Eco Model Summer Rayne Oakes Celebrates 40th Earth Day With Style

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by Michael Parrish DuDell April 22, 2010
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Eco model, activist and bestselling author Summer Rayne Oakes is serious about gettin’ down with Planet Earth. The sustainable fashionista recently spent some time with Mind Body Green to discuss the exciting 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

During the interview, Oakes talks about her love of bottling tea, her fancy new environmentally-friendly bedding line, and her celebrated book Style, Naturally. About the book, Summer says:

“The whole purpose of my life, I feel, is to communicate environment out to a wider audience and what I wanted to do with ‘Style, Naturally’ was to communicate it out to women and men who love style, but wouldn’t have green in their lexicon.”

Besides her entrepreneurial achievement, Summer is the youngest Board of Advisors for the Discovery Network’s Planet Green and a spokesmodel for a sustainable line of Payless shoes, zoe&zac. Wowzers!

Check out the video below to hear more of what Summer has to say. You won’t be dissapointed!

Earth Day with Summer Rayne Oakes from MindBodyGreen on Vimeo.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754430220 Remy C.

    “style naturally” should be required reading at modeling schools so all young women who want to follow in Summer’s footsteps can become green models. Right now they have to sell their soul to become models, because if they say no to too many jobs, based on ethics, they get black listed and won’t work again.

    Summer is lucky because she was able to develop a career that enables her to make critical choices as to what products she will or won’t endorse. This is a luxury most models can’t afford.

    Summer’s own modeling agency Next is not a green agency. Its president Faith Kates is the president of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, which gets its money from L’Oreal, one of the most questionable cosmetic line when it comes to using cancer causing ingredients!

    L’Oreal whilst they claim they haven’t tested their products on animals since 1989, this only applies to the finished item. All their ingredients are still tested on animals if not by L’Oreal then by their suppliers.

    L’Oreal is a member of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to animal testing (EPAA) led by the European Commission.

    In March 2009 the Seventh Amendment of the EU Cosmetics Directive banned all animal testing in cosmetic ingredients across the EU. After 2013 any cosmetic product containing ingredients tested on animals will be removed from the market.

    L’Oreal will have no choice but to invest heavily into green chemistry. Naturewatch has more information on the L’Oreal (and subsidiary companies, such as Maybelline and the Body Shop) boycott.

    http://www.naturewatch.org/Campaigns/L%27Or%C3%A9alBoycott/Index.asp

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