Green celebrity Ed Begley Jr will be at Earth Day Texas talking about his sustainable lifestyle.

Saturday, April 26, 3-4pm 
Sunday, April 27, 1-2 pm 

[ibimage==6769==original_size==none==self==ibimage_left]Ed Begley Jr. has been considered an environmental leader in the Hollywood community for many years. Since 1970, he has been an environmentalist, beginning with buying his first electric vehicle (a Taylor-Dunn golf cart style vehicle), recycling, and becoming a vegan. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations, and his most recent reality show about green living called Living With Ed on Planet Green with his wife. He promotes eco-friendly products like the Toyota Prius, Envirolet composting toilets and Begley's Best Household Cleaner.

Begley's home is 1,585 square feet in size using solar power and also uses wind power via a PacWind vertical-axis wind turbine, an air conditioning unit made by Greenway Design Group, LLC., and an electricity-generating bicycle used to toast bread, and he pays around $300 a year in electric bills. Arguing that the suburban lawn is environmentally unsustainable, especially in Southern California owing to water shortage, he has converted his own to a drought-tolerant garden composed of native California plants. Though he is noted for riding bicycles and using public transportation, he owns a 2003 Toyota RAV4 EV electric-powered vehicle.

He latest project is the construction of his LEED Platinum-certified home for On Begley Street.