Ed Begley: Living with Ed new season
October 10, 2007
HGTV’s green living reality television show Living with Ed, chronicling the walk the talk eco-friendly lifestyle of Ed Begley and his wife Rachelle, is back for a new season of great television.
This season, Begley visits with friends Jay Leno, Jackson Browne, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Daryl Hannah, Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek, Sharon Lawrence and Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal.
As an environmentalist, Ed rates being a pedestrian on foot as his first choice in transportation; uses the city bus; drives an electric car; and lives in a modest solar-powered house in an unpretentious neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Definitely not the Hollywood celebrity lifestyle of striving for an Elmer J. Fudd millionaire, mansion, and yacht status in a symbolism defining fortune and fame. Last season I wrote in the review of the show, “For all of Rachelle’s initial scrunched-up facial expressions of bafflement and discord at some of her husband’s choices, she is living with Ed as greenly as Ed.”
This season, Ed concedes that the new matching kitchen appliances are indeed more energy efficient than the old broken down ones held together as they were with wire — and they both visit a home built green from bottom to top that appeals to Rachelle’s sense of aesthetic beauty and Ed’s commitment to the environment.
While visiting the green home, the owner admits not everyone can build a home green from the foundation up. However, she states that all you have to do to make a difference is change one light bulb. One light bulb.
And while visiting Jay Leno, who has an interest in energy-producing engines of old, and who is employing modern wind turbines to create some of his own energy, stated, “Who cares how much energy you use if you make it yourself.” In an environmentally friendly renewable resource kind of way Ed opined, “He’s got a point.”
Living with Ed is an entertaining as well as educational show.
