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Daryl Hannah drives the coolest, blackest biodiesel El Camino. Madonna sparked a rumpus with animal advocates when her sheep sashayed across the grass in fashionable hues of bright pink and blue. And Batman has some Hong Kong residents up in arms with a request to keep their lights on full-force for a week. Pow!

These—and many other juicy tidbits—can be found on Ecorazzi, "the latest in green gossip." This vivacious, eco-friendly blog sprang onto the scene in August and has since attracted a crack team of contributors devoted to tracking Hollywood's green, or not so green, beat.

Rebecca Carter, of greenerMIAMI, and Groovy Green's Michael d'Estries co-founded the celebri-blog. We chatted with Rebecca over instant messenger to see how things are going...

Hey there, Rebecca! You and Michael both had thriving blogs when you started Ecorazzi. What made you join forces for a new site?

It was an instant message, in fact. Apparently, Michael had been seeing what crazy traffic gossip sites like Perez Hilton receive, and I had recently written a piece about Green Celebrities. He IM'ed me and asked what I thought of doing a whole blog on the topic. Kind of harnessing the popularity of celebrities for good...

In the blogging world, if you have an idea that no one has come up with yet, and you think it's a good one, you might as well give it a shot. It only takes a day to start a blog. We didn't expect this kind of popularity at all. We've been running to catch up ever since. Read the full profile...

On Monday, L.L. Bean arrives. Tuesday, Pottery Barn slips through. Wednesday follows with Harry & David or Crate & Barrel or Whatever & Whatever. On and on it goes, the daily deluge of mail order catalogs that are unsolicited—and, often, unwelcome. To this junk mail inundation, Catalog Choice says: Stop the madness!

Sponsored by the non-profit group Ecology Center, Catalog Choice offers a free way to reduce the clutter in your mailbox (and, hopefully, save a few trees, too). Create a profile on the site, scroll through the database of catalogs, and select the ones you no longer wish to receive. Catalog Choice takes it from there. Once you establish a profile, you can always go back and change your mind. Like, if you really do want to keep Victoria's Secret sneaking in to the house. The choice is yours.

Meet Shea Gunther, green activist, Web junkie, and fearless instigator of new projects. Equipped with a satellite Internet connection and an unfathomable amount of energy, this "eco-entrepreneur" has embarked on the construction of a "super green" house in Maine. Naturally, the building's rise to life will be closely blogged, vlogged, and uploaded to Flickr.

When we chatted with Shea online, he told us why the "Gunther Green Home" will come equipped with at least one secret passageway, what he thinks of "Green Greed," and why he loves the Web browser StumbleUpon...

Hey, Shea. Have you always wanted to build a "net-zero eco-pimped out" house—or was it something that came up recently?

I have actually been dreaming about building my own house since I was 13 or 14. I've been designing the house in my head ever since. The "green" part of the equation really came on strong over the past 4 or 5 years as I've learned about green building.

I think you can tell that I've been dreaming up this house since I was a kid by the fact that I told my architect in the first meeting that we had to have a secret passage or two. Read the full profile...