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The Body Shop 3 Minute Shower campaign bright green washing idea?

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The Body Shop 3 minute shower campaign challenge green washing idea?

[Apr. 21]

Mall rats and lady diva shop-a-holics, get ready to plunk down some spending money and dare to bare for 3 minutes or less. That’s right — the Body Shop, who call themselves, “the original ethical beauty brand”, announced its new eco-conscious range of Shower Gels for Earth Lovers and kicked off its Earth Lovers Three-Minute Shower Challenge in 2011. The beauty boutique with a store presence in shopping malls all across the United States hopes the green marketing campaign will raise awareness about water conservation by challenging their eco-friendly consumers to take a shorter shower. And with star celebs like Jennifer Aniston already having opened the dialogue with the press about their 3 minute shower ritual activities to save the planet (inspiring countless green men across the planet to fantasize about her in eco friendly suds), why not? Talk about your positive spin on green washing!

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How To Go Green: Simple ways to make your home more eco-friendly exist?

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Simple ways to make your home more eco-friendly —

[Apr. 21]
Making your house into an eco-friendly home doesn’t have to be top dollar expensive or ridiculously time consuming. You don’t have to be a celebrity like Leonardo DiCaprio or Ed Begley Jr. to do it, either. One smart energy company has actually just released a list of eco friendly HOW TO GO GREEN lifestyle tips related to helping consumers save money on electricity while doing the right thing for the environment.

According to MXenergy, going green is something you do by making one small change at a time. As one of the nation’s leading independent energy providers, the organization’s staff are big proponents of the sustainability movement, saving the planet by improving the world one eco friendly house at a time.

As part of the company’s Earth Week celebration, MXenergy offered clients and people searching for information on ways to go green at home a simple, easy list of go green tips. The best part? Any homeowner or renter can use their bright green ideas to reduce their home’s carbon footprint and increase their energy efficiency.

“I think it is important for people to realize that small changes really do have an impact,” says Marjorie Kass, MXenergy Managing Director. “Sometimes people have the perception that ‘going green’ is going to cost them a lot of money. The truth is there are simple, inexpensive choices we all can make that really do make a difference.”

We concur.

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Green Celebrity News: Green celebrities attend Go Green Expo

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Green celebrities like Mariel Hemingway and Ed Begley Jr. attend Go Green Expo —

[Mar. 4]

The Go Green Expo — a première green business and sustainable lifestyle show — is scheduled to return to the Los Angeles Convention Center April 15th-17th. Offering visitors the opportunity to browse more than 200 eco-friendly booths that will undoubtedly showcase a plethora of eco friendly and groovy bright green products and services, the green celebrities involved with environmental causes will be heading down to give their celebrity endorsement with treehugger passion.

In Hollywood, green celebrities are becoming easier to find. Eco-friendly celebrity guest speakers will be on hand to share their green expertise and green lifestyle tips with all the Expo guests (and it sounds like the even t hosts plan to have panels set up that will allow guests to actually interact with the celebs by asking some questions.

One special green celebrity speaker will be animal rights activist Captain Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Best known for his crusader role on Animal Planet’s Whale Wars, Watson will be passionately addressing the Expo audience about his inspiring eco friendly life and journey on the high-seas.

Other green celebrities who are lending their star power to give a celebrity endorsement to the green movement include the following confirmed guest speakers:

* Mariel Hemingway — Always lovely actress and celebrity health and fitness conscious author of “Mariel Hemingway’s Healthy Living from the Inside Out”
* Ed Begley Jr. — Actor, author and green celebrity co-star of the Planet Green series “Living with Ed”
* Eric Cory Freed — Author, educator, organic architect and green builder

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Green Tips: Avoid freezing or melting while saving money on Heat and AC?

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5 simple ways to lower your energy bill without freezing or melting —

[Jan. 23]

Lowering your electric bill each month is an easy #EcoMonday goal to achieve if you focus first on reducing your heating and cooling costs. Since the greatest amount of energy drawn from your local electric company power grid typically comes from heating and cooling your home [with your hot water heater pulling a close second, follower by your washer and dryer, refrigerator, that oh-so-cool big screen plasma TV, and then all those convenience appliances and nifty electronic gadgets that constantly drain your house even when off (by pulling phantom energy)], you want to turn that thermostat DOWN in the winter and UP in the summer for sure. But what if you don’t want to freeze or melt? Don’t worry — there is still hope for you to be able to cut electric bill costs while being comfortable in your own green house.

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Honey Bees: Amazing pictures of Bee Keepers covered in insects

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Queen Bee insect and Honey Bee workers teach humans moral lesson to always bee the best person you can be (like the green celebrities in Bee Movie) —

[Jan. 22 — Amazing insect photography featuring bee keepers and their nectar seeking friends]

Bee Movie is a children’s cartoon classic made by Dream Words Studios. The family film features the voices of green celebrity actress Renee Zellweger and green celebrity actor Jerry Seinfeld as the hero and heroine characters. [Both are noted humanitarians and eco friendly activists.] The movie sparked the imagination of many young people who became interested in the history of bees and bee keeping.

Bees are known for making honey. Honey bees are loyal to their queen and always work to bring pollen and nectar back to the queen bee in the bees nest. Insects are fascinating to study in general, and while bees might be an insect you want to study from afar, the social interaction of bees while in the hive reveals a great deal about how a species can use positive interaction between society members who each have their own place in the social heierchy that help create functional and prosperous colonies. The children’s Bee Movie really emphasized this humanitarian theme. [Well, insect – arian, actually.]

Workers help the queen bee to tend to her eggs which are kept safely in the hive. Worker bees also visit a wide variety of local garden flowers, bringing back pollen and nectar that helps nourish the colonies residents and keep the hive thriving.

Bees rely on plants and plants rely on bees. When ever a bee flies to visit flowers, they take little bits of pollen and nectar between the plants to help cross pollination.

Bees are helpful little insects — but they are not much fun when they sting! Check out these amazing bee keeper photos. These bee your best bee keeper seen in the “man covered in bees” photos below are folks are far braver than me! Amazing. Simply amazing.

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List of pet friendly celebrities who travel posh places with pets

Dog resorts are offering luxury vacation rentals to those pet friendly celebrities like Susan Sarandon who travel with Penny, a Pomeranian-Maltese mix. Did you see her on the Today Show on January 11? Back in 2009 she took one of her furry friends with her on ABC television talk show The View, delighting friend Bette Midler and the rest of the girls like Whoopi Goldberg. The baby boomer bombshell’s TV special guest appearance with her pampered pet might just need some dog gone fun and pawing around at a resort following public appearances. Keep reading…