Top Eco Celebrity Couples

ckane — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:23:33 -0400

On Earth day, I urged my fiancé to use the toaster oven to heat up his organic Tater Tots, rather than the regular oven. He grumbled, but he did it, and presumably some energy was saved in the process. This, and a recent USA Today article about Ed Begley and his wife Rachelle Carson-Begley, got me thinking about couples in the green public sphere.

With some, both members of the relationship are gung-ho about helping planet Earth, but in other cases, one person is a less-enthusiastic accomplice. In fact, Ed and “light green” Rachelle’s good-natured bickering (to paraphrase USA Today) was the inspiration for their reality show, Living With Ed.

Here are my picks, and be sure to chime in with any others I missed in the comments.

Power Couples

Brangelina (duh)

Laura Dern and Ben Harper

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Extremely-Ex-couple Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

Lopsided Couples

Ex-couple Laurie and Larry David

Ed Begley and Rachelle Carson-Begley

image: Ed Begley and Rachelle Carson-Begley, via USA Today