January 28th, 2010

Some of the nation’s best-known and critically acclaimed celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Jason Bateman, Felicity Huffman and Forest Whitaker, along with rising stars Chace Crawford, Emmy Rossum and Justin Long, are leading a campaign to help citizens sound the call for clean energy in Washington.

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February 12th, 2009

By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now

Over the past few years, the Academy Awards have become a fuel-efficient vehicle for Hollywood’s green movement. And perhaps no environmental nonprofit has gleaned more momentum from star power than Global Green USA, which helped put the celebrity machine into first gear in 2003, when it shuttled A-list’ers to the Oscars in alternative-fuel cars.

The sight of Leonardo DiCaprio (who drove his own Prius) and others wheeling up in hybrids seems to have galvanized Hollywood greens who’d already felt the call to tout eco-awareness. The following year, Global Green USA unfurled its first “Red Carpet-Green Cars” pre-Oscars Party, attended by a slew of luminaries, including DiCaprio.

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May 16th, 2008

Photo: Copyright © 2008 Oceana Longtime ocean advocate Ted Danson is pressing Canada to take a more active role in efforts to reduce fisheries subsidies. By Shermakaye Bass Celebrities trade on their celebrity and always have – sometimes in not so earth-friendly ways. But among the nobler echelons of Hollywood, Manhattan and London, renown is [...]

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