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Show Green yard, that Rosario Dawson refuses to date that Adrian Grenier is insulatContinued from CI ing his home with recycled denim, that Matt Damon especially transparent. Even passive support of the bought his entire family and that Metallica is fundcause say performing at a h event is reason ing a rain forest reserve. But to many, much of this enough for a celebrity's carnow looks like mere window bon footprint to be inspected. Laurie David, once a green dressing. Take ecorazzi.com, which beacon for the glitterati, is launched a year ago. The now a media target whose every perceived indiscretion primary mission of the green is somehow undermining Web site, by Michael the veracity of her activism. Ithaca, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie d'Estries and Rebecca Carter can adopt three children from in Miami, is to track the green habits of celebrities. "If people impoverished nations, travel the world to promote humani- in the spotlight are going to tarian aid and still have to anget up there, they're going to have to come prepared," d swer for a recent helicopter 'Estries said. "They're going to ride they took from Manhattan to a Hamptons fundraiser have to look at their own lives first Otherwise it's just green for Pitt's washing." project in New Orleans. On the surface, celebrities D'Estries and Carter work have become prickly when the hard to give celebrities the benefit of the doubt, but in subject of their green habits comes up. "We're all trying June, the site landed some exclusive dish on the movethe best we can, truly we reallv are " an exasrterated ment's reigning mouthpiece. Leonardo Di Caprio said in David, "An Inconvenient Truth" who had May. But even the subtext of that quote reveals a good bit helped drive Hollywood of genuine confusion. When was spotted cavorting at dawn on a boat dock with . you're extravagantly rich her building contractor, Bart and just where is the line between decadence Thorpe, shortly after her and mindful, green luxury? separation from "Seinfeld" y ride Does one Larry David was in a private jet cancel out the made public. David's neighbor cast off vegetarianism and the bamboo Jackie Mendez-Die- z floors? the tidbit about Thorpe and David in a tirade she posted on This is the next phase of c: earnest the site about David's "Carbon Hollywood self assessment, with a side Sasquatch" lifestyle. It was of anxiety. Everyone wants ecorazzixom's first big scoop and one that two years ago to find a comfortable place in would have gone completely the growing divide between rainwater-collunnoticed. the biodiesel-driving- , Hannah-E- d ecting D'Estries acknowledges Daryl that David's relationships have Begley Jr. model and the private nothing to do with her activism. But unlike other causes, Laurie David Al Gore environmentalism is all about approach. It's no wonder the is new Hollywood must-hav- e shifting private habits to help the Earth. So David's personal the It takes a real professional life, more than other celebrito navigate the increasingly ties, is subject to especially intense scrutiny. murky middle ground and star For her part, David has long guide an to his or her natural spot in the defended her Martha's Vinespectrum of green. yard property with its heated There's no shortage of outpool and barbecue pit that encroach on protected wetlets eager to chronicle every green move a celebrity makes lands (an honest mistake by in the David's contractor at the time, "green issues" of general interest a spokeswoman said). David d has said she feels justified livmagazines and TV shows and Web sites ing this life because she uses her home to host "eco salons" such as treehugger.com, and grist.org, a that build awareness and raise s site. money. David declined to comment Some activists even say the increased scrutiny is actually a on the ecorazzi.com imbroglio. boon to the cause. Green gos- - But she does have a point of view on the scrutiny facing oiy Ltiu uo max uuiia iwiai La ecologically conscious celebribrings her own metal cup to ties. coffeehouses, that Pitt and Jolie bought an organic vine "If I have learned anything Pri-us- pro-Eart- N.Y.-base- d eco-chi- c, high-profil- e, cross-countr- ecc-chi- carbon-offsettin- -- Earth-conscio- now-standa- green-centere- eco-new- f- f Oahu, Hawaii Includes Roundtrip Air Hotel! & 714 S Nights 25 shopping & discount booket! f Code PrornoCode 1739 12niaht 1 VPromo Code to m W Cfc. M booMd to aa 4 Nights from S .' SS0909-- new film, "The 11th Hour." A British reporter still asked him whether he had eco-cris- is taken a private jet to France. "No," he quipped, "I took a train across the Atlantic." (DiCaprio added that he had flown commercial to the festival.) y This summer, the backlash was deafening in response to Gore's Live Earth concerts, held to raise awareness of global warming. Reporters merrily calculated the tons of garbage, C02 emissions and energy consumption the event would generate. They dug up dearcane tails about performers. (Snoop Dogg once appeared in a car commercial!) And days before Madonna took the stage, she was savaged for even particicause pating in an when she owns nine homes and a fleet of cars. Through a spokeswoman, the star later said she had committed to educating herself and her family and vowed to "make changes" in their lives. The varying shades of celebrity green are emerging. In August, Radar magazine's Jeff Bercovici dubbed Di Caprio and celebrities like him arguing that if Barbra Streisand touts environmentalism but tours with a convoy of carbon-spewin- g trailers, why should we change a thing in our more modest lives? "The implication of the hypocrites' behavior is that we must take all measures to fight global warming short of those that would reduce our quality of life," he wrote. "But a reduction in quality of life : y parson Levin said. Nevertheless, she doesn't see the point of making standards some can't reasonably reach. "It's important to be authentic in your lifestyle, but it's most important to admit that nobody's perfect," she said. Levin represents the lighter, more comfortable shade of green. She made it her mission in 1999 to put "celebrities together with stuff as a way to : advance the cause. Her group championed the Prius and put as many celebrities into the car and onto red carpets as possible. By her measure, it is worked. now mainstream. "I'm a big proponent of changing the world through shopping," Levin said. "I remember when I started eight years go, I thought, "This is an elitist thing. How can you promote organic food when nobody can afford to buy it?" t. 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The students who do best, Van Orden said, "are very specific: what the assignment is, when it's due, how many points will it be worth." Homework them." It's not about the Benjamins: Parents often talk about school in terms of dollars and cents, Van Orden said. If you study hard, then you can go to a g good college and get a job. "Learning is naturally addictive, and naturally exciting and naturally fun," he said. If teens see a little of that from Mom and Dad, then they're much homework. more likely to catch the spirit I'll do it later: Maybe. But themselves. Up when they're down: Kids probably not. "My No. 1 rule will be frustrated from time for myself," Leavy said, "is to time, Larsen said. Mom that I don't procrastinate. If the assignment is due in two and Dad can have a powerful weeks, I set a deadline for my- influence by emphasizing the self to get it done in one week." positives, and by always being Another good way to keep ready to assist. homework from piling up is "With parents who are inprioritize: start with the heavy volved at home, those same students don't struggle as lifting. "Do the hard stuff first," Van Orden said, "and much," Larsen said. "Or, if then do what's fun after that." they do struggle, they're not Organization: Homework pa- as pressured by it because they pers get lost easily. Kids should know they have someone who "find an organizational system will help them with it at home." the clock: Like the litte girl who ate a whale one bite at a time, kids will be happier about homework if they do some of it every day. 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"When there's time set aside Same time and place: Does in school maximize that time." a student have designated your Dare to be different: No one study area? Foothill Elementeacher Victor wants to be "that kid" who tary sixth-grad-e Larsen said that having a desalways raises his or her hand. Larsen said that kids who volignated study time helps kids and take part in the lesunteer on task. stay To make studying even son, however, often do better more effective, parents can than their peers. And when it's time to work set aside a room or area that's in groups, mix things up. especially for schoolwork. Larsen suggested finding Larsen said that kids who alsomewhere with rninimal disways work with their friends sometimes don't get as much no toys, no televitractions done there's plenty of time sion and good lighting. Write it down: You can't to hang out after school. U.E.A. 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Ecologist and green activist Glen Barry, a Wisconsin-baseblogger and occasional media spokesman for green causes, criticized Live Earth and its d performances as "shallow reformist tokenism (that) reinforces current blind faith in technology, capitalism and corporatism that has brought us to our current situation." He has targeted Di Caprio in particular, he said, because the actor hasn't given up private jet travel. One hour flown in a private jet emits the pollution equivalent of driving an SUV for a year, Barry said, so any benefit from DiCaprio's Prius and home solar panels is more than canceled every time he travels by private jet. "We're sending the wrong message that you can consume opulently like a movie star and still protect the planet," Barry said. "You can't." Others aren't so hard-linDebbie Levin , president of the Environmental Media Association, a nonprofitthat g in Holpromotes lywood, agrees that scrutiny around celebrity is unavoidable. 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