Since it’s a new year, we’ve decided to tweak our Eco-Celeb of the Week series. Instead of focusing on just one green celeb, we’re going to post about our favorite eco-friendly celebrity couples for the next month or so. Many famous couples out there contribute all the time to Mother Earth, so we want to honor them and plus you’ll get double the goodness! This week, we focus on Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr.
Actor Orlando Bloom and supermodel wife Miranda Kerr are a fabulously good-looking couple, but there’s more to people than looks and that rings true when it comes to these two.
The two are huge supporters of the environment and show their love through rescuing animals, raising global warming awareness and creating an organic skincare line, to name a few of their green initiatives.
Orlando and Miranda love their animals. To begin, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings” actor is popular for his rescue dog, Sidi. The black Saluki mix was adopted by Orlando in Morocco while filming “Kingdom of Heaven.”
“I rescued this man in Morocco about seven years ago now. He has been everywhere with me,” the 35-year-old actor revealed. He even gave his pooch a Moroccan name meaning “lord.”
Miranda also has a passion for animals and even posed nude in support of koalas! She stripped down to nothing on the cover of Australian Rolling Stone for these wonderful creatures, which isn’t hard to believe since she is the face of Australia’s Koala Foundation “No Tree, No Me” campaign.
“I feel strongly about the need to protect our natural environment because it supports our life – it really is that simple,” she told the magazine. “I believe every effort we make now has a reaction – if we’re making positive changes, if we’re all doing the simple, small things we can do to help the environment, it makes a big difference.”
The 28-year-old supermodel is no stranger when it comes to basically wearing nothing, since she is usually seen wearing lingerie as a Victoria’s Secret model. As a model, she needs to make sure her skin looks fresh, especially when wearing makeup. Maybe that’s why she created her own organic skincare line?
The Australian beauty’s KORA Organic Skincare line offers 100 percent natural and organic products, all while raising awareness for the koala population. Taking care of skin and the environment all at once!
Back to her lovely hubby, Orlando does he all can for the planet as well. In 2009, he built a green home in London.
“It’s as green as I can make it. It’s got solar panels on the roof, energy efficient light bulbs – newer technology basically that is environmentally friendly. It might not be possible for everyone to live a completely green lifestyle, but we can do little things to help slow global warming,” he revealed.
He’s right; it’s the little things that count. In September, Orlando along with fellow celebs Mark Ruffalo, Adrian Grenier, James Cameron and several others he starred in a PSA for Global Green USA promoting awareness for climate change.
Orlando even served as a UNICEF ambassador in Nepal and told InStyle in 2008, “The water is not clean, so in these environments an intestinal problem can be a killer for kids. A simple tap, which costs about $20, can provide water to the whole community—for life.”
Orlando and Miranda’s support for the environment and others doesn’t come as a surprise. They appear like loving people, especially to their adorable one-year-old son, Flynn. It seems they will continue to set the right example.
-Allyson Koerner
Photo Credit: Orlando (Wikimedia Commons/Hengist Decius), Miranda (Flickr/Eva Rinaldi)
