This week, the Environmental Media Association’s Young Hollywood Board is putting on the gloves and digging deep in support of organic gardening in Los Angeles-area schools. Celebs on the Board, including Nicole Richie, Lance Bass, Rosario Dawson, members of Maroon 5, Amy Smart, Matthew Rhys, Emily VanCamp and Emmanuelle Chriqui, will each adopt an area school, help with the planting, and check in with their gardens during the school year, explains People.

The project is the product of a newly-formed partnership between the EMA and the Los Angeles Unified School District’s School Gardens program, and personal care brand Yes To Inc. The launch event is scheduled for tomorrow morning at Hollywood’s Helen Bernstein High School, and the program will take root over the next several months.

Just how much dirt Richie et al will actually get under their fingernails remains to be seen, but Bass for one is pretty stoked: “Organic gardens are so important, especially in urban areas where many students would otherwise never see any greenery. I hope that the support will help them to grow and flourish in Los Angeles.”

From LAist

Amy is currently involved in the Farm Sanctuary Spring Auction 2009 where you can “talk green over tea” with Amy herself!

You know this beautiful starlet from her work on such hits as “Varsity Blues”, “Road Trip”, “Rat Race”, “The Butterfly Effect”, “Crank”, “Felicity” and “Scrubs”. What you may not know is this brainy beauty is also a committed activist who routinely lends her time and efforts to environmental and animal rights campaigns. Meet Amy in LA over tea to discuss her career and charity projects!

You can bid at Charity Buzz. The auction closes March 31, 2009 at 2:22:00 PM!

Amy has been cast in a new television show called “See Cate Run”…

Amy Smart could be the future president of the United States — provided her pilot gets picked up.

Smart (“Smith,” “Just Friends”) has taken the lead role in ABC’s pilot “See Cate Run,” about a woman who may be destined to lead the country. A pair of FOX pilots — the comedy “Two Dollar Beer” and a drama about “past-life investigators” — have also added to their casts, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“See Cate Run,” formerly titled “I, Claudia,” is about a woman (Smart) who will one day be a serious presidential contender. In the present, though, she’s a young prosecutor, and the nation’s highest office is nowhere on her radar.

Smart’s last TV series was CBS’ “Smith,” which lasted only a handful of episodes in fall 2006. She starred in a CBS pilot called “The Meant to Be’s” last year; her recent movie credits include “Mirrors” and “Crank 2: High Voltage,” which will hit theaters in April.

From Zap 2 It – thanks to Jessyka for the heads up!

This post is off topic, but since I am a huge fan of Christina Applegate, I decided this is important. Christina has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and she will make a full recovery, but we decided to create a star in her honor – so please read below and consider donating if you or someone you know has been affected by cancer.

A star has been created in Christina Applegate’s honor at Stand Up 2 Cancer and if you want to do more to help the cause and help stop cancer, please consider donating in her honor!

You can donate as much as you want and you can do so by clicking the image above or by clicking here. Please help spread the word about this – since Christina has entertained and inspired us all these years, it’s our turn to give back!

If you have a website and you want to help spread the word about this project, please use the html code below!

We have over 1,100 captures of Amy from all of her episodes of “Felicity”. I want to thank my good friend Jess for taking the time to capture these for Amy Smart Online! Please give her websites dedicated to Tiffani Thiessen and Kerr Smith a visit.

Click on the thumbnails below to view all the images in the “Felicity” category at our image archive.

In honor of our 100th anniversary, Milk-Bone has teamed up with Pet
Photographer to the Stars, Christopher Ameruoso to create “pawtographs”-
autographed photos of celebrity dog lovers and their four-legged friends.
As part of our 100th anniversary celebration, we will be hosting an online
auction of these pawtographs. Amy Smart is among the celebrities whose
pawtographs will be available, along with Paris Hilton, Nicollette Sheridan,
and Holly Madison of E!’s “Girls Next Door.” All proceeds go directly
to Canine Assistants, a non-profit organization which trains and provides
service dogs for children and adults with physical disabilities and other
special needs. For more information, go to www.milk-bone.com. Hurry, the
auction ends May 31!