In the News: Random Green Sightings

The fun thing about wanting to live a sustainable life is that it's so trendy right now. Trendy means there's no shortage of news about somebody, somewhere, doing something that is, somehow, green.
I wish I could say I was sustainable before sustainable was cool, but I really can't. Of course, I was also mostly too young before sustainable was cool to even know what sustainable meant. Green was, in my young, innocent mind, just a color. My favorite color, as it so happens, and maybe that gives me some sort of ahead-of-my-time credit. I don't really think so.
Most people are trend-followers. And when people follow trends simply because they can be followed, without understanding a basic philosophy of why something became a trend, funny things happen. Here are a few of the amazing things people are doing to be on the green wagon.

• Brad Pitt is now a green architect for an eco-friendly, luxury hotel in Dubai.


• John Cusack, Louis Leterrier (director of Hulk), and Val Kilmer are all involved in eco-terror, eco-action, battle the global warming/killer parasites movies. Coming soon to a theatre near you!


• A whole line-up of teen stars are getting their green on. Mainly, it seems, they support green causes, charities, and other organizations, and they drive hybrids. And wear green t-shirts.

Celebrities, of course, aren't the only ones who can hop the green trend. There are myriad ways that you and me, too, can do our part.

• You can have an eco-friendly tailgate party. But don't actually wear the color green unless it matches your team's colors...


• You could buy a electric motorUnicycle. Okay, those of us with normal paychecks and normal living costs probably can't buy this strangely green ride. It's a fun thought, though. I think I would fall over.


• You can clean green, incorporate eco-design into your home, buy environmentally happy school supplies, and throw your best friend a green baby shower, with appropriate pink or blue accents, of course. Don't forget to greenify your landscape, your wedding, your workplace, and your gifts for a grave site. Yep, you read that right.
  My question is simple: how many celebrities and how many helpful articles would we find in the green spectrum if it weren't media-popular? Ah. I don't think it would be a good answer. Do you?
  
  Image Credits: Eric Kilby.