Wild Elements

Are you buying new furniture or rearranging your bedroom? Talk to Jennifer Walsh first. She’s an expert in naturally-centered design and the host of Biophilic Solutions, a podcast series where she talks to everyone from designer Mara Hoffman to our friends at the Rodale Institute about organic blankets, natural light, and how to do better for our planet and our Pinterest goals.

When Tom Ford calls, you answer—especially if he’s bringing environmental fashion with him. That’s what happened to Danni Washington when the TV host (think Bill Nye with better lipstick…) was asked to be a judge on Mr. Ford’s Plastic Innovation Prize, an initiative led with Lonely Whale that mobilizes the worlds of style and Hollywood to help stop single-use plastic for good. “I love the ocean so much, but I also have a degree in marine biology,” says Danni.

IMAGE: HBO Max Like anyone with an HBO subscription and a deep desire to freak out on the couch, we’ve been glued to The Last of Us. Based on a popular video game, the apocalyptic thriller is about a fungi called cordyceps that “invades” human brains and essentially makes them zombies. The show is electrifying, gross, funny, and sometimes quite beautiful—especially when it reveals the massive killer fungal growths that stamp many buildings like organic graffiti.

Photo: Legally Blonde Turns out retail therapy is real—at least according to the , which says shopping can spike the brain chemistry for happiness and adrenaline. But that euphoric feeling is super short lived—especially if you bought something because it was “a good deal,” and not because you love it. That’s why this Black Friday, we’ve made a list of things proven to give a similar “high” to shopping, without using up your time, money, closet space, and landfill guilt.

Like the first 10 minutes of Moulin Rouge, there's a lot going on with this week's full moon and lunar eclipse. Let's break it down. WHEN IS THE NOVEMBER FULL MOON? The full moon in Taurus begins on November 8. This full moon is called the Beaver Moon because Indigenous tribes linked the lunar event with the emergence of beaver lodges along local rivers. WHEN IS THE AUTUMN LUNAR ECLIPSE? Oh, it's happening at the exact same time.

“Eco-Dumping” sounds like a landfill problem, but it’s actually a dating trend. (Though if your ex is garbage, you know it’s basically the same thing.) According to relationship experts from The Match Group, “eco-dumping” is breaking off a relationship, or even an online match, because of someone’s poor treatment of the planet. And eco-dumping is becoming a growing cultural phenomenon, as pinpointed by the dating professionals at Plenty of Fish.

You will see many things in the upcoming Spiderwick Chronicles on Disney+, including faeries, family secrets, and Christian Slater. But one thing director and producer Kat Coiro is hoping you don’t see is single-use plastic. That’s because besides helming movies like Marry Me and shows like Girls 5Eva, Kat is a proponent of Lights Camera Plastic, a Hollywood initiative to make sustainable living an onscreen essential.

How to support the climate bill The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, dubbed the Climate Change Bill, includes some of the most significant environmental legislation brought before Congress. It includes billions of dollars for renewable energy grants, regenerative agriculture jump-starts, and even climate justice programs to ensure all American communities have access to nature, clean air, and clean water.

Vanessa Hudgens has been on our Wild Elements vision board from the beginning. As an actress, she’s conquered hearts and soundtracks in Rent, Grease, Tick, Tick…Boom, and of course High School Musical, along with the upcoming Timothée Chalamet show Entergalactic and the new Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas. As a style force, she’s worn Moschino to the Met Gala, Schiaparelli to the Tony Awards, and she’s been crowned the “Queen of Coachella” thanks to her many bohemian rhapsodies.