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  • acmaurer, on 06/17/2008, -1/+17Haha, great image with Harrison Ford covered in green slime. How appropriate.
  • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -0/+36I wish they would bring back 'Double Dare.' Sure as hell beats Hannah Montana.
    • BrentDPayne, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2. . . perhaps Colonel but not in 10 years. Look at Britney or Christina for example . . . ;-)
    • Tomchei, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Lets see Double Dare Topless.
    • TyrantJoe, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Hannah Montana is on the Disney Channel, though there are definitely many other Nickelodeon shows that are totally worthless. Any one of their live-action shows for example is complete trash.
  • ClarkBender, on 06/17/2008, -1/+9Wonder who the first celeb to get one of those Toyota hydrogen cars will be...
    • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5...Al Gore?
    • cbbs, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5Arnold Schwarzenegger?
    • BrentDPayne, on 06/17/2008, -2/+3Brent D. Payne? (What I'm not famous? Come on!!) ;-)
    • heathtown, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3Didn't Jamie Lee Curtis and that Dead Like Me gal sign on for one of the first Honda ones?
  • badNetAdmin, on 06/17/2008, -1/+66Having one electric car makes Jay Leno "green"?
    • acmaurer, on 06/17/2008, -9/+3It makes him greener than all those who drive around hummers... (Every little bit helps!!)
      • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -0/+8i dugg you up, until I remembered he has a giant garage full of cars...that's definitely not good for the environment.
    • listerinemouth, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4What about his 50 motorcycles?
    • badNetAdmin, on 06/17/2008, -1/+10Yes, every little bit helps, but Jay is no Ed Begley Jr. He doesn't deserve to be on the same list as Ed. With the money Jay has, he should be off-grid with solar and wind power. I'm sure there are many greener celebs than Jay. Where's Thom Yorke?
      • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2What's Thom done, other than that free show on Current TV? Please clue me in, because I like Radiohead.
        • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Well I didnt get my In Rainbows box set for nearly a month and a half because they shipped it by boat rather than a plane.
      • badNetAdmin, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5"Yorke made headlines...for refusing Prime Minister Tony Blair's request to meet with him to discuss climate change, declaring Blair had "no environmental credentials". Yorke has subsequently been critical of his own energy use. He has said the music industry's use of air transport is dangerous and unsustainable, and that he would consider not touring if new carbon emissions standards do not force the situation to improve.Radiohead commissioned a study by the group Best Foot Forward which the band claims helped them choose venues and transport methods that will greatly reduce the carbon expended on their 2008 tour."

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Yorke#Activism
    • UrlorJkron, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4Popular Mechanics has had a number of articles about "Leno's Green Garage". From what I recall it's solar powered. Also, he has numerous electric cars most of which predate the Model T. His garage as much museum as garage.
      • badNetAdmin, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2You'd think the Trib article would have mentioned all of that. If he's gone solar, etc, then they should give him a little more credit! Good to know!
  • samoan27, on 06/17/2008, -0/+15I know Daryl Hannah has a old diesel running on recycled vegi-oil, that's a whole lot greener than buying a new car.
    • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3What's the mileage on those things?
      • samoan27, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6Same as it got with regular diesel. As a general rule between 25-50% higher mpg than its gas counterpart.
  • sandersdamnit, on 06/17/2008, -1/+32Is it just me or does Elaine get hotter every year since seinfeld ended and dugg for Woody keeping it "green"
    • cbbs, on 06/17/2008, -0/+8Haha. You said 'Woody.'
    • Mononuclear, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5I had to look at that picture a few times. There has to be some photoshopping or some serious makeup time because she isn't normally that hot but in the picture she looks amazing.
  • seanmag, on 06/17/2008, -2/+51I think they're all a bunch of hypocrites. They tout driving an electric car while living in massive mansions whose footprint is 20X greater than the average American. I don't begrudge that, nor do I discount those who are quite charitable, but give me a break on the car thing.
    • dshPls, on 06/17/2008, -0/+12Hollywood is one of the biggest polluters, alot of the sets are made of environmentally unfriendly material. Let me know when they start making "green" movies.
      • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4Ha. Take a video on your recycled cell phone. That's about as green as you can get.
      • Shivetya, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2hah, a lot of hollywood stars are made of environmentally unfriendly materials.
    • jstohler, on 06/17/2008, -0/+13Agreed. Props to DiCaprio for the airplane choice, but I guarantee you Harrison Ford still has his private jet. And none of them are giving up their mansions.
    • nick111, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2What? The Average American is your benchmark for normality?
  • Rangerette, on 06/17/2008, -3/+7I wouldn't mind sharing an airplane flight with Leo.
  • Pillage, on 06/17/2008, -1/+23So their private jets, they run on what? Solar? Bio-Fuel?
    • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -3/+2Some of them ride commercial, as it states for Leonardo DiCaprio, and he's more "A-list" than all those other celebrities.
      • PussInBoots, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3By some of them("A-list" celebrities) you mean ONLY Leonardo DiCaprio. He uses private flights only when there is no way to fly commercial.
    • randomstupid, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4they run on their own hot-air
  • pjpark, on 06/17/2008, -3/+8Harrison Ford is also Chairman of the EAA Young Eagles program which promotes flying in general aviation aircraft to kids between 8 and 17 -- teaching them to be little polluters and dooming our fragile little planet. That hypocrite ought to be teaching them to ride trains and buses instead of destroying their own future in little leaded-fuel burning gas-guzzlers flown by rich old farts with nothing better to do. He might as well be teaching them to shoot guns, go to church, and pay for their own health insurance.
    • AbsurdParadox, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5... wow.
    • rorster, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Good point since every thing that is an aircraft creates pollution.
    • bjfewell, on 06/22/2008, -0/+0"our fragile little planet" will get on just fine, even if it becomes inhospitable to us...
  • davidhallstrom, on 06/17/2008, -1/+17Dugg but, I don't really care about what celebrities do.
  • doublsh0t, on 06/17/2008, -4/+2I call fake on the harrison ford pic--he never smiles in real life
  • tomasII, on 06/17/2008, -12/+6Notice Al carbon credits Gore doesn't make the list. Maybe because he should not be considered a celebrity.
  • nsundeepreddy, on 06/17/2008, -2/+2I want to see who are the RED celebs so that we can blacklist them. :)
  • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -0/+27Salma Hayek has some great *****.
  • poidh, on 06/17/2008, -6/+22Save the planet? From what? Since when has the planet been in danger of being destroyed?

    ***** off with this fake environmentalism bandwagon *****.
    • bhamster, on 06/17/2008, -11/+2"Since when has the planet been in danger of being destroyed?"

      Since the inception of human kind, just right at that exact moment.
      • poidh, on 06/17/2008, -3/+7Do you really think that humans have the capability to destroy the planet? What are we going to do - stear it into the sun?
        • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3We have the capability to end life on this planet. I think that's what most people are concerned with. I don't give a ***** about the planet itself, I give a ***** about the people and environment that live in it.
        • poidh, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2@mywhitenoise

          I think you'll find that life is a little more resilient than you give it credit for.

          But hey, if you want to go and live in a cave as a hunter-gatherer then you may do so. I bet you won't though. You'll stay part of the society you hate so much.
    • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -7/+3The planet itself is fine, now if you want to continue living with natural disasters, or getting cancer at an accelerated rate, or live in a horrible economy, and end the lives of endangered species, as well as take credit for the downfall of man...then yeah, continue to be an ignorant ass.
      • poidh, on 06/17/2008, -2/+4Poor you. You really hate us humans don't you.

        Natural disasters are just that - natural.
        If I don't want to get cancer early then I won't smoke.
        If I don't want to live in a horrible economy then I won't move to Burma.
        Species are created and destroyed all the time. Happened well before us hmans arrived. But rather we live than they live, eh?
        Take credit for the downfall of man? Don't smoke weed then post, maaaaaaaaaan.
        • mywhitenoise, on 06/18/2008, -1/+2Natural disasters are escalating because of global warming, if you honestly believe we're not contributing to global warming, then do us all a favor and minimize your global footprint by putting a bullet in your head.
          Never heard of skin cancer from UV rays?
          You don't think being wasteful and driving gas guzzlers is bad for the economy? Have you not noticed how the market is slumping and unemployment is rising in the US?
          I don't smoke weed.
    • selarul, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0poidh,where are you? you could have avoided the 4-letter word too;degradation of natural resources is very much there for anyone to see and ponder-over;it's not sci fi,poidh.
  • Eddiecoaster, on 06/17/2008, -2/+9I like Ed Begley because he's not a fag about going green. He also isnt going green because its popular he's been doing it since the 70s.
  • Kohaxx, on 06/17/2008, -0/+13What is this, Buy a Prius Save the World?

    Please don't tell me the writers of Heroes came up with the definition of "going green".
    • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4I own a Prius, I don't think i'm doing a service for the world by driving one, but I consider my purchase a vote towards progress. When an affordable electric vehicle hits the mainstream market, I'll trade in my car for that one.

      It's a lot better than being a stuck up SUV driving ***** who is so insecure about his bank account that he has to resort to saying things like "global warming is false" calls Hybrid owners "smug".
      • Kohaxx, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4I dugg you up because what you said is true, however if it all it takes to "go green" is an economically sound choice in car then people are going to miss the point of working towards a greener planet. There are a lot more things one can and needs to do to be considered "green".

        I have to laugh everytime I see a Hummer, sure I live in Seattle so they're pretty rare, but when you do see one it screams "I don't know what he's more insecure about: his sex appeal or his current bank account." Buying uselessly bulky cars is out.
        • mywhitenoise, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3I definitely agree, I do a lot more than just drive a hybrid (I actually take a bus to work). You have to practice what you preach.
  • azntiger1000, on 06/17/2008, -2/+5A lot of A-list celebs, but I bet most of them drive gas guzzling cars.
  • psi0nicgh0st, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6Sting is a Harkonnen!
    • blacktriangle, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2And, Kyle McLaughlin is the Kwisatz Haderach.
  • kds405, on 06/17/2008, -1/+16Green celebs? Kermit?
  • Foenetik, on 06/17/2008, -1/+15these people are self righteous assholes.
  • gusisfry, on 06/17/2008, -1/+7Natalie Portman has a line of Vegan shoes and if you perused the Internet for a bit would find more fun green facts as wee?

    So now that Al Gore is in a movie and Futurama episodes, is he now considered a celebrity?
    • BOFH2, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1You forgot he was characterized in a SP episode!
    • gusisfry, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Oh, yeah that Cape thing!

      Woosh! Woosh!
  • PussInBoots, on 06/17/2008, -0/+8Salma Hayek is "helping celebrities not kill too many trees..." Oh yea, celebrities contribute so ***** much by killing trees. Maybe she should make her husband sell his private. That would help planet a lot.

    http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/18/celebs-who-claim-the ...
    • btschul, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4Sell his private?
      • PussInBoots, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3jet, my bad
        • btschul, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3should have just left it. funnier that way. if i was married to salma hayek, noone else would get my private, even if they paid me for it.
  • InnerBlueAbyss, on 06/17/2008, -6/+28From the GREAT George Carlin

    "George Carlin's "The Planet Is Fine"

    We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these f***ing people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the f***ing planet?

    I'm getting tired of that s***. Tired of that s***. I'm tired of f***ing Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a s*** about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.

    Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are f***ed. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?

    The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

    We're going away. Pack your s***, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

    You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

    The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...a******.

    So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that's begun. Don't you think that's already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let's see... Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh...viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

    Well, that's a poetic note. And it's a start. And I can dream, can't I? See I don't worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we're part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron...whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while."
    • BOFH2, on 06/18/2008, -3/+3George Carlin at least has the intestinal fortitude to say what he wants and not worry about funding, record sales or movie sales. I wish more were like him. Still think he is messed up politically.
    • nick111, on 06/18/2008, -3/+1So it's ok to ***** in our own nests then?

      Face it. You've lost. The environmentalists turned out to be right - and the rest of the world is realising that the most serious challenge of the 21st C will also be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st C.

      Meantime, you're sitting around scoffing and snearing. Good luck with that.
      • InnerBlueAbyss, on 06/18/2008, -1/+1Yup it is ok, because we are a self destructive species.
  • TimesHero, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4They could have gone with out showing Al Gore. That was kind of a given.
  • lutey, on 06/17/2008, -0/+12What a poorly written, unprofessional photo article. I don't know who is responsible for this but, it seems like the author spent about 3 minutes writing it up. It is great that these celebrities are working to raise environmental awareness but this article just served to trivialize the whole issue. For example:

    "Jay Leno -- may have 500 nonelectric cars in his car collection, but he does have at least one electric car. That corvette in the background isn't it."

    Now I don't know much about Jay Leno or follow his life at all but even I have heard that he has placed solar panels and a wind turbine on the roof of his garage. http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/jay_len ...

    A middle schooler could write a more informative article.
    • mimigins, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I was expecting them to mention Leo DiCaprio's new show "Greensburg" as well.. The Jay Leno thing seemed pretty stupid.
  • redxninja, on 06/17/2008, -1/+6Why green?
    The typical colors of the earth are blue and brown.
  • AbsurdParadox, on 06/17/2008, -1/+5Green is the new red.
    • ColonelTribune, on 06/17/2008, -2/+1Green means "go." But red -- well, that means "stop."
  • jameschilders, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1thom yorke?
  • btschul, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1Thom Yorke?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Yorke#Activism
    He probably helps more than half the people on this list

    "Radiohead commissioned a study by the group Best Foot Forward which the band claims helped them choose venues and transport methods that will greatly reduce the carbon expended on their 2008 tour."
    • btschul, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Meanwhile, Radiohead were left with a row of empty seats at a recent French concert after a ticket giveaway backfired. The eco-friendly group announced 50 passes were available for their show at Paris' Bercy Arena but fans could only get by cycling to their record label's offices in the French city.

      However, Parisians were not prepared to get on their bikes so 35 tickets went unclaimed. A source said: "Radiohead are using their current world tour to highlight their commitment to green issues. They advise all concertgoers to use public transport and are doing all they can to make their carbon footprint as small as possible. Unfortunately the French didn't appear to share their noble intentions and roundly ignored the free ticket tactic."

  • socketman, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4Instant loss of respect for anyone on the list
    • nick111, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Yea, but you're the kind of guy who burns tires in his back yard.

      If you ever get a girlfriend, she'll probably stop you doing that.
  • Mikhail101, on 06/17/2008, -1/+680% do it for publicity, face it.
    • nick111, on 06/18/2008, -1/+1And that figure comes from where exactly?
    • MRCAB, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1or bcz they're just stupid and think it's the "right thing to do"
  • rorster, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2This is a great article since celebrities know so much about macro-scale science. We should do more things celebrities say.
  • XedLos, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3It's easy to be green...when you're filthy, filthy rich
    http://digg.com/environment/It_s_easy_to_be_green_ ...
  • KeepSwinging, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4Will Ferrall, John C. Riley, Adam McKay - The Green Team
    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa1420df1f
  • Takuro, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Dugg for Tom Hanks taking an extremist stance and spending 4 years on a remote island. He puts Gore to shame.
  • pigducksheep, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3Really Al Gore? Who knew?
  • randomstupid, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Who's gonna save us from celebrities ?
  • Homest4r, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I'd be green too if electric cars were a little more affordable...
    • BOFH2, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1why, how do you get the energy to charge it?
  • zippy757, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Al Gore green ? bull crap...

    http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?articl ...
  • bhamster, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1What about nuclear fall out? What about heating the planet to a tempeture that can sustain no life? We're just now getting to a sophisticatoin in technology and a population size that we can ***** up this place real bad and possibly beyond repair. I am sure there will be millions of other unforseen problems we will create. Now the physical planet itself might remain, but life wouldn't.
  • Khanvalescent, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Best they could say about Leonardo DiCaprio is, "[d]ude flies commercial instead of private."?
  • kpaphysicist, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I'd like to save the planet several times with Salma Hayek. High five, anyone?
  • tpearl, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2A ***** asteroid can hit our planet and it will survive just fine. Humans may not survive but the earth will be fine.
  • ElectroBot, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3I'm more of an environmentalist than half of these people.

    "Jennifer Lopez drives a Prius" SO WHAT. If I had even a tenth of the money these people do then I'd have a house that was totally self sustainable. I'd invest/promote renewable energy and electric car production. And that's just the start.

    Half of the people on this list are hacks. "Oprah Winfrey -- Had a show titled 'Going Green 101: What Your Family Can Do Today!"
  • evilrevolution, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1mmm green paint...
  • goddessophia, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1wow... this makes me what to think about it... two retired heart throbs and two excellent actors, a funny chick, two Latin chicks and whoever else was in there, of Coldplay, musicians...
  • devila2208, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1I feel that I should point out that the title is grammatically incorrect. The dash is unnecessary.
  • Dysarthria, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Millions upon millions of dollars = easy to be green.
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