Leonardo DiCaprio took his Inception co-star Ellen Page to check out the penthouse in Los Angeles’ Evo South condos recently.
Seems like Leo’s in the market for some new digs and took his friend along to check out the space, reportedly worth about $2.1 million.
According to the New York Daily News, the loft-style condos are built [...]
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As Luke mentioned yesterday, Madonna is currently in Malawi for the groundbreaking of her new Academy for Girls school. We’ve been following her efforts to bring a school to the Southern African country ever since she announced the ambitious plans back in May of last year. Today, the 51-year-old planted a Moringa tree, also known [...]
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Sea Shepherd’s sleek, dark, new apprentice has arrived — and the force is strong with this one. And by force, I mean the two 540 horsepower Cummins Mercruiser biodiesel-fueled engines on-board capable of running circles around the Japanese whaling ships.
And so it begins: Earthrace, one of the fastest powerboats on the planet, has been given [...]
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We’re used to Brad Pitt’s green building foundation, Make It Right NOLA, revealing some new takes on sustainable design, but a house that floats when it floods? Now that’s something that truly raises the bar for sustainable and functional design in the face of adverse elements!
The home, which is the brainchild of Morphosis Architects and [...]
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Sporting a longer than usual goatee/beard, Brad Pitt took to the podium at the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative to give an update on his Make It Right foundation’s progress in New Orleans. “I don’t know how we build any other way anywhere else,” Pitt said, addressing the audience in New York. “We can no [...]
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It’s no secret that Brad Pitt has a passion for architecture. His most famous involvement in the industry is the sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans’ lower 9th Ward through his Make It Right foundation, but the actor is also involved in a green hotel project in Dubai. Or at least was. Since the worldwide economy [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI, not content to let the Vatican steal all the green glory, has just finished installing solar panels on his Bavarian home.
The 82-year-old Pontiff is certainly the greenest Pope yet — though his analogy of “saving gays” as akin to “saving the rainforests” is where we draw the line.
For his home near near [...]
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Yikes. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have bought the house adjoining theirs and are in the process of remodeling to create a 33 room mansion in London.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, their “plans show they intend to knock through the connecting walls to create eight rooms on the lower ground floor, six on the [...]
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Best known for his work on the television drama CSI, actor Gerald McCullouch is also an environmentalist and vegan/raw foodie. So it comes as no surprise that his renovated NYC apartment (a dream for the 42-year-old) would reflect those values. “I wanted to keep my carbon footprint as low and cost-efficient as possible,” says McCullouch, [...]
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Remember last fall when Barack Obama’s Kenyan step-grandmother was dealing with thieves attempting to steal her solar panels? The technology was a gift to her from an airline executive who wanted the 86-year-old to be able to watch her grandson’s historic election. The village in which Mama Sarah Obama lives has no electricity — so [...]
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