Matthew McConaughey's Organic Parenting, Angelina's Aids Charity, Paris Thinks Green, and More
by Terri MacLeod on 08.12.08
This new daddy seems to pride himself on his crunchy, laid-back parenting style. He has taken his newborn son, Levi, to the beach, to a John Mellencamp concert, and even to a photog-crazy red carpet event. But the latest on Matthew and baby Levi strikes me as bizzare - if not a bit too down-to-earth. The actor saved his son's placenta and plans to plant it in an orchard (it's true, folks). In an interview with CNN, he says he was inspired to do this after visiting Australia and seeing a tree that had grown with the placenta of a tribe of Abroriginals. "It's going to be in the orchards, and it's going to bear some wonderful fruit," reveals the surfer dude dad.
Angelina's Newest Charity
People magazine paid Brad and Angelina a mind-blowing $15mil for the pictures of their newborn twins. ..Yet the eco-minded couple stated all the money will go straight to charity. ...As soon as Angelina adjusts to her new mommy state, she is planning to travel to Ethiopia, her adpoted daughter Zahara's native country. She hopes to begin work on an AIDS clinic. "We will be building a TB/AIDS clinic. One we plan for Zahara to take over when she is older," the actress told Britain's Hello magazine.
Via: looktothestars
Paris Thinks Green:
First, she shook up the presidential campaign with her headline-grabbing McCain-spoofing viral video. ...In which she declared her solution to the energy crisis. Now Paris wants the world to know she' thinks green. The celeb-u-tart was spotted in her eco-shirt at a London airport. As for her "green" platform, well, she hasn't really specified how her jet-setting lifestyle is eco-friendly. But, we know she thinks the green message tees are super cute!
Sting's Green Shave:
Stingwrapped up his Police reunion concert on a green note. The music icon hoped to set back the hands of time by shaving off his beard during a backstage break, and then reappearing onstage hairless. ...To ensure sure his shave was eco-frendly, the green-minded singer enlisted the help of the grooming product line John Allan. ...which touts their slick water pre-shave as 100% green.
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you might want to read a bit about different cultural perspectives on the placenta before you start labeling an idea as "bizarre". here's one perspective: http://www.tidesoflife.com/placenta.htm
normally, i enjoy treehugger, but lately, really, you're beginning to sound a bit close-minded and too encouraging of people to just buy, buy, buy. hope you get back to your original mission. :)
I agree with Linda...
I come to your site for tree hugging news not celebrity news;
the good that is happening in the world.. the innovation, the creativity to solve Global Warming--
papabear-- wriststrong
I agree with the previous comment and say right on Matthew! I planted my daughter's placenta under a tree at her grandfather's house. It's about as natural as you can get! Think about all the nutrients that it takes to nourish a growing baby and then think about all those nutrients going to nurture a tree and the earth. That's much greener than wrapping it up in a nonbiodegradable biohazard bag to end up who knows where. And now whenever she goes to visit grampa, she always gives her tree a hug!
I second what Linda said. Anyway, planting the placenta under a tree is something even non-ethnic Americans have been doing for quite some time. I'm pretty sure some sitcom or other ran it at least five years ago.
Agreed. Keeping one's child's placenta is more common than you clearly are aware of. I kept my child's and put it under a rose bush that she knows to be hers, and I know many others that have done something similar. None of us are the 'granola hippies' you seem to be afraid of being associated with, that you would label such real, natural things as 'bizarre'. Open your mind a bit, you might be surprised what goes on outside your trendy little world.
@linda: It is bizarre. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not what most people are used to. That's basically the definition of the word: unusual. Don't be so uptight.
Burying a placenta is not really not bizarre or unusual, just in the United States, and even then, it wouldn't have been unusual 100 years ago.
I'll have to second the "only bizarre in the States" comment. I have a parent that works in obstetrics (on the West coast of Canada) and have been told that more and more parents are taking their placentas home to bury. I see no reason why we should poke fun at or wrinkle our noses at a practice that keeps biodegradable "medical waste" out of the incinerators.
Also, props to @linda for her comment about Treehugger's idealistic shift. I used to really enjoy the science articles on Treehugger, but they've disappreared and I'm growing EXTREMELY weary of the celebrity focus and the articles on what we should be buying. Stop writing about ways in which we should reduce our consumption and then flooding your website with the latest gadgets and things to buy.
i planted my son's placenta in my garden with a plum tree. it was a ceremony meant to connect him to the specific place he was born as well as to the earth he came from and will one day return. crazy hippy crap maybe, i was caught up in the magic of a new life. anyway, the tree has flourished. a very treehuggery way to recycle and not as bizarre as eating the afterbirth (i am a vegan after all) what do they usually do with the placent?
As Blair (are u from tonic mana?) and others mentioned, why would it be so odd to plant it in a garden? Is it any stranger than spreading ashes?