SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR - ELLIS-BEXTOR FIGHTS FOR GREENER SCHOOLS

ELLIS-BEXTOR FIGHTS FOR GREENER SCHOOLS

Dance star SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR is campaigning to make British schools more eco-friendly - because she has a guilt complex about her own impact on the environment. The Murder On The Dancefloor hitmaker - who is currently on a U.K. tour with boyband Take That - is spear-heading the npower Greener Schools Programme, a $40 million (GBP20 million) five-year initiative designed to make British schools more sustainable. But it seems her involvement is penance for the 28-year-old's carbon-indulgent lifestyle. She says, "Maybe it is my guilty conscience. As a pop star, you build up quite a bad carbon footprint from all the flights, touring, lights and so on, so I suppose it's a way of using my profile to slightly rectify the balance. "When you read a scary article about the state of the planet in 100 years you actually think, 'That's my grandchildren' and you feel more responsibility."