{"id":2493,"date":"2009-06-14T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2009-06-14T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T17:43:19","slug":"greening-hollywood-marrakesh-house-hosts-eco-preneur-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/greening-hollywood-marrakesh-house-hosts-eco-preneur-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening Hollywood: Marrakesh House Hosts Eco-Preneur Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Our latest ongoing EcoPreneur Salon was graciously hosted at Chris Paine’s Marrakesh House<\/a> in Culver City.\u00a0 Marrakesh<\/a> House is documentary filmmaker Chris Paine’s (Who<\/a> Killed The Electric Car?) new green demonstration home.\u00a0 Paine is currently at work on the documentary sequel.<\/p>\n

\"EcoPreneur<\/a>Paige Donner, Founder of Greening Hollywood and EcoPreneur Salon; and Janine Johnson, Founder of GreenWave Enterprises Host EcoPreneur Salon at Marrakesh House, Culver City, May ’09.<\/em><\/p>\n

Paine, owner of Marrakesh House\u00a0used Shellie Collier, noted LEED AP, as his green building consultant.<\/p>\n

Paige Donner’s Greening Hollywood<\/em> presented the EcoPreneur Salon<\/em> with co-host Janine Johnson, founder of non-profit Greenwave<\/a> Enterprises. “We recognize that global progress is unstoppable, what makes us different are our wholistic solutions vs. simply green solutions. Our solutions are green, sustainable, forward-thinking, and ever-changing,” states Johnson who is now touring with band Crystal Method.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson’s day job is working for environmentally sustainable property developer Kalia<\/a> Living whose eco-communities are centered in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

More on Marrakesh House: The 4,300 square-foot house uses similar layouts of traditional Moroccan “riads” which center on a courtyard, in a way that mirrors the layout of this property. The home combines Mid-Century modern architecture with Islamic design motifs to forge a visual bridge between two cultures. “It’s sort of Frank Sinatra meets Morocco,” explained Paine on a recent sunny afternoon when he toured EcoPreneur Salon attendees through his home.\u00a0 This vibed perfectly with our event sponsors which included TYKU<\/a> all-natural liqueur, O.N.E<\/a>. Natural coconut water, Frey<\/a> Bio-dynamic and sulfate-free wines from Mendocino County, and Luna<\/a> and Larry’s Coconut Bliss, an organic, vegan, dairy and gluten-free ice cream like perfection of a confection.<\/p>\n

Attendees of EcoPreneur Salon included Aron Levinson of Recycle Bank<\/strong>;\u00a0 Deborah Lindquist<\/strong>, Eco-couture designer; Catherine\u00a0 Geanuracos of Live Earth<\/strong>; Noorani, fabulous chef; Emilie Fritz VelosoPresident of O.N.E.;<\/strong> Alegre\u00a0 Ramos of Green and Greener<\/strong>; Robin Paul of Berk Communications<\/strong>\/ TYKU Liqueur; Todd and Ryan from Mabuno<\/strong> Eco-Furniture design; Tim Martin of IzoCleanze<\/strong>; Francis\u00a0 DellaVecchia of Cultural Connections<\/strong>, Carly Miller of RevengeIs<\/strong>; Donald\u00a0 Bluestein; Kris Willey of Coconut Bliss<\/strong>; Katia Louise of Wild For Life<\/strong>; Tiffany Davis-Rustam of T-Lux Design<\/strong>; Tracy Hepler of Your Daily Thread; and Russell Vare of L.A.C.C.,<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

\"EcoPreneur<\/a>EcoPreneur Salon May Attendees, Marrakesh House, Culver City.<\/em><\/p>\n

Paine enlisted artist Shrine<\/strong>, whom he describes as one of L.A.’s “best artists” to also paint blue the cement floor of the inner courtyard.\u00a0 (Shrine also designed the Moroccan paneling throughout the home.) The result is a decidedly N. African yet aquatic feel which reflects the glistening swimming pool just beyond. Attesting to the setting’s affinity with nature, a pair of ducks have adopted the swimming pool as temporary haven. Paine’s creative team, including Shrine, is also building a temple-like structure just adjacent to the hot tub.<\/p>\n

Marrakesh House opens officially on June 6th with a big benefit bash.\u00a0 I’ve already heard of at least one wedding planned for the summer to be held there and, naturally, there are plenty of events already calendared.\u00a0 At present the home is abuzz with creativity. It has the feel of a hive – an apropos analogy given that Paine has delightedly discovered a natural honeybee hive on his property. A treasure he has decided to keep in tact.\u00a0 As a parting gift to EcoPreneur Salon attendees, Paine doled out sweet, waxy confections of the natural elixir.\u00a0 It just doesn’t get any more raw or better or sweetly organic than that!<\/p>\n

\"EcoPreneur<\/a><\/p>\n

EcoPreneur Salon May Attendees, Marrakesh House, Culver City.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, a big Thank You! to Rogers<\/a> & Cowan for their support of EcoPreneur Salon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paige Donner’s Greening Hollywood column can be found on The Huffington Post. Donner writes about all things green that intersect with Style, Fashion, Entertainment and Politics. Find her at: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paige-donner More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[538,94,2],"tags":[3915,3916,3917,3918,3919,791,3920,3921,3890,3922,301,3923,3924,3925,3926,3927,3928,3899,3929,3930,3931,3932,3933,3934,3935,3936],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/100_1852.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}