4 Celebrities Doing Their Part to Save the Environment

Not all celebrities are self absorbed. Here are four celebrities doing their part to save the environment, and it’s time we follow suit.

• Leonardo DiCaprio

Leo is well known for his efforts to save the environment. DiCaprio understands that his popularity and that of other celebrities can be used as a platform to help bring awareness and change to climate change. Climate change will not just affect an unlucky few, it will affect us all. Leo gets it. And he is doing everything he can to try and bring about solutions that will address climate change.

• Erin Brockovich

Maybe she isn’t a movie star, but they did make a movie about her. Brockovich’s help in uncovering PG&E’s pollution and cover up led to the largest settlement of its kind. The people of Hinkley, Ca were awarded $ 333 million. Brockovich uncovered the illegal dumping of unfiltered contamination into local groundwater. According to Filtra Systems, “Industrial water filtration opportunities present a considerable opportunity for the machining, mining, semiconductor, and other industries to improve the quality of their water while preserving the water in the environment”. PG&E would be $ 333 million richer if it had invested more in safety.

• Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson is a surfer that lives in Hawaii and has a special opportunity to see the effect of climate change. He uses his celebrity status to help bring awareness to environmental issues. Jack Johnson promoted Green Touring in 2014 as a way for artists to reduce their environmental impact on tour. Jack and his wife, Kim, founded the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation in 2008. The foundation helps support communities by promoting education in art, music and the environment.

• Daryl Hanna

Not all celebrities are willing to put themselves on the front line when it comes to protecting the planet. Daryl Hanna does not just talk the talk but walks the walk. Risking jail time in order to help the cause. Hanna has been arrested more than once in her efforts to save the environment. She was arrested while protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline construction, physically placing herself in front of construction equipment. Hanna was arrested twice protesting outside of White House against the pipeline development. Before those arrests, she had previously been arrested in 2009 and 2006. In 2009 she was part of a protest to stop mountaintop removal for surface mining. In 2006 she was involved in protesting against the bulldozing of an urban garden in south central Los Angeles. Her efforts in protecting the environment have been heroic, to say the least.

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4 Celebrities Doing Their Part to Save the Environment