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ment director, she helped interview candi-
dates for the job,” saysGold. “Shedoesn’t set
any sort of stereotype for a celebrity board
member. She’s not one of these peoplewho
are just lending their name to the cause.
She lends her time and expertise, and she’s
very creative and has lots of ideas. So we’ll
call her up for advice and ideas, and she’s
been great on all of that. She’s also come to
a lot of beach cleanups, getting interviewed
by TV news and simply and eloquently ex-
plaining to people why we shouldn’t leave
thebeaches amess.”
The result? Santa Monica’s beaches are
much cleaner during the summer months
than theywere 10 years ago. “Back in 1985,
we had a dead zone in themiddle of Santa
Monica Bay that was practically devoid of
marine life,” Gold says. “There’s been a 90
percent reduction in sewage solids going
into thebay—andbecauseof that, thedead
zone is gone.”
TherewasanotherturningpointinLouis-
Dreyfus’spath toenvironmentalactivism. It
came when shemet Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
at adinnerpartyabout adecadeagoandhe
told the guests that the average American’s
greatest assets were clean air, water, and
safe food.
Today, riding along in her hybrid car,
she tells me what that night taught her. “I
needed tokick it intohigh gear. And I have
done so.”Heal theBaywas thefirst environ-
mental organization Louis-Dreyfus joined,
and more have followed. She’s now also
on the honorary board of directors of the
SantaBarbara–basedHeal theOceananda
member of the Natural Resources Defense
Council, an international environmental
action organization. “I sort of give them
mymoney,” Louis-Dreyfus says, “and I use
my celebrity to raise awareness of the good
work that they do and to hopefully maybe
even inspireotherpeople to sort of join this
fight.” She’s also involved in at least adozen
different environmental initiatives, includ-
ing raisingmillions of dollars for the Envi-
ronmentalMediaAssociation, theTrust for
PublicLand, and theWaterkeeperAlliance.
“She’s involved as a supporter and
spokesperson andhelps us get ourmessage
out to her rather large audience about the
importanceof takingbetter careof ournat-
ural resources,” saysDanielHinerfeldof the
Natural ResourcesDefenseCouncil. “And I
know she practices what she preaches, be-
cause I run intoheroccasionallyatour local
organicmarket.”
All thatwork
onbehalf of greengroups
is commendable, of course, but Louis-
Dreyfus says that goinggreen is alsomean-
ingful when it starts at home — and at
work. That’swhyher goal for
OldChristine
this season is “tomake our set the greenest
set on theWarnerBros. lot.”
Shehas some experience inmakingplac-
es green. She’s worked hard to make her
second home in California as environmen-
tally friendly as possible. That’s right: her
second home. Louis-Dreyfus admits there
is an irony in having two houses, but she
calls herself “an environmentalist with an
affluent life.” She says, “Whenwewere in a
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