The latest issue of Playboy Magazine [1] features none other than Robert Redford bearing it all. The legendary actor and environmentalist tells the naked truth about his darkest passion [2], telling the magazine that despite all of his efforts to save the environment, "I must say, I do like racing fast cars. It's a hypocritical, weak move on my part. We do what we can. But I've always loved speed. I love finding a good stretch of road and cutting loose in my Porsche. That's all I want to say about that." Redford's honesty is either a testament to his ordinary, every-day-person-ness, or to his belief that nobody actually reads Playboy "for the articles."
L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein, made famous for not supporting the troups [3], recently invited Ed Begley, Jr. into his home in order to get help going green. Stein writes that after implementing some of Begley's suggestions, he "waited for the jolt of moral superiority, but it never came." According to rumor, a full panel of green celebs will soon be invited to Stein's home to help him with that problem.
The Los Angeles production [4] of WICKED has announced that it will hold a benefit performance for the environmental non-profit group Heal the Bay [5] on October 23rd. On October 28th, the cast and crew will participate in a Heal the Bay beach clean-up, ridding the area of the fast food containers and coffee cups they were serving throughout the Greater Los Angeles area before they were cast in the musical.
A judge in England ruled that it is okay for schoolteachers to use Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth [6] as a teaching tool, despite what he called "nine errors." One of the major errors the judge pointed out was "Mr Gore's assertion that the disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming [6]." While the court could agree that high temperatures make snow melt, and global warming is the cause of high temperatures, the judge felt Gore couldn't make the claim that climate change is directly responsible for this specific snow melt. The scientific community reacted with head-clapping disbelief, lawyers everywhere applauded the remarkable demonstration of manipulation-via-semantics.