Greening Hollywood

Don't Throw This Email Away

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact


Mark Olmsted

While not on everyone's political agenda these days, Hollywood's trash problem is still a mess to be reckoned with. Mark Olmsted poses some solutions for the city's lack of cleanliness.

Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green


Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

Help Us Save Laurel Canyon and Mulholland Drive

Paul Edelman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green


Paul Edelman

What is now a refuge for mule deer, hawks, bobcats and other wildlife, can quickly turn into a housing development, if $145,000 is not raised by August 17th.

An Eco Night in L.A. for the Star-Studded Stella McCartney Screening of Home

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green


Marissa Bronfman

Home is a visual masterpiece, a compilation of incredible aerial shots that dramatize the staggering statistics of environmental degradation and peril that many of us are already fairly familiar with.

Greening Hollywood: the DL on Downtown's City of LA Fashion Week

Paige Donner | Posted 04.25.2009 | Style


Paige Donner

"We need to import designers to L.A. rather than export our talent to N.Y.," said Cameron Silver, owner of Decades Inc., L.A.'s starring vintage fashion boutique, and co-host of DLAFW.

Greening Hollywood: Green Leadership, ATHGO International and the U.N.

Paige Donner | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green


Paige Donner

ATHGO International recently gathered 100 students and young professionals together for a 4-day Forum held, this time, at UCLA (past ATHGO Internation...

Greening Hollywood: A Future To Go

Paige Donner | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green


Paige Donner

Pasadena's Art Center College of Design believes that design can bridge eco-friendly products, services and technologies with the public's desire to l...

Greening Hollywood: EcoTainment, Creating Good Content About Doing Good

Paige Donner | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green


Paige Donner

This year's highlight of the Hollywood Goes Green Summit was the speaker panel on EcoTainment. I was asked to and had the honor of moderating this panel of informed creatives.

Greening Hollywood: PURE Eco Luxury, December 18th No Bag Day, Eco Holiday Gift Picks

Paige Donner | Posted 03.25.2009 | Green


Paige Donner

Eco Luxury (What IS that?) d. As awareness of the natural resource crisis rises, the old ideal of conspicuous consumption loses traction. In the new ...

Greening Hollywood Launches EcoPreneur Salon

Paige Donner | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Being an EcoPreneur is simply infusing environmental practices in the everyday running of your business and capitalizing on a new product or service that is inherently environmental.

Greening Hollywood: Democratizing Sustainability

Paige Donner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

I'll 'fess up. "Democratizing sustainability," is not a phrase I coined nor one I've even used before.

Greening Hollywood: Ecopreneur Eric Ritz's Global Inheritance

Paige Donner | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Fundamentally, Global Inheritance asks, "Why can't a message be cool?"

Greening Hollywood: Enchanted Green Hallow's Eve

Paige Donner | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Ecostation... has created an environmentally aware Haunted Fun House for kids and parents that offers an afternoon of trick-or-treating and learning about Earth's animal-kingdom inhabitants.

Greening Hollywood: Liquid Gold

Paige Donner | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Fuel is definitely a must-see. It's a conversation starter in this all-important crash course our nation must take on issues of alternative fuels and our planet's future.

Greening Hollywood: Ecopreneur Deirdre Wallace's Ambrose Hotel

Paige Donner | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

"In building the hotel, we just made really smart choices. Not necessarily thinking, 'Oh, this is a green choice,' but thinking this makes sense on an economic level."

Greening Hollywood: TreePeople's L.A. 2.0

Paige Donner | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

"We're doing a full retrofit of Los Angeles. L.A. 2.0. We're creating a sustainable prototype by retrofitting Los Angeles with a functioning forest."

Greening Hollywood: W.I.N.

Paige Donner | Posted 11.03.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Water Innovation Now Contest 2008 is a win-win program for Southern California students. Not only will they participate and have a voice in coming up ...

Greening Hollywood: Solar Taxi Makes Pit Stop at Bbq in The 'Bu

Paige Donner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

The bbq in the 'Bu was held out in the Malibu Colony after the SolarTaxi spent the day making friends and fans at the Malibu Arts Festival.

Greening Hollywood: Arianna on The Green Carpet at The Millennium Awards

Paige Donner | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.

Greening Hollywood Meets Opportunity Green

Paige Donner | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living


Paige Donner

Bringing talented professionals together who are also environmentally and socially-minded can only produce positive outcomes, is the philosophy behind Opportunity Green.