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The 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival<\/a> announced that it is implementing numerous changes to produce an eco-friendly, “green” Festival this year, as part of a company-wide greening initiative by Film Independent \u2013 the non-profit filmmakers organization that produces the Los Angeles Film Festival, as well as the Spirit Awards.<\/p>\nThe Festival has partnered with NBC-Universal, which is a green company, on both Opening Night (Thursday, June 19) and Closing Night (Sunday, June 29) of the Festival. The Opening Night premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Wanted” (starring Angelina Jolie), as well as the Closing Night premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” will be produced in an eco-friendly fashion.<\/p>\n
Changes being made for the overall Festival will impact everything including the use of bio-diesel fueled generators and the recycling of all paper, wood, glass and plastic used at the Festival. Printed materials will be produced on recycled paper using eco-friendly inks, and catering will use organically-grown produce purchased from local farms within a 150-mile radius of Los Angeles. In addition, all carbon emissions created by the production of the 2008 LA Film Festival will be offset by TerraPass<\/a>, which funds clean energy and carbon reduction projects, including wind power, farm power, and landfill gas capture.<\/p>\n Congrats to Prius-driving celebrity and new mother Jessica Alba, who just gave birth to a girl named “Honor” this past weekend. In an interview in February, Jessica said she was excited about doing some “green” nesting, doing eco-friendly renovations to her house, recycling, as well as re-furbishing old furniture.<\/p>\n Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse is coming to Planet Green<\/a> for a new original series entitled Emeril Green, which will be shot on location at Whole Foods Market and will launch in July. He’ll be kicking it up one organic, locally-grown notch at a time. (Maybe while he’s there he’ll be able to ask the Whole Foods folks why so few of their cut flowers are organic, or even pesticides-free?) Planet Green, which just launched last week, is Discovery Communications\u2019 global, cross-company initiative “with a commitment to document, preserve and celebrate the planet,” including the first-ever 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network.<\/p>\n You can’t mention celebrities and “green” in the same post without plugging HGTV star Ed Begleys Jr.’s book Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life<\/a>. This guide (available new on Amazon for about $12) really is highly entertaining as well as informative — I mean, this is a guy who has been “walking the ‘green’ walk” for over 30 years. Who’d have thought celebrities like Leonardo di Caprio would be jumping on Ed Begley Jr.’s bandwagon?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where else would you find Jessica Alba’s baby, Angelina Jolie’s movie, Emeril Lagasse’s TV show, and Ed Begley Jr.’s book in one blog post?! Read on after the jump for more on the latest “HollyGreen, CA” news: “Hellboy II” Gets a TerraPass The 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival announced that it is implementing numerous changes […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":346,"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":[2,106],"tags":[537,9025,166,539,540,541,542,543,544,545,62],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hollywood-street-sign-cropped1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Green Honors to Alba<\/h3>\n
BAM! Emeril Goes Green in July<\/h3>\n
And, of course, Ed Begley Jr.<\/h3>\n