World Health Day: Celebrity Couples Who Embody This Year’s Theme

Happy World Health Day! Every year, the World Health Organization sets a different theme for the holiday, and for 2022, the focus is “Our planet, our health.”

The WHO estimates that each year, more than 13 million deaths are caused by avoidable environmental causes, which is why this year’s theme focuses on both the health of human beings and the planet.

While the day of the holiday, April 7, is a great time to get involved in planet-friendly initiatives, many celebrity couples already practice eco-friendly habits and have even founded their own companies and foundations to address issues like sustainability, climate change and deforestation.

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder are one couple who have consistently made efforts to better the health of the planet. Reed is the founder of BaYou With Love, a sustainable jewelry brand that works with recycled computer technology from Dell. The Twilight actress is also an animal activist who has won an ASPCA Compassion Award.

Somerhalder is just as passionate about animals and the environment. He founded the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which heavily focuses on “the conservation of natural resources, such as forests, lands, and wildlife, for the benefit of the entire community.”

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Another set of lovebirds who embody this year’s theme are Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix. The two actors both have vegan diets, which are known to not only help animals but the environment as well.

When asked about his and Mara’s son, River, named after his late brother, River Phoenix, Phoenix told The Sunday Times in 2021, “Well, certainly I would hope that [he is vegan], but I’m not going to impose my belief on my child.”

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Brie Bella and Bryan Danielson

Fans of Total Bellas know that professional wrestlers Brie Bella and Bryan Danielson are always trying to lower their carbon footprint. For example, Danielson proposed with an eco-friendly, conflict-free diamond, and in 2020, the couple announced that Bella was teaming up with Tentree with a goal of planting 50,000 trees.

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren

Not only did Alba found The Honest Company, which heavily focuses on maintaining ethical and sustainable practices, but she and Warren do their best to maintain a sustainable household as well, teaching their children to do the same. She told Page Six in 2016, “We fill water bottles instead of buying new ones, recycle and talk about what products are safe and unsafe for them and the earth.”

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara

Mara and Phoenix may not be the most public couple, but they have spoken out numerous times about how veganism can help animals and the planet. “We’re in a true planetary emergency,” Phoenix said during the 2021 TED Countdown Global Livestream. “And most people don’t know that the number one contributing factor to increasing global temperatures is the way that we fuel our homes, our businesses, our modes of transportation and our bodies.” Mara added that “this is one thing that we do have control over that we know will make a difference.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

In 2021, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex pledged that by 2030, all of their business activities would have a net-zero carbon footprint. In the announcement on the Archewell site, it was stated that the two “have a long-standing commitment to the planet, both together and prior to their union, with global projects and partnerships dating back over a decade.”

Sting and Trudie Styler

The rocker and his wife founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund in 1998, with a focus on biodiversity loss, climate change and human rights violations. They were inspired to do something after witnessing “huge expanses of charred, smoking wasteland” in the Amazonian rainforest, as Styler detailed in a feature for HuffPost in 2008.