Celebrities are hopping on the eco-friendly bandwagon when it comes to everything from shopping bags to million-dollar homes. Now, it’s cars and auto accessories.

From Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the pioneers of the push toward economically efficient autos, to a newly converted Paris Hilton, A-listers are quickly becoming conscious of the environment.

It’s not only Hollywood’s younger generation that’s getting involved, either. Many old-timers are embracing the new non-polluting technologies that are being developed.

George Clooney cruises around L.A. in his Tango 600, a two-seat electrically powered vehicle. He was the first to purchase one of its kind–an automobile six inches narrower than many motorcycles with a range of 80 miles.

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Before Amy Winehouse was discovered wandering through London in a bra, before her new husband was jailed pending a hearing, and before she was admitted to rehab for the umpteenth time, her mother, Janis, knew the gifted young singer was in trouble.

Fame had done her daughter no good. Amy was too young and lacked the maturity to cope.

Hollywood has produced any number of Amy Winehouses over the years - child stars whose often-prodigious talents are inversely proportional to their ability to handle fame. Today, most are recognisable by first name only: witness the likes of Britney, Lindsay, Paris, Mischa, Mary-Kate and Ashley, to name just a handful.

Late this week, Amy Winehouse moved back into the East London flat she shares with her (still incarcerated) husband of nine months.

For at least an hour after she was photographed clutching her belongings, the headlines were decidedly positive: a move to the countryside was imminent, it was said, and she was determined to get her life back on track.

The happy news was decidedly shortlived. Less than a day later, “friends” were reportedly “urging her back into one of the drug rehabs” after becoming concerned she was “back on drugs”. So the sorry saga just continues.

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