A while ago I pondered about the amazing new word creations green guys and girls have come up with in my “Green Weddings-What?” on Angeliquevents.com. From Ecoist, Ecorazzi and Ecolibrium to descriptions like ecolustrious, eco-chic and econormous the world is changing by using a new language. There is a story out there that aborigines in a land far far away from any “modern” life did not see the ships hovering on their horizon as they did not have a word for them. You can’t think it so it isn’t there… To get the green vocabulary out into the mass consciousness will certainly have an effect as words have energy and energy moves mountains. Treehugger reported today that the green lingua has made it into Chambers Dictionary

BBC News reports:

“‘Electrosmog’ refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, ‘eco-village‘ is a term used for small ecologically-sustainable communities and ‘carbon footprint‘ is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment.”

There is also ‘food miles‘, referring to how far away your food come from, and ‘green tax‘, in reference to putting a price on undesirable things like CO2 or mercury to reduce pollution.
Treehugger even has a “Jargon Watch” where you can brush up on your cool.

Fantastic, finally there are organic fast food places. I was hoping that somebody would realize my kids idea of a healthy hotdog hut or better, a drive through window to an earth friendly quesadilla planet, with tasty fare like Howdy’s (Malibu’s star studded Taqueria, where we meet Mulder or Mc Gyver…) just organic.

And now the universe answered my desire; there is O Burger in WeHo following in the foot steps of Orean’s Health Express.
It’s not mainly vegetarian or vegan but it’s a start, at least the chickens are not tortured and the cows aren’t hormone packed and tranquilized.
What’s next? An adventure trip through vegan and vegetarian restaurants in LA. (I was once and never again at Juliano’s in SM and the salty, dripping sauce gave me the culinary creeps, so stay tuned)
Here’s the plan, given to me by one of my super brides and passionate vege cook Candace:

Oreans Health Express is not terribly fast but it is terribly delicious. I recommend the Philly Cheese and the hot-o-dog (tastes like a hotdog!) but everything I have had there has been yummy.

In Hollywood there are two “California Vegan” locations. I used to live near the one on Sunset Blvd. so went there often. We liked the Thai yellow curry with tofu, Orange chicken and vege chicken (same as the crispy chicken appetizer).

In Little Ethiopia on Fairfax, there is a vegan Ethiopian restaurant called Rahel’s. If you like Ethiopian food that place is great. The greens are especially delish. You can park in the neighborhoods in the surrounding areas usually (I park a block west of the place in the neighborhood behind).

In El Segundo (I used to work there) I would go to Papillon once a week – at least. My favorite is the House special tofu and the vegetarian hot and sour soup. The veggie fried wontons are tasty as well. Everything I have had there is amazing (I haven’t had any of the fish or shrimp stuff). They are my favorite place in the world

There is also a new place, Veggie Grill, in El Segundo that I haven’t been to but it is getting rave reviews from my friends and I will most likely be going there soon. Apparently, they have a location in Irvine as well. My friends said that the crispy chicken was fantastic, the beef dish that another had was very “beef like” but that the carrot cake was not so good.

Also in Eagle Rock, there is a place called Fatty’s. I have heard very mixed reviews though. Most of the bad ones are that the service there is abysmal and that the owner is rude so we haven’t ventured there. Even if the food is out of this world we don’t want to deal with being treated punkish when we’re paying for the food/service. But there have been good experiences there too so…

Phillippe Starck, the French designer who created amazing stuff for many years much of which unfortunately wasn’t that necessary seems to have regained his self confidence and love for life: after being depressed for a while due to his self declared “useless” designs he invented a personal invisible windmill ‘Democratic Ecology’. It was introduced at Milan’s Greenergy Design show earlier this year “in a vibrant display relaying the intent to enable every man, woman and child on Earth to generate their own power in designer style. The transparent mini-turbine will be available to all in September 2008 and, in typical Starck style, if everyone’s going to have one he’s going to make sure they all look great.” http://www.greendaily.com/2008/07/04/designer-personal-wind-power/