People I admire

This fall, in NYC, I visited the ICP (International Center of Photography) and was captivated by a video portrait of Cate Blanchett. Many of us know her as an actress who is famous for her role as Queen Elizabeth, however she is very active in the environmental movement as well. She was recently featured on the Diane Rehm Show (11-18-2009) in which she discussed her role on stage in "A Street Car Named Desire" and her work to raise awareness about climate change. Cate has done a lot of work to educate and raise awareness about climate change and how to combat it with better technologies and by restructuring of how we live. She is native to Australia, a land that has had to deal with the effects of climate change first hand. She and her husband, Andrew Upton, recently became artistic co-directors for the Sydney Theatre Company. They plan to take steps to move the theatre company "off-grid", by adding solar panels and recycling rainwater.

Subscribe to the podcast for the Diane Rehm Show to listen to the episode

I wish I could find a clip of the video portrait of Cate Blanchett, by David Rosetzky, but...

Check out ICP anyway...