Soi-Meme: The Independent Eco-bridal Salon

About Soi-Meme: The Independent eco-bridal salon

“Soi-Meme” – a French word meaning “oneself” – characterizes the spirit of the modern couple searching for affordable, do-it-yourself solutions to planning a wedding with unique style. Following the success of last year’s “Love is in the Air” eco-luxe bridal salon, Pink Cloud Events is once again hosting a fabulous day-long salon for eco-conscious DIY brides and grooms to connect directly with the most inspiring eco-friendly wedding products and service providers.

The event will bring everything needed to plan a sustainable wedding onSaturday, August 29th from 11am – 4pm at the newly renovated James Irvine Garden at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, located in the heart of downtown LA’s Little Tokyo. From the wedding ring to the honeymoon, our experts will be available for one-on-one sessions and workshops to help you find all that you need for your wedding day, in just a few hours!

For only $25, complimentary organic beverages, hors d’oeuvres, great DJs, a resource guide and loads of giveaways will make this a fun-filled day for you and your wedding planning party. Register online now for a chance to win a free 4 night stay at a private eco-villa resort in Tulum, Mexico by Azulik!

Register Online

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Dear Yellow Pages, My Fingers Do The Walking..Online

Please stop delivering this mess to our doorsteps. Most everyone in my apartment complex tosses them bagged, unopened and right into the recycle dumpster. There’s a new kid in town and it’s called the INTERNET!

Thanks.
Thuy Nguyen

Stash Your Goods While Riding

How cute are these pouches for carrying your personal items while riding?

Hambone Designs are a result of a brother and sister team that made a rule of giving handmade gifts for holidays to family and friends. Visit their Etsy shop to see the rest of the designs or to request a custom order.

Source Treehugger

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Julia Stiles Eco-styles

Not really but she does a good job of taking jabs at celebrity designers. And although you can’t actually buy any of the items..there’s a website with descriptions of the pieces. Such as this one.

SAVE THE LAST SHANTS

Ever been wearing a shirt and thought “I sure wish I could also wear these as pants.” Now you can with this trendy one-piece that can cover either your top or bottoms halves. Save time and money, for when your shirt is dirty you can wear it as pants!

$470

Source I’m Not Obesessed

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Zuzuz Petalz

Zuzuz Petalz is a unique, yet complex blend of white flowers that creates a powerful alluring fragrance to indulge your senses. I was recently gifted a purse-size roller and I’m addicted to it’s sexy scent.

With subtle hints of gardenia, jasmine & other white petal botanicals, Zuzuz Petalz is a perfume oil to transcend seasons & embody every moment of the day. It is comprised of essential/perfume oils and delicately mixed with an organic carrier, all of which are sustainable.

Available at Coco De Mer.

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Monsanto: Liar Liar, Seeds On Fire

Monsanto= EVIL. And they’re not too happy about their portrayal in Food Inc. From their site:

Welcome to the Monsanto Fact site about the movie Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. is a one-sided, biased film that the creators claim will “lift the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer.” Unfortunately, Food, Inc. is counter-productive to the serious dialogue surrounding the critical topic of our nation’s food supply.

And they even provide a fun lil’ quiz for you to take. It says I lost but I got every single one of those answers right.

Go see Food Inc.

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Advocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment Of Women

Advocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment Of Women

“Look at these poor women. They’re made to stand outside all day in the wind wearing nothing but lettuce leaves or wear a grey bikini pretending to be a mouse stuck in a glue trap.”

The Onion strikes again.

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This Should Be Good For The Landfills

Wired reports that CBS has embedded a video ad in Entertainment Weekly. The ad is called a “VIP (video-in-print) promotion” and it works similar to the audio greeting cards. Wired says it works better than Esquire’s e-ink cover did, but the one downside to the ad is that it is loud and there is no volume control.

Let me see.. a 2-5 minute promo and then a lifetime in a landfill. Makes total sense.

Source Wired

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Cash For Clunkers Ends Monday

You better get yours!

Souce Cars.gov

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Mother Jones Calls Out Fiji Water

A post on the Fiji Water Blog attempts to answer the issues brought up in a recent Mother Jone article: “The real irony here is that the reporter suggests that buying FIJI Water somehow legitimizes a military dictatorship, when in fact the jobs, revenues, and community projects supported by FIJI Water are strong contributors to growth in the well-being of the Fijian people.” Oh, and there’s a Mother Jones response to the response in the comments of the Fiji Water Blog post.

Thanks Raymond!

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No Shame To This D-Bag’s Game

My dear friend Rich Kim snapped this picture in the streets of El Lay recently.

I bet the driver of this oversized Massengill box is wearing an Affliction or Ed Hardy shirt and likes hair gel. Alot. Gag me with a biodegradable, potato starch spoon.

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Jewelry By Nola Singer

Los Angeles-based jewelry designer Nola Singer was inspired to create one-of-a-kind necklaces from vintage brooches, shoe-clips, earrings, buttons and other vintage pieces.

I recently visited her home to pull pieces for the Maria Menounos x Coco Eco Magazine shoot and was in awe of Nola’s workspace and vintage accessory collection. The handmade, unique pieces are made with excellent artistry and have graced several celebrity to date.

Recycling at it’s finest.

Visit Jewelry By Nola

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Eros & Isis: Eco Gets Erotic

Eros & Isis offers organic massage oils, eco-friendly lounge wear and toys and which can double up as interesting display pieces.

The three signature massage oils are blended with 100% organic ingredients and stored in handmade, recycled glass bottles.

The sexy lingerie pieces are made from soy, bamboo, organic cotton or ethical silk.

Each toy is manufactured in N. America under strict ethical practices. The toys are made from the same silicone found in FDA approved kitchen utensils and are non-toxic and dishwasher safe. The coloring is made with natural mineral powder pigment to give the silver, bronze and gold sheen. And as noted on their site: Although they look like stone, each piece is surprisingly soft and warm to the touch.

Love the sexy lingerie and of course two thumbs up for use of recycled glass to house the massage oils. The dildos/vibrators look like something my g’ma would have on her mantle, but like she used to say, “don’t knock it until you try it.”

Sold and sold.

Visit Eros & Isis

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Lovemade X Han Cholo Launch “Cold Hearted”

Los Angeles rooftop. Cocktails. Music. Bad ass jewelry collabo. Not to be missed.

Happy Birthday Tammy!

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Brent Bolthouse: Photography With A Purpose

Congratulations to Brent Bolthouse on his first solo art exhibit titled Greenland. His photographs of Thirty Seconds to Mars and arctic landscapes are breathtaking and eye-opening.

Global warming is real. Learn about A Beautiful Lie here.

Thanks to Brent for sharing his experience with us.

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Nia Long Would Rather Go Naked

You know the rest.

PETA

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DIY Bag From Plastic Bags

I don’t use messenger bags but here’s a good video showing how to fuse plastic bags together to make a DIY bag. Find a pattern you like, pull out the plastic bags from under your sink and get creative.

Thanks Jason!

Source Fixed Fiend

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Brent Bolthouse Photography Show: Greenland (A Beautiful Lie)

Excited about hitting this up tonight. From the invite:

These photographs are the story of my trip to Greenland with my good friends from Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Jared Leto went to Greenland on an environmental mission to shoot a video for his band’s single, A Beautiful Lie, and invited me along to take photos.

He came back with an incredible video that focuses on the effect global warming is having on the world’s coldest climates and I came back with the photographs featured in this show.

Although it has only been two years since my trip, the glaciers and icebergs have already changed dramatically. I hope you enjoy the exhibit, but also take time to reflect on the fact that this ice is disappearing at an alarming rate.

For more information and how you can help go to www.abeautifullie.org

-Brent Bolthouse
2009

Source Brent Bolthouse Photography

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Working For The Weekend

That song by Loverboy is going to be playing in my head over and over and over again.

I’ll be in Malibu the entire weekend working on a catalogue shoot for Time Out clothing. Be back next week. x
T

Lady Gaga Dons Kermit To Denounce Fur

Never one to shy away from being outrageous, Lady Gaga wore this get up during an interview on a German TV show.

Inevitably, the interview took a turn towards Lady Gaga’s unconventional fashion choices in recent European interviews, specifically a coat made up completely of plush Kermit the Frog puppets.

“The Kermit the Frog outfit is by an incredible designer by the name of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, and he does a lot of museum art fashion pieces,” said Gaga. “I really loved this one in particular because I thought it was commentary on not wearing fur, ’cause I hate fur and I don’t wear fur. We were all laughing at the house because it looks like a pile of dead Kermits.”

Umm..is it just me or does she kinda resemble Janice?

Source Ecorazzi

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Samsung Reclaim Eco-phone

The Reclaim is created from 80 percent recyclable bio-plastic material, its packaging is compact and made from 70 percent recycled materials and printed with soy-based inks. Samsung offers only an electronic manual for the phone, available on the Sprint website, in an effort to save paper. It also includes a more efficient Energy Star phone charger.

Two dollars of each Reclaim purchase will benefit Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre conservation program. Sprint also announced efforts to support other green initiatives. It has established environmental design standards and as a corporation it has pledged to reduce paper usage by 30 percent over the next five years.

With technology today, consumers upgrade their phones after 1-1.5 years. That’s a whole lotta electronic waste. Cell manufacturer’s need to take note. Until then, I’ll be patiently waiting, Blackberry.

Source Ecofriend

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Heath Ledger X Modest Mouse: For The Whales

King Rat

Before his untimely death, Heath Ledger began directing a video for Modest Mouse’s “King Rat”. Unfortunately he died before the video was completed, and it has been languishing in limbo until now.

The concept of “King Rat” video is based on Ledger’s “vision, brave and unapologetic in its nature [which] marry his love of bold and original music with his impassioned stance against the illegal commercial whale hunts taking place of the coast of Australia each year.” Proceeds from this video’s downloads in its first month of release will go toward Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit organization committed to ending the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans.

Watch Ledger’s music video, completed by his associates at the Masses, a violently unabashed commentary on illegal whale hunting.

Love.This.Video!

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Brazilian PSA: Give Your Shower A Golden Shower

Warning: If you’re at work I would turn the volume down. Here’s a rough translation:

Pee in the shower! We want everyone to do it!
Men! Women! Children! Brazilians! Or not! Nobles! Commoners! Musicians! Sports stars! People half-human, half-monster. Twilight creatures! Brazilian legends. Greek legends. Good people. Not so good people. Art geniuses. Science geniuses Circus performers. Lovers! People from other planets! Movie stars!

To sum it up: If you pee, you’re invited.
(when you flush you waste up to 12 liters of drinkable water / 4380 liters in one year)
Pee in the bath! Help the Atlantic Forest.

Only recommended if you have good drainage. And make sure R. Kelly ain’t around.

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Leila Hafzi

Leila Hafzi presented her first collection in Stavenger, Norway, in 1997. With this, she introduced the idea of organic- and ethical trade to the high end fashion industry. During the past ten years, the designer has built a network which represents the very best Nepal has to offer in tailoring and fabrics. Since then, her goal has remained unchanged: to introduce and represent eco-and ethical trade in the fashion industry on a global basis, and in the future to develop an entirely environmental friendly production style.

I’ve used Leila’s dresses in several shoots and they’re stunning. The vibrant bright colors are created with AZO free dyes and the paler colors with herbal Ayurvedic dyes. Each piece is handmade and utilizes fair trade practices.

Definitely a dress to wear down the green carpet.

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Coco Eco Magazine Resort Issue

Cover and inside story of Rachel Leigh Cook styled by Michelle Llanos.

Below is the resort shoot I styled. I never knew that eco-bathing suits could be so hot! Check it.

Swimsuits and clothing:

• emobiswimwear.com
• eco-panda.com
• kellybcouture.com
• niksters.com
• beccaswim.com
• lalesso.com
• eleanagarciastudio.com

• iwoodecodesign.com
• alexandani.com
• hoveylee.com
• minkshoes.com
• olsenhaus.com

See the rest in the new issue of Coco Eco magazine.

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Dear Huffington Post, You’re Doing It Wrong

I go to Huffington Post to get my daily dose of news and to source stories for my own blog in their “green” section. They posted the story about PETA busting Ringling Bros. in an undercover video beating elephants and tigers. HP normally posts about a range of animal issues, but what I didn’t expect to see was a front page ad for a discount on Ringling Bros. tickets.

C’mon Huffpo. I don’t want to be reminded of that video every time I go to your front page to read Buzzfeed. I know, I know, ad dollars, but seriously? Did you all not see what I saw in that 5 minute video below? Bull hooks being brought down repeatedly on those elephants? Looks like animal cruelty to me.

Please do not support the most horrible show on earth!

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Autonomie Project Ethletic High-top

Classic, old-school style high-top sneaker made with 100% Fair Trade-certified organic cotton canvas upper and tough rubber sole. Sole is produced and stamped with Forest Stewardship Council-certified all natural and sustainable rubber. 100% vegan and entirely cruelty-free! Imported from a Fair Trade certified workshop in Pakistan.

I like them better without the Chuck Taylor star.

Available at Nimli

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