adrian grenier

Blythe Danner Shows Off Garbage Trucks, Adrian Grenier Gets Green Award

deborah — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400

What's going on in the world of the green celebrities and entertainment? When you consider Earth Day is soon upon us, lots! Here it all is in a nutshell"

Time magazine's green issue raises a lot of eyebrows. The cover depicts the statue of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, but instead of a flag the soldiers are raising a tree. Controversy ensues.
Adrian Grenier was in Vail to accept the Blue Sky Tribute for environmental activism. During an interview he said it means more to him to win an award for an environmental cause than acting.
Planet Earth is coming out with a series of board games. Sort of like a Trivial Pursuit for the green people, the Planet Earth games are filled with "green" trivia.
Elizabeth Hurley is going into the meat business. She's starting a cattle farm to produce organic beef.
Blythe Danner helped NYC show off a fleet of natural gas powered garbage trucks this week.

Enjoy! Be green!

Introducing: Planet Green

deborah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400

The Discovery Channel's much anticipated all green, all the time eco channel "Planet Green" will launch June 4th. Formerly "Discovery Home," Planet Green will feature 250 hours of original green lifestyle programming.

"Planet Green represents a full spectrum of life experiences, personalities and points of view," said Eileen O'Neill, President and General Manager, Planet Green. "Working with a broad range of partners, our goal is to find innovative ways to engage people of all ages and backgrounds through content that's entertaining, relevant and accessible. Planet Green is about motivating people to take an active role in a new conversation about the future of our planet."

The bad news is I won't get Planet Green. At least not yet. I never get the good channels, but then, in my neck of the woods we're lucky we have cable TV.

But I digress...

Expect to see specials and programs featuring Emeril Lagasse, Adrian Grenier, Tom Bergeron, Tom Brokaw and Tom Green. That's the Green Tom Trifecta right there. Previews of Planet Green will begin to appear on Video on Demand and also through the PlanetGreen.com website starting April 17th.

Programs include:

Emeril Green - Emeril Lagasse's new green cooking program. The focus will be on organic and locally grown foods."
"G" Word -The "G" word, of course, is "green." Not so taboo anymore though. Expect to see lots of green news and products.
The Green Life - Adrian Grenier will show us how we can become green like him.
Greenovate - As one would expect, this series is about making one's home more green.

That's only a sampling of the wonderful programming coming to us on June 4th. Well coming to you. I'll probably have to wait a few years until it gets to my neighborhood.

Yo, Adrian Grenier – Come Green My Pad!

adevito — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Let’s tree-hug it out! Entourage hunk Adrian Grenier is set to star in a new series called The Green Life on the Discovery Channel. The lovable moptop will travel around the country giving advice about how people can remodel their homes, eco-style.

If you’re thinking, “what qualifies some actor to dole out green renovation tips?, ”you’ll be happy to know Adrian’s very own Brooklyn brownstone is insulated with fire – and – mold-retardant recycled denim.

To recap: he’s young, handsome, famous, successful, and loves the environment. If it weren’t for that last one, we’d have to hold him down and shave his head.

Adrian Grenier: Green God

kbutler — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

I know what you’re thinking – why should we care how a celebrity lives his life? Well, most of the time we shouldn’t. (And somewhere, Paris Hilton trips on her heels.) But sometimes, when a celebrity does good work, we like him, we really like him! And right now we really like Adrian Grenier. Why? Because he uses his celebrity to promote more than a cautionary tale about DUIs, stage momagers, and bi-polar disorders. He often uses the red carpet as a podium to discuss environmental issues, which is more than we can say about….most of Hollywood.

For starters, Ecorazzi recently reported that Grenier of the dreamy eyes and dusky facial visage has been tapped to receive the 2008 Blue Sky Award for Environmental Activism. He will receive the award at the Vail Film Festival, to be held in Colorado in April. Grenier also revealed that he did a complete green remodel on his New York brownstone – interestingly enough, by using old jeans as insulation. Further, he’s producing a new show for the Discovery Channel with partner Peter Glatzer on how to apply a green lifestyle to your day-to-day. Called The Green Life, the show is expected to debut in the summer of 2008. In an interview discussing the show, Grenier asserts that “Less travel, less waste, and more substance is (our) goal here.”

We salute you, Adrian Grenier. Looks, career, and a cause. Clearly, the gauntlet has been thrown for a new Prince of Green. (Leonardo DiCaprio, we’re looking at you.)

Adrian Grenier: His Green Eyes Are Just The Beginning

Matt — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Behind Adrian Grenier’s beguiling gaze lies the resolve of a consummate idealist. He genuinely wants to save the world, and he doesn’t even need to put on purple tights as Aquaman, the superhero role his Entourage alter-ego Vincent Chase plays in the movies, to get the job done. Dude is all over the place, straight healing. His famously green/recycled/energy efficient Brooklyn brownstone was our first clue that it wasn’t just his eyes that were green. Watch him modestly chat about his digs at a screening of Leonardo DiCaprio’s eco film, 11th Hour:

Last month he hosted the star-studded holiday charity ball for Charity: Water, a foundation dedicated to providing safe drinking water people in need all over the world. Word on the street is that his public speaking chops are nonpareil. Good thing it was a charity for water, since some of the ladies at the event needed something to cool off once our boy showed up looking like this:

Lest you think he only has time for fancy philanthropy parties, here he is getting down and dirty at a Brooklyn soup kitchen:

When Paris Hilton was in need of some advice on how to make her life more eco friendly, it was our knight in shining armor who took the damsel in distress under his wing and showed her how to go green. An environmentalist and a gentleman. Convincing Paris to turn her hummer into a hybrid probably took some (ahem) charming.

Now we hear that Grenier is set to host a 13-episode home makeover show on Discovery’s new Planet Green network. It sounds like the gist is that regular people invite AG to their homes, and he guides them through the green remodeling process. Honestly, this might be just enough to pull me away from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Ty, with all of his crying and substance abuse problems. Such is the allure of Grenier’s munificence.

If you look closely enough at Grenier’s past, you’ll realize that his altruism should not come as a surprise. His parents met in a commune. Born in New Mexico and raised in Brooklyn, he has long sported a Manu Chao-type global hippie sensibility. He was on a surfing beach in Mexico when he landed his star role in Entourage. Need more? “I was in Williamsburg before Williamsburg was Williamsburg,” he once notably declared, proof that he has always led a cutting edge boho lifestyle.

Oh, Adrian. Your dreaminess makes a greener future for our planet more than just a dream. You go, boy.