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Eco-Bling

2008-03-26T17:08:00.000-07:00

Not to be cliche but diamonds are always really exciting to us GITNP ladies, however we all want to avoid the karmic price of wearing a huge rock on your finger (or ears or neck...) that cost a young child in Africa their hand or arm. In addition to the social concerns (which are sickening--please educate yourself on the issue if you haven't already) of precious gems and metals, there are also

Heal the Bay

2008-03-12T11:29:00.000-07:00

I (Lydia) recently read some literature on Heal the Bay thanks to the call from my favorite ocean loving family of eco-fighters the Sloan's. Max Sloan is organizing donations for the annuale "Bring Back the Beach" dinner and auction and my food company Apples & Onions is donating a Farmer's Market cooking class to the auction help raise money for the wonderful cause of keeping the Santa Monica

Walking is the New Driving

2008-03-03T08:50:00.000-08:00

By guest contributer Stacey Harman Since greenisthenewpink.org hit the scene over a year ago, I have tried my best to incorporate “green” ways of living into my lifestyle… I changed out all my BAD light bulbs for Eco-friendly bulbs. I started recycling, or at least reusing everything and anything I could. I unplug my cell phone chargers during the day like a good little girl. I shut down my

Green up your Online Social Networking

2008-02-21T10:16:00.000-08:00

Where have we been, you ask. What could be sucking up so much of your time that you can no longer post on Green is the New Pink? If you guessed Facebook...you're right. Recently, we both took the plunge and joined Facebook, that mecca of online social networking, and have found any previous free time we had whittled down to nothing as we spent hours finding friends, writing on walls and creating

Seasonal Winter Produce

2008-01-27T14:12:00.000-08:00

Just a friendly reminder to eat your vegetables, but to also make sure you buy ones that are naturally in season right now. Out of season produce is grown in far away lands and shipped to you at a high cost to the environment! Here's a list of what's in season right now, look for it when you do your grocery shopping....Winter FruitGrapesMeyer LemonsBlood OrangesMandarin

Recycle your Cell Phone. It's an Easy Call

2008-01-21T23:17:00.000-08:00

Recycle your cell phone. It's an easy call. Okay, we can't take credit for that fantastic little pun. It's actually the work of the EPA who have launched a new initiative to get more Americans to recycle their cell phones (and PDA's and cell phone batteries and other accessories). Here's the deal....while we all realize that our cell phone is the bloodline to our entire lives and feel deeply

5 Easiest Eco Changes to make in 2008

2008-01-13T12:27:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! The start of a new year is a great time to reconfirm your eco-mmitment to living a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Last month we asked our readers "What were the easiest eco changes you made to your lifestyle in 2007?" These are the top 5...1. Change all the light bulbs in your house to Compact Fluorescent Bulbs! If you are asking yourself "why should I do this, my light

Green Politics Part Deux

2007-12-11T18:49:00.000-08:00

Who says today's youth doesn't care? Even though our generation barely has the attention span to make it through a Tivo'd episode of The Hills, we know there's lots of us out there who care about the issues and actually do something about it to boot. And as proof (and inspiration) that the younger generation really does have something to say about global warming, we've let one of our favorite

How Green is Your Candidate?

2007-11-30T10:27:00.000-08:00

We all have our issues.We're not talking about the abandonment issue your therapist is helping you solve....we're talking about ISSUES...like foreign policy, health care, reproductive rights, dependence on foreign oil...the things that the men and woman running to be Prez in '08 have been waxing poetic on for the last year.We're not here to tell you how to prioritize the issues important to you.

Happy Birthday Green is the New Pink

2007-11-02T14:21:00.000-07:00

Today Green is the New Pink Turns 1 year old. YAY!!!Our first tip was about the environmental evils of plastic grocery store bags. It take about 1,000 years for a plastic bag to decompose. Plastics don't biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into tiny toxic pieces that contaminate soil and water or harm wildlife.(Baggubag.com)Since we are all now one year wiser and more eco-conscious we

Wildfires and Global Warming: What's the Real Deal?

2007-10-29T20:33:00.000-07:00

For the last few weeks wildfires burned their way through California, sparking the debate whether these fires were a result of climate change. Is this disaster that caused the largest evacuation in California state history just a taste of what is to come? Has climate change accelerated this quickly?There have been all sorts of "news" reports (we use that term lightly...) on the topic which ran

Green Driving Tips: How to get better gas mileage

2007-10-23T14:46:00.000-07:00

We know, most of you are laughing right now that you are actually going to get driving tips and advice from us! For those of you who don't know, Jess and I don't have the best driving record in the world. I am hands down the most annoying passenger ever! I wince and gasp at every light or even the sign of brake lights down the road. My boyfriend has threatened that the only way he will driving in

Reality Bites: The Melting Artic Ice Caps

2007-10-22T20:06:00.000-07:00

Much like sticking to a diet, sticking to a budget or sticking to a break-up (without drunk-texting), sticking to the green lifestyle can be a little...difficult sometimes. We know. Sometimes it's just so much easier to use the generic cleaning products or pick up a regular lightbulb when we're in a jam or toss out the plastic bottle in a trash can. So just as we sometimes need a little kick in

5 Easy Tips to Green Your Laundry

2007-10-05T16:33:00.000-07:00

News flash: “Laundry Detergent kills baby seals, caused war in Iraq”.Okay…we admit, that may be a little bit of a leap…but did you know laundry detergent is full of bad things for the environment, including petroleum (that precious resource which occasionally gets spilled into the ocean killing baby seals….and which some people say is the reason we are freedom fighting in the middle east)….the

Overfishing.... or which salmon should I buy for dinner?

2007-09-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

Ever heard the expression “There are plenty of fish in the sea...”? (Most likely said to you by your friends after you just got dumped). Well…while that may be true as far as your love life went, apparently, the phrase “there are plenty of fish in the sea” isn’t really LITERALLY true anymore….The Problem...Overfishing—catching fish faster than they can reproduce—is a huge global issue. As the

Can I recycle this?

2007-09-13T15:20:00.000-07:00

As products of coming of age in the '80's we learned the mantra in school: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! While we might have chanted it with our peers in 3rd grade and wore t-shirts promoting the slogan, I'm afraid we have dropped the ball on the cause of the three R's (not to mention D.A.R.E) The first two have been blatantly ignored for want of new iPods, new blackberries, new clothes, new cars, new

The 11th Hour

2007-09-07T11:48:00.000-07:00

Thursday, September 6, 2007 7:20pm Arclight Cinemas - Theatre 3 1 large popcorn with butter, 1 small sprite and 1 water Jessica and Lydia (AKA Siskel and Ebert) saw The 11th Hour- a documentary produced by Leo DiCaprio about the alarming effects of global warming on the planet and the need for humans to take action now. Movie's logline - Turn mankind's darkest hour into it's finest Scariest

Disposing of Compact Flourescent light bulbs

2007-08-12T23:53:00.000-07:00

Read this if you don't want to end up like Britney Spears: Crazy, Bald and Barefoot in the Public Restroom!We know the uber energy efficient Compact Flourescent Light bulbs you bought a few months ago (because of our post on CFLs) still have a good 5-7 year life span before they burn out while using 75% less energy than regular light bulbs. However, we want you to know how to properly dispose of

The Green Office: Instant Corporate Karma

2007-08-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

We get it…you’re slaving away at your desk, day in and day out…you’ve got calls to return, emails to send out, spreadsheets to make (or whatever it is you people who work in offices do…it’s a little unclear to us). Anyway, with all that, who wants to take the time to think about being green when they’re at the office? But the truth is, there are lots of super-small things that you can do while

Green Cleaning Au Naturale

2007-07-10T18:27:00.001-07:00

Shrek the Third, Spiderman 3, Harry Potter 247 (at least it feels that way to some...sorry, Lyd!) Everyone knows that summer is the time of sequels. And why should it be any different at Green Is the New Pink? So, today, we're presenting our own sequel. This is definitely a post you'll want to forward, bookmark, print and hang on the fridge, because today, we're offering tips on ALL-NATURAL,

Are Your Cleaning Supplies Making Your House Toxic?

2007-07-08T12:37:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Part 1 of our 2-part Green Summer Cleaning Series by our guest author Sandra Sanchez! Here goes....I was thinking about myself the other day (surprise, surprise) and I realized that while I have been making a tremendous effort to help mother nature and our environment (thanks, Green Is The New Pink) I haven’t been thinking about how some of my habits affect my immediate environment –

Eat your way to a healthier planet: Summer Seasonality

2007-07-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

Eating your way to a healthier planet is a 2 part process. It's as simple as eating locally produced and seasonal food, like in the olden days... Part 1- sea'son·al'i·ty (-zə-nāl'ĭ-tē) n. of or dependent on a particular season Buying fruit and vegetables when they are in season in your area is one of the easiest ways to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Most fruits and vegetables only

Easy Summer Energy Tips

2007-07-01T23:07:00.000-07:00

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot, oo-ooh! Yes, this song may be fun on the conga line around your cruise ship's deck as you shake your maracas on the way down to Cancun (key words: may be--like if the year was '91), but in general, feeling hot means feeling sticky and gross. Which we hate. But it’s summer time and that means it’s hot, hot, hot everywhere and that makes us all want to run for our air

5 Easy Home Energy Saving Tips: The Fempire

2007-06-14T19:14:00.000-07:00

Hi Green/Pinkers!Many of you may know this or have basic powers of reason to infer that subscribing to the online version of your favorite magazines and newspapers is an easy way to save paper/fight global warming. Why don't you go online right now and subscribe to your newspaper online and cancel you daily paper subscription?Speaking of online magazines... did you know that we (Jess and Lyd) are

How to throw a Green BBQ: A Memorial Day Must

2007-05-17T11:35:00.000-07:00

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day! Bring out the white pants! Summer is starting! And though clearly, we want to do our part to remember our fallen soldiers, nothing says a "Monday with no work" and "kick off to the summer" better than a gool ol' fashioned BBQ! However, BBQ's can be very wasteful of the earth's natural resources; paper, plastic and beer. Now you might be wondering, "How do

Tips for a Greener Wedding

2007-05-10T23:26:00.000-07:00

Here comes the bride…All dressed in Green… Welcome to Wedding Season 2007!!!! Since we here at Green/Pink are in our late 20's we are spending our weekends this spring and summer traveling to weddings, showers, bachelor/bachelorette parties. Yes, weddings are beautiful, they meld two people into one, blah, blah, blah. But if you think about it, they also create a lot of waste. Those

Safety of Plastic Water Bottles: Hydrate Healthy

2007-05-03T12:59:00.000-07:00

What did you do yesterday? We spent Sunday after our Cinqo de Drinko celebrations laying around on our couches rehashing the night with our girlfriends on the phone, whining to our boyfriends/husbands to get us breakfast burritos and drinking lots and lots of water. The container we drank said water out of, was the difference between eco-chichood and eco-geekdom.Disposable water bottles are bad

Oprah Power, Green Style

2007-04-22T13:46:00.000-07:00

We here at Green is the New Pink love Oprah! (Shocker, we know...) Even if you think it's annoying the way she consistently stretches her guests names out ("Please welcome my friend, John Travooooooool-ta!"), you've got to admit, it's amazing how she worked her way up in life from nothing and is now one of the most significant and influential women in the world. When she says to read Steinbeck,

The Green on Sundance Channel

2007-04-20T14:27:00.000-07:00

Your mom always warned you that watching TV would make your brain rot (and sometimes, after your 5th hour of watching the America's Next Top Model, Marathon you know what she meant).But now even couch potatoes have a way to be eco-conscious....The Green on the Sundance Channel. (Maybe you've seen the posters...everywhere.)This programming block on the Sundace channel will "present original series

Please Mr. Postman, look and see...

2007-04-10T12:03:00.000-07:00

...is there a letter, a letter for me? Oh, Mr. Po-o-o-ost man, deliver the letter, the sooner the better..."Sorry. But how nostalgic is that song? A time where you waited for a POST MAN to bring you tidings--and not your cell phone or inbox? Look, we know mailboxes are almost a thing of the past.You get your bills sent to you via email. Ditto invitations (what was the last invite that didn't

Sweet Justice

2007-04-03T10:27:00.000-07:00

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the environment on Monday April 2, 2007!Jigga What?In honor of this pretty monumental occasion, your weekly tip has been hijacked by a Green is the New Pink NewsFlash. Here’s the deal…we explain in normal-person-non-legalese terms what happened and why it’s important. Then you go out in the world full of facts and ready to back yourself up the next time someone

Monday Morning Motivation

2007-04-01T15:31:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture…we all get lazy (we know it’s not just us) and that little devil on our shoulder tells us “Just toss out those cans, it’s easier than recycling”, “It’s okay to keep the lights on all over the house, you don’t need to get up from the couch”, or “Low-energy bulbs? But they’re $2 more…maybe next time.” So to paint the big picture of why we need

I Left my Heart in San Francisco

2007-03-28T16:13:00.000-07:00

Yeah, we all loved that scene in American Beauty at the very beginning where the lone plastic grocery bag drifted through the street. In theory. Because it was a movie. In real life, we don’t like plastic bags flying around our streets, our beaches, our landfills. We don’t like those plastic grocery bags at all. (It’s kind of like how we all love that scene where John Cusack holds up the stereo

Local is the New Organic

2007-03-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

If you’ve ever been to Europe you know that the food tasted so much better than it does here and you may have wondered why? Why is the baguette so light and airy in Paris? Why is the yogurt so thick and creamy in Ireland? What is the gnocchi so fluffy in Italy (and at Georgio Baldi?) Generally speaking it’s because Europeans still eat local food, made by local artisans from ingredients grown in

Throw Some Money at the Problem: Recycled Furniture

2007-03-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

It’s not like we needed another reason to love Urban Outfitters. But then we picked up their catalogue and saw that this clothing/accessory/furnishing mecca has started carrying some funky recycled home accessories…and they’re tres cute. The new line of recycled products is called Green Light and we are highlighting our faves! Just look at these recycled magazine frames and mirrors… Or

Star of the Class: Energy Star

2007-03-06T16:01:00.000-08:00

Energy StarSome dear friends of ours just got engaged last week and that leads us to thinking about gifts for the home, organizing new kitchens and fun stuff like that . While they may battle over the gunmetal vs. baby pink Kitchen Aid stand mixer, we know one thing that will make their lives easier as they shop for things for their new home...looking for the Energy Star sticker.Energy Star is a

One Rotten Apple Spoils the Whole Barrel: Why Macs Are bad for the Environment

2007-02-27T16:44:00.000-08:00

We’ve all seen those Apple commercials where the old, boring guy is the PC and Justin Long is the “cool, younger and hipper” Mac. While they are creative they annoy us,(who on earth thought Justin Long was “cool”?), but that’s not why we’re writing this post.This week, we’re highlighting an amazing campaign that Greenpeace has started called “Green my Apple”. Seems

Like a Virgin

2007-02-19T20:12:00.000-08:00

You’re making your weekly grocery store run (okay, fine...monthly grocery store run) and you are on the paper product aisle. You’ve got a few extra bucks in your pocket so you think, “How about I spend my hard-earned money on regular paper towels instead of recycled ones, so I can spend the extra $2 on Happy Hour tonight?” Understandable.But, do you ever think to yourself when you are passing a

In Honor of Honest Abe and George W. (the first)

2007-02-13T00:28:00.001-08:00

We think whoever invented President's Day is a genius…What's better than a long weekend right in the middle of the winter to ski, sun or see old friends...the only problem is that all that weekend jet-setting can wreak havoc on the environment. Whether you're flying to the other side of the country, or just driving your SUV up to the local mountain, here is a way to offset your guilty conscience

Wet is the New Dry: Environmentally Friendly Dry Cleaning

2007-02-05T23:12:00.000-08:00

Ever notice that funky smell on your clothes when you get them home from the dry cleaners? It sometimes gives you a headache and you find yourself in miles of clingy plastic bags and lots of flimsy hangers trying to rip your clothes from the clutches of the packaging.Did you know the process of “dry cleaning” your clothes consists of your clothes being dipped in a toxic chemical solution (

Haste Makes Waste

2007-01-30T14:08:00.000-08:00

Your parents always taught you not to waste. Wake up early, don’t waste your day. Finish that food on your plate—there are starving children in Africa. Live within your means, don’t spend $200 on a trucker hat just because it says Von Dutch on it.And we all know in the “green” arena that waste is bad, but what is the worst waste? Surprisingly one of the largest wastes of energy happens in our

Back to Basics: Winter Energy Guide

2007-01-21T22:01:00.000-08:00

Now we have never been described as “simple and practical” people, after all, we did grow up in the sequin-and-rhinestone 80’s era. From Hummer cars to Viking Ranges, our generation has been spoon-fed a “big and bold” lifestyle. But, as we learned from Audrey and the little black dress, sometimes minimalist chic is way better than big perms and shoulder pads. Sometimes simple and practical isn’

What Dr. Atkins doesn't want you to know...

2007-01-16T11:10:00.000-08:00

It seems like there’s always a new diet trend—from those Zone meals that you so carefully measured out (30/30/40!) to Weight Watchers (how many points was that slice of cheesecake, again?) to the Cabbage Soup diet (I mean, what you were thinking???)Well, we’ve got a new one. The Green is the New Pink Diet will make you feel good, look good and reduce global warming at the same time, too. It’s

Finally, a New Year's Resolution You Can Keep

2007-01-08T10:33:00.000-08:00

Looking for a meaningful New Year’s resolution that you can actually stick to and brag about at dinner parties? No, it’s not losing weight, cutting bangs or converting to Scientology. Those things are hard. This, dear friend, is a resolution that is easy to incorporate into your life and will work for you all year long (actually 7 years or more, but we’ll get to that…

Sweet Charity Gift Guide

2006-12-19T08:34:00.000-08:00

Ok Team the holiday season is def underway which you probably noticed the day after Thanksgiving when your local starbucks transformed into a “magical” winter wonderland and started peddling gingerbread lattes instead of pumpkin caramel macchiato. We really got worried when the local outdoor mall that looks like a fake movie set started blowing bubbles in our face and calling it snow. Or maybe

A good season to be a Jew….

2006-12-11T10:51:00.000-08:00

So going along with our December theme of Jolly Green Holiday advice, this week we’re talking about Christmas Trees and Lights. Okay, don’t get all tense and defensive on us already. We know you like your tree. We know that twinkly lights are oh-so-pretty. We know you need these things just to make it feel like the holiday season. Okay. Are you done now? The truth is the best solution to the

A Very Green December: Our Gift Guide 2006

2006-12-03T23:05:00.000-08:00

It’s the holidays, yay! Time to start thinking about that perfect present for your mom, you dad, your best friends, your co-workers, your dry cleaner, your brother’s wife sister’s cousin, your waxer (maybe that’s just us?) In any case, this year consider giving “green”. No, not cash (though we assure you that’s always appreciated!), but cool, chic gifts that are made of more sustainable materials

Greeny not Grinchy

2006-11-27T09:33:00.000-08:00

This year, don’t be Grinchy towards the environment with your holiday giving. The holidays can be famously excessive. All the traveling, shopping and eating not only expand your waistline, but they also impact the environment. As we enter the holiday season, we decided to devote a few weeks to the ways that we can all easily adjust our typical wasteful holiday habits.One of the major culprits of

Turkey, Sweet Potatoes and Gore

2006-11-20T17:54:00.000-08:00

You know when you had those mean teachers in junior high that would assign you homework over Thanksgiving and instead of getting to curl up and watch the parade with your cousins, you had to solve algebraic equations using the Pythagorean Theorem? (this is only if you went to private middle school like Jessica—-Lydia was still struggling with fraction multiplication Thanksgiving weekend of 8th

Getting More Bag for your Buck

2006-11-12T16:38:00.000-08:00

Being eco-chic involves getting creative about how to re-use everyday items. This week, we’re talking about re-using kitchen bags—easy and effective, but also easily overlooked. For instance: We all know that plastic baggies aren’t the best for the environment, but that doesn’t mean that we can live without them. Feel good and make a difference by RE-USING your plastic baggies. Okay, we

Welcome to Green is the New Pink L.A.: Making the environment hot as we cool it down...

2006-11-12T16:25:00.000-08:00

Our mission: To take out the legwork that gets in the way of us all doing things to help the environment. Even for those of us with the best intentions, our jobs, our hectic bar hopping schedules and keeping up with our favorite reality TV shows can really get in the way of all those things we said we wanted to do to help the environment. We all want to save the earth, but most of us don’t know