Vanity Fair Goes Green
Tuesday April 11, 2006
The first ever “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair hit newsstands nationwide today, signaling the start of what editor Graydon Carter called an “increased commitment to reporting on the threat to our precious environment.”
The cover of the May 2006 issue features a group portrait of four of America’s most prominent—and glamorous—environmental activists: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney, all photographed by Annie Leibovitz in a scene that looks like a Sierra Club production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
But the articles inside address global warming and other critical environmental issues, and include a Green Guide of 50 simple things readers can do in the course of their daily lives to help save the planet.
There is also a “30-page portfolio of a passionately pro-environment new generation,” which includes profiles of people as diverse as Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, who donates 30 percent of his annual salary to activist environmental groups and posts bail for employees arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience in support of environmental causes; Chip Giller, founder of Grist, the online magazine that combines solid journalism and offbeat humor to carry the environmental message to a new generation of activists; and Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, biology professor, government minister, and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
For more detailed information about the contents of the Green Issue, see the Vanity Fair website and a review by Deborah White, About guide to U.S. Liberal Politics.
The cover of the May 2006 issue features a group portrait of four of America’s most prominent—and glamorous—environmental activists: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney, all photographed by Annie Leibovitz in a scene that looks like a Sierra Club production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
But the articles inside address global warming and other critical environmental issues, and include a Green Guide of 50 simple things readers can do in the course of their daily lives to help save the planet.
There is also a “30-page portfolio of a passionately pro-environment new generation,” which includes profiles of people as diverse as Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, who donates 30 percent of his annual salary to activist environmental groups and posts bail for employees arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience in support of environmental causes; Chip Giller, founder of Grist, the online magazine that combines solid journalism and offbeat humor to carry the environmental message to a new generation of activists; and Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, biology professor, government minister, and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
For more detailed information about the contents of the Green Issue, see the Vanity Fair website and a review by Deborah White, About guide to U.S. Liberal Politics.
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