Self-disclosure: back in high school I used to weigh 255 pounds! Yikes, right?
That, of course, was back when I was chowing down on fast food at least 2 or 3 times a week and living possibly the least green lifestyle known to man. Ah, how times have changed!
Although today I’m 75 pounds lighter, I still [...]
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Whether you like her or not, these days Heather Mills is the Queen V!
Since it’s opening on July 4th, Ecorazzi has been diligently covering the success of VBites — Mills’ UK-based vegan cafe. And success it has been!
Word on the street is that VBites is currently selling between 700 and 1,000 vegan products daily and changing the [...]
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Since the High Line “Park in the Sky” project opened earlier this summer, it’s been an incredible draw for people looking to enjoy a new green space. According to organizers, nearly 20,000 visit on the weekends, with 6-8K during the week — nearly four times more than what was predicted before its opening. All this [...]
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It looks like Spiderman is taking on his toughest battle yet: getting schools to serve more lunches with fruits, vegetables, and low-fat vegetarian meals. Tobey Maguire has written letters to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Tom Harkin asking them to add these healthy additions to an upcoming re-authorization of the Child Nutrition Act.
“As a parent, [...]
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POLITICO.com, who recently interviewed Barbra Streisand, also caught up with musician, activist and cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge to talk about her environmental activism and its relationship to her health.
On the subject she said: “I realized I couldn’t keep walking down the path of, “I can put anything I want into my stomach, and I’m going [...]
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If you’ve been wondering for years now when Trudie Styler might release a celebrity fitness DVD series — complete with music from Sting’s classical album of 2006, “Songs From the Labyrinth” — well, then, you’re full of it. Nobody was thinking that. We were all waiting for the DVD series on tantric sex — starring [...]
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Somewhere, Thomas Jefferson is looking down on the newly planted White House garden and scoffing at its meagerness. His 1,000 ft. long organic garden at his Monticello estate was first created in 1770 and continues on to this day. It overlooks an eight-acre orchard of 300 trees, a vineyard, and Monticello’s berry squares, which are [...]
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“I’ve been a vegetarian for about two and a half years now. I probably miss fried chicken the most. I feel better. You can’t pay for the way you feel after you start. I’m not saying that people who eat meat don’t feel great because I’m sure they do, but it works for me. I [...]
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As many other green sites are noting today, New York City’s newest park is celebrating its grand opening today. But this isn’t your normal piece of green set aside for public use — the High Line Park is actually set in the sky on top of the bones of an abandoned old rail line. What [...]
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If MTV ever decides to do a green version of their ostentatious MTV Cribs series, we hope they’ll consider comedian Marcus Brigstocke as a writer. In a well-played knock-off of the series that takes you into the lavish homes of musicians and rockstars, Brigstocke shows us just how cool going green at home can look. [...]
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