“When I explain to a 12 or a 15-year-old about energy policy or about the fact that a tree left planted in the ground, not cut down, is worth more to them in the ground than it is as a leg on one of their stools, that’s when you start seeing that process happening in [these kids’] brains, realizing that protecting their environment is much more valuable to them in the future than watching it waste away." — Vampire Diaries actor Ian Somerhalder tells Samaritanmag's Karen Bliss in 2011 about his Ian Somerhalder Foundation.