Supermodel, actor and activist Amber Valletta kicks off Porter Edit’s new-season edit of sustainable clothing. Helen Broadfoot styles Amber in sustainable spring looks from Casasola, Emma Willis, Envelope1976, Matteau, Ninety Percent and more, for easy, breezy images by David Luraschi in the January 13th issue.

Eve Barlow conducts the interview, sitting down with Valletta fresh off her November arrest with Jane Fonda, protesting against the Trump administration’s roll-back of all climate change action by America’s climate-denying president.

An activist for many causes, Amber Valletta’s concern for the environment goes way back. Her mother was also an activist. “My mom wore a band that said ‘NO NUKES.” she shares. Before Valletta participated in the recent DC protest, she spoke to her mother over the phone about her memories. “I chose to get arrested,” she says. “I’ve been feeling this need to get loud; to step into my own. I don’t care what anyone thinks. I can’t sit on the sidelines; I need to physically put myself on the line. I chose to get arrested as a symbol. My life is worth putting out there, in order to show that all our lives are worth fighting for.”

Growing visibly more emotional, Amber Valletta, bottom-lines the convo, saying:

“I believe in this. I will risk public opinion, being in jail.” She recounts walking to a street between the Supreme Court and Capitol Hill and yelling. As she was arrested, she could see those buildings. “It was profound. This is the most important crisis we’re facing. I’m not diminishing cancer or Aids, diabetes or addiction, but there won’t be anything left to fight for. Nothing else matters.”

Like so many progressives, Valletta knows that we are living in perilous times for the future of our planet and our people. She also knows that talk is cheap, and her activism is not born of Twitter rants. That’s way too easy.

“I want to be the person that I aspire to be,” she concludes. “I don’t want to talk it, I want to live it. I want to allow myself the space to have bad days, be sad, be mad, be loving and accepting of others. Even people that I don’t think are right. It’s hard to do, but I want to move through the world as gently as I can.”

Read Amber Valletta’s entire interview at Porter Edit.