Boys We Heart: Edward Norton

Playing the Hulk is not Norton’s only green claim to fame.

Norton was once named International Man of the Year by British GQ magazine, doing much before and since to prove the title’s accuracy, including signing a petition being sent to the U.N. for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality; creating and contributing to a Middle East Peacemakers Fund at Yale (his alma mater) in response to 9/11; holding benefit film screenings; hosting a National Geographic program, Strange Days on Planet Earth,about environmental issues; and being a continuing board member of Friends of the High Line, a group dedicated to saving an elevated green space in Manhattan.

While in the process of fitting his own home with solar panels, Norton came up with the idea of supporting others through his purchase. He convinced BP Solar to join up, offering free solar power systems to low-income families each time a celebrity buys a system for themselves.

To date, Solar Neighbors has helped numerous Los Angeles families, chosen by Enterprise. It has been supported by celebs such as Brad Pitt, Ed Begley Jr., Salma Hayek, Danny Devito and Rhea Pearlman and Alicia Silverstone.

And of course I’d hit it. On a bed of solar panels.

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