2011 April | Ewing & Associates

GREEN Living with Lauren

By: Lauren Rauschenberg

One part of keeping yourself healthy is keeping our planet healthy. Here are some tips to be more responsible:

1. Natural Beauty—Our skin absorbs everything that we put on it. Try to avoid products containing hormone-altering parabens or toxic laureth sulfates. Use organic and toxic-free products. www.cosmeticdatabase.com

2. Onions– Support farms that converts onion waste into renewable energy and high-quality cattle feed, providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings in annual electricity costs. www.gillsonions.com

3. Organic Foods—Eat organic foods. Foods that are free of toxins, pesticides and chemicals nourish your body. Eat only ocean friendly seafood. Blue Ocean Institute has an Ocean Friendly Seafood guide application for your smartphone. This app allows you to make the right choices about seafood and to be responsible.

4. Clean Vehicles—Drive a hybrid. Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Volvo, Honda, Lexus and Toyota are just a few of the manufacturers that offer hybrids. www.hybridcars.com

5. Clean with Green—Use green products to clean instead of using products containing high toxicity levels that can be harmful to your health and the environment. Use environmentally-friendly products.

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Cutting food production emissions by 40%

By: Charise Mitchell

Creating an innovative onsite fuel cell energy system, Universal Studios has made a direct step toward reducing their carbon footprint. The newly installed system, created by fuel cell technology company ClearEdge Power, was touted by Senior Vice President of technical services, Russ Randall. “The ClearEdge Power stationary fuel cell energy system is a great fit for our needs at Universal Studios Hollywood,” he commented. “The fuel cell system is an excellent example of the type of innovative solutions that we adopt to address our environmental challenges while helping to demonstrate that new energy solutions are now available to people who want to make a greener choice.”

I applaud the studio for going eco friendly and hope it will spur some change around town. It would be nice to see all the big companies in the San Fernando Valley follow in their footsteps.