Giving up meat for one day a week doesn’t mean you are sacrificing delicious and fulfilling meals.  Eliminating meat opens doors to all kinds of new tastes to perk up those taste buds.  And to help you explore the possibilities, I’m going to give away two copies of Blissful Bites: Vegan Meals that Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet, courtesy of BenBella Books, Inc. Vegan Chef, Christy Morgan, introduces us to a plant-based diet with over 175 healthy and tasty recipes.  I can’t wait to make the arugula-edamame salad with orange-sesame vinaigrette, plus all the other exciting and mouth watering dishes.

To enter to win Blissful Bites all you have to do is leave a comment on this post by Saturday, November 5th.  Two lucky winners will be drawn and announced on the following Monday.  Just remember to leave your email address so I can notify you for shipping info.

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“Christy Morgan, also known as The Blissful Chef, is a successful vegan macrobiotic chef, whose business is changing people’s lives through healthy cooking classes, lectures, personal chef services, and private instruction.  Christy’s mission is to help others make the connection between the mind, body and spirit, so they may live authentic, healthy, happy lives free of physical pain and mental suffering.  With her successful blog TheBlissfulChef.com; her first cookbook, Blissful Bites; and various online and offline articles, she is well-published in the world of natural foods.”

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If you can’t tell, that exclamation point in the title means I’m excited!!!!  The Green Festival is in LA this weekend.  I just read the list of exhibitors and I’ll for sure be hitting up quite a few of the booths. There will be DIY workshops, organic beer and wine, organic cuisine, music and even yoga classes. I don’t know about you but that sounds like a good time to me. Here’s all the details so you can go too!

When: Oct. 29-30
Where: LA Convention Center
Ticket info – click HERE (there are lots of ways to get discounts and free entry too, but if not, it’s only $10)

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This is a really striking and intense ad campaign making the point that every 60 seconds a species dies out.  It comes from BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany.) What do you think?

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Monday is always Meatless Monday, but today it’s also October 24th which is Food Day.  What is Food Day?  I’m glad you asked.  I just learned about it too.  Food Day strives to bring together people to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable and humane way.

How can you participate?  Look at the Food Day site and find out how!

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Working on films, I can attest that there is a lot of waste.  So when I come across people creating ways to be more green on set I’m pretty excited. When a film, commercial or whatever it may be is shooting, not too far from the action is the sea of base camp trailers housing production personnel and maybe a celebrity or two, otherwise know as “the talent.”  These trailers are powered by fuel generators and full of eco UN-friendly materials. Think about those generators running for 12-17 hours a day.  That’s a lot of waste and pollution.  But now ground has been broken for a new generation of production trailer.  King Kong Production Vehicles, Inc. introduces the world’s first solar hybrid production trailer – HELIOS – built specifically for the entertainment industry.

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