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Images from the 2021 @womensmarch and new work from @marjoriesalvaterra. #protectchoice #prochoice #abortioncare #abortionrights #protectroevswade #roevwade #roevswade #humanrights #reproductiverights #bansoffourbodies #feminist #feminista #feministart #pussypower

Hello, humanity! 🌍🌏🌎 Earth Month 2022’s

Hello, humanity! 🌍🌏🌎 Earth Month 2022’s final low-impact movie star lifestyle tip: GET ENGAGED.
The climate crisis is scary. And it’s totally natural to feel anxiety, fear, grief, depression, or even apathy in the face of such overwhelming disaster.
Research shows that particiapting in group activities — like the cleanups Denny and I attended in #SantaMonica and the #LARiver with @lawaterkeeper last week — can help transform negative emotions into positive actions.
Getting involved also opens up a world of nature in your backyard wherever you live and helps you better understand your bioregion — the cultural and environmental features including people, bodies of water, topography, and soil characteristics.
I learned to play MERCY, MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) last week, and when I started to put the lyrics into my body, I was overwhelmed by Marvin Gaye’s cry for environmentalism. Sadly, his words hold even more weight today than they did in 1971. Communities of color are still more likely to suffer from greater levels of air pollution, toxic waste, heat deaths, and unsafe drinking water — even in Los Angeles. Look at the recent disaster in the South Bay and Harbor regions where residents endured an explosion and botched cleanup from an illegally stored silo of flammable hand sanitizer.
Gaye’s original recording has an ebullience, a joy — a stark contrast to its mournful syntax. Footage from the cleanups felt like the perfect visual antidote to my keening. And for me as an activist, the music as much as the cleanup brings me joy. In order to continue this vital work on behalf of all life on the planet, experiencing that joy proves just as important.
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#stopplasticpollution #plasticpollutes #fridaysforfuture #earthday2022 #EarthDay #sustainableliving#climateaction #intersectionalenvironmentalism #singerlife #singersofinstagram #vocalist #mercymercyme #marvingaye #coversong #environmentaljustice #LAlife #mydayinLA #iamtheriver

Ciao, terrestre! 🌍🌏🌎 Today’s low-impact

Ciao, terrestre! 🌍🌏🌎 Today’s low-impact movie star lifestyle tip: SHOP SECONDHAND!
Back in 2008, my sister and I challenged each other to a Year of No New — for the next twelve months, neither of us would purchase anything new except for underwear, socks, and consumables goods.
We never really stopped. As you can see in the video, pretty much everything I own was purchased or given to me secondhand. And that’s exactly how I like it.
🌱Shopping secondhand keeps useable goods in circulation. 85% of textiles either waste away in landfills or, worse, are burned in incinerators. In 2018, American landfills received over 11 million tons of textiles. That’s almost 8% of all municipal solid waste in the nation. Sheesh!
🌱Shopping secondhand reduces your carbon footprint by conserving natural resources. It takes a mind boggling 20,000 liters of water — that’s more than the amount of water a single person drinks in 13 freaking years — to make one pair of jeans and one t-shirt. With super droughts plaguing the American West, buying used or swapping with friends helps preserve what little water we do have left.
🌱Shopping secondhand is fun! Instead of relying on what’s in mall storefronts to inspire my purchases, I go on scavenger hunts, searching for the perfect item. And forget the regifting stigma — I will happily take something someone isn’t using if I can use it myself. One woman’s trash is this woman’s treasure… that’s also a gift to Mother Earth.
🌱What gems have you found or received secondhand? My adorable blouse came from @jill.anenberg.lawrence, my folks got me the ukulele for Christmas, and @seanmcarroll gave me my rockin’ bass. Lucky me!
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#shopsecondhand #buyused #secondhandfashion #circulareconomy #zerowasteliving #reducereuserecycle #fridaysforfuture #earthmonth #sustainableliving #actonclimate #climateaction #womenleadclimate #intersectionalenvironmentalist #ukulele #singerlife #singersofinstagram #vocalist #coversong #secondhandrose

Hi, earthlings! 🌍🌏🌎 This week’s low-imp

Hi, earthlings! 🌍🌏🌎 This week’s low-impact movie star lifestyle tip: EAT LESS BEEF & MORE LEFTOVERS.
That’s right. This vegan isn’t asking you to forego all animal products. I’m just asking you to 🌱reduce your beef intake🌱.
As I wrote for @treehuggerdotcom last month, animal products require more than twice the amount of resources to produce compared to plant products, and beef has the biggest environmental impact of any single food.
It takes around 20 pounds of grain and 1,800 gallons of water to produce one pound of edible beef. Beef also demands around 20 times more land and generates 20+ times the number of greenhouse gas emissions per gram of edible protein than equivalent plant proteins. Oof.
The good news? If Americans simply cut their beef intake by half, @worldresources estimates that we could halt some of the worst deforestation due to livestock feed cultivation and still feed an expected world population of 10 billion.
Now that you’ve put down the burger, chow down on some leftovers! (I'm eating three-day-old vegan nacho cheese and broccoli.) More than 1/3 of all food is wasted. When food waste ends up in landfills, it off-gasses methane, a greenhouse gas that is 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. One 2014 study found that carbon emissions from food waste were equivalent to adding 33 million more passenger vehicles to the road — every year.
In California, landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions. And considering that four million Californians — including one in every seven children — are food insecure, it feels downright selfish to toss perfectly edible food in the trash.
Need some non-beef food inspo? Follow some of my faves here on Insta: @minimalistbaker, @chefpriyanka, @allylazare, and @yummyplants. Also, download the @toogoodtogo.usa app to find restaurants and grocery stores near you that sell food at seriously reduced rates to keep it out of the landfill.
And 🌱eat your leftovers🌱!!
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#sustainableliving #sustainability #lowimpact #actonclimate #climateaction #womenleadclimate #intersectionalenvironmentalist #zerowasteliving #veganAF #veganshare #leftovers #earthmonth #fridaysforfuture

Happy Earth Month! 🌍🌏🌎 Each Friday, I’l

Happy Earth Month! 🌍🌏🌎 Each Friday, I’ll be sharing easy tips and resources for living a low-impact (dare I say movie star?) lifestyle.
Today’s tip: GROW A CLIMATE VICTORY GARDEN
Don’t let urban living stop you from growing your own food. We use part of our little balcony for growing green onions, strawberries, red peppers, lemons, and three kinds of lettuce (the other side is our meditation corner 👉 to view all angles of The Treehouse climate victory garden).
Climate victory gardens are a revival of a 20th-century effort during the World Wars to have Americans grow their own food. Today this practice helps reduce our overall greenhouse gas emissions by:
🌱Reducing transportation emissions from farm to store
🌱Reducing transportation emissions from shopping trips or grocery delivery services
🌱Reducing plastic packaging
🌱Helping sequester carbon in the soil of perennial plants
Plus, it’s fun! I love seeing my labors come to life on my dinner plate. For extra zero waste points, we compost all our food scraps (that’s what’s in the yellow bin).
Want to start your own climate victory garden? Check out @greenamerica_’s guide and register yours today. Not keen on keeping your compost at your place? Connect with other gardeners through @makesoil to drop off your food scraps.
For more on how our food affects our planet, check out my dear pal @ryandexterandrews’ book SWOLE PLANET (on sale through the end of the month!) and Nicoletta Batini’s THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD (just started reading it!).
#GiasConsciousCloset courtesy of @swapsociety
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#lowimpactmovement #lowimpactliving #sustainableliving #sustainability #livesustainably #actonclimate #climateaction #womenleadclimate #intersectionalenvironmentalist #goingzerowaste #zerowastelife #zerowasteliving #myzerowastelife #climatevictorygarden #urbangarden #earthmonth #fridaysforfuture

Write Yourself a Love Poem 💛💛💛 It’s our

Write Yourself a Love Poem
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It’s our anniversary
But I’m celebrating me
I made it
Who knew?
I did not imagine this day
It arrived and nearly passed with little fanfare
The birds always sing their hymns at heaven’s gate
Spring, summer, winter, fall
They cry, they fight, they nest
They battle the elements — a warming planet
Unknown but certainly felt
Even if only in their genes
Genes we share
Even though we’re different
You from me
Us from the birds
Someday I’ll become a bee
Buzzing all the time
Buzzing with a mission to the hive
A communal celebration of life
That’s what an anniversary is
Isn’t it?
Annual, perennial, time
Marches
On
And
On
And
On
Ad astra
You are stardust
And so am I
Hold me in your shimmer
And rejoice in the glow
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#mylove #myuniverse #fiancefotos #loveinliterature

#FBF to “becoming non grata,” an original thea

#FBF to “becoming non grata,” an original theatre piece about the Japanese internment Camp Amache, which recently became part of the @nationalparkservice (👉 for details).
When we visited Amache in 2000-2001 as part of research for the show, most of what remained were skeletons of barracks and mess halls, a few stone memorials, and several broken tea cups with saucers — what you’d expect from a quickly abandoned YMCA camp.
You’d have never known that, from 1942 to 1945, 7,000 people — many of whom were U.S. citizens — were stripped of their homes, businesses, and land, and incarcerated here.
Ruth Chizuko Murai’s account in @motherjones of her family’s ordeal during the war (👉 for details) shows just how fragile these histories can be and why it’s so important that sites like Amache become tools for teaching anti-racism. Otherwise more people, like Utah Sen. Mike Lee who opposed Amache joining NPS, will prioritize their distain for the federal government over learning from our past mistakes to create a more just and equitable future for everyone.
It was an honor to work on the show, and I am grateful that Amache will become a permanent part of this shameful chapter in our history.
Pictured with me is Jennifer Alonzo and Dan Hiester, I think (his last name escapes me!) Directed by Laura Cuetara. Alas, I don’t know who took the photo.
#amache #internmentcamps #theatrelife #antiracismeducation #stopasianhate #americanhistory #coloradohistory

Today actors celebrate actors by voting in the @sa

Today actors celebrate actors by voting in the @sagawards. 🕴🎭👏 And, hopefully, we did it with a little less #plasticpollution.
This year @sagaftra introduced the Go Green campaign, which allowed guild members to opt out of receiving physical DVDs, many of which, in a truly terrible best case scenario, end up in landfills, releasing greenhouse gasses as they slowly break down into microscopic pieces that find their way into our drinking water. (Read more about this on my blog 👉; link in bio.)
As artists who love our craft, I believe it’s our duty to celebrate in ways that ensure a safe and healthy future not only for our industry but for the world. And while I feel an opt out policy doesn’t go far enough, it’s at least a step in the right direction.
I’m also thrilled to see more environmental awareness in all aspects of entertainment coming directly from SAG-AFTRA President @officialfrandrescher, not to mention the folks at @plasticpollutes who teamed up with @learcenter to examine #singleuseplastics and reusable alternatives in popular TV. Entertainment has the power to move the cultural dial on important issue like inclusion and sustainability, and the Go Green campaign is the first of many changes I hope to see in creating that more just and livable world both on screen and off.
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#lifeofanactor #actorsofinstagram #actorlifestyle #actorslifestyle #actorlife #workingactor #sagawards #actonclimate #climateaction #womenleadclimate #intersectionalenvironmentalist #goingzerowaste #zerowastelife #zerowasteliving #myzerowastelife #stopplasticpollution

🏮The year of the 🐅🏮 📸 by my dear old

🏮The year of the 🐅🏮
📸 by my dear old pal @mahoneyimages. Vintage 🧥. Long 💇‍♀️courtesy of the pandemic.
#oldfriends #happynewyear2022 #lunarnewyear #buonannonuovo #yearofthetiger #sustainableclothing #handmedown #vintageclothing #secondhandfashion #ecofashionista

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