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May 10th, 2011 - 12:48 pm § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – LA Green Screen highlights Plastics

Last month my husband Stephen Box and I launched LA Green Screen, a screening series to raise awareness about our environment, our planet and about the heath of our communities. We screened the film Bag It, which followed a panel discussion with Katherine Rubin, Managing Environmental Specialist fro[...]

April 6th, 2011 - 5:44 pm § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – Limitless Ways to Reuse Paper

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in April 2011 and also in CityWatch. Our campaign for City Council has ended and our office is a mess. We had a great time, we learned a lot about people and politics and about ourselves. As we wrap up the details, I find [...][...]

February 6th, 2011 - 5:36 pm § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – Election Campaign Office is still going Green!

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in March 2011. Last month, I wrote about us moving into our campaign office and about how we are doing our best to be sustainable. Now that we have settled in, I’m extremely proud of our staff and our volunteers! They are doin[...]

January 6th, 2011 - 5:25 pm § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – Setting up a sustainable office

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in February 2011. A couple months ago we rented an office for our City Council Campaign. We rented from our friend Bechir Blagui, owner of Hollywood Rent A Car, because sustainability is important for us and this space offers so[...]

December 3rd, 2010 - 10:18 am § in Sustainability

Sustainable Gift Giving during this Holiday Season

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in December 2010. The Holiday Season is officially here and the Black Friday frenzy has passed but the pressure to shop is just beginning. A minor flurry of virtual greetings have gone out, soon to be followed by ambitious good [...]

November 3rd, 2010 - 8:20 am § in Sustainability

Sustainable Holidays

Do you make, manufacture, distribute, create sustainable products? Are you ready for orders in December? Would love to hear from you! I’m writing for several online magazines about sustainability, community, and transportation issues, and I would love to offer my readers good choices for their[...]

November 1st, 2010 - 8:57 pm § in Sustainability

Vote on November 2nd. Find out where via text or map

Regardless who you vote for or what your political views are, it is our Right and Responsibility to vote in all elections. Please, go out to the polls tomorrow and vote! Every vote counts! Find the polling location below or you can also text “where” to 30644 (or “donde,” for [...]

October 15th, 2010 - 2:56 pm § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – My Week of Living Dangerously, Part 2

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in October 2010 Last month’s article, “My Week of Living Dangerously” prompted lots of positive feedback and one criticism. An actress wrote to point out that “writing about fasting” was dangerous, especially in this i[...]

September 15th, 2010 - 10:00 am § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – My week of living dangerously

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in September 2010 After years of contemplating, reading lots of books, researching on the Internet, and procrastinating, I finally embarked on a Detox journey, committing to an 8-day cleansing program. Our bodies are full of tox[...]

August 2nd, 2010 - 6:00 am § in Sustainability

Rebel Without a Car – Greening Our Cities

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in June 2010 Nothing throws us out of our comfort zone like a vacation, a walkabout, a trip from the everyday routine and an adventure of discovery. My recent trip to Chicago over the 4th of July holiday was just that, a journey[...]