Ed Begley, Jr. with Arianna Huffington & Lynne Davis Lear
Greening Hollywood: Bioneers Host EdBegley, Jr.
Ed Begley,
Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at
Tuesday evening's Venice Beach Bioneers ("Revolution from the Heart of
Nature" www.bioneers.org)...
Greening Hollywood: EcoPreneur Deirdre Wallace's - The Ambrose Hotel
Deirdre Wallace is Owner and Operator of The
Ambrose Hotel and Founder and President of The Ambrose Group. The Ambrose Hotel
is the first-ever U.S.
hotel to earn LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for
Existing Buildings) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC).....
Plastic Man turns out at events to bring home the point that Plastic Pollutes! Read more about this at, www.algalita.org. Excerpt, "Because the potential impacts of oceanic micro-plastic pollution, a mid-late 20th century phenomenon, are wide ranging and poorly
understood. For instance, fish collected from the NPSG in 2008 were
found to have plastic in their stomachs. What does this mean for the
ocean ecosystem, and to a larger extent, human health? We know there
are pollutants that are attracted to and concentrated on plastic, not
to mention the array of pollutants within the plastic itself. What
does it mean for humans and other animals that rely on these plastic
fish for food?"
Greening Hollywood: Oscars Go Green The February EcoPreneur Salon OSCAR Week Native Plant Garden Retreat
was presented by Greening Hollywood's Paige Donner and co-hosted by
Paul Mitchell's Veronika Judish with the support of Lisa Novick of the
Theodore Payne Foundation. Novick
gifted Ecopreneurs with a lecture on native plants and a tour of the
Theodore Payne native plant garden pointing out California lilacs,
sages, bay leaf trees and other (fragrant) native plant species. Ecoistas enjoyed the nature break on the Saturday before the Oscars when they attended
the Oscar Weekend's EcoPreneur Salon Garden Retreat presented by Greening Hollywood at California native plant garden, the Theodore Payne Foundation. Lots of Eco Stars were in attendance.
Paige Donner, Founder of Greening Hollywood and Greening Hollywood:
Guild by Guild, her seminar and workshop series for the entertainment
industry guilds, guild members and entertainment professionals,
interviews Rachelle Carson Begley, co-Star of Living With Ed about the
importance of using clean - and safe - cosmetics and personal care
products in your daily beauty regime.
Click on the Greening Hollywood Logo above to read more of Paige's blogs and articles from Variety, the L.A. Times, The Huffington Post and more...
By Paige Donner... as featured in the L.A. Times and on The Huffington Post
"The Grammy Museum: Exploring and Celebrating A Legacy of Great Music" is the signage that greets you when you enter the museum.
"Music can create strong feelings of belonging and connection..."
Daniel Cavicchi, Curator, Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom,
Grammy Museum. "This power has been harnessed throughout American
History to gather people and communities together around shared
identities and values."
L.A. Live's Grammy Museum
is an interactive playground using technology that facilitates the
experience of music in so many ways. It's as much or more a playground
than it is a museum in the traditional sense of encased historical
objects.
Maria Shriver's Gift To Women
"Be Who You Are" was the theme Maria Shriver designated for this year's California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women. As she addressed the crowd of 14,000 attendees....
Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild panelists: L-R Nikoletta
Skarlatos, Make Up Artist, Pirates of The Caribbean; Robert Hallowell,
Hair Stylist, Dancing With The Stars; Christina Marcaccini, founder,
Raw Natural Beauty; Rachelle Carson Begley, Co-Star, Living With Ed;
Lisa Archer, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics; Paige Donner, Founder,
Greening Hollywood.
There’s more to bringing the beauty industry and green scientists
together, all at one table, then might first meet the eye.
By the time
I presented our panel of beauty experts, moderated by Rachelle Carson
Begley, in my Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild seminar
and workshop, I had learned a lot. I had learned more than just that
Tarte has come out with a game-changing mascara called Lights, Camera, Lashes! and that O.P.I. had removed all three of the most harmful chemicals in their nail polish, and that Suki Pure has re-defined how to be profitable and committed to pure ingredients in the cosmetic industry.
What a lucky stroke that EMA, the Environmental Media Association, came before me. Of course, the first thing I did, was go to Debbie Levin, President of EMA, the organization that Norman and Lynne Davis Lear and tell her what I intended to do – namely present a
panel of natural and green beauty experts for members of the Hollywood Make Up and Hair Stylists Guild - I.A.T.S.E. Local 706.
Her colleague, Lisa Barnet, recalled they had done something similar in
2006 though not for guild members specifically. It had been well-received but for whatever reason they had chosen to do it as a
one-off.
In the past three years lots has happened in the beauty world turning parts of it a deeper shade of green. For one, Oprah got on her
show and talked about the terribleness of parabens in beauty products. That was a wake up call to women across the nation to look at the ingredients list in their beauty products.
Secondly, California has since passed our Safe Cosmetics Act which is a piece of legislation
aiming towards regulating the make up and beauty industry. The
scientists from Environmental Working Group and Campaign for Safe
Cosmetics who spoke on my Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild panel are
quick to point out that there is NO FDA regulation of the ingredients put into cosmetics. Even though our skin acts like a sponge, absorbing
whatever we put on it – nearly as much as what we put directly inside
our bodies.
