Actress Cameron Diaz has the June cover of Vogue and in an interview talks about how she is the “green queen” of Hollywood:

When movie execs think of her, they naturally think green, and we’re not talking about the ecologically sensitive kind of green. We’re talking dough. When everyone else thinks of her, they are likely to think of the noncurrency kind. In her (hybrid electric) car, you recognize right away that she seems to think of herself as falling somewhere in between. Her recent MTV series, Trippin’, was a travelogue that explored environmental concerns, a celebrity twist on the nature shows of the sixties, with Cameron taking the rapper DMX camping in Yellowstone, or Eva Mendes to explore Nepal. A New York Times critic praised Cameron for combining “school and recess” in the series: “She has learned to speak authoritatively about siltation and dynamite fishing and overpopulation, all in her surfer-girl vernacular.” She wasn’t using the show to make herself more of a star; she was using her celebrity to lure young people to the cause of conservation.

Which is something to note about Cameron Diaz early in the trip, before we get too far from L.A.: She’s clearly not looking to be a poster girl for the environmental movement. She is there for the environment if it needs her, buying carbon offsets with no great fanfare, making ecologically sensitive shopping choices quietly and happily. She is trying hard not to preach or scold. Of her Prius she says, “It’s just a car.” She has had one for years, before they became (her dream come true) popular. “It’s just a choice people can make.”

Cameron models a variety of eco looks (like the exquisite 3.1 Phillip Lim natural silk dress pictured above) in the accompanying photoshoot, so we’d like to extend a challenge her way: Please feature these ethical designers on the red carpet during your press tour for My Sister’s Keeper! Your endorsement of the ethical fashion industry could really go a long way — not just in the theory of a glossy magazine spread, but in practice as well.