Elizabeth Hurley's days of shagging spies on the silver screen are over. She quit working as an actress last year, and now she just wants to live the simple life, raising animals on her 400-acre farm in Glouchester. No joke. Yet, unlike other green celebrity types, Hurley isn't opening up her farm to rescue abandoned kittens or give zoo animals a more fulfilling life. These animals are food.

Her organic brand -- Hurley Meat -- is apparently making progress towards a launch sometime in the near future. At a fashion event last week, where she was being honored for her 13yrs as an Estée Lauder spokeswoman, she gave her fans a report on her newfound love of organic farming. According to Hurley, "it's the only place I want to be." Once her farm gets its organic status approved, Britons will be able to pick up some Hurley Meat and Hurley Lamb at the local butcher shop. Yum.

[via Ecorazzi]

 

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Just in time for Earth Day, Solar City is offering San Jose residents the opportunity to plaster their roofs with photovoltaic panels for less than the usual $30,000 -- way less. The promotional program, which runs until July 31st, allows customers to lease solar panels for $80 per month with no money down -- but only in San Jose. It's just like 'Truck Month,' but for solar panels.

According to Solar City's CEO, Lyndon Rive, the company hopes the Solar Lease program will draw 100-200 new customers into the world of DIY electricity. Just like with normal solar panel installation, it's not much of a profit seeking enterprise, so it's mostly attractive on a green level. On a $150 electric bill, for instance, customers would end up paying $60 to the electric company, and $80 to Solar City for their rental. Still, it opens the door to a lower-income group of eco-activists.
Other benefits of the program include free monitoring and maintenance for the lifetime of the system and, of course, a money-back performance guarantee. The website has a graph that shows how you'll save tons of cash in the long run with their solar panels, but I'm a little doubtful -- that's not really why anyone would want to opt into this program. Hopefully, solar panels will be profitable someday, but right now they're more about taking stress off the grid and promoting clean energy.

We talked some yesterday about the interconnected world of Silicon Valley. Well, it turns out that one of Tesla Motors' chairmen, Elon Musk, also sits on the board of Solar City. That's probably how the company was able to raise enough funds to offer a service like this one -- because someone's got to pay for the initial investment on that pricey solar gear.

[via Treehugger]

 

Whether you want to put it on display for all to see or simply eat off it, this fabulous piece of tablewear from Trixiedelicious is a stylish and quirky way to show the world you care.

Coca cola recently anounced that it is to to introduce a line of clothing made from recycled plastic bottles, in a move that has attracted widespread criticism from the green movement. The t-shirts are made from a blend of recycled plastic bottles and cotton and feature playful, pithy slogans such as "Make your Plastic Fantastic" and "Rehash your Trash."

I'm hugely impressed by Natural Collection's offer of eco-chic summer dresses this year, and have been poring over the explosion of colour and fabric that exploded on to my desk this morning.