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Celebrity Planet: Gossip Girl Star Goes Green
OMFG... who isn't talking about Gossip Girl? The teen drama, which airs Mondays on the CW, is the big buzz right now. And while most people are talking about the young stars of the show — like Blake Lively and her rumored beau Penn Badgley, and Blake's reported nemesis Leighton Meester — it's one of the parental figures who I think deserves headlines.
Kelly Rutherford — who got her start in soap operas like Loving, Generations and Melrose Place — tells Us magazine this week that she has gone green. And her inspiration wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio or Al Gore — it's her 18-month-old son Hermes.
"You have a baby and you starting thinking about all these things," Kelly said. "You think: Wow, they come in so pure, you want to keep it that way."
The actress and her businessman husband, Daniel Giersch, are currently building an eco-friendly house — complete with denim insulation. And the actress says they've already converted from incandescent light bulbs to eco-friendly ones.
"Now I won't have to think about them for another decade!" she said last week at the launch of SYLVANIA micro-mini Twist compact fluorescent light bulbs, which are the smallest CFLs on the market. "It was such an easy and quick way to make my home more energy-efficient and I'm happy knowing that I'm doing my part to help the environment."
Helping the world... and entertaining America on Gossip Girl. Does it get better than that?
In other green news, did you see Julia Roberts on Oprah's Earth Day episode last week? I finally got around to cleaning out my Tivo and saw the megastar stirring up compost during her segment.
Julia and her friend Sophie Uliano, author of Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth Friendly Life, were showing off how easy it is to compost. Julia says she's all about composting and, in fact, that one of the chores that her 3-year-old twins have is to take out the leftovers after meals to the compost. Cute... though I'm certainly glad I didn't have chores when I was 3.
Days after being hit by a drunk driver, Sandra Bullock also appeared on the show to talk about her eco-friendly restaurant Bess in Austin, Texas. She talked about the water filtration system they use, showed off the tables (made from old wood floors) and revealed that her take-out utensils are made from... potatoes.
The very busy Sandy also has a line of soy-based candles — with eco-friendly 100% lead free paper wicks — that are on the market. Even the packaging is made from recycled paper.
Lastly, a few weeks back we talked about Kate Hudson and hair guru David Babaii's new line of earthy-friendly beauty products. Well, they've finally revealed the name of the line to the New York Daily News: Babaii for WildAid. And, again, proceeds benefit WildAid, an eco-force working towards ending the illegal wildlife trade and save endangered species around the world.
So when you're washing your mane, know that you're helping others with manes as well.
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