Alicia Silverstone: The Kind Diet

Last night I stepped out with Anna Griffin (www.cocoecomag.com) to Alicia’s book signing at the Stella McCartney store. (♥-♥-♥)

If you want to pick up her book, The Kind Diet, she’ll be doing two more book signings this week.

Thursday, October 15
7:00pm
BOOK SOUP
8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

Saturday, October 17
1:00pm
BARNES & NOBLE (SANTA MONICA)
3rd St. Promenade, 1201 3rd St, Santa Monica, CA

Visit her site for more info: The Kind Life

Lunch Encounters Of The Third Kind

Lunch Encounters of the Third Kind from Parent Earth on Vimeo.

“Lunch Encounters” launched the One Tray campaign depicting the cafeteria tray as the conduit for a reformed school food system that supports healthy children, local farms, and smart schools. “Lunch Encounters,” a spoof of Close Encounters of the Third Kind was made to raise awareness for the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

The videos are clear: if you want a healthier America, take action at onetray.org. Every child deserves the opportunity to eat food in school that ensures their health and well-being and Farm to School programs are one solution to incorporating healthier foods into school meals.

Source The Vibe.Social Vibe

Just for health food fun, check out the map below showing the distance from the nearest McDonalds in the lower 48 states. Who’s lovin’ it?

Source Serious Eats Created by Stephen Von Worley

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Korean Bibimbop Is The Bomb!

Here’s Gwenny giving a 7 minute video on how to cook this deliciousness without having to venture out to K-town.

Bibimbop literally means “mixed rice” or “mixed meal” in Korean. It’s a popular meal consisting of a bowl of steamed white rice topped with vegetables, a whole egg, and kochujang (Korean chili pepper paste).

Seems simple enough. I think I’ll give it a try but if I don’t succeed, I’ll have a nice big bowl of rice with kimchee and practice my julienne skillz.

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Source Ecorazzi via Vegetarianstar (go here for the recipe)

Broccoli City Brings The Ladies

Thanks to Broccoli City for having us all at the Standard last week. We ended up missing our fellow greenies (YDT, Apple Levy & Green LA Girl) but got a chance to meet the ladies from Fashionable Earth & Green Drinks LA. The Veev was flowing, new friends were made and feet were shuffling on the dance floor.

Thanks again BC team. See you out and about on the mean green streets of El Lay.

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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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Must See Movie: Food, Inc.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Visit the Food, Inc. website

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Children’s Guide to Growing Up: Animal Rights

Kids vs. Teacher in the deliciously epic debate on the treatment of animals.

I can’t figure out if this is cute or scary.

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What’s The 411? And Having Technical Difficulties

Hey kids, I always throw up a picture or vid with my posts but something’s broke- it’s either wordpress or my brain- so I’m currently trying to fix that shit. And by “fix that shit” I mean having a noontime cocktail while staring at the screen and wondering why it’s being like that.

Be back soon. For now, please use your imagination- the picture I was going to use was the one of Obama and his fine self walking out of the ocean in Hawaii, dripping wet and..damn, I’ll stop here.

Obama declares June National Oceans Month. The Daily Green

Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono urge for ‘Meat Free Mondays.’ Think you could do it? Winnipeg Sun

Tila Tequila writes anti-fur post on Global Grind and Russell loves her for it. See his post here.

Pasadena gets solar powered trash can-compactors. Must LA always be last? CBS2

Oooh Target stores get busted for dumping hazardous waste. Green Biz

Sitting on your ass collecting unemployment? Start training for ‘green’ jobs now. Just Google it damnit.

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FRESH The Movie

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.

FRESH

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Belgian City Goes Veggie Once A Week

Source BBC UK

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Michelle O Inspired Cupcakes

I’ve been loving me some cupcakes lately. When I saw these around Earth Day, I automatically thought of Michelle Obama’s influence on organic home gardening. Peep the recipe on Woman’s Day

Garden patch cakelet pan. Makes 20 veggie cakes that you can place on a dirt garden thats actually a pan of brownies. Williams Sonama

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Go Ahead And Play With Your Food

I’ve been kind of infatuated with food art, ever since learning about the book, Play With Your Food. Poodle pic by Saxton Freymann.

Works made from taro root and other fruits and vegetables by Jimmy Zhang

Source NY Times

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Pork Is The Meat Of Kings?

Is that so? Tell that to Edgar Hernandez.

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Common Loves His Veggies

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Richie Rich’s Muse

Richie Rich, one half of crazy design duo, Heatherette, is teaming up with buxom babe and PETA spokesperson, Pamela Anderson to collaborate on a vegan line, called Muse.

The Muse line will consist mostly of T-shirts and bathing suits and will launch this summer. The line will contain no fur or leather, which according to Rich, will be a challenge.

Given Anderson’s and Rich’s penchant for outrageous outfits and skimpy clothes, I’m interested to see how this conscious line will turn out.

Source nymag.com

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Eat Your Veggies

Someone sent me this a while back but I only pulled the pix so I don’t know the name of the artist. Sorry artist, but thanks for the eye candy!

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Isn’t She Lovely?

About two dozen elementary school students helped first lady Michelle Obama break ground on the first day of spring for a garden on the White House grounds.

The 1,100-square-foot garden, the first of its kind since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a victory garden during World War II, will grow dozens of vegetables, berries and herbs.

The collection of crops, a wish list from White House kitchen staff, will include lettuces, squash, fennel, rhubarb, cucumbers and sweet and hot peppers. White House chefs will use the produce to prepare meals for the family and for official functions, and some of the produce will be donated to Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen near the White House.

There will also be a beehive.

“We’re going to try to make our own honey here as well,” Obama told the fifth-graders from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington before they got to work on Friday.

The students will be brought back to the White House next month to help with the planting, and after that to help harvest and cook some of the produce in the mansion’s kitchen. The first harvest is expected by late April.

With the garden, Obama initiated a public campaign to help Americans better understand where their food comes from.

I think I’ve made it clear how I feel about Obama, but just to let ya’ll in on a lil’ secret, I crush on Michelle too.

Picture Win McNamee

Source Kansas City Star

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Green Tip: Buy Organic

It’s common sense; organic food is good food. Good to eat, good for the environment, good for the small-scale farmers and farm workers who produce it. By the year 2000, the USDA estimates that half of all U.S. farm products will come from only 1% of the farms. The EPA says that agriculture is responsible for 70% of the pollution to the country’s rivers and streams caused by chemicals, erosion, and animal waste runoff. Organic farming may be one of the last ways to keep both ecosystems and rural communities healthy and alive.

Organic food doesn’t contain toxins like pesticides, heavy metals, dangerous industrial chemicals (for example, artificial flavors, colors or preservatives). And everything in it is natural: it’s real food, not “Frankenfood” created in a laboratory for profit regardless of the fact that genetically modified, synthetic foods have massive, well-known health hazards

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Cruelty Free Bling

Seed: Macrobiotic Lovin’

Check out our review of Seed on Swell City Guide.

Seed has a counter service set-up with seating provided, and the food is served in environmentally friendly to-go ware. Eric Lechasseur (opening chef of M Cafe de Chaya) and his wife, Sanae Suzuki, opened the restaurant on election day.

Every one of the dishes we had were to die for. We walked out feeling healthy and satisfied and we’ll definitely be going back very soon.

Read our piece on Swell City Guide.

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Summer Signs @ Stella

Summer Rayne Oakes, “the world’s first eco-model” will be signing copies of her book this coming March 12th, 2009 between 7pm-9pm at the Stella McCartney store in L.A (8823 Beverly Blvd). The book is called “Style, Naturally: the Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty.”

Rayne Oakes studied environmentalism and environmental science, then became a model. She has used her modelling to benefit the cause of environmentally friendly beauty and clothing products.

Cocktails and snacks will be served at this “fur-free event”.

Image and Source racked

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Vegetable Skills

RAW talent.

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Masta Killa For PETA

Order a FREE ‘Vegetarian Starter Kit’ at GoVeg.com.

Masta (not a) Killa from Wu-Tang and his son, Eternal do a PSA for PETA.

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