These days most celebrities have an official Website. These elaborately designed pages are typically filled with tour info, some airbrushed photos of the star and maybe even a blog, which shows off their distaste for punctuation. (Hey, Courtney Love [1]!) However, Scottish singer KT Tunstall, whose song "Suddenly I See" frequently gets stuck in my head, has an entire topic on her official Website [2] devoted to the environment, which makes you realize that unlike people like Paris Hilton (read what the dim bulb said about light bulbs [3] last week), KT isn't just phoning it in to be trendy. So I tracked down the singer, who has a new holiday album out called Sounds of the Season: The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection [4], to chat about all things green.

Here's KT on...

Why She Cares: "The current climate crisis is the biggest challenge humans have [faced]. If we don't all change our attitudes — and make wiser choices — we'll be living a very different reality in 10 years time. It won't be nice."

Making her London Home Eco-Friendly: "It's all done — but not dusted! I have sheep's wool insulation, sustainable wood everywhere, all second-hand furniture, non-toxic paint, locally sourced tiles and carpets, an extremely efficient boiler, A-rated energy efficient appliances, loads of new windows to let in natural heat and light, carbon positive plaster board and solar panels. When we moved in, the electricity meter was running backwards and we were feeding the grid."

Touring in a Biodiesel [4] Powered Bus: "I run the bus on bio-diesel whenever possible. Any diesel engine can run on it. The tour bus is still my height of luxury — a moving bed! Ahh!"

Little Things That Make a Big Difference: "Reuse, recycle, reduce! If every household in Britain installed three energy-saving light bulbs, there would be enough energy saved to power all the street lighting in Britain. I'd just like people to think before they act."



In other news...

Gossip columnist Cindy Adams reports that Kim Cattrall's decorator got her digs spruced up for the holidays by using "fluorescents and 'green stuff' using less electricity." What did Kim think? Not much. She reportedly "declared them lousy, 'the enemy of beauty,' and out they went." Well, that certainly makes me think twice about wasting my green stuff on her upcoming movie, Sex and the City: The Movie. Diva.



Natalie Portman is being called a "Goodwill Globetrotter" by People magazine in their new issue. Earlier this year, the actress visited AIDS orphans in Uganda to raise awareness for the Listen Charity [5], which is trying to raise $1 billion for kids. Also do-gooding for the org? Brooke Shields, who hit Cairo, Samuel L. Jackson, who visited New Orleans, and Ashley Judd, who was in Delhi. The two-part special will air on CBS in June.



A friend saw rock legend Neil Young in concert this week and was really impressed by his show. More impressive? Neil's taking his 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV — just a massive piece of machinery... says the girl who learned to drive on a 1982 Lincoln Town Car — and converting it [6] to battery power, with a biodiesel engine for backup, and plans to drive it to its birthplace, Detroit, to demonstrate the viability of electric cars. Perhaps he can pick up Motor City's native son Kid Rock when he rolls into town... if Kid hasn't reunite with Pam Anderson again by then now that she's on the rocks [7] with hubby number 3, Rick Salomon.