Ecopaparazzi members have made it clear in their profile answers that every day people taking direct action to help heal Mother Earth are the world's true green celebrities.

Eco-Active Celebrity
Ecopaparazzi member Rick

Because Rick loves the beauty of forests, rivers, oceans and animals, he takes an active role in reading and learning different ways to help protect them. He uses eco-friendly products, gets active in eco campaigns and conservation efforts, and helps teach others about ways to get involved to make the world a better place. Rick also has a soft spot in his heart for impoverished children and carves toys for them that he donates to help bring a little joy into their lives.

Eco-Active Celebrity
Ecopaparazzi member Diana Oleskevich

Diana and her bicycle are inseparable. The green cyclist uses her bicycle to lessen her eco footprint, raise money for charity and get exercise. She says, "I ride my bike for fun and commuting as much as I can for conservation, to stop pollution, raise awareness, build community and experience joy." Diana stands in radical amazement of all that is.

Eco-Active Celebrity
Ecopaparazzi member Siew Te Wong

Wong is a foremost expert on sun bears, a species listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered Species. The sun bear, though nearing extinction, is the world's least known bear species. We can change that and raise awareness about the need to save this species. Read more about Wong and his work with sun bears on his ecopaparazzi profile page.

Eco-Active Celebrity
Ecopaparazzi member Guy

GuyThaLizard is most at home in nature, when snuggled into his kayak, hand-held GPS at the ready, paddling Canada's Okanagan Valley and Kootenay areas. His passion is organizing paddling trips with fellow water enthusiasts and sharing their experiences online at his three social networks. Guy's favorite quote is, "If you are not living on the edge, you are taing up too much space."

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Camels are used in Kenya as mobile health clinics to get medical supplies to remote areas without roads. Now, a new test project is outfitting the camels with solar-powered cooler packs to keep vaccines refrigerated.

With Blake Fall-Conroy's Minimum Wage Machine, you get paid for creating energy. The idea is that you generate power by turning a crank, which in turn powers a change machine that pays you in pennies, one every 5.035 seconds. It's a work in progress. Read more.

In remote Khao Yai National Park, 120 miles from Bangkok, Thailand, poachers and poor villagers snare birds, baby monkeys, and tigers (for prized penises used in Chinese medicine). Volunteers for Peace provides unique opportunities for people to travel to Bangkok to help stop the illegal killing and trading.

Every month people who are part of the environmental movement meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for the good.

San Francisco already diverts over 72% of its waste from landfills thanks to rigorous recycling efforts, and now the city is set to cut down on trash even more with the country’s first mandatory composting law, which took effect October 21.

PETA is one of the most notorious and controversial activist groups operating today. But they are lawful, nonviolent and publicly funded. So how did they end up on a list of America's most dangerous domestic threats?
Treehugger and Green is the New Red have some ideas. Read more.

Hannah Fraser is an Australian ocean activist, artist, model and - professional mermaid. That's right, a mermaid. Fascinated by the mermaid myth since she was a young girl, she created her first tail when she was only 9 years old, avidly swimming around her pool to practice freediving and breath hold.

Working as an artist and model for many years, she now devotes her time to creating exquisite handmade mermaid tails and traveling the world performing as a mermaid for film, television, advertising, events and environmental activism.

She and David Rastovich, (pro-surfer) organized the Taiji 'paddle out' in the killing bay of Japan where thousands of dolphins are slain annually (showcased in the hit-doc The Cove).

In this eco-action, surfers paddled out with the mermaid into the bay of blood to honor the dolphins who were being slain, and to bring awareness to the slaughter on a worldwide scale.