Vegetarian Star

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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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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Martha Stewart‘s magazine Body + Soul, now known as Whole Living, treated New York city elementary school children for their efforts to bring awareness to Earth Day.

According to MNN, the magazine teamed up with the non-profit group PENCIL to sponsor an Earth Day poster contest.

Each school picked a poster from each grade to go on to the finals, where the children were rewarded with locally grown produce and dairy and eggs sourced from Stewart’s farm.

Last year Martha attended a launch party for Farm Forward, an organization that aims to move everyone away from factory farming and shift focus towards smaller, family farms that use more sustainable practices.

Martha allowed Access Hollywood to accompany her on her farm, which uses no pesticides.

“Everything can be picked off the plant and just eaten,” Martha says in the video.

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Bode Miller is an Olympic and World Championship Gold Medalist in alpine skiing who grew up a vegetarian on a small family farm of 450 acres of organic produce.

These days he runs his own organic farm Turtle Ridge much the same way–no pesticides and keeping the affairs among those closest to the farm.

Turtle Ridge, which has a variety of produce, including tomatoes and artichokes, does not sell to retailers, only locals.

Not only is buying local great for the farmer, it saves carbon emissions and usually results in a better tasting vegetable.

According to localharvest.org, most produce in the U.S. is picked 4-7 days before put on the grocery store shelves and travels an average of 1500 miles before it’s sold.

Makes straight from the garden and a 4 mile bike ride to pick up corn sound so much more refreshing!

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Olivia Wilde has been working with organizations helping Haiti to recover from the devastating earthquake that struck earlier this year.

Wilde’s latest project is helping Haitian students learn to grow their own food, as she recently Tweeted about the anticipated experience.

“I cannot wait to get back to Port au Prince and start planting veggies with our students!”

In addition to her hands on efforts, the star is one of many who are auctioning off their Golden Globe outfits as a way to raise money to go towards relief efforts.

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Daryl Hannah is no stranger to activism, even the kind that gets her arrested and asked for an autograph by the police.

During a recent interview with Good, Hannah described a tree sit in she accomplished when an urban community garden in downtown Los Angeles was threatened with the construction of an incinerator.

Fourteen acres of land was used by families in the neighborhood to grow over 500 fruit trees in a plot that was set aside after the riots in 1992.

“Situated in an extremely industrial and polluted area, the farm became a living, breathing, green space, acting as the lungs of South Central by reducing global warming emissions, and sucking up tons of nasty carbon dioxide from the Alameda corridor,” Hannah said. “And to top it all off, the land became a habitat for birds, butterflies, lizards, honeybees, and a safe haven for children living in a virtual warzone.”

“We used the tree as a lookout perch. Two of the greatest tree sitters, Julia Butterfly Hill, who spent over two years living in a redwood to bring attention to and stop their destruction, and John Quigley, known for saving the ancient oak “Old Glory,” lived in the tree.”

Despite Hannah’s and others’ protests, the South Central Los Angeles Community Garden was razed, and a documentary on its history was made into a film.

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Jillian Michaels may scream, berate and boss people around on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, but she insists that’s not the way you should treat your kids if you’re trying to get them in shape.

“The Biggest Loser is about life-or-death confrontations. Last ditch attempts to get people back on track. Kids need positive reinforcement only,” Jillian explained to Parent Dish.

Getting kids involved with physical activities can be combined with nutrition, such as planting and growing your own vegetables in a backyard garden, suggests the pescatarian.

“Teach them about healthy goods to help them become a healthy grownup. Don’t make it about pounds or calorie counting. Involve them in the food. Let them start a little vegetable garden so they are invested. Challenge them to find fruits and veggies in their favorite colors and so on. This helps to keep health fun and make them feel in control of their choices.”

We can totally see the garden thing as a competitive, but positive experience for kids.

Team blue gets the green beans. Team red gets tomatoes.

Who can harvest more at the end of the season?

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