France Honours Screen Icon Robert Redford uk.news.yahoo.com

Robert Redford has been awarded the French Legion of Honour medal for his services to the silver screen and his work to protect the environment.

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This celebrity mom is making the world a greener place with their eco-friendly actions and respect for Mother Nature!

Angelina Jolie
In addition to being an Academy Award winning actress and mother to six children, Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Knox and Vivienne, Angelina Jolie still finds time to travel the world and make it a better place as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. Alongside partner Brad Pitt, Jolie has donated millions of dollars through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid efforts including Doctors Without Borders and Global Action for Children. The couple also donated $1 million to humanitarian groups to benefit over 4 million people affected by the crisis in Darfur, and $100K to the American SOS Children’s Villages to aid those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. She explains,

SOS has been in Haiti for over three decades, now raising over 300 orphaned and abandoned children and caring for 4,000 more impoverished children and families to help prevent child abandonment.

Most impressively, Jolie gives the greatest gift of all, which is her time, presence and attention in person, by making frequent visits to poor and impoverished refugees and survivors of natural disasters.

Angelina Jolie helps prove that we can save the earth one person at a time, by helping those who are less fortunate and by shining attention on the communities and people who need a helping hand the most.

Proponents of climate change legislation usually invoke the need to reduce global warming, but actress Sigourney Weaver is coming to the defense of something that’s often out of sight — oceans.
”One secret the oceans have kept very well is their sensitivity to carbon dioxide pollution,” Weaver said at a Senate hearing Thursday, as she urged lawmakers to pass climate legislation that would limit carbon emissions.

She made her pitch on the same day that a report from the National Research Council found that ocean chemistry is changing faster than it has in hundreds of thousands of years because of the carbon dioxide being absorbed from the atmosphere. The resulting increased acidity of the oceans poses a serious threat to shellfish and other marine life.

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Earth Day in Hollywood 2010 Gift Bag recipients include Drew Barrymore, Orlando Bloom, Cindy Crawford, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Salma Hayek, Pink, Justin Timberlake, Sting and many other eco-conscious celebrities.

Big Brother 11 – goes eco-friendly!
The popular CBS reality show returns for an 11th round of voyeurism and psychodrama, as 12 strangers live together in a specially outfitted house where their every move is caught on camera. This time around, they compete as members of groups based on high-school cliques — the athletes, the popular kids, the brainiacs, and the off-beat group. As an added twist, a 13th mystery houseguest will join the contestants, giving an added advantage to one of the cliques. One by one a houseguest is evicted… Read more by his or her peers, until the last houseguest standing takes home the $500,000 prize. This season’s house is eco-friendly in the extreme, and the houseguests will be required to recycle and made aware of the amount of waste they generate.

What do you think about this? Have you been watching? Are they recycling etc. etc.? Let us know!

It’s easy to look and see what celebrities are doing to be green. They’re quick to state how the silk dress they’re wearing was made by allowing the silk worm to live out it’s complete life cycle or how they founded a new green initiative.

It can come across as tooting your own horn but where’s the balance? Without hearing what’s being done, how will we know if we need to do more?

What do you think?