July 21st 2008
Diane Lane Wants A Sustainable Ocean
Filed under: green and famous — lori @ 1:00 pm
Diane Lane is so fun to watch on screen — I’ve seen Under the Tuscan Sun, like five times. Though you might be surprised to learn that off-screen she is known as a “bag lady”. At a recent fundraiser for Oceana she explained how she keeps reusable bags everywhere, and that is how she’s picked up the friendly nickname. She is passionate about the state of our oceans saying, “If we all make a very slight adjustment then we can all still have some whales, some walruses, and be able to swim in the ocean [and] not die from eating the food we’re fishing out of the ocean. People are becoming sick and don’t know it. The governments aren’t going to tell you anything about it, what’s in it for them?”
I appreciated this last comment most of all, ”Ignorance is a verb, it takes effort to be ignorant.
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Give us a call, Ms. Lane…
[...] you go girlfriend. She then went on to explain what’s in it for us to take a stand on the environment and the future of our oceans. If we all make a very slight [...]