Kate Moss’ Christmas 08 Collection for Topshop is in stores, and it’s already selling out. What I can’t figure out is who’s buying it. Most of the clothes are made for women like Kate, i.e., women with no breasts, no waist and no fat whatsoever. Does this mean crackwhores have disposable income? Yes, I’m bitter. Here’s a green idea: instead of buying Moss’ line, buy used children’s clothing. They’ll fit the same, and you’ll be recycling!

The Olsen twins book Influence came out on Tuesday. There was a reading at Barnes and Noble, and I couldn’t attend because I’ve been deathly ill. However, the next best thing—here’s a copy of MK’s essay on Ash, courtesy of Nylon; and even better, MK’s handwritten questionnaire. Enjoy!

Introducing: Shame Shopping, brought to you (discreetly) by Net-a-Porter—so you don’t have to tell anyone you’ve been clicking away at 1am. That’s right, this secret service allows you to shop without the judgment of your family, friends or neighbors. They’ll ship you your Marni in a brown paper bag if you’d like them to.

Perhaps Net-a-Porter introduced this service because they know we haven’t stopped shopping—we’ve just stopping shopping in public. E-commerce sales are growing while retail sales shrink. It’s not that people aren’t buying, it’s that they’re finding other ways to do it.

Nicole Richie’s House of Harlow 1960 Jewelry line has been released to KitsonLA. I’ve got my eyes on this ring. Badass, and cheap! This is totes on my Hanukkah list!

I’ve just discovered the most amazing website! The ladies of EcoStiletto provide green tips for fashionistas and beauty queens. They have everything from tips to TV clips to interviews with green celebs. How fab!

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What a well-timed Halloween 2008; it’s the scariest season we’ve seen in awhile. Wall St. is literally melting down- as showcased by an impromptu ice sculpture, “Economy.” We’ve got infamous Samuel Wurzelbacher  Joe the plumber, and his fellow “plumber” followers from his campaign (seriously?!?)  voting to “drill, baby, drill.” Ugh. This mantra may in fact be Sarah Palin’s only redeeming quality: a bunch of dudes enjoy chanting “drill, baby” at her rallies while Danger Zone plays in the background (seriously).

While we’re still working on our concept costume, “global warming,” others around the country are prepping their props to become America’s scariest, most adorable hockey mom/maverick-Governor/former Miss Alaska/possible future. . . nahh.  Just add blush, Tina Fey glasses, and irrelevant talking points. Trick, or treat?

But before you step out that door for ritualistic candy gathering, (with your reusable tote bag, obvi) check out this campaign from ForestEthics to stop junk mail and save the environment.

Send this link to your neighborhood, family and friends and green this Halloween.

More than 100 billion pieces of junk mail are sent to households each year using more than 100 million trees contributing to 51 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the junk mail goes straight to the landfill unopened and not recycled. It’s annoying and unnecessary, even if she does come in pretty packaging with catchy zingers. Wait, what are we talking about again? It really is getting scary out there. Is it November 4th yet?

Happy Halloween!!!

Sharona

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The feelings surrounding the first-ever commercial space flight are usually ones of excitement and glee. Heck, guests such as Sigourney Weaver and Moby have paid a deposit of $200,000 just to reserve their seats on the Virgin Galactic. And so, apparently, has Paris Hilton. Our favourite hotel heiress has been reported to say that she is very scared about it, but she plunked down her cash.

“What if I don’t come back?” She asks. “With the whole light years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later and everyone I know is dead? I’ll be like, ‘Great. Now I have to start all over.’”

That’s ok, PHil. We know that you’re not either an alien fighter or a human who makes alien music, but we’re sure you’ll be fine.

Heck, even if you are right and you only come back 10,000 years later, think about it this way – if the Virgin franchise keep going at this rate, the world will be completely global warming free and we will only be living organic and electric.

See…all is not bad in the world, little guy.

Jessua

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A new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been released, and all we can think is: why are they making us wait so long? It’s excruciating! It’s worse than having our souls sucked out by dementors! Oh, Warner Brothers, why did you do this to us? We’re tempted to blame potential rival film Twilight, a stupid movie about vampires.

Ok, ok. We’re sorry, Twilight. We love you, too. It’s just that this new trailer makes our favorite HP book look just as amazing as we remember it to be. There’s even some full frontal snogging between Ron and Lavender Brown! Annnd, given that Sarah’s going to see Daniel Radcliffe in the flesh in Equus on Thursday evening, we figured this would be a good time to show you the new trailer and give you sweet Potterific dreams.

Speaking of dreaming, next time your head hits the pillow, be proud of this: it’s pretty likely your pillow is green! You see, the largest pillow making company in the US has vowed to be zero waste by 2010. That’s right, they’re going green! Hallelujah, HP, and a whole lotta love.

Sarah

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Next week, next week! But even though Election Day is almost upon us, I still don’t see why we’re already talking about Palin for President in 2012. Do they think Tina Fey will be retired by then or something?

It’s difficult enough just keeping a hold over politicians right now, let alone thinking ahead four years. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty on all seven charges of corruption for lying about his financial disclosure and accepting plenty of fun and lavish presents. The 84-year old Senator is, however, still up for re-election, and he just might win.

And if that wasn’t enough, the Bush administration and EPA doesn’t seem to mind power plants corrupting the air. The proposal plans to control power plants on their hourly rate of emissions instead of their annual output. According to spokespeople for the Bush administration, other EPA programs can just get rid of the pollution!

Good thing we’ve got the Interior Department around. The plan is to develop 190 million acres of federal land into geothermal energy projects, which would power 5 million homes that normally rely on those stinky power plants.

Across the pond, the European Union is forcing airlines to join the emissions trading system starting in 2012. While we applaud the EU’s eco-friendly maneuver, the annual cost of $4.4 billion for the airlines to comply might be enough to cause another crash in the current economic fiasco.

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Word on the street is that the Body Corporate (or better known as Elle Macpherson) has a convicted drug smuggling boy toy.

She has, reportedly, been seen zooming around London in her sexy little environmentally-unfriendly Aston Martin, picking up her removalist boyfriend Brian John Burgess from a spot of window shipping at a Jag outlet.

While much of the Australian and UK media are quite intrigued by Elle’s latest beau’s jailbait past, we are more concerned by their continued interest in those notorious gas-guzzlers.

Maybe the couple should consider following the path of that long-in-the-tooth gentleman Prince Charles; apparently firing up your Aston Martin with organic wine is in vogue right now.

Well, at least more in vogue than jail time. Or so we hear.

Jessua

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We’ve been Mac people since way before Justin Long began starring in those hilarious commercials that made PC people seem like squares. So we’re proud to hear that the Apple folk have donated $100,000 and just released a public statement showing their support against Proposition 8—an initiative on this year’s ballot in California that would eliminate the right for same-sex couples in the state to marry.

Apple states: “we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights—including the right to marry—should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.

Gosh, Apple. You support equality and your newest iPod is pretty damn green. Not to mention, all Apple devices are just plain awesome. Apple has publicly admitted its former neglect of environmental issues when it comes to their products, but has also vowed to do better by phasing out dangerous toxins found in their products Green apples are our favorite.

Sarah

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A few of us are raging High School Musical fans. We won’t speak for the overall group, but some beanies (ok, maybe just the one writing this post) know they have the music in them (ok, I know I have the music in me). So you can imagine we’re happy to report that the children’s musical spectacle (aka HSM) has outdone itself yet again, raking in $82 million in its global debut. Yes, we were there opening weekend. Yes, we sat two seats away from a four year old in a booster seat. Yes, we danced our way through the two-hour film.

The only thing that could make us love the Wildcats even more? If they’d start putting their newfound celebrity to good use and help educate their fans about the importance of going green. The Jonas Brothers have already proclaimed their pledge to be greener, so what are the HSM kids waiting for? To get them started, we’d like them to check out ThinkGreen.com, a website that will educate them about waste, so that they can begin to transmit their knowledge to their legions of young (and impressionable!) fans.

Sarah

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Two points formerly considered to be completely unrelated has, in fact, been found to be cause and effect, respectively. A set of Swedish scientists has found that just three cups of coffee a day is enough to make breasticles shrink. Add more cups to that and you’ll find yourself a triple-A.

Now if you, dear Reader, are un/fortunate enough to be considering a breast reducton, we at Beanstockd Central could always firstly advise you to go nuts on the coffee, but seeing as one of the most popular coffee chains in the world (MK’s holding one of their drinks) have recently been accused of using and not recycling exorbitant amounts of water (23.4 million litres or 6.2 gallons, to be exact), we may have to rethink that stratagem.

Or, if you insist on the coffee, you could always look for some fair trade alternatives. And yes, we are aware that Starbucks is on that list. We still advise you to give them a few months—we hear they’re working on it.

Jessua

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Now, in NYC, if you have any old appliances or furniture that you don’t want anymore, you can have it broken down and the parts recycled or reused by Build It Green! But, if you’re a repetitive, old reality tv show, you only seem to be able to try desperately to attract more attention to yourself in the hopes of being revitalized in the public’s interest by…

4. Drawing attention to the fact that your dancers gained weight instead of away from it.

3. Letting us know that Julianne Hough is having her appendix removed as if this is a worthwhile news event. Pretty soon, we’ll be getting reports on how often she sneezes per day.

2. Cloris Leachman apologizing in the event that she’s made anyone mad. (And everyone scratches their heads because they didn’t even know that Cloris was on this season.)

1. Having Lance Bass keep a DWTS Diary exclusively for Us Magazine. This way we’ll all know when the judges are treating his partner unfairly AND what all the ex-‘NSync-ers who aren’t dating Jessica Biel are up to on the weekends (in case you were dying to know, Lance and Joey Fatone attended Chris Kirkpatrick’s charity ball in the hopes that someone would care enough to take a pic for a tabloid).

LD

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