Alicia Silverstone: The Kind Diet
Posted in celeb, food/drink, health, los angeles, veggie love by thuy
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
Posted in baby/child, food/drink, health, veggie love by thuy | Tags: Child Nutrition Act, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Farm to School, Lunch Encounters, mcdonalds, One Tray campaignLunch 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!
Posted in celeb, food/drink, veggie love, video/media by thuy | Tags: Bibimbop, goop, gwyneth paltrow, korean, vegetarianHere’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
Posted in events, girls we heart, los angeles, veggie love by thuyThanks 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
Posted in food/drink, health, veggie love by thuy | Tags: food inc, MonsantoMonsanto= 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.
Posted in film/tv/print, food/drink, health, organic, politickin', shopping, veggie love, video/media by thuy | Tags: e. coli, farmers, fda, food, food industry, inc., usdaIn 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
Posted in animal rights, baby/child, food/drink, veggie love, video/media, wtf by thuy | Tags: animal cruelty, animal testingKids 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
Posted in animal rights, celeb, environment, health, news, politickin', reduce/reuse/recycle, solar, tech/gadgets, veggie love, what's the 411 by thuy | Tags: anit fur, global grind, green jobs, hazardous waste, meat free mondays, obama, oceans month, paul mccartney, russell simmons, solar trash, target, tila tequila, what's the 411, yoko onoHey 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
Posted in food/drink, health, organic, veggie love, video/media by thuy | Tags: agriculture, environmental pollution, farmers, food contamination, fresh, fresh the movie, vegetablesFRESH 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.
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Belgian City Goes Veggie Once A Week
Posted in environment, food/drink, health, veggie love by thuy | Tags: belgium, ghent, meatless, veggieStarting last month in Ghent, there have been regular weekly meatless days in which civil servants and elected councillors opt for vegetarian meals.
The UN says livestock is responsible for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, hence Ghent’s declaration of a weekly “veggie day”.
Public officials and politicians were the first to give up meat for a day. Schoolchildren followed suit with their own veggiedag in September.
It is hoped the move will cut Ghent’s environmental footprint and help tackle obesity.
Around 90,000 so-called “veggie street maps” are now being printed to help people find the city’s vegetarian eateries.
Source BBC UK
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