Up in Canada where ice is integral to lifestyle and where, during these 2010 Winter Olympics, it's all about ice - ice hockey, ice skating, curling, luge, skeleton, skiing, bobsleigh ... ice...ice...snow and more ice...Ice really matters.

But there's a whole other reason why ice matters and matters in a big way. And that's because ice is melting.

James Balog, Artist, Scientist, Explorer and Adventurer has produced his Extreme Ice Survey, a compelling time-lapse photographic presentation depicting the world's ice melting at a speed heretofore unimagined. Balog is Olympic 2010 sponsor, Samsung Corporation's, Eco-Ambassador.                         Read More Here >>>>>

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.

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."

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.

EMA, founded 20 years ago
has made inroads into almost
every facet of “green” –
including the billion dollar
make up and beauty industry.

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.