Vegetarian Star

Gretchen Jones

Gretchen Jones, the lone sustainable designer on Project Runway Season 8, has won the grand prize for the competition! Gretchen beat out finalists Andy South and fan favorite Mondo Guerra to receive $100,000 to start her own fashion line, a spread in Marie Claire magazine, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel and the opportunity to create and sell exclusive designs at Piperlime.com.

Gretchen supports local manufacturing and her already existing line, MothLove, features designs made from organic cotton, silk, bamboo and soy blends that are colored with low-impact dyes.

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Still in need of adult costume ideas for Halloween? Chow has put together a few ideas for foodies looking to impersonate their favorite food activists and chefs.

On the left, you have your Alice Waters costume, which, according to Chow, will require you to invest in items such as a “handmade purple hat” and “basket of organic vegetables”

Next to Alice is “sexy” Michael Pollan. Besides a bald cap, you’ll need “a book, organic vegetables and some hos [sic].” Ahem. We’re sure the typo was an honest mistake and Pollan’s just a gardening enthusiast.

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Michelle Obama will host diplomat spouses to a luncheon at an organic, sustainable, non-profit, educational farm. The First Lady will give the spouses a tour at Stone Barns Center, then take them to the Blue Hill restaurant for lunch.

Once featured on Top Chef, Stone Barns Center in Tarrytown, New York, provides education experiences and tours in organic farming. Programs are geared for both adults and children. The After School Programs, for example, are designed to get children to the farm on a weekly basis. On the agenda for some of the upcoming after school programs include learning about herbs, harvesting vegetables and seasonal cooking.

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Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy

Readers at Mother Nature Network nominated their favorite green chefs across the country and Dirt Candy’s Amanda Cohen is one of 40 young chefs who’s taken her passion for food and created both a menu and a restaurant that embodies sustainability.

From MNN:

“Made entirely of recycled and/or sustainable materials, and with as many omnivorous customers as vegetarian, Dirt Candy is a place where you don’t have to brag about your lifestyle, hold certain political beliefs or do anything besides eat all your vegetables.”

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“Vegetarian food is the most sustainable food in the world. We need to think about our future generations and the sustainability of the earth. Each and every individual consuming an Otarian meal makes a small but meaningful difference to the planet and all its inhabitants. And if one Otarian meal saves a kilogram of carbon emissions and grain, or a litre of water or oil, imagine the cumulative benefits of Otarian eating.”

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Stella McCartney has just opened her first clothing store in Milan.

The New York Times is reporting the store has a sustainable oak parquet floor, manufactured for the same furniture company her husband owns.

Stella is looking to make the entire store environmentally friendly, as she hopes to attain LEED certification, a standard implying the building is using resources like water and energy most efficiently, reducing CO2 emissions and maintaining a quality indoor environment.

The vegetarian designer who refuses to use leather or fur in any of her collections routinely makes decisions in her business to reach a higher level of ethics, which include using organic cotton, low impact dyes and manufacturing in countries that do not use child labor.

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“The world’s current consumption levels will have us raising 120 billion animals a year by 2050. This number would require using more land for agriculture than exists. And even if we could pilfer the land or [devise] technology to achieve this, it’s unlikely the atmosphere, land, and water could handle it.”

—-author Mark Bittman, explaining in the April 2010 issue of Vegetarian Times why eating meat and other animal products is not sustainable.

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Ed Begley Jr.‘s Green Planet show, Living With Ed, premiers another season tonight at 9PM EST.

Despite his hectic schedule preaching the green news, Green Daily was able to catch up with Ed to chat about his latest adventures in going green and how you can go green on a budget.

GD: Since the economy blew an O-ring last fall, have you noticed a significant change in the green movement?

EB: It’s a challenge, but it creates opportunity to do the cheap and easy stuff first. Pick the low hanging fruit. Like what I did in 1970s: weather stripping, home gardening, lighting, taking public transportation, riding a bike when weather permits. It took me 15 years before I could afford any of the expensive upgrades like solar panels.

GD: Can you give GD readers your top three effective yet inexpensive ways to go green at home?

EB: Sure! Check all weather stripping around doors and windows, upgrade to energy-efficient lighting, and installing an energy efficient thermostat. That’s all very inexpensive and effective.

Another feel-good thing that’s cheap and practical is a home energy audit. In many parts of the country it’s free. It gives you a heirarchy so you can prioritize what makes sense to do next. Also, you can get $1,500 assistance from the Obama administration for home energy efficiency tax credits.

Continue reading Ed’s tips of greening your home and life at greendaily.com.

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