Though there are signs the economy is improving in some areas, the overall picture is still very much one of struggle. Sadly, this tornado of financial distress has claimed yet another wonderful eco-magazine: Positively Green.
Barely over a year old, founder Kelly Magill wrote yesterday to confirm the bad news. “We’re not going to be [...]
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It’s coming.
VegNews magazine has announced that their most anticipated issue of the year, The 2009 Veggie Awards, has been packed and shipped to readers. Of course, the real world is just to slow for us — so we managed to pull some strings, send in some vegan-powered ninjas, and sneak away with a partial list [...]
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Yvonne Smith, otherwise known as “The Traveling Vegetarian”, has been named to Maxim Magazine’s “Hottest Girls On Facebook (Vol.2)” listing.
Smith, officially a vegan, won what appears to be a free photo shoot with the magazine and is posing, not surprisingly for the mag, in a bikini. Her website is a popular stop for vegans and [...]
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For the third year in a row, GQ magazine is celebrating their charitable initiative, called the Gentlemen’s Fund, which honors the contributions of men who are dedicated to working towards a better world. Celebrity ambassadors for the effort include Ashton Kutcher, Adrian Grenier, Mark Wahlberg, and Josh Duhamel.
“The Gentlemen’s Fund is about ordinary men doing [...]
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While visiting home this weekend, I noticed my grandmother reading an essay by Matt Damon in a free newspaper insert by Parade magazine. My first thought was how Damon is practically everywhere at the moment — Entourage, Clinton Global Initiative, Esquire, etc. And the really wonderful thing about all of these appearances is that they [...]
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Megan Fox’s self-confessed “girl crush” Olivia Wilde covers this month’s issue of GQ magazine — as we’re happy to hear that her fine physique is due in part to her vegan diet. The 25-year-old actress, who plays “Dr. Remy ‘Thirteen’ Hadley” on the television drama HOUSE, recently told PEOPLE that the only time she breaks [...]
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Much criticism has been lobbed on Gwyneth Paltrow for her GOOP side-project — a weekly wellness newsletter that covers everything from eating better to shopping. While our reactions sway between scorn and praise depending on the topic of the week, we nonetheless find GOOP to be an interesting, if not always practical, piece of the [...]
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It’s been an Alicia Silverstone kind of day.
First we had her discussing her naked gardening tendencies this morning — and now we have a few more quotes from her interview in the September issue of Health magazine. The 32-year-old actress chats up her vegan lifestyle, the possibility of kids (next year?), and why a plant-based [...]
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Rachael Leigh Cook has been making efforts at home to get greener. In the new issue of Coco Eco she admits to a recycling fetish she calls “borderline obsessive compulsive”, even bringing soda cup lids home from the movies to go in her bin.
The actress sported eco-friendly fashions for the cover and is looking forward [...]
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So you know you’re a big deal when your book convinces Oprah to give veganism a try. I mean let’s be honest: that’s golden. But landing on Vanity Fair’s 2009 International Best-Dressed List? OK, now you’re officially famous!
Sharing the honor with stars like Penelope Cruz and Anne Hathaway, Quantum Wellness author Kathy Freston is proving that cruelty-free fashion [...]
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