Actor Ed Begley Jr. shows off a solar oven in the garden of his Studio City home. (The Press-Enterprise/Greg Vojtko)

Ed Begley Jr., that energetic actor and environmentalist, sure has been making the rounds in the I.E. lately. And it turns out he apparently owns half of a windmill in the San Gorgonio Pass. Who knew?

Begley already spoke at the Temple Sinai Town Hall Forum in Palm Desert, and this Thursday he'll be speaking at the University of Redlands for the Convocation Lecture Series. And there's no surprise here, but he will talk about living green.

If you recall, PE photographer Greg Vojtko and I visited Begley at his Los Angeles area home last year to watch the filming of an episode of "Living with Ed," on HGTV. And we got the grand tour of his modest home. A solar oven in the back yard, both an electric and hybrid vehicle in the garage, a rain barrel to irrigate his garden, a kitchen countertop made of recycled Coke bottles. I could go on and on....

Continuing his I.E. tour, Begley will also be in Temecula on Feb. 6 when he will be the keynote speaker at the 9th Annual Advancing the Choice Expo. That event is sponsored by the Western Riverside County Clean Cities Coalition. It's also sponsored by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Western Riverside Council of Governments.

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