Erin Brockovich

After 1000 Green Steps brought you fun through environment songs and idols, now it’s time for us to watch those movies about our environment. No! I’m not asking you to watch a boring documentary film about how polluted our earth is, but this is more like a true story film showing us what to do to fight mean people around us

“Erin Brockovich” is a 2000 drama film which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich’s first fight against the American West Coast energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and featured actress Julia Roberts in the lead role for which she subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It is based on a true story and the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo appearance as a waitress named Julia.

Do you feel like watching it? 1000 Green Steps, too!

Happy Green Living!

Queen of Green: Cameron Diaz

I’m sure you have seen Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even Lisa Simpson in 1000 Green Steps. However, today 1000 Green Steps is going to discuss about Cameron Diaz, who might not being exposed too much about her green steps.

Diaz started her green steps when she joined Gore to announce the initiative Save Our Selves (SOS) – The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis, kicking off with a 24-hour summer concert series known as Live Earth, taking place July 7th, 2007 across seven continents. Then, in a feature on ABC News, Diaz spoke about the need for people to invest in green living and not just hop on board because it happens to be popular right now. The one-time vegetarian has even been quoted as saying she’d like to try out simple country existence for a year, living off the land by growing her own food and milking cows, saying she thrives on being outdoors. As a member of the Environmental Media Association, she has filmed public service announcements, with fellow greenie Gwyneth Paltrow, about the importance of conserving energy. The group’s Gen E (Generation Environment) program brings Hollywood and environmental concerns together, just like Diaz has in her own life.

Happy Green Living!

Green Birthday Party

Gifts

1000 Green Steps think that it’s nice to apply gift exchange in a birthday party. That is even better if every child brings a ‘green’ friend of them (plants, soil, or even animals!) and in the end they will go home with their own new ‘green’ friend.

Garnish

For the party supplies, try IKEA dinnerwares which are recycled plastics. If your child demands characters decorations such as Spiderman or Princesses, try drawing (or tracing) favourite characters or items on kraft paper to make a tablecloth. Even better, let the kids do it at the party. As for balloons, it might be easiest to go cold turkey. That may sound outrageous, but there are plenty of reasons. Fancy mylar balloons are not biodegradable. Even normal latex balloons, which do eventually break down, can cause problems.

Goodies

While kids are thrilled to rip open these sacks of treasure, the pleasure is usually short-lived. There is a reason that these items were inexpensive – they are poorly made, mass-produced, and definitely not sustainable. Use a small cloth bag or a recycled cardboard instead, or if you are on a budget, you can go back to number 1 where goodies bags are no longer needed to be provided by the host.

Happy Green Living (or Partying)!

Just Like Our Green Idol: Brad Pitt

After having Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie, and Lisa Simpson now we are having Brad Pitt as our Green Idol. Brad was twice nominated as ‘The Hottest Man Alive’ by People magazine. However, like many people say it’s the inside that counts. He proved to the world that he also has been hot on the trail of the emerging green-building movement, narrating a sustainable design TV series, and supporting Ed Norton’s Solar Neighbors Program.

He also has been leading an eco cause called Global Green USA’s Holy Cross Project, which is made to push the sustainable redevelopment of New Orleans after the Katrina.

That project will provide affordable-housing project, which will include five single-family homes, an 18-unit apartment building and a community centre. “What happened two years ago was a man-made disaster,” says Brad, “and this building offers a man-made solution.”

1000 Green Steps believe that with more people going green through their green steps, we will be able to create a better living place on Earth

Happy Green Living!

Ecotourism

Have you ever heard the term ‘ecotourism’? In case you’re not used to that term, the definition of ecotourism according to Wikipedia is travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale.

1000 Green Steps will recommend this to you because it has some positive benefits compared to ordinary travel journey.

Firstly, this kind of travel will allow tourists to enjoy and discover our nature and those travel agencies were still able to gain profit for that, but it will not let our environment left unprotected.

Another benefit of ecotourism is that this kind of travel will educate tourists about nature in its own unique, unexplainable, and active way. That will awake city people that everything is not always the same as what it says in the picture.

1000 Green Steps say: Make them feel it, and they will never forget it.

Happy Green Living!

Eco-friendly Lisa Simpson

After having Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie, you might think that 1000 Green Steps was joking by putting Lisa Simpson as our Green Idol for this edition. And so that you know, we’re not.

You guys have already heard about The Simpsons Movie, right? In that movie that eight-year-old Lisa warned Springfield community about the harm of toxic pollution. That heart-touching moment implicitly showed us that Lisa had influenced her generation to get educated and informed about the danger of damaged ecology. And not just that, she had already inspired many young generations to wear their hearts to solve global issues.

1000 Green Steps can’t tolerate if an eight-year-old girl can do that but you couldn’t.

Happy Green Living!

This is it! 100 Green Steps have found a solution of the neediness toward battery. We all know that battery is not eco friendly and it is so harmful to the environment. However we cannot deny that we need it more than anything else to use gadgets. Now you can do more green steps by The Wind Up Universal Remote Control which can replace all of your existing remote controls, powered purely by the hands!

Just 30 rotations of the wind up device will power the remote control for 7 days. You can easily charge up your remote whilst watching your favorite TV. If you think how expensive batteries can be, this remote will save you a small fortune over time too. The best bit is that this green gadget is the same price as any other universal remote control, except this one doesn’t need batteries and it is fully supported by 1000 Green Steps!

Happy Green Living!

Terra Fuela Sunflower Kit

Does it sound hard? Well, not anymore! 1000 Green Steps found this amazing Terra Fuela Sunflower Kit. It could get rid of all your gardening trouble, literally. It needs no gardening area at all; you can even put it on your desk.

It includes seeds for growing cheerful sunflowers, and exclusive Intervale Organic Compost which is Nutrient-packed organic blend compost, made with a certain Vermont-made gourmet ice cream! Grow right in the familiar-looking container!

This could be a gift for your beloved ones aside from Eco-man gift box and Sun Jar 1000 green Steps has recommended a while ago. Get Terra Fuela Sunflower Kit online only at $4.95!

Happy Green Living!

Leaders Act! Save Climate!

Quoted from Greenpeace:

“On the eve of the G8 summit in Italy – our activists have been beaming a message on the Kremlin and floating a life-sized iceberg past the Eiffel tower to call for urgent action from world leaders to save the climate.”

1000 Green Steps considered this as a call for our leaders, and might as well for you (if you are a leader), to start a change for our environment by doing both small and big green steps. In the picture we can see the activists used a laser projector to create a call to action visible from President Obama’s hotel: “Leaders Act! Save Climate!”

Happy Green Living!

No, 1000 Green Steps here was not talking about THOSE free gifts you could have won on that department store nearby. 1000 Green Steps was talking about finding a gift for your loved ones which could save you more money and save our planet earth, too.

Show Us What You Have!

Now, refresh your memory and check again if there is anything you have that you don’t need anymore. We can RECYCLE it together, right? Check 1000 green Steps suggestion on recycling a T-shirt.

Be Good!

In case you are not that type of artistic guy, and if you really have given up the idea of trying to remake something that is actually better, try to DONATE YOUR STUFF so that other people could REUSE it.

Happy Green Living!