And I said, “hey, you’re never too old for Myspace, well maybe. (hehe) But anyway, i’ll round some up for you just the same”.

So off I went to visit my trusty friend Google to see what I could find. Below are three crisp hot looking vegetarian/ vegan WordPress themes for bloggers who want to nicely dress up their blog.

As usual, let me know what you think?

Green Park 2 (from Cordobo)

vegetarian theme link

This green lightweight theme has a right sidebar and many cool extras like built-in Twitter integration and nested comments, plus it’s fully compatible with WordPress 2.8

Great theme for a veggie or eco friendly blog. And yes it’s free.

WordPress.org description:

Lightweight fast-rendering theme with 2-3 column layout and right sidebar, Widget-ready (4 slots), built-in support for plugins (e.g. twitter), support for threaded/nested comments, fully localized, easy to customize via settings-page. By Andreas Jacob.

RCG Forest (from Yet Another Blog)

veggie wordpress theme

WordPress.org description:

A simple green theme.

Editor’s note: This theme is simple, but really cute and has a great header. Try the demo so you can see it up close.

Bible Scholar (from E Grace Creative)

vegan wordpress theme

WordPress.org description:

A lean, clean, and green wordpress them utilizing only two background images: three columns, widgetized sidebars.

This theme was created by a pastor, not sure why i’m sharing that with you, but I thought it was pretty cool. Plus this theme is sharp, clean and has alot of neat features.

Great for a vegan blog.

That does it for round one of cool vegetarian WordPress themes. These three beautiful, well crafted, ad and avatar ready themes should all be compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

And each one is free under GPL license. (please don’t ask me what that is)

Hope you see one you like. If you do, please give me a shout-out below in the comment area. Ole!

P.S. If you know of any other cool veg themes, please leave a link below.

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Fiber One is giving away a free sample of their cereal bar along with a sample mini-cereal box and $5 in coupons. It’s a quick and easy 2 page form and on the second page they ask if you want to sign-up for their newsletter, but this is optional.

If you’re a fan of Fiber One, this is a sweet freebie and as usual, expect your gratis sample in 6 to 8 weeks. Ole!

P.S. Feel free to share this with your friends via email, Twitter or Facebook.

via VegetarianDeals

image via: one cupcake closer

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Vegan Vanilla Cupcake

Are you ready for our big great giveaway? In honor of Cinco De Mayo and the fact that we love any excuse to throw a party – we are giving away a copy of the best selling book by vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz – Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. The book is a compilation of vegan cupcake recipes and features great photographs of dozens of cruelty-free and divine cupcakes.

The book is based on this blog and has been on the best-sellers list over at Amazon for a gazillion weeks. Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World has over 75 dairy-free vegan cupcake recipes such as:

* Brooklyn Brownie Cupcakes
* Chocolate and Vanilla Marble Cupcakes
* S’mores Cupcakes
* Lemon Macadamia Cupcakes
* Mucho Margarita Cupcakes
* Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
* Cappuccino Cupcakes filled with Espresso Crème

Basically the book is 144 pages of awesome. Thanks Isa and Terry!

Win The Book!

Want To Win A Copy? I hope you said yes, because we have one copy to giveaway. To win a copy of this book, simply leave a comment answering the following question:

What’s your favorite vegetarian or vegan dessert recipe? (discuss below)

Guidelines: Open to US residents only. Deadline to enter is May26th at midnight. Winner announced here on the blog.

Tell your Friends!

Hey why not spread the word – write about it on your blog or tweet it!

image via Marni Molina

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This week Stephanie who runs Focus Organic has an eco carnival up on her blog and i had to share it with you as there are lots of good green articles to read. Please find Stephanie and say hello. This week i submitted my latest and greatest – 8 Fun Facts About Squash to the carnival so her readers could find me as well.

In the blogosphere it’s all about sharing. I hope you like the Eco Carnival and do let me know which articles you enjoyed? and if you’re a blogger which carnivals do you partake in?

P.S. Happy Monday!!!

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Top 10 Reasons To Subscribe To Ideal Bite

1. Great tips on how to live a green life, but in easy to digest tidbits.
2. Local editions including San Fransisco, New York, Denver, LA, and Chicago
3. Fun facts included in each edition (this is actually my fave portion of the newsletter)
4. Organic food tips and vegetarian restaurant reviews
5. The green tips are interesting and FUN
6. Each newsletter is short and sweet
7. Delivered in the afternoon, after you’ve already gone through your VIP email first
8. Ideal Bite is women owned
9. You’ll gain practical and easy tips on everything from organic food, green design, recycled products, eco friendly technology, to the latest and greatest in green apparel.
10. 100% Free

If you haven’t already subscribed, go to Ideal Bite now and sign up. Your first easy green tip will arrive tomorrow. Let me know what you think of it.

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Every year they have an online voting session, in where YOU get to pick and vote for your fave vegetarian products. The 2008 Veggie Awards are held in the Summer every year, and the winners are announced in the November/December Winter Holiday issue.

Details:

Ballots must include identifying information and be at least 50% complete to qualify for prize drawings. Write-in responses should be vegan. Entries must be received by August 31, 2008 at midnight.

Everything from vegetarian restaurants to veg celebrities are in the running, for “Best of the Veggie Best”. Make your vote count, go and vote here. You have till 8/31 (at midnight) to vote. Fabulous prizes are also up for grabs, including a grand prize and several secondary prizes. Lots of goodies, for those who vote.

Must Meet Nominee

Vegan Yum Yum is up for best blog, and if you have not yet visited her blog, YOU SIMPLY MUST. I have to admit i visit for the stunning food photography. I’m a sucker for a good shot, and she has loads of them. I warn you, her blog is bursting with delights.

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Which do you use? Do you submit stories daily? How do you feel about creating an alliance, in where we hook up, and help each other out. As you know these social networking sites, are useless without a web of friends.

The Green Social Sites I Use

Hugg – Green digg like site owned by TreeHugger.

CON: Ever since their re-design, well it just lacks alot of things. For one, there is no friending feature. Second, no forward this to someone feature. It really is very web .5, not at all web 2.0

PRO: But the good thing about Hugg, is that you only need a handful of votes to make it to front page. This is very doable.

Twitter - Aside from chit chatting on Twitter, one can also make a post go viral on there.

PRO: One can re-tweet someone else’s twit, and therein lies the viral beauty of Twitter. Depending on how many friends one has, this can be pretty good exposure.

CON: The number (and types) of friends you have, ultimately decide the fate of your posts. The more greenies you have, the better. I definitely need more green friends on Twitter, so if you’re a veggie or eco friendly, follow me.

Digg (the environment section)

CON: Making it to the front page here, is like hitting pay dirt. Well, for a day or two.

PRO: Extremely hard to make it to the front page. You need gobs of friends, precious hours of the day voting, commenting, and networking. There is a very specific crowd of people on Digg, they are VERY hard to please, quite jaded, and super savvy about social networks. A great big beast of a challenge! One day i will crack it.

Kirsty – digg like site by and for women

PRO: Great community of ladies who vote up their faves in organic food, eco friendly fashions, green celebs, sustainable home improvement, easy and affordable DIY, and recycled product shopping.

The front page stories here scream “i need help”, “i need help”. Help me with stuff. The ladies at Kirtsy are looking for ways, methods, tips, and tricks to make life easier, better, faster, or more manageable.

CON: There is a clique at Kirtsy, you need to be “one of the girls” to make your storys appear on the front page. Lots of daily participation is required, and again the right type of friends is key.

I like the Kirtsy site, alot of good stories are submitted by members, and shared. I’m a fan.

Reader Questions (+Poll)

Please weigh in below, and tell me, what is your fave green social bookmarking site? Is it a niche and small green site, or one of the big sites, like Digg? Is there a vegetarian/vegan specific social networking site, i should know about? Shoud we form a small group alliance, to help each other out?

Let’s talk.

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Below are Top 5 Vegan Sandals For Summer. (which is your fave? tell us in the comments section)

1.) Dr Scholls Renew
The classic summertime sandal….Perfect for every warm weather outfit and oh so comfy! This vegan version is made from natural hemp canvas, with a buckle made from recycled metal. The wood soles are constructed of sustainable wood and they come in a recycled box and an organic cotton shoe bag.

$93.00 at Zappos.com (Free Shipping)

2.) Dopie Sandals
You can’t get any more summertime simple than the DOPIE sandal from Terra Plana. It consists of a single shape sole to protect the foot that folds up between the toes to provide control. The minimalist vegan sandals are made from recycled EVA and foam rubber. The best part about Dopies is that they come in about 15 different colors.

Men and Women sizes available.
$75.00 at Terra Plana

3.) Low Heeled Walnut Wedge Sandal
This handmade shoe is composed of solid walnut, cherry, or laminated Finnish birch plywood and a recycled rubber sole. Many of the woods are obtained from the Chicago area “urban forest”: sustainable wood from local trees that have been downed by a storm or construction. Each pair of sandals comes with five sets of ribbons of your choice…..so you get not one style here, but five different looks.

$256 at Mohop

4.) Toepeeka Sandal from Simple
Available in two colors and come in mens and women styles and size. Simple shoes donates $5.00 for each pair of these Stop Global Warming Toepeeka flip flops that you get. 100% post consumer paper pulp foot forms.

$65.00 at Simple Shoes

5.) Lazy Boy Flip Flop from SPLAFF
Splaff vegan sandals are made with recycled race car tires and bicycle inner tubes. This version is an open toe slipper style that features a combination of hemp fabric and recycled bike tubes in its uppers. They are hand-crafted and are produced in a 100% waste-free and earth-friendly process. All left over materials are either re-used or recycled.

$50.00 at Splaff

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So i was quite amused and impressed from hearing that game board Monopoly (by Hasbro) has decided to introduce a green version of the uber popular game. The new Green Monopoly version will have utilities powered by wind and solar energy, further creating awareness of the viability for renewable energy sources. So essentially no “water works” or “electric company” in this version.

The NEW! green Monopoly, called “Monopoly Here and Now, The World Edition” will be out this fall. Get your strategy down now!

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