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Brendan Brazier

Brendan Brazier

Vegan professional triathlete, author of fitness books and creator of the all plant-based nutrition line Vega, Brendan Brazier gave his five tips for eco-friendly eating to the Calgary Herald. Obviously not consuming any animal products is the best advice for sustainable eating, especially considering the amount of land set aside to harvest food just so animals that humans will eventually eat can feed.

“That takes up a lot of land and a lot of minerals from the soil to feed the animals,” Brazier said.

But even as a vegetarian or vegan, there are further steps you can take to lighten your carbon footprint.

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Larry Hagman Solar Energy Ads For Solar World (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, August 27th, 2010 in Actors, Business, Environment-Eco-Green, Household, Videos.


Larry Hagman played a character completely opposite of himself in the prime time television soap opera series, Dallas. J.R. Ewing was an oil baron while Hagman is as green as green can be, following a vegetarian diet and running his home on solar power. Hagman stars in a series of advertisements for Solar World, a manufacturer for solar panels.

Ironically, one of the ads plays on Hagman’s role as Ewing, when it has Hagman saying, “In the past, it was always about the oil. The oil was flowing and so was the money…I quit years ago. But I’m still in the energy business. There’s always a better alternative. Shine, baby shine.”

Solar World manufactures solar panels for both homes and business and government. It employs over 2,700 people, has manufacturing facilities in both USA and Germany and sales offices around the world. More ads can be viewed below.

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Blood Dolphins premieres Friday, August 27th at 11 PM E/T on Animal Planet.

The television series features activist Ric O’Barry, who first helped to expose the practice of killing dolphins in Taiji, Japan for meat through the award winning film, The Cove.

In Blood Dolphins, O’Barry brings along his son Lincoln O’Barry, though he first had second thoughts about doing so.

“Lincoln can go undercover and do things I can’t do,” Ric says. “I really didn’t want him to do this. It’s sort of a double edged sword. I have a lot of different emotions exposing Lincoln to that danger.”

Discovery has added a section under the show’s website which is basically a dolphin encyclopedia filled with facts about the types of dolphins most  hunted, a dolphin intelligence quiz, and much more. Dolphins have been found to be loaded with antibacterial soap, for example, even though they’re probably not germaphobes.

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Some Martha Stewart Clean Products May Work Well

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, June 21st, 2010 in Environment-Eco-Green, Household.

Martha Stewart Clean Glass Cleaner

Martha Stewart Clean Glass Cleaner

So Martha Stewart‘s line of cleaning products made from plants, minerals and containing no animal by-products or testing may have taken a publicity knock after Consumer Reports said the laundry detergent cleaned no better than plain water.

However, a Post -Gazette writer is reporting trying 6 of 10 Martha Stewart Cleaning Products other than the detergent and being pleased with the results, especially the glass cleaner.

“The glass and mirror cleaner was the best I have ever used. It left them streak-free, and my cleaning cloth had black dirt on it (I had just done the windows two weeks earlier with another green product.) Once I had done a few windows, I saw how dirty they were and had to tackle the rest.”

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Martha Stewart Eco Detergent Ranks Poor With Consumer Reports

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, June 11th, 2010 in Environment-Eco-Green, Household.

Martha Stewart attends the Vanity Fair Party during the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York on April 20, 2010 Fame Pictures, Inc

Sure, we love Martha Stewart, but will her new animal-friendly and eco-detergent get the acai stain out of our white jackets?

Tests conducted by Consumer Reports, unfortunately, say no.

After staining swatches with compounds such as wine, blood and grass, the group tested 50 different detergents for their ability to clean and remove spots in conventional and high efficient washing machines.

“In conventional top loaders, there was barely a difference between the swatches washed in Martha’s detergent and those washed in plain water. The results from high-efficiency washers were only slightly better.”

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Treehugger.com has written up a post titled “6 Green Celebrity Product Lines We Can’t Get Enough Of.”

Two of the product lines are produced by veggie stars Ed Begley Jr. and Stella McCartney.

Here is a description of the glass and window cleaner from Begley’s Best.com:

“Begley’s Best contains aqueous detergents and surfactants derived from natural feedstock, complexing agents and food grade certified colorant. It is certified as a biological nutrient by MBDC. ”

In addition, it says the glass cleaner “won’t streak or leave residues,” which might be a downside for you bird lovers (ever watched those commercials where the birds keep running into windows? Wait, not funny. Veg blogging social faux pas)

The all purpose cleaner contains “extracts of pine, maize, fermented sugar cane roots, and olive seeds.” Sounds like it smells heavenly.

Besides Stella McCartney’s clothing and shoe line, the vegetarian fashion designer offers CARE, a line of organic skin products that keep the parabens, petrochemicals, and artificial fragrances that send you to the allergist out.

Visit treehugger.com to find out who the other four celebrities with great green lines are.

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