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The former Gossip Girl TV star, 27, shares Earth Day plans for her chic website, preserve.us, which celebrates American artisans and their products. Her next film is Lionsgate’s romantic drama The Age of Adaline, opening April 24. What was the inspiration behind Preserve? “Mainly my be mom. She’s someone who could create a magical moment out of anything.”

How do you keep the site ecofriendly? “It’s very important to us to be conscious in our selections. We’re doing an exclusive collection for Earth Day with Amour Vert. For every shirt you buy from them, they plant a tree. They are doing everything they can to reduce their carbon footprint.” What do you do in your personal life to protect the planet? “My husband [Ryan Reynolds] turned a car that wasn’t supposed to be electric into an electric car by putting a thousand-pound battery in Lively with husband the trunk. He’s dangerously eco. Our Ryan Reynolds homes are solar, we have the compost in the garden and we do all the smaller things, like turning off lights in the house—things I didn’t do growing up that I have learned to be aware of.” The Age of Adaline is a love story but more than that. How would you describe it? “It’s about the relationship between love and time—and the beauty and tragedy in that.” What does it take these days to make you want to take a role? “It sure takes a lot, especially now that I’ve got a baby [born in December]. It has to be a film that creatively inspires me.”

Email your questions for Walter Scott to personality@parade.com.

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Brad Pitt

Architecture is one of Pitt’s passions. His Make It Right organization (makeitright.org), which built 150 sustainable homes in post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana, is now partnering with Native American tribes to build 20 green homes for low-income residents in Montana.

The Rizzoli & Isles actress teamed up with ethical lifestyle accessories brand Red Earth (redearthshop.com) to debut her collection of African-made, hand-cast, recycled aluminum and brass jewelry, debuting in time for Earth Day on April 22. Check out Parade.com/RedEarth to read an interview with Harmon.

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Leonardo DiCaprio In 1998, the fivetime Academy Award nominee created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (leonardodicaprio. com) dedicated to protecting Earth’s remaining wild places and wildlife, with a focus on renewable energy sources, rainforests, oceans and access to clean water.

Robert Redford The veteran actor has devoted a large portion of his

life to the environment, including founding the Sundance Preserve to protect the North Fork Canyon in Utah, serving as a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org) since 1974 and producing The Green, a block of Sundance Channel programming that tackles issues such as solar energy and wilderness preservation.

Pierce Brosnan

The former James Bond star, who was inducted into the Environmental Hall of Fame (environmentalhalloffame.net) for his work hall against illegal il whale hunting and for wetlands protection, has served on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org), California Coastal Protection Network (coastaladvocates.com) and Sea Shepherd (seashepherd.org).

Gisele Bundchen

The Brazilian supermodel makes fashion eco-friendly. Her Ipanema Gisele Bundchen line of sandals and flip flops, produced in Brazil, is manufactured without the use of rubber from the Amazon rainforest—and made using at least 30 percent recycled materials, with 99 percent of all factory waste recycled or reused.

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This land is our land: In honor of Earth Day this Wednesday, check out 50 nifty eco-friendly things Americans are doing, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters. By Alison Gwinn • Cover illustrations by Amy Reid

Alabama

A 250-gallon aquarium and forest murals are part of what made Munford Elementary School in Munford., Ala., a Green Ribbon School.

Alaska

Kodiak High School students in Kodiak, Alaska, created a massive octopus named Ophelia entirely from marine trash (plastic bottles, grocery bags, fishing nets and cigarette lighters) to raise public awareness about ocean debris.

Arizona

17,000 square feet. That’s the size of the Diamondbacks’ solar canopy at Phoenix’s Chase Field that generates enough electricity to power the lights for 11 games.

Arkansas

Over 10,000 new trees were distributed by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Arkansas Forestry Commission after the devastating 2013 tornadoes.

CALIFORNIA Since 2008, Bea Johnson’s family has lived a zero-waste life in Mill Valley, Calif. Her family of four—including husband Scott and teenage sons Max and Léo—generate a mere quart of waste a year. How do they do it? By following the Five Rs: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rot (or compost).

Colorado

Fort Collins has ratified the most ambitious eco-plan of any city in the country. Under the city’s Climate Action Plan, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent in 15 years and will be completely carbon neutral by 2050.

Connecticut

Connecticut’s legislature made food history in 2013 by signing the nation’s first genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling bill in 2013.

Bea Johnson and sons (below) only generate one jar (left) of waste each year.

Johnson, author of the popular website, zerowastehome.com, and the 2013 book Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Scribner), says that even though they live simply— their wardrobes are spare (and mostly secondhand), and they donated all their books to the library—they also live a “modern life, not a hippie one,” with a car (a used Prius) and a TV. Her husband estimates that going “zero waste” has cut the family budget about 40 percent. More important is that by cutting down, “our life has switched to one based on experiences, not based on stuff,” says Johnson. “We have more time with the kids, more time on the weekends to go camping or backpacking. It’s put an emphasis on human relations.” Visit Parade.com/ZeroWaste for more of Johnson’s eco-friendly tricks. 4 | APRIL 19, 2015

Delaware

The Delaware Nature Society’s Stream Watch program is tackling the state’s polluted waterways. Everyday citizens are fighting back by helping test water samples throughout Delaware.

ILLINOIS The state has spent $1 million to install electric vehicle recharging stations along the iconic Route 66 from Chicago to St. Louis by this summer.

Florida

Daytona Beach-based NASCAR works out of two LEED-certified office buildings, its cars use a renewable fuel and the company plants 10 trees for each green flag that drops during races.

Georgia

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When Athens farmer Eric Wagoner created locallygrown.net—the world’s first online farmers market—he connected his customers with fresh food. The site has since spread to more than 100 communities nationwide.

HAWAII Last fall, the Hawaii Wildlife Center helped relocate 28 critically endangered Laysan Ducks (the rarest duck in the Northern Hemisphere) to a rehabilitated habitat.

Idaho

A team of Nature Conservancy scientists is working to combat environmental threats to species that were plentiful in Idaho when Lewis and Clark arrived in 1805—including Chinook salmon, elk and giant salamanders.

Kentucky

Claiborne Farm, the Paris-based horse farm once home to Secretariat, has donated 3,000 acres to the Bluegrass Conservancy, guaranteeing that the farm will remain undeveloped while upping the conservancy’s protected land to 17,000 acres.

The new Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis is the first in the U.S. to be LEED Silver certified. Local and recycled material was used in construction and rainwater is collected from the roof and used in toilets. A sky farm on the roof provides organic, healthy food for its patients.

Iowa

Some farmers in the state are trying STRIPS planting, in which 10 percent of their farmland is replanted with indigenous prairie plants. The technique reduces soil and nutrient loss and water runoff.

Kansas

The Prairie Festival, held every fall in Salina, is sponsored by the Land Institute, a 30-year-old nonprofit whose mission is to develop an ecologically stable agricultural system that doesn’t contribute to climate changes.

The Big Easy can become the Big Dirty after Mardi Gras revelers leave behind a load of cigarette butts. Enter 50 cigarette-butt-recycling receptacles, each labeled: “Recycle Your Butts Here.”

Maine

When the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor decided to expand its business school building, a gorgeous 250-year-old Bur oak with a 44-foot-diameter root ball was standing in the way. Instead of chopping down the tree, the school moved the big fellow 500 feet—at a cost of $400,000.

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Even in the coldest winter, Minnesota’s Blue Earth County Justice Center, which houses a jail, plus an office and court, is kept warm by an underground geothermal heating system.

Mississippi

Through the Gear Grab program of the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, lobstermen become voluntary stewards of the environment, retrieving abandoned traps, ropes, nets and buoys.

Yale-educated local farmer Charlie Munford sells organic beef and lamb to restaurants from Jackson to New Orleans. He raises his meats at Two Run Farm in Vaughn, Miss., the same way his grandfather did: no antibiotics and no hormones.

MARYLAND Honey, they shrunk the house: In 2012, husbandand-wife building team Bill and Sue Thomas launched Hobbitat, a tiny-house business that builds energy-efficient homes out of reclaimed materials.

Massachusetts

Whether it’s good old Yankee ingenuity or not, the Bay State comes in No. 1 as the most energy-efficient state in the union.

Missouri

Kingsville, Mo. is home to the 12-acre Heartland Harvest Garden, the nation’s largest edible garden. APRIL 19, 2015 | 5

Where the buffalo roam: The Bozeman-based American Prairie Reserve is working to assemble a 3.5 million-acre park of species-rich grasslands so wildlife such as bison and pronghorn sheep can range unimpeded.

New Jersey

Jersey-based TerraCycle, one of the world’s fastest-growing green companies, works with more than 100 big brands around the world to collect used packaging and upcycle the waste into new products, such as messenger bags made from Clif Bar wrappers and iPod cases formed from repurposed mail bags.

New Mexico

The Greater World Earthship Community, a 633-acre development in Cerros de Taos, is filled with passive solar houses made of natural materials like adobe and recycled tires, cans and other discarded items. The community grows its own food, harvests its own water, treats its own sewage and makes its own biodiesel fuel.

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The Greenest Restaurant in America is the Grey Plume—whose chef and co-owner is Omaha native Clayton Chapman (see page 7 for his recipe for Pickled Beet Stems).

Wall Street banker George Pakenham is no idle threat when it comes to iding cars. He approaches thousands of idlers and says, “Excuse me for bothering you… but are you aware that it’s against the law to idle your car engine in NYC for more than three minutes?”

Nevada

All that sunshine helps: Nevada leads the nation in solar energy jobs per capita.

New Hampshire

Long live the soulful sound of the loon. New Hampshire’s Loon Preservation Committee monitors loons’ numbers and breeding, rescues and rehabilitates sick loons and builds nesting rafts.

NORTH CAROLINA Meet the Elf, a bug-like contraption with an enclosed cab, three wheels, pedals, a solar panel and a rechargeable battery from Organic Transit in Durham, N.C. A standard ELF seats one (like a bike) and can go 15 miles without pedaling.

North Dakota

Ducks Unlimited Preserve Our Prairies program is working to protect “prairie potholes,” shallow depressions that are one of the world’s best waterfowl nesting habitats, supporting millions of birds each year.

Ohio

The Russells Point, Ohio, Honda plant receives a substantial amount of its power from on-site wind turbines.

Oklahoma

Under a program from the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, state residents can buy ECOpasses ($5 to $200), with the money going directly to farmers and ranchers in the state who adopt no-till crop systems to stem erosion.

Oregon

The Portland Composts! program lets residents put yard debris and food scraps—eggs and eggshells, bread, pasta, beans, coffee grounds, table scraps, spoiled food—out on the curb for weekly pickup, vastly cutting down on landfill waste.

Pennsylvania

RHODE ISLAND Sol Chariots Pedicab Cooperative in Providence, the brainchild of twin sisters— and avid bicyclists—Ashley (pedaling in photo) and Ally Trull, gives carbon-free, pedal-powered taxi rides, makes deliveries and offers tours of Rhode Island’s capital city.

South Carolina

Working to buck the trend of aging American farmers (whose average age is 57), the Dirt Works Incubator Farm near Charleston offers a three-year training program for aspiring farmers.

South Dakota

At the Pine Ridge Reservation, students from Oglala Lakota College and others are building prototype housing as part of the Native American Sustainable Housing Initiative.

Tennessee

At Dickinson College in Carlisle, students grow organic vegetables and raise free-range livestock on the 50-acre, USDA-certified organic farm. The food they raise is served in the dining hall, sold at a local farmers market and donated to a community food bank.

A cleaner concert: Starting in 2014, the annual four-day Bonnaroo Music Festival launched Refill Revolution, installing water-refill stations where “sustainable Bonnaroovians” could refill their bottles for free from clean, on-site wells, saving 400,000 plastic water bottles from the landfill. continued on page 8

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Complete Beet Salad

Whisk up a quick vinaigrette with 3 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, 1 Tbsp beet stem pickling liquid, salt and pepper to taste. Toss with fresh beet greens and roasted beet wedges. Then sprinkle with pickled beet stems and toasted pecans. Visit Parade.com/Beet-salad for the full version of Chapman’s recipe. APRIL 19, 2015 | 7

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Professor Dumpster (aka Jeff Wilson of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin) lived in a dumpster for a year to shed light on how much Americans use (and waste) every day. To wit: the average American tosses 4.5 pounds of trash a day; Professor Dumpster, zero.

Utah

The Utah-based startup Saffron has invented an LED light bulb that is not only energy saving but, at the flick of a switch, mimics the setting sun.

Vermont

The 2014 Locavore Index, a ranking of a state’s committment to local foods, puts the Green Mountain State first, based on the number of farmers markets, consumer-supported agriculture operations (CSAs), food hubs percapita, plus percentage of active Farm-to-School programs.

Virginia

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is the only building in the continental U.S. certified to treat and drink the rainwater collected on the roof.

Washington

Aptly nicknamed the Evergreen State, it ranked No. 1 in 2014 as the most bicyclefriendly state in the country by the League of American Bicyclists. 8 | APRIL 19, 2015

West Virginia

From dying Appalachian coal-mining community to Sustainable Williamson: This small town has created a farmer’s market and community garden and hires local workers to build affordable housing with a focus on reclaimed materials and energyefficient construction.

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