Celebrities are always starting up new trends, and rarely does the world not follow.
Even more rare than that is when celebrities themselves follow a trend already set in motion by someone other than a celebrity.
Well, that seems to be the case as celebrities of every art form have started to show there true color. That color being the eco-friendly green.
Take Brad Pitt for instance. He’s not only concerned about human rights but he’s also heavily invested in helping the environment at large.
Pitt’s childhood love of design and architecture has translated into a partnership with the Global Green USA, a national environmental organization, to design environmentally-friendly housing communities in New Orleans’s devastated Lower Ninth Ward. Actress Selma Hayek also does work with Global Green USA.
Not to be outdone, Leonardo DiCaprio is one of Hollywood’s most vocal environmental supporters and advocates.
The hybrid car owner was key in orchestrating the 2007 eco-friendly Oscar celebrity arrivals and is following in Al Gores’ footsteps with his own global warming documentary, The 11th Hour.
DiCaprio’s ex, Cameron Diaz, is also part of the environmental awakening. She brought her environmental concerns to Gen-Y with her eco-conscious MTV series “Trippin”.
The s=how centered around her and other celebrities traveling across the world. Diaz, another hybrid car owner, is also currently involved with “Save Our Selves,” a campaign for a Climate in Crisis. The 24-hour event is set to kick off on July 7 with concerts on seven continents.
Singer Sheryl Crow spent most of early 2007 lobbying Congress and headlining the Stop Global Warming Campus Tour.
She recently made news when she suggested that everyone could do their part to save the environment if, “a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.”
Funny man Jay Leno, world renowned for his car collection, has gone to great lengths to make sure his cars and his garage are eco friendly.
Even the supermodels are trying there best to help out.
Gisele Bundchen has started selling sandals and giving all of the proceeds to clean up the Xingu River, part of the Amazon River basin one of South Americas oldest and most treasured wildlife preserves.
Never one to be out done is Jeremy Piven, sporting his hybrid BMW, one of the only ones made thus far. Yes, BMW has just released a hybrid car but Jeremy Piven was arguably one of the reasons why they even started the research to field such a project.
Celebs like Andre 3000, Brandy, and Natalie Portman have decided to live the all green life and have been outspoken about their vegan life styles, and most of the actresses on Desperate Housewives have been long time veggie lovers. Alicia Silverstone of “Clueless” has also been a long time advocate for vegetarianism.
More than a simple trend, thinking green has become a way of life for everyone of every walk of life.
From celebrities to everyday people the environmental movement affects us all, whether famous or not.