Posts Tagged ‘kevin bacon’

Kevin Bacon Walks The High Line (In Dramatic Slo-Mo)

August 4th 2009

Since its launch back in June, the New York City High Line “Park in the Sky” has become a huge success — with weekend crowds averaging about 20,000 visitors per day. And this is only the first stage of a project expected to cover just over 1.5 miles.
The Sundance Channel has a series of shorts [...]

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New York’s High Line Park Above The City Finally Opens!

June 9th 2009

As many other green sites are noting today, New York City’s newest park is celebrating its grand opening today. But this isn’t your normal piece of green set aside for public use — the High Line Park is actually set in the sky on top of the bones of an abandoned old rail line. What [...]

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Kevin Bacon Is Horrified By Bottled Water Waste

January 26th 2009

The Denver Post is carrying an interview of sorts with Kevin Bacon on his hometown of Philadelphia; what it was like to grow up there, the vibe of the city, etc.
Bacon also touches on his environmental ways — talking up walking, public transportation, tap water, and the green groove of his band, The Bacon Brothers. [...]

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The Green Quote: Kevin Bacon Is Doing What He Can At SixDegrees.Org

October 16th 2008

“I bought the domain name, www.sixdegrees.org, brainstormed with friends and family, and the folks at Network for Good who said, ‘Great, we’ll do it with you’ and created a new way to give. Through this site, people can learn about and support various charities. It’s celebrity-driven, which gives us press attention for the causes. But [...]

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Hollywood Declares Themselves In Greatest “Go Vote” Video Ever

October 1st 2008

As I mentioned above, you won’t see a better “Go Vote” video anywhere. This is it. For almost five minutes, you will probably stay glued to watching the below clip — which in Internet time is an amazing accomplishment for all of our short attention spans.
Celebrities appearing in the PSA’s include: Amy Adams, Tatyana [...]

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For you foodies out there you that missed one of the most tasteful fundraising events of the season that supported NYC’s City Harvest, let me tell you about the evening that took place at Splash Light Studios on Hudson Street.
City Harvest, a non-profit that delivers food to hungry New Yorkers, raised enormous awareness last night [...]

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Kyra Sedgwick Predicts Soccer Moms Will Change the World

July 28th 2008

The Closer’s Kyra Sedgewick first became truly involved in living harmoniously with the earth after the birth of her first child.
“I carried Travis for nine months, providing him with a safe and healthy place to grow inside me, and then I gave birth and fed him my breast milk. Then, when I had to give [...]

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Lights, Camera, Take Action on Global Warming

May 14th 2008

This past Saturday, Environment California held an event at the home of Paul and Deborah Haggis (80% solar-powered!) to discuss how California can lead the country in addressing global warming and jump-starting a clean energy revolution. Dana Delany, Morgan Fairchild, Peter Horton, Paul Gilmartin, Marshall Herskovitz, Sharon Lawrence, Bobby Moresco, Amy Smart and Alicia Silverstone [...]

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The Bacon Brothers To Rock Your World At Global Green Expo

Kick off your Sunday shoes!

April 21st 2008

Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael have a rock band. Which is none too surprising considering the musical passions of other Hollywood stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Keanu Reeves. What may come as a shock is that they’re pretty good. “We’ve been chipping away at that awareness, chipping away at the [...]

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James Blunt, Kevin Bacon Are The New Sundance Ecoists

April 14th 2008

The Ecoists from Sundance’s THE GREEN is a series of one minute shorts where “today’s most active and recognizable environmental activists share ideas, information and enthusiasm about their cause of choice.” Obviously, these topics range from solar power to global warming to preservation of natural resources. This year’s participants include Sheryl Crow, Kevin Bacon, Laurie [...]

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