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January 19th 2008

Sundance Beat: Project Greenhouse Rocking Out Park City

Filed under: festivals, green and famous — melissa @ 10:56 am

The Lexus Project Greenhouse is one of the hot spots at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The greenhouse lounge was totally happening- they were offering massages, showcasing eco furniture, giving out some fabulous drinks and supplying the Park City Water- of which I am big fan of the packaging.

One of my favorite eco-jewelry designers, Monique Pean, was showcasing her jewelry as well. Monique told me she will be traveling in the next two weeks with the Charity: Water organization. Who’s else has been here so far?

Emma Bell was spotted in the Project Greenhouse lounge chatting it up with Corrin Arasa. Bell will be co-starring in the amazing film “Death in Love”, directed by Boaz, starring Jacqueline Bissett, Josh Lucas, Adam Brody and Lucas Haas. Emma told me she really enjoyed working with everyone in the cast. I asked her what she thought of the film and she said she hadn’t seen it yet!

Also in attendance was Donovan Leitch — on the chair at PG getting a massage- along with his wife model Kristi Hume. I thought she so tall and I am 5′10”! Not short!!

More to come!

Photo Credit: Melissa Rosenberg

December 5th 2007

Josh Lucas Takes One For The Tree This Holiday Season

Filed under: green and famous — parrish @ 4:03 pm

Josh Lucas, star of such films as Sweet Home Alabama and Poisdeon, is taking Christmas to the next level: the recycled level.  Lucas recently told OK magazine, “My family has been recycling and been part of this moment since I have been born so it’s in my blood.” Maybe that’s why Josh is taking one for the team this year and ditching the traditional Christmas Tree for an organically recycled plastic one.

This whole Christmas Tree fiasco gives me a headache. On one hand I totally understand that cutting down a tree is a waste of a perfectly good shrub, and even though I dig the smell of a real Christmas Tree, I can’t seem to buy one. On the other hand, it’s common knowledge that most “fake” Christmas Trees are made from Polyvinyl Chloride, which in Latin means: non-biodegradable, horrible for the earth, mutant plant that will eat your children.  Josh might be on to something with his organically recycled tree, but I don’t have his billfold. So, what I’ve done in the past (and this is super dorky, yet kind of charming to the ladies) is to cut off the top of a pineapple and make a baby tree. It stands on its own and provides an extra ounce of holiday cheer. And since I live in a typical NYC apartment it only takes up half of my living room.

Comment back and tell Ecorazzi how you handle the great Christmas Tree conundrum, or as I’ve unofficially labeled it: The Plight Before Christmas.

One additional shout out: Happy Birthday dad. I love you!

December 4th 2007

Global Green USA Lights Up NYC With Sustainability Awards

Filed under: events: nyc, green and famous — melissa @ 12:36 pm

Anchorwoman Katie Couric arrived fashionably late for the red carpet entrance but the host of the Global Green USA’s Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards had to first deliver the CBS Evening News to the American public.

The awards event was held at the Ritz Carlton Battery Park City and was packed with eco-friendly celebs, active environmentalists and green innovators. Speakers included actors Josh Lucas, Josie Maran, playwright Eve Ensler, and the beautiful and talented Glenn Close. Other notable celebs in attendance were comedian Chevy Chase, actress Kyra Sedgewick, CNN contributor Jeff Greenfield, and Matt Peterson, President & CEO, Global Green. Josie Maran, who recently launched a green beauty product line, proudly also announced that her baby wears G Diapers. She shared and interesting green fact that I was unaware of: flying on a red eye gives off more carbon gas than other flights so she tries to avoid doing so.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg excitedly shared the details and video of plans for the city’s first Green School in the Lower Manhattan. Sloan & Roger Barnett, owners or Shaklee Corp. and winners of the Organizational Design Award, explained how they got started. Their son was diagnosed with severe asthma. After extensive digging they discovered no family history of asthma and realized their son must have gotten asthma from the environment. They urged for every school to use natural cleaning products.

Pratt Industries earned the Industrial Design Award and was accepted by Anthony Pratt, CEO & Chairman. This year’s winner for the Green Building Design Award Media and Entertainment Design Award given to Discovery and accepted by David Zaslav, President & CEO. The Founder Award was given to Scott Seydel, President, EVCO.

The night included a silent Eco-Auction and contributors included BOSCH, Citizen Watch, Farm 2 Market, EDUN. My personal favorite was the ME & Ro bracelet. During the delicious, organic dinner I had a chance to talk to some attendees and a heard repeated sentiment about the great Brad Pitt. Most agreed he has been doing a stellar job getting people aware, but several people expressed mild disappointment that he did not even mention the name Global Green on the Today show interview yesterday in New Orleans.

November 26th 2007

A Mouthful Of Greens

Filed under: events: nyc — michael @ 4:22 pm

Global Green USA, the domestic affiliate for The Green Cross International, is having their 8th Annual “Designing A Sustainable and Secure World Awards”, on December 3rd, 2007 here in lusty, dusty NYC! Bring your appetite and checkbook because this hoedown will feature not only buckets full of classy nosh, but also an eco-auction bound to satisfy the inner Angelina Jolie in all of us. Special guests are rumored to include Kyra Sedgwick, Josh Lucas, Parker Posey and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Big ups to the Global Green USA on their special day for rocking el verde all across the continent, but guys honestly…The Designing A Sustainable And Secure World Awards? Are we serious here? This title doesn’t even leave room for a clever acronym. My advice: ditch the tongue twister and come up with something a little shorter and a lot sweeter. I mean just think of all the ink you’ll save on invitations alone.

This post was submitted by our new contributor, the excellent Michael DuDell of New York City. If you’re interested in writing for the only site that encourages you to dig through gossip for the greater good, let us know!