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June 21 2008

Eliza's environmentalist trip. Eliza recounts her trip to Brazil where she visited nut plantations protected by the Amazon Conservation Association. It's nice to see her, like SMG, involved in awareness-raising activity. Plus, further pictures from the rest of her South American trip.

Looks like the Boston Diva site will also feature a sort of Eliza's interest column. She also posted in the NOT FOR PROFIT section.

Perseo | 12:18 CET | 23 comments total | tags: eliza dushku, boston diva

Oh, good to see the BDL site is up and running with real stuff instead of the placeholder content.

theonetruebix | June 21, 13:12 CET

*grin*

I'm a huge fan of the classic Lorem ipsum, myself. (Charity TK), as we say in the business.

Teasing aside, it's great to see that Eliza is so active and involved in stuff she cares about, and that can affect so many other lives for the better. Yay, her.

Plus, I can't help but love that one of the tags in the Boston Diva Live Forums is "Rainforesty goodness." She's been Jossified, just like us.

QuoterGal | June 21, 14:27 CET

I now love this woman to death. Yay Elizha, you are so much more than a pretty face and a major talent.

Shey | June 21, 15:19 CET

I have been wanting to go to Machu Pichuu for years. I will get there someday...

Shouldn�t sustainability come first and profits second?
True. Many animals are now extinct because they were good eating, right up to and including the very last one...
Every farmer knows that in hard times the last thing you should do, no matter how hungry you are, is eat your seed corn. Without it you'll starve next year and every year after.

zz9 | June 21, 16:48 CET

Nice site, nice story and a nice distinction between "growth" and sustainable growth that will lift people out of poverty -- they're not the same. Go Eliza.

Also, I clicked on the "About" reference where Eliza says she's not as tough as Faith, who wasn't so tough either but they both got over that. Nice thought for the day.

doghouse | June 21, 16:50 CET

Sustainable growth means no growth. Ultimately, it means energy shortage and economic decline.

Interesting how rich people like Eliza embraces concepts that will shut the door on the rest of us. Certain people who have it made begrudge prosperity for the rest of us.

Jim Austin | June 21, 18:10 CET

Sustainable growth means no growth. Ultimately, it means energy shortage and economic decline.

A farmer growing corn and keeping enough for seed for next year when he sells the crop is sustainable growth. He can easily, if he has the land and people, grow more and more each year while selling more and more.

A farmer selling his entire crop, and thinking "Wow, I've made a lot of money!" before realising next year that he has no seed to plant is unsustainable growth. He's traded his entire future for one good year.

zz9 | June 21, 18:17 CET

And it seems true by definition that unsustainable growth is also going to lead to decline (s'kinda why it's unsustainable ;). It's simple really - if you cut down trees more quickly than they grow back then you're gonna run out of trees. If you catch so many fish that fish populations collapse then you're gonna run out of fish. Not exactly rocket science is it ? ;)

Saje | June 21, 18:31 CET

I also clicked on the "About" link. The girl's pretty funny. But what I loved most was how she didn't explain who Faith was, she just assumes we know. And she's not wrong, is she? She knows who we are.

ManEnoughToAdmitIt | June 21, 20:44 CET

I hate to ask but given the actual URL , is this actually a test site and not meant to be seen just yet?

Simon | June 21, 20:53 CET

That's kind of unclear, Simon. It does exist at bostondivalive.com and isn't hidden, although that domain then redirects to the onlinehome.us one.

[ edited by zeitgeist on 2008-06-21 18:47 ]

theonetruebix | June 21, 21:08 CET

Anyone else notice the page header logo that has a plane "crashing" into a skyscraper? Slightly unfortunate, especially for a site connected to Boston.

zz9 | June 21, 21:43 CET

Its not crashing, its flying past it, just like the helicopter is. b!X, I fixed your link and the text for it (bostondivelive.com is probably something else ;)).

zeitgeist | June 21, 21:48 CET

Neat--I like learning that celebrities are real people.

ricetxpeaches | June 21, 22:58 CET

Good to know she's stayed on the wagon tobacco-wise.

And it's surprisingly well written for someone educated in the late 20th Century. People can always transcend limiting circumstances, at least to some extent.

And I won't take issue with her politics, because I don't do that sort of thing.

DaddyCatALSO | June 21, 23:35 CET

Wow. Eliza is just so cool. And she's not just a celebrity "raising awareness" for some publicity. She really cares about the world, and about people, as this act of kindness at Sundance shows.

Also, she knows her stuff about this topic. It's obvious (to me, at least) that she's not just spouting generic information, but rather that she's actually learned and thought about the situation. And I totally agree that regulation is necessary in this kind of situation, and not just an ephemeral "macroeconomic framework" that only helps for a little while, and will screw over citizens, workers, and the rainforests.

And all of us are interested in a world much larger than any celebrity.

I love that. I'll say again: she is just so cool.

BandofBuggered | June 22, 00:01 CET

I can't believe she came to Brazil and I didn't get a chance to meet her. I love Eliza even more now, she's my idol.

danielgm86 | June 22, 01:13 CET

I think it's fantastic that she's continuously educating herself about issues around the globe. The section on the site about her trip to Senegal with her mom was really interesting, too. And that pic of her holding a machete with a huge smile on her face is just priceless! Thanks for sharing this with us, Perseo!

kasadilla | June 22, 04:35 CET

I'm so in love with the girl it's not funny anymore. She is a real gem of a person, a down-to-earth, caring, intelligent, educated and articulate young woman who does so much more than acting and playing the Hollywood game. She always talked in her interviews about her interests, her political and social views, and she comes across as real passionate about making a difference. I almost did a double take when I saw the Not for Profit section, with the 10,000 Girls project, because it's so similar to what Equality Now does. Clearly, Joss and Eliza click on several levels.

Ah, I found this site on Eliza's board at Fanforum, they get the credit for unearthing this first.

Perseo | June 22, 10:16 CET

Does she mean this Amazon Conservation Association? I didn't see a link.

Her writing needs some copy editing and there seem to be some places where they mean to link but haven't yet. I wonder if it is still being edited? It does not seem quite final to me.

Anyway, sustainability is the issue closest to my heart, so I'm glad to see she's interested in this and gotten a chance to see what's going on at the local level in the region.

Sunfire | June 23, 00:56 CET

Sustainable growth means no growth. Ultimately, it means energy shortage and economic decline.
Interesting how rich people like Eliza embraces concepts that will shut the door on the rest of us. Certain people who have it made begrudge prosperity for the rest of us.
Jim Austin | June 21, 15:10 CET

Sorry, but you have it exactly backwards. Economic brackets from (what remains of) the middle class down through the genuinely poverty stricken, are the people who are hurt most by unsustainable economic and environmental practices.
The richest corporations and individuals are the ones who profit by unsustainable (read unregulated, destructive) growth.

Go Eliza, you are awesomeness squared.

Shey | June 23, 14:44 CET

I agree on the environmental aspects of it; I believe growth is a sustainable thing, following, oh the thought of Julian Simon, G. Harry Stine, etc. Politically speaking I might support a candidate who advocates different policies than the one ELiza might support, but I applaud the convictions themselves.

And I think the need for some kind of regulation was proven historically by the trusts in the US and similar histories elsewhere. When money is involved people, not just business executives but anybody, can't be trusted enough to watch things like the environment or the health of others or the budgets of generations after they're dead.

As for the comments in the one link about Mike Myers, hard to believe for a couple reasons. With eLiza's ethics, I don't see her as the other woman. And with her comments about how hard it was to do some of the scenes in _Soul Survivors_, I don't see her doing threesomes.

As for the Sundance story itself, I'm never sure how to think about those incidents. But it was a good thing.

DaddyCatALSO | June 23, 20:51 CET

How she dares to come here and not visites me???

Brasilian Chaos Man | June 23, 23:57 CET

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