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Ed Begley, Jr.
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Turning up at Hollywood events on his bicycle, Ed has been considered an environmental leader in the Hollywood community for many years. He has served as chairman of the Environmental Media Association, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. He still serves on those boards, as well as the Thoreau Institute, the Earth Communications Office, Tree People and Friends of the Earth, among many others.
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Ed serves on the boards of organizations including the Thoreau Institute, the Earth Communications Office, Tree People and Friends of the Earth. His work has earned awards from numerous environmental groups including the California League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Coalition for Clean Air, Heal the Bay, the Santa Monica Baykeeper and the Southern California Gas Company. Currently, he is the co-star of the hit HGTV series Living with Ed, a look at the day-to-day realities of "living green" with his not so environmentalist wife Rachelle Carson. The series is currently in production on its 2nd season.
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Despite success and fame, Ed still lives in a modest home in Studio City, CA, that sports solar panels and an organic vegetable garden. He often cooks with a solar oven, and makes toast in the morning with a toaster powered by a stationary bicycle. He’s been known to show up for big Hollywood events on a real bicycle.
Many of the films feature the likes of such environmental experts and luminaries as actor/activist Ed Begley, Jr., climatologist Professor Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton, "An Inconvenient Truth") and Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental policy Tsar, Terry Tamminen. The VideoJug "green" films can be found at videojug.com, across MSN Video, via the MSN Messenger service and as part of the upcoming MSN live webcast of the Live Earth multi-continent concert event on July 7th.
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Ed drives an electric car called the EV-1, from General Motors, it requires very little maintenance, which is provided free of charge by GM when needed. It can travel up to 193 mph, but has a governer at 80 mph. It takes 2 to 4 hours to recharge the car, depending on what was drained. (edit)
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Ed Begley, Jr., who guest starred on the critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under, grew up in the heyday of the California custom car scene. Although Begley liked the way those cars looked and sounded, he does not like what the internal combustion engine helped manufacture – smog and its attendant health problems.
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