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How to Go Green: Like Celebrities
Celebrities, and their various efforts to go green, can be a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s great that high-profile, highly-visible folks are affecting positive change by both reducing their impact on the planet, but inspiring others to do the same. They have the resources and connections to start progressive, world-changing organizations to bring publicity to causes that might otherwise go unnoticed, and a permanent soapbox to make sure that millions of people know about them. We love to pay attention to them, as a culture, and, in the best cases, they can use that power for good.
Green celebs: An inconvenient truth?
It isn't all sunshine and red carpet glamour photos, though—there are a few celebs still in need of a sound eco-education. And, because they’re under the watchful eye of many a paparazzi and the public at large, it isn't that hard to find inconsistencies between what they say we should do, and what they do—usually with thousands of pounds of carbon emissions in between. Remember all that hullaballo about Al Gore and his electricity bill (until he got a solar roof)?
Go green like celebs
While it can be easy to cast the first stone, there is no denying the tremendous reach and potential to affect positive change among the A-listers, rock stars, and other celebrities who are doing more than their part to help our planet be a better place. As long as there are movies, there will be stars and starlets; as long as there is music, there will be rock stars and groupies. Celebrities aren’t going anywhere, and, let's face it, we don't want them to. And there's some good news: There's a lot we can learn from them.
In this guide, we'll take a peek at some of the good green efforts put forth by a handful of the planet's most committed celebrities. Learn about Leonardo DiCaprio's passionate activism, Brad Pitt's efforts to rebuild a city, how Ed Norton helped start a revolution, and how you can do some of the same things in your life, starting today. Read on to get started being more like your favorite green celeb.
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