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Tweet Celebrity fashion rarely involves wearing a gown twice unless of course you’re Kate Middleton, master of the repurposed wardrobe. But for stars involved in Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge, repurposing and recycling are red-carpet worthy goals. Emily Blunt is the most recent participant and premiered an eco-friendly Tory Burch Ethel gown at the Toronto [...]
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Tweet 10 days and counting until Earth Day 2012! In honor of the approaching day, not only are organizations asking for action but also for appreciation. After all, we talk about driving electric cars and using energy-efficient light bulbs and wearing bamboo clothing but in the pursuit to live more sustainably, are we taking time [...]
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Tweet Jessica Alba joins the growing ranks of celebrities adding “author” to their resumes. While other celebs may lean towards fiction and screenplays, Alba has chosen to develop a guide to living a non-toxic life titled “The Honest Life.” Already an eco-friendly celebrity who stocks her closet with organic bamboo bedding, Alba recently launched The [...]
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Tweet Miranda Kerr is lending her celebrity and yoga prowess to Earth Hour 2012. Unlike Earth Day, Earth Hour is an intentional event focused on global warming awareness around the globe. The annual event is held on the last Saturday of March to coincide closely with the equinox. The idea to “switch off” was inspired [...]
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Tweet The red carpet had shades of “green” last night as many of the stars donned eco-friendly gowns and suits for their promenade into the theater. Encouraged by stylish and environmentally-conscious trendsetter Livia Firth, nominees and presenters alike stepped up to participate in her Green Carpet Challenge. Livia has vowed to only wear eco-friendly and [...]
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Tweet I know that America loves a celebrity marriage. Based on recent news, it looks like there will soon be one to be excited about as more than just a union of pop culture royalty. Justin Timberlake reportedly proposed to Jessica Biel while the two were in Montana during the holidays. In addition to one [...]
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Tweet Modern Family kicked HBO off their Emmy pedestal; Jane Lynch announced her gay agenda (“check with Rachel Maddow about court time, take pick-up truck in for an oil change. Never mind, I’ll do it myself.”) and behind the scenes, the Emmy Awards gave a prize to the environment as they chose to go green [...]
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Tweet What gift do you give to the couple who has everything? Well, apparently, you give trees. Eco-friendly (and proud) parents Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy have requested that in lieu of products, friends and family should plant “celebration trees” to honor the birth of son Bingham. Considering the ecological footprint left by the onslaught [...]
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Tweet Lindsay Lohan celebrates her 25th birthday on Saturday. Did everyone remember to send her a card? Mine depicted a derailed locomotive surrounded by balloons and onlookers in party hats, and said “Happy Birthday to my favorite train wreck!” She probably wasn’t at home to receive her well-wishes though, since her house arrest ended on [...]
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Tweet Kung Fu Panda is back in the 2nd film of the popular DreamWorks series and once again we get to follow the adventures of our favorite bamboo munching hero as he continues his quest to become a dragon warrior and (in this film) to find his birth parents so he can truly know who [...]
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Tweet Last week, Oprah taped the finale of her talk show. “Thank you is not enough, but thank you,” she told 13,000 onlookers. “For your love and your support, thank you.” The show has run for twenty-five years, and changed the face of daytime television forever more. Here’s a secret: I’m a man that loves [...]
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Tweet In a land of excess, it would be easy to indulge in whims rather than make serious environmental choices. And many celebrity estates do boast excess with everything from golden toilets (not kidding!) to private landing strips but thankfully some celebs take their purchasing power seriously and have opted for sustainability, resource conservation and [...]
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Tweet And the award for eco-friendliness goes to….well, a handful of people at the 2011 Academy Awards. While it wasn’t commonplace, two top winners of the night chose to wear environmentally-responsible clothing to the glamorous awards show. Colin Firth, Oscar winner for Best Actor for The Kings Speech, chose Tom Ford as a designer and [...]
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Tweet Since the 1950’s, we have been intoxicated with man made products, especially when used in sports. Graphite golf clubs and graphite-ceramic tennis rackets, plus the ever present plastics have become the backbone of equipment manufacturing. So it is a radical break from this trend when bamboo becomes the material of choice for sportsmen. Today, [...]
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Tweet We couldn’t have a site extolling the virtues of bamboo without sharing information about its most famous admirer, the giant panda. The giant panda is a bear, and like its more ferocious cousins, pandas can eat meat. However, scientists estimate that the diet of giant pandas consists almost totally (99%) of bamboo. Bamboo is [...]
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Tweet We have compiled what we believe to be an excellent collection of videos on your favorite celebrities speaking out about the environment, going green, global warming, and other topics that range from humor to documentary style. There are so many things we can do to help in this battle and who better to get [...]
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Tweet Want to look like Angelina Jolie, but you don’t think you have the right body? Shake that brain pan and discover that you have what it takes to show off like A.J. As long as you’ve got skin on your back and an artist…with bamboo tattooing, you’re ready to style and profile. Angelina found [...]
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