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The Humane Society’s Genesis Awards are coming up and you can attend! The event is like the Oscars for entertainment and news media showcasing animal protection issues. It will be held on Saturday, March 24 in Beverly Hills with celebs such as Sean Astin, Amy Smart, Alexandra Paul, Pauley Perrette, Bill Maher, and of course, [...]

Scarlett Johansson is taking her involvement in humanitarian work even further. After skipping the Oscars last month to tour India with Oxfam, Scarlett is back with a plan to help out refugees in Sudan. She’s donating 2,000 pairs of shoes through Soles4Souls, an organization that gives people in need the gift of footwear, and their [...]

Today Q’orianka Kilcher, best known around the world as Pocahontas from New World with Colin Farrell, received the keys to her zero-emissions Honda FCX hydrogen fuel cell vehicle lease. She is the youngest person to receive this car, the first recipients being the Spallino family over 2 years ago.
Q’orianka has done some incredible environmental work [...]

As we reported earlier, this year’s Oscars did away with the famous luxury gift bags often handed out to presenters and instead provided a less lavish, more eco-friendly alternative. The company TerraPass teamed up with artist Simon Pearce to give each participant a beautiful glass sculpture and 100,000lbs of carbon offsets. This gift essentially helped [...]

Green cars made a splash at the recent Oscars, but that’s not the only awards night where we can see them. BMW stepped in at the Berlinale and provided stars with BMW Hydrogen 7 cars to take them to the Cinema For Peace gala. The car was launched just last year and has reportedly caught [...]

The India Times recently took a few moments of their time to discuss the greening of Hollywood and the Oscars, and how Indian celebs are also doing their part. Even though they start off by saying that Global Green is a car company, we’ll assume that they’ve got the rest of their facts straight.
Lilette Dubey [...]

On Oscar night, it was pretty exciting when Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio came out on stage to announce that the Academy Awards had gone green. They even mentioned a page on the official website where you could find out more about the initiative. However, when I punched up this site, I was bummed to [...]

Russell Simmons found himself in a tough place this past December with the release of the movie Blood Diamond and an increasingly demanding public scrutinizing the practices of the diamond industry. On one hand he has a business to support. On the other, he has an obligation as a person of celebrity and power to [...]

We were unaware that Ed Begley Jr. and Rachelle Carson showed up at the Oscars; and according to their publicist, they planned it that way to give Al Gore time in the spotlight to shine. How considerate! We have, however, learned of their arrival details and — as expected — they were green and consistent [...]