At the launch party for Silver Jeans' men's line at M. Fredric, benefiting the American Cancer Society, KayCee Stroh admitted she struggles with remembering to bring her reusable bags to the market. "I forgot mine the other day and came home with plastic bags and thought, 'this is really bad.'" A fan of Silver Jeans, she also attended to support the charity, explaining that she lost a friend, a young newlywed, to cancer last week.

 

Currently starring and producing a Web series called "Shaketown USA," a comedy set in a gym, she has a couple of movies in development including "M.U.D.," which stands for My Ugly Duckling. "It's about an ugly duckling who magically becomes beautiful but finds out how ugly being beautiful can be."

 

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"I am the girl with all the recycling bins. I turn things off, use as little water as possible. We have green landscaping, and I try to use the water-saving sprinkler heads," said Beverley Mitchell, the one-time "7th Heaven" kid who now plays the school guidance counselor on "Secret Life of the American Teenager." She also completed a "creepy but awesome" horror movie called "Pennhurst," set and shot in an infamous haunted insane asylum. "I didn't believe in ghosts but I do now," she said. "I got run out of a few places."

 

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Actor-singer Drew Seeley recycles at home and brings his own bags to the store. "It's a little thing but I think it helps. I don't drive too much. I walk and hike a lot and bike ride whenever I can," said Seeley, whose CD "The Resolution" debuted April 5. "It's definitely more grown up than the Disney things I've done," noted the "High School Musical" and "Another Cinderella Story" vet. The musical style is "Maroon 5 meets Michael Jackson," said Seeley, who co-wrote all the tracks.

 

Seeley's TBS college comedy series "Glory Daze" won't return but it was fun while it lasted. "I wasn't in a fraternity at college so I got to live vicariously through the show and get paid for it so it was a dream job." His Hallmark movie "Freshman Father," about a teen mom who takes off, leaving her baby with his Harvard student father, will be rebroadcast on Hallmark Movie Channel April 8. He had fun working with the twins who played the baby. "They dictated when we shot and how long we shot for. When one was crying the other one would usually be calm and vice versa so it worked out," he explained. "It was a great experience."

 

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Eco-friendliness met fun at the GBK Gift Lounge honoring the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards nominees and presenters, with green product samples alongside toys, games and playthings for children and adults. Gabrielle Alexandra's new shoe line, handmade in Lima, Peru, from recycled tires and leather lining, features lots of cute women's styles. "Greek" star Spencer Grammer "loved them and e-mailed us within an hour asking for more," reports Alexandra, who donates 10 percent of her proceeds to the Mother Theresa Hospice in Peru.

 

Pura Vida bracelets, crafted by local artisans in Costa Rica, cost $5 to $10, a portion of which goes to the Surfrider Foundation. Nahui Ollin weaves bags and accessories from recycled candy wrappers, ranging from $10 for a keychain to hundreds for a large tote.

 

Improv Electronics' My Boogie Board is a liquid crystal writing tablet with a battery good for 50,000 erases, the equivalent of saving 50,000 sheets of paper. It's available at Amazon, Brookstone and Myboogieboard.com for $39.95, and bigger versions are on the way in June and in the fall, the latter equipped with downloadable memory. Rico Rodriguez ("Modern Family") tested his out with a game of tic tac toe.

 

We loved YoHa Technologies' Tandars, an interactive pet based on the big-eyed, tiny endangered primate the tarzier, found in the Philippines. Rechargeable via a computer USB port rather than batteries, the creature speaks its own language. It will be available online this spring at www.tandars.com, and a portion of the proceeds will go to a foundation helping to save the endangered tarzier.

 

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Tune in: Chef Jamie Oliver brings his healthier eating crusade to Los Angeles for a second season of "Food Revolution," premiering April 12 on ABC. Before he can battle obesity, he has to fight the local school board, which doesn't want him there.

 

On the April 11 episode of "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS, Marshall (Jason Segel) quits his job to volunteer for a environmental organization, to the dismay of his wife and friends.

 

The third season of Animal Planet's "River Monsters" launches April 10 with an episode about a fish that has a taste for a certain part of the male anatomy. The fact that it's called "The Ball Cutter" is explanation enough.

 

PBS premieres "Planet Forward: Energy Innovation," a special focusing on real-world solutions to the energy and climate change crises, on April 10.

 

 

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