Vegetarian Star

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a stop by the Franz Josef Land, an island where scientists capture polar bears to collect data and tag them for surveillance before release back into the arctic.

While examining the giant creatures (a photograph of which can be found at The Guardian), Putin had this to say of the bear’s paws: “They’re heavy.”

Global warming has threatened several species on the island, including polar bears.

The tracking devices placed by researchers will allow them to monitor the extent the environmental change has had on the species.

According to Treehugger, the deputy director of Russia’s Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Vyacheslav Rozhnov said, “The reduction of the ice sheets, caused by climate change and human activities, is bringing about a global redistribution of polar bears, but no one knows how it is happening.”

Compounding this is barrels of discarded fuel left behind after the Cold War, a matter Putin says makes the arctic in need of a “general clean up.”

“From 40,000 to 60,000 tonnes of fuel and lubricants are being stored under inappropriate conditions, and the pollution exceeds maximum permissible levels by six times,” Putin said, according to The Guardian.

Rozhnov fears the pollutants from the leaking barrels of oil will threaten more animals, including whales and walruses.

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Georges Laraque, former hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens, protested with the Concordia Animal Rights Association (CARA) and PETA outside the Fur and Fashion Exposition of Montréal (NAFFEM) to let every fashionista know that fur is not green.

Far from it. It’s red. And bloody.

While advocates of the fur industry have given their data on why they feel fur is environmentally healthy and sustainable, according to PETA’s blog, it takes 15 times as much energy to produce a fur coat from a farm that raises animals for fur than to make a fake.

There’s also the chemicals involved with the finishing process that have been linked to poor human and environmental health.

The only fur fit for a human is the five o’clock shadow look.

It’s time to get your fake on.

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The Benedictine Women of Wisconsin are living in the greenest building in America after the ecumenical order’s new Holy Wisdom Monastery received the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest ever rating for sustainable construction.

Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the sisters to take reducing their carbon footprint even further by serving vegan meals at the monastery.

Hopefully, the sisters have forgotten about that naked Joanna Krupa and the cross ad for pet adoption that angered the Catholic League.

What’s cool is that the sisters should also know adopting such a diet may not have adverse affects on their bone health, according to a study discussed in Science Daily.

The study, published in Osteoporosis International, found the bone densities of 105 vegan post menopausal women who were Buddhists nuns were identical to non vegetarians despite their calcium intake being lower.

Of course, calcium can be easily supplemented by consuming soy or almond milk, orange juice with calcium or calcium rich vegetable foods like kale.

But more factors than calcium play a role in bone health, such as magnesium, present in green vegetables.

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Eco stylist Danny Seo, who regularly shares his green tips on the The CBS Early Show and is a contributor to Better Homes and Gardens, has given some green gardening tips.

The entrepreneur who blogged about a good veggie chicken and kale salad, stating, “I may be a vegetarian, but I still like food that’s flavorful, indulgent and just outright yum,” says that when your sneakers are well ventilated, instead of throwing them in the trash, throw them in the garden.

Will this cause new, this season’s sneakers to sprout?

No, but according to Seo, it will keep the animals out.

When animals smell other animals’ scent, they know the territory it off limits.

Likewise, when they smell your sneakers, they’ll completely lose their appetites for your plants like your friends lose their appetite for pizza when you leave your shoes out and even consider urinating elsewhere.

For more uses of everyday items, including where to pack those peanuts and put the Sunday paper you never read and should be looking at online to save paper, visit here.

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Moby credits his mother for turning him on to veganism and animal rights, as he told Vegetarian Times she tried to “sneak tofu into my food and I would be outraged.”

Moby eventually learned to love the life his mother was trying to impress on him and as we approach Mother’s Day, model and eco friendly beauty products entrepreneur Josie Maran also thanks her mother for bringing her up environmentally friendly.

“My mom is my role model for being green,” Maran said, and revealed that earlier that afternoon she had shown her own daughter how to plant produce in the garden.

Do you have your mother to thank for being vegetarian and green?

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Brendan Fraser stars in the film Furry Vengeance, about a group of animals in the woods protesting a local real estate developer building on their land.

Despite the humorous storyline, the show obviously has a serious environmental theme to it, which Brendan agrees needs to be taught to children.

He shared his thoughts on this, plus how he gets his kids to eat vegetables with Parade Magazine.

“We all know that we should reuse, recycle, repair, respect, and return to the way we used to do things,” Fraser said. “But I think it’s especially important to remind kids of that. They have great fun when they see this movie, but they also get the point about preserving nature. I was at a screening where some of them were actually quite indignant about the forest and all the creatures great and small being threatened for a development project. They’re rooting for the furry guys all the way through it.”

When it comes to getting his children to eat their greens, all he has to do is threaten them with film takes of dad.

“I had the gag reel from the film with every take of me being humiliated and smashed and trashed. So I’d use it as a reward to get my kids to eat their vegetables. I’d be like, ‘Eat your broccoli and you can watch dad fall down again.'”

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Dirt! The Movie, a film about the health of the Earth’s soil, is being screened across the country.

Dirt! was shown on PBS this week, and features interviews with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement, mycologist Paul Stamens, urban farmers and female prisoners in Riker’s Island who are gardening behind bars.

What’s so important about getting dirty?

For vegetarians, the quality of our plant food depends on it.

According to the Huffington Post, it takes approximately 100 years just to create 1 inch of topsoil and the U.S. is letting its topsoil erode 10-17 times faster than it can be replaced.

Dirt! maintains that the first 6-8 inches of soil are crucial for maintaining life on the planet, and that tiny layer is being threatened by human mistakes like bad agricultural practices and pollution.

To find a screening of Dirt! new you, visit the film’s website and enter your zip code.

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Nicole Richie recommended composting in the list of ways to save the planet in her Earth Day post.

Now, we bring you tips from a self-described “compost whacko,” a woman named Mary Beth Mahoney from Illinois who is Peoria’s first master composter, certified by the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service.

Besides keeping a list of what to and not to compost, Mahoney tells what you should feed the worms if you’re doing vermicompost.

Worms eat like vegetarians, so don’t bother stealing your neighbors’ burgers during their grill out this Memorial Day.

Find another way to make them stop eating meat.

Same for cheese, fish, bones, pasta and bread.

They don’t like their breath to smell either, so hold the onions.

“Worms don’t like onions and citrus, wreaks havoc with their digestive systems,” Mahoney said. “They do better with broccoli, lettuce and other veggies.”

Mahoney keeps her six covered 10 gallon bins of worm in her basement, but she also likes the bokashi compost method which commonly uses microorganisms, molasses, water and wheat bran.

Using these tips, you’ll cut back on your waste in more ways than one, as you’ll be buying less trash bags from the grocery store.

And the kids will like that, as Mahoney’s son said, “I don’t have to take out the garbage as often.”

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