If you’re a regular Ecorazzi reader than certainty you must be familiar with Joshua Katcher’s TheDiscerningBrute.com and Chloé Jo Berman’s GirlieGirlArmy.com — two of our very, very favorite fellow eco-blogs. And if you know anything about sustainable fashion than I’m sure you’ve drooled over Elizabeth Olsen’s olsenHaus collection — a green, vegan shoe line that proves you never have to sacrifice ethics for fashion. 

Well, on Tuesday, May 5th (AKA TOMORROW), Joshua, Chloe, Elizabeth and ME will be holding a panel discussion about ALL things green at the Northface store in NYC!

From fashion to food, we’ll be dishing about how you can green up your lifestyle and be a planet-loving, green-living, ecotastic rockstar! 

So get out your Blackberry and schedule this event in for tomorrow at 8pm. And make sure you say hello. I love to meet all of our awesome readers!

Click HERE to get directions. See you there!!

Now showing on TheDiscerningBrute.com and GirlieGirlArmy.com is a video featuring Chloé Jo Berman and Joshua Katcher chatting with vegan shoe designer Elizabeth Olsen about olsen Haus — her fancy line of vegan footwear!

We featured an exclusive interview with the shoe designer to the stars late last year and give you our word that she’s super neat!

In the video, Chloé points out:

“Here’s the thing: women are so squeamish in general about blood and guts and war, and yet we’re wearing the skins of another being on our person. It’s so incongruous! And so when we look at lines like olsen Haus and we see our options: stylish, beautiful, elegant, just matches everything, but also are fashion forward — there’s no question as to making the switch.”

Incongruous? Good word, Chloé! 

So check out the olsen Haus brand and we see why we can’t stop talking about these badass vegan shoes!

Last night Ecorazzi attended a screening of Barker’s new documentary, A Sealed Fate –  a film detailing the brutal seal hunt in Canada. Nigel is a spokesperson for the Humane Society of the United States and has worked tirelessly with their dedicated team to help end this magnificently cruel trade.

Many people are unaware that each year close to 250,000 baby seals are slaughtered in Canada before eating their first solid meal or taking their first swim, simply so that someone might wear their fur. Barker’s documentary helps expose the brutality of this industry and shows how a small group of passionate citizens are helping to make a big difference. 

At the event we saw some of our favorite do-gooders, including the discerning brute Joshua Katcher, our friends from Farm Sanctuary, the Super Vegan crew, vegan designer to the stars Elizabeth Olsen, the Go Green Expo workaholics, and plenty of friends from the HSUS. We also chatted it up with Nigel,  met Kelly Overton from Save the Chimps and shared some mints with America’s Next Top Model judge Paulina Porizkova. 

The time to act is now, friends! The next seal hunt begins in March and the HSUS thinks they might be able to stop the hunt entirely before it even begins.  So if you do one thing today, please, please, please visit ProtectSeals.org and learn how you can contact Canada’s government, support a ban on seal products in the European Union, or simply make the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood until our neighbors up north take responsible action and outlaw this ruthless hunt! 

photo credit: Melissa Rosenberg 

Wearing my proud NO FUR pin, I navigated through the crowd of beautiful people and munched on some delicious vegan hors d’oeuvers while listening to the DJ talents of super-model extraordinaire, Agyness Deyn. Dear Agyness, will you marry me?

Because gawking is creepy, I took a break from staring at Ms. Deyn and chatted it up with New York City’s very own discerning brute, Joshua Katcher and vegan shoe designer to the stars – Elizabeth Olsen. Olsen is the next big thing in vegan shoes and you’re gonna be hearing a lot more about her on Ecorazzi very soon.

Chatting all things vegan can make a boy thirsty, so I headed to the bar where I ran into the talented crew from SuperVegan.com and promised, promised, promised to attend one of their Vegan Drinks events before the year was over! We also gave love to some of our friends from the Farm Sanctuary and dished about their SUPER EXCITING winter event coming up in just a few weeks (more on that later today). Before the evening was over we made sure to say hello to America’s Next Top Activist, Nigel Barker, who’s screening of A Sealed Fate we’ll be attending next week! You guys have to check that out! Finally, I made a quick call to Chloe Jo, the General of Girlie Girl Army ,and gossiped about the whole Maggie Gyllenhaal fur controversy. Oh, jeez!

I’m don’t mean to be cheesy here (because we all know cheese ain’t vegan), but I gotta a little vaclempt being around so many compassionate people who had all come together for something truly important – a commitment to fur-free fashion.

If you still think fur is cool, check out the HSUS’s fur-free website and learn why wearing fur is never, ever, ever, ever, ever okay! Happy winter, everyone!