damn retarded? I’m so moving to the US after my degree.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
In this advert it’s Trinity Boys School in Croydon,
June 30th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
why dosent it just get 2 the point rather than putting all that shit in, the point is we need 2 trash the planet there, fucks sake man
June 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
fuck off
July 1st, 2009 at 9:46 am
Fuck off? I was answering someones question. You need to grow up.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Have a day off will ya. its made from old clips (RECYCLING) the whole thing that this company bloody stands for.
July 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
its all shite
July 4th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
u have a day off u retard how the fuck does edf stand 4 recycling
July 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Edf don’t give a shit about this planet they are just trying to draw you all in…as usual
July 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
urrmmm, has anyone got the full verison of this song?
love it
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 am
EDF are an amazing company and all you haters can swivel…..
you can even see the irony that they are powering the PC with which you chat ure mindless hate… EDF FTW
July 10th, 2009 at 11:00 am
It’s called marketing mate, green is good for business, EDF are no different from any other multi national, explot, exploit, exploit. As Satre wrote “The only thing that capitalism distributes properly is poverty”….
July 10th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Entirely postmodern…
July 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Green people are the fucking worst… middle class arm-chair reveolutionaries… they detract from REAL world problems… and have destroyed the socialist movement..
July 11th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
true. But no socialist would describe EDF as a good company.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Correct fella but i’ve got some first hand experince of this and nothing makes my blood boil more then then seeing green protestors outside one of thier plants and afterwards they fuck off back to there mum and dads £500,000 house and watch their wide-screen tellys….. and talk about being an anarchist heart but voting conservative.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
rant over now I promise