Lauren Wildbolz

Calling all fashion students, budding designers and ethical style pioneers – together with compassionate footwear company
Beyond Skin
, PETA is looking for ideas for a brand-new vegan shoe!

Brighton-based Beyond Skin combines a cruelty-free approach to fashion with a real glamour factor. Its gorgeous shoes, which don’t contain any leather, wool, exotic skins or other animal products and are made from recyclable materials.

Why Vegan Shoes?

For the leather industry, millions of cows endure the horrors of factory farming, including extreme crowding, disease, food deprivation and mutilations such as dehorning, tail-docking and castration, often without painkillers. Because of improper stunning, they may face the final incision still conscious and terrified. Turning animal skin into leather also has a grave impact on the environment. It requires the use of highly toxic mineral salts, formaldehyde and other chemicals, while tannery runoff contains large amounts of pollutants, such as salt, lime sludge, sulphides and acids. Please see Fashion Designer Stella McCartney’s Video for PETA
here.

Now the boutique brand has teamed up with PETA for this exciting competition. It’s a great opportunity for an ambitious young designer to kick-start a career and see his or her creative idea go into production. So if you have a vision for a sustainable stiletto, a leather-free loafer or an ethical espadrille, please submit your entry!

To enter, please read the competition details here and then e-mail your designs to contest@peta.org.uk by 13 December 2013.

Learn about the benefits of raw foods and how to incorporate more raw and delicious foods into your daily life for better health, vitality and well-being.

Rafael Jarman is one of our raw chefs how sponsored his great raw blueberry cream cheese cake recipe for our

Cookbook vegan kitchen and friends

(will be published soon).

Rafeal is professionally dedicated to the topic of raw food living and all its various and far-reaching aspects. He loves to sharing this valuable knowledge and I help people on their individual journey to better health, vitality and joy.

Some of his raw food related experiences and professional accomplishments include:

• 2007 – Co-founded the first
  raw food potluck group
  in Switzerland together with Ilanta Sa
• 2008 – Started
  Rawvolution.ch
  , the Swiss platform for raw food news, events and resources
• 2008 – Trained at the renowned Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in the USA and certified as an Associate Raw Food Chef & Instructor
• 2010 to present – Organized events in Switzerland with leading international experts on raw food and natural health, incl.
  Victoria Boutenko
  (USA), Kate Magic (UK), Markus Rothkranz (USA)
• 2011 – Completed a 12-month training with Karen Knowler and certified as a Raw Food Coach
• 2011- Prepared every week the raw cake orders from the
  vegan kitchen
  and bakery, the first vegan restaurant in zurich, Switzerland

Now he offers the RAWlicious Number one Wokshop, called Easy& Delicious Raw Food for Everyday Life at the 1 December in the Location of the Vegelanteria in Zurich.

The Workshop will be given in english, this is also the reason why we made this blog-contribution in english…

Daniel and Katrin from the vegan running blog BEVEGT have compiled the best of 100 contributions into an e-book. You don’t have to prepare yourself for a reading marathon: the book “Plant Power” is 32 pages long. And with good reason: the authors have decided to package their findings in the form of 12 short and snappy tips. The practical benefit for readers is therefore high. However, you should not expect comprehensive explanations. There are links directly in the e-book that lead to blog posts with more biology lessons.

The first part of deals with individual nutrients. How did that work again with the proteins? The most important information about the muscle-building group can be found in the first chapter. How to get enough iron in your legs while running is also explained. The golden tip that you should definitely eat more fruit is also included. However, two important members of the nutrient family were not given their own chapter in the first part of the book: carbohydrates and fat.

The second part of the e-book is about eating before, during and after running. I would never have thought of taking small boiled potatoes with me on a long run. But where do I put the sunflower oil mayonnaise? Anyone who has never dealt with (vegan) nutrition and endurance sports before will certainly be surprised after reading this how little is needed for better performance and efficient regeneration. The importance of the recovery phase in particular is probably underestimated by many runners. Instead of taking a long shower first thing after sport, it would be smarter to fortify yourself with a regeneration smoothie.

The third part brings together some recipes for all those who are skeptical about industrially processed and expensive sports nutrition. Just do it yourself: from regeneration smoothies to protein gels and energy gels.

Conclusion: What costs nothing is worth nothing, is in this case an outright lie. You can register for the newsletter at bevegt.de and then download the e-book for free.