Vegetarian Star

Sara Gilbert, actress and vegan now known for her role as one of the hosts on The Talk, has published a book on living eco-friendly.

The Imperfect Environmentalist is Gilbert’s guide to anyone interested in making simple changes in their life to help the environment.

The mother gives examples of how to live cleaner in many area of living, including the cosmetic cabinet, cleaning, fitness, gardening and recycling.

It’s much easier to motivate people to save the Earth if they aren’t being lectured too hard or are at least having fun with it.

Gilbert used these principles when writing the different sections of The Imperfect Environmentalist, making it a priority to humor her readers as much as she educates them.

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Looking for a way to spread the word about your vegetarian-friendly small business, university club, local potluck group or other meet-up? Then consider spreading the word with a promotional item from Quality Logo Products.

Quality Logo Products offers customizable items like pens, t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, stress balls and more to market your group during a special promotion, giveaway, event or simply a way of let everyone in your group feel like they’re a part of the team.

The best way to promote a vegetarian, vegan or eco-friendly business or group may be with an environmentally friendly product. A search within the Quality Logo Products site for items labeled “eco-friendly” yields over 300 results. The company blogged about its popular green items which include the following:

• The Corn Pen: Made from renewable and biodegradable resources.
  
• Standard Non-Woven Tote Bag: 100% recyclable, reusable bags. There’s also the smaller Eco-Friendly Non-Woven Tote Bag and the larger Eco-Friendly Non-Woven Tote Bag.
• The Madeira Pen: A ballpoint pen made from recycled paper and a biodegradable wooden pen clip.
• Eco-Friendly Sports Bottle: A polycarbonate alternative made in the USA and BPA free.
• Eco-Shower Coach: A complete kit in a recycled paper gift box to make bath time more environmentally friendly. Includes a 5-minute timer to help conserve water, ABS tap aerator to reduce water and an eco-friendly towel made from a bamboo fiber blend.

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“Being brought up on an organic farm and having a different way of looking at life comes into everything that I do. From day one I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. What we hope to do is to isolate out a mill to just start the process, one that we will work with on a daily basis. The whole idea of improving one’s environmental footprint in this industry is you have to work with people.”

—Stella McCartney to Vanity Fair, on the issue of producing environmentally conscious clothing. Stella’s brand has recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Councils’ “Clean By Design” a program meant to highlight ways to reduce pollution and make the most of energy resources at one of her clothing mills.

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“I started a tree-planting project in hopes of not only offsetting the carbon footprint but also cooling the planet and helping various communities. I also planted peaches to empower humans to care for the planet.”

“I’m taking further steps to reduce energy consumption in my home, and am speaking out more often about reducing, reusing, recycling, reburbishing, reapplying, repairing — doing everything we can to live in delicate balance.”

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Earth Day is Friday, April 22nd and eco-friendly vegan actress Alicia Silverstone has shared her tips for making you more beautiful without making the planet ugly.

Silverstone has named several of her favorite eco-friendly beauty brands, including the brand she put her name on, EcoTools. EcoTools has released a second set of environmentally friendly makeup brushes and bags, including Silverstone’s favorite, the hanging valet made from natural hemp and cotton, with recycled PET lining.

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Sure, actors and actresses in tinseltown may promote bike riding, using tap water and recycling, but how does the manner in which they earn their paycheck to buy those organic cotton shirts stack up when it comes to being environmentally friendly?

Greenlit is a new documentary which follows Indie filmmaker Miranda Bailey (executive producer of The Squid and the Whale) during the production of The River Why, starring Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) as the film crew attempts to keep its footprint low with the help of an environment consultant  for the entertainment industry who’s been featured in popular media outlets like The Hollywood Reporter.

During the film’s opening, Bailey says that although she’s eaten her share of tofu, she doesn’t think that being eco-friendly is a priority in the film business. Data examining the film industry’s energy use supports that.

Mary Nichols, from the California Resources Board, states during Greenlit that the film and television industry is a “major consumer of all kinds of energy and fuels and they still put out a lot of waste–and not just in the form of maybe movies we don’t like.”

The report from the Resources Board concluded that Hollywood trailed closely behind the petroleum industry as being one of southern California’s top air polluters.

Watch Greenlit in its entirety above.

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The Conservation’s ShadeFund is a new program designed to raise capital for small loans to green businesses.

Mercedes-Benz has graciously taken the step to be the first business to pledge to lend between 10-12 loans to green companies in the next 1-2 years, the first two being an organic farm that sells herbs and vegetables and a company that gathers wood from downed trees and turns it into furniture. Loan sizes will range from $5,000-$25,000, depending on the project.

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Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian are reported to be fans of eco-friendly Ecoya Candles and are said to be filling their hotel rooms with them as they film for their new show, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, which is set to debut on E! in January 2011.

Ecoya candles are all hand-made from soy wax versus the traditional petroleum based paraffin. So what? Does that mean it will hurt less when Kim accidentally spills wax on her bosom? No, but buying soy candles is the better choice to avoiding hurting your health and the environment and you might just help a local farmer in the process.

Find out why after the jump.

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