Super Eco

Photo credit: Mother Nature Network

Hey, kids! Captain Planet and the Planeteers are back fighting climate change and saving the earth! 1990's flashback? Yeah, sorta. Captain Planet was Ted Turner's 90's creation, the world's first eco-superhero (some superheroes, like Batman, aren't so green). After a decade of hibernation (we don't think it was a political thing), he's back saving the earth from pollution, eco-villains like oil rig owner Hoggish Greedly, Dr. Blight, and Duke Nukem, and global warming.

The Mother Nature Network, an earth-first green news site, will be re-rolling more than 20 of Captain Planet's original episodes over the next year on the web. In Episode One, A Hero for Earth, you'll meet Gaia, spirit of the Earth (Whoopi Goldberg), who awakens to find that humans are destroying the Earth. She creates five rings with special powers (hmm) and distributes them to five special young people from around the world, who become the multicultural Planeteers who use the powers of the rings to help them out in sticky situations.

The series had a cast of big names including Elizabeth Taylor, James Coburn, Martin Sheen, Meg Ryan, Sting, Jeff Goldblum, Neil Patrick Harris, Tim Curry, and Helen Hunt, among others, and is perhaps even more relevant today than it was in 1990 when it was created. Kids of all ages will enjoy battling eco-villains and environmental baddies.

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