Environmental Friendly Celebrities
Environmental Friendly Celebrities who support green building, conservation and various aspects of sustainability and alternative energy. Being “green conscious” has become a deeply held cause embraced by many of Hollywood’s elite. A wide array of stars have made it an avocation to champion their favorite environmental and green causes. Many are advocates for every aspect of saving the environment while some lend their names and influence to specific areas.
While domestic environmental issues draw continued attention, many environmentalists are now placing international issues at the top of their list of priorities. Issues like global warming, population growth, deforestation, and the continued loss of many species of plants and animals have reached increasing prominence on the environmental agenda.

Leonardo Dicaprio
Leading Green Celebrity Players
- Dave Matthews Band: offsets CO2 emissions produced by their multi-city tours by funding projects such as tree plantings and wind turbine construction.
- Cate Blanchett: plans to equip Sydney Theatre Company building with solar panels, rainwater collection systems to make it completely eco-friendly. Sydney home is fully powered by solar energy, donates to Forest Guardians.
- Richard Branson: Virgin Group chairman, a former global warming skeptic, who in Sept. 2006 pledged to spend all profits from his airline and rail businesses (estimated $3 billion over 10 years) on investments in biofuel research and projects to tackle emissions.
- Pierce Brosnan: focuses on marine mammal and wetland protection, headlined Natural Resources Defense Council campaign against effects of Navy sonar on whales, awarded 1997 Green Cross International Environmental Leadership Award.
- Ward Burton: Ward Burton - Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation: NASCAR driver and winner of the Daytona 500, he is the founder of this foundation whose mission is to conserve America’s land and wildlife.
- Gwyneth Paltrow & Camerson Diaz: Act Green: "unite to conserve energy and reduce our reliance on oil."
- Cameron Diaz: Trippin', MTV Series: "Cameron Diaz and a group of her close, personal friends think globally and act globally too as they travel to unlikely getaways...from Chile to Yellowstone, on a quest to safeguard the environment."
- Leonardo Dicaprio: started the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998 to promote environmental issues, drives a hybrid car, currently writing and producing a feature length documentary on global warming called "11th Hour".
- Harrison Ford: vice chairman of Conservation International, has a Central American ant named after him, won the Global Environmental Citizen Award in 2002.
- Jane Goodall: The Jane Goodall Institute: Purpose to advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment of all living things
- Daryl Hannah: arrested in June 2006 for staging a 23-day tree sit-in during a bid to preserve an urban community garden in Los Angeles, traveled across America in 2005 in a biofuel car, home is entirely off-grid. dh love life: a video blog focused on green topics
- Woody Harrelson: "transforming the world together." This is a guy that is inspiring, focuses on biodiesel, getting off the grid, organic & overall good green-ness.
- Josh Hartnett, Orlando Bloom, Maroon 5, Kt Tunstall: promoting 2007 Global Cool initiative to cut carbon emissions by encouraging people to turn off TVs, mobile-phone chargers and other energy-draining gadgets.
- Barenaked Ladies: run their tour buses and trucks on biodiesel fuel.
- Alanis Morissette: given 2003 Environmental Media Association Missions in Music Award; campaigns against oil drilling in Alaska; has solar panels on home.
- Willie Nelson: singer, co-partner in the Willie Nelson Biodiesel Company.
- Edward Norton: launched the BP Solar Neighbors Program in 2003 which matches each celebrity purchase of a solar energy home system with a solar installation in a low-income family home in Los Angeles.
- Brad Pitt: co-creator of design competition to build 20 affordable, reduced energy, environmentally friendly homes in New Orleans.
- Robert Redford: 30 years on board of Natural Resources Defense Council, founder of Sundance Preserve, winner of 1993 Earth Day award, 1987 United Nations Global 500 award. In April 2007, launches weekly three-hour slot called "The Green", dedicated entirely to the environment, on his Sundance TV channel.
- Sting: founder in 1989 of Rainforest Foundation to protect rain forests and their indigenous peoples.
- Kt Tunstall: ran her US tour bus on biodiesel fuel, performed at eco-friendly "Golden Green" at the 2007 Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles.
- Neil Young: 2004 North American tour fueled entirely with biodiesel.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Pierce Brosnan
Green Celebrities

Julia Louis Dreyfus

Kevin Costner

Ed Begley, Jr.

Katie Melua
Solar Neighbours Program (Solar Homes)
- Ed Begley, Jr.
- Don Cheadle
- Danny DeVito
- Daryl Hannah
- Salma Hayek
- Edward Norton
- Rhea Pearlman
- Brad Pitt
- Alicia Silverstone
- Robin Williams

Edward Norton
Solar Neighbours Program (Solar Homes)
- Patricia Arquette
- Ed Begley, Jr.
- Orlando Bloom
- Jackson Browne
- Mark Burnett
- Dean Cain
- Penelope Cruz
- Ted Danson
- Larry David
- Dana Delany
- James Denton
- Johnny Depp
- Cameron Diaz
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- David Duchovny
- Kirsten Dunst
- Will Ferell
- Frances Fisher
- Morgan Freeman
- Tom Hanks
- Daryl Hannah
- Woody Harrelson
- Salma Hayek
- Anne Heche
- Cheryl Hines
- Peter Horton
- Joshua Jackson
- Billy Joel
- Scarlett Johansson
- Carole King
- Ashton Kutcher
- Jay Leno
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Bill Maher
- Donna Mills
- Poppy Montgomery
- Alanis Morissette
- Willie Nelson
- Donny Osmond
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Alexandra Paul
- Natalie Portman
- Tim Robbins
- Julia Roberts
- Susan Sarandon
- Jason Schwartzman
- Martin Short
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Charlize Theron
- Julie Warner

Daryl Hannah
Notable Members of Natural Resources Defense Council, whose programs cover every aspect of the environment including green building.
- Albert Brooks
- Pierce Brosnan
- Mark Burnett
- Sheryl Crow
- Tom Ford
- Iric Idle
- Diane Keaton
- Robert Kennedy, Jr.
- Carole King
- Tobey Maguire
- Willie Nelson
- Rob Reiner
- Meg Ryan
- Martin Short
- Ben Stiller
- Rita Wilson

Robert Kennedy Jr.
Members of Global Green USA, a national environmental affiliate working to stop global warming by creating green buildings and cities and providing clean, safe drinking water to the 2.4 billion people worldwide who lack it include:
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Morgan Freeman
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Tom Hanks
- Salma Hayek
- Brad Pitt
- Natalie Portman
- Susan Sarandon
- Charlize Theron
Environmental Media Association: A nonprofit foundation that assists the television, film, music and entertainment community to help influence environmental awareness.
- Mischa Barton
- Ed Begley Jr.
- Pierce Brosnan
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Alanis Morrisette
- Blythe Danner
- Laura Dern
- Cameron Diaz
- Daryl Hannah
- Joshua Jackson
- Maroon 5
- Wendie Malick
- Edward Norton
- Mary-Kate Olsen
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Nicole Richie
- Amy Smart
- Jeffrey Tambor
Other Environmental / Green Organizations
- BP Solar Neighbors Program (Edward Norton, Don Cheadle and Alicia Silverstone)
- Earth Biofuels (Willie Nelson, Julia Roberts)
- Forest Ethics (Adrian Grenier)
- Global Cool (Sienna Miller)
- Heal the Bay, helping Southern California beaches (Ted Danson)
- StopGlobalWarming.org (Jon Bon Jovi, Christie Brinkley)
- The Nature Conservancy (Tom Hanks)
- The Sustainable Biofuels Alliance (Willie Nelson, Daryl Hannah)

Global Cool (Sienna Miller)
Emily O'Brien
Paul Haggis
Salma Hayek
Chad Lowe
Joshua Jackson
Joss Stone
Susan Sarandon
Emily O'Brien
Paul Haggis
Popular Celebrity Supported Environmental Charities
- Act Green
- Alliance For Climate Protection
- American Forests
- Amma
- Apollo Alliance
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Bama Works Fund
- Caddo Lake Institute
- CARE
- Centre For Environmental Education
- Children's Health Environmental Coalition
- China Youth Development Foundation
- Clinton Foundation
- Clinton Global Initiative
- Conservation International
- Cousteau Society
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Dorset Wildlife Trust
- Earth Communications Office
- Earth Institute
- Earth Island Institute
- Environmental Media Association
- E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
- FARES
- Farm Aid
- Global Cool
- Global Green
- Global Green Plan
- Google.org
- Greenpeace
- Green Treks
- HEART
- International Crocodile Rescue
- Jane Goodall Institute
- Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- Live Earth
- Lyn Irwin Memorial Fund
- Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
- Markets Initiative
- Music for Relief
- Naked For a Cause
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Nu Skin Force For Good Foundation
- Oceana
- Ocean Futures Society
- Peconic Land Trust
- Rainforest Action Network
- Renewable Energy Long Island
- Return To Freedom
- Roots & Shoots
- Save China's Tigers
- Save the Whales
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Show Me Campaign
- Sierra Club
- SolarAid
- Solar Neighbors Program
- Stop Global Warming
- Streisand Foundation
- Surfrider Foundation
- Survival International
- Tapestry Institute
- Tearfund
- The CarbonNeutral Company
- The Gentlemen's Fund
- The Land Conservancy
- The Rainforest Foundation
- TreePeople
- Trust for Public Lands
- Voice Yourself
- Walden Woods Project
- Waterkeeper Alliance
- Whaleman Foundation
- Wildlife Warriors Worldwide
- WWF
- Yéle Haiti Foundation
Green Speaker Topics / Ideas
- Climate change
- Air pollution
- Deforestation
- Drinking water
- Ecological crisis
- Endangered species
- Eutrophication
- Global warming
- Soil Erosion
- Thermal Pollution
- Overuse of resources
- Deforestation
- Global Green
- Save the Whales
- Alliance For Climate Protection
- Global Green Plan
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Waste
- Solid waste treatment technologies
- Waste treatment technologies
- Waste water treatment technologies
- Other Types of Pollution
- Genetic engineering
- Light pollution
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