# Jill and Ally Zarin : Green Initiatives and Reality

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2009/11/jill-and-ally-zarin-green-initiatives-and-reality/
- Published: 2009-11-21T20:06:56-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## Met Jill and Ally Zarin about Teens For Green. Then I find out Jill is a Real Housewife from NY. I say, yeah my wife is too 😉

Met Jill and Ally Zarin about Teens For Green. Then I find out Jill is a Real Housewife
from NY. I say, yeah my wife is too 😉

I really really really did not know about this show called Real Housewives of NY.
I knew there was the Housewives of Orange County. However, I did not know!!

## Eco Luxe

Then I go to [Eco](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/12/eco-friendly-moving-guide-5-tips-you-need-to-do-it-green/)
Luxe a few months back hosted by the Go Green Expo.  Bradford Rand was getting Jill’s
picture taken and I said, “Who is she?”  He goes she is a real housewife from NYC.
I said, yeah my wife is a real housewife from Westchester County. What the heck 
are you talking about?!  Brad then adds that there is a tv show called Real Housewives
of NYC. Jill is a person on the show.  OH!! Great. What does that have to do with
green??  So then I spoke with her further. Then I spoke to her and Ally to really
get it.  Jill clearly admitted that because of Ally she has gone green.  Ally is
Co-President of Teens Turning Green. She also promotes the 10 Easiest [Ways To Go Green](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/10/led-bulb-problem-maximize-energy-savings-benefits/)
on Bravo.

## NOW WE ARE TALKING!!

Forget that the [Green Living Guy likes going](https://greenlivingguy.com/2025/11/polysorbate-80-in-your-food-the-truth-revealed/)
green.  To have teenagers going green themselves and making an effort of it rocks!!
Don’t forget that..Then she cares to go public about recognizing her makeup needs
work.  Check this out.

Ally is also [busy raising money for the environment](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/04/eco-flipping-how-you-can-make-a-house-flipping-business-sustainable/)
and even went to Albany to fight for greener food packaging. I support that too!!
So NOW WE ARE TALKING!!

## According to Jill Zarin’s site:

Jill Zarin of the Bravo network’s “The Real Housewives of [New York](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/05/green-mountain-energy-trees-a-greener-new-york/)
City,” along with her daughter Allyson Shapiro and two other New York high school
girls, is advocating for a bill (S.747-a/A.706-a). This bill would enact the [Food Service Waste](https://greenlivingguy.com/2016/04/op-ed-take-a-bite-out-of-food-waste-this-earth-day/)
Reduction Act.

“The bill is really great because one cup of [plastic foam] takes 500 years to biodegrade
and 25 million cups are thrown away a year by Americans. The more we can do [to 
prevent plastic foam waste] will make so much of an impact for us,” said Shapiro,
a junior at the Birch Wathen Lenox School.

Zarin and the girls met with Sens. Craig Johnson, D-Port Washington, and Thomas 
Duane, D-Manhattan. They were visiting as representatives from the teen advisory
[board for Teens Turning](https://greenlivingguy.com/2009/03/terracycle-turns-circuit-boards-and-records-into-cool-coasters-picture-frames-and-clocks/)
Green. This is a national [organization that investigates toxic](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/07/customers-urge-dollar-general-executives-to-act-on-toxic-chemicals-in-products-at-annual-shareholder-meeting/)
exposures in schools and communities. It advocates for change in policy practices.

Now that is what all people should be doing. Encouraging our kids to be greener 
and stepping up by meeting with legislators and being an example.

She even was on LX TV for the Green Holiday Gift Guide. Check this out.  Really 
really inexpensive, organic, fun green stuff!! Always always good.

![Jill and ally zarin posing for a photo at a promotional event one in a red dress
and the other in a dark patterned dress with a backdrop featuring the name'Rebecca
Taylor'.](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_0628.
jpeg?resize=282%2C400&quality=52&ssl=1 "IMG_0628 - The Green Living Guy")

Jill Zarin and Allyson Shapiro at a public event showcasing their commitment to 
environmental advocacy

## Like The Green But Not The Show. I’m a Guy and not into watching women go at it like that!

Now, if the TV show can be cool, green, and enjoyable, I would watch it. Until then,
I’m glad someone did something good. Don’t do it just for gain. Do it because it’s
the right thing. Green is good, not loud and chaotic. I would try to watch those
housewife shows with my wife Jessica. The in-fighting is funny yet sad. It’s not
something I can watch regularly. There’s too much negativity for me. Sorry, that’s
just how I’m wired.

Anyway, more to come hopefully from Ally and those housewives on going green.  I
mean I see this stuff on Bravo is just a once a year thing.  You need more content
on green.  A week of it is just duh and not cool.  No real involvement just duh.
Therefore, those positive green things to do should be more regularly involved with
those ticker news signs below.

## You know, help people out more regularly Mr and Mrs media and they will help you.

Hopefully there will be more to do with Ally since she is working on going to colleges
really bewilders me.  If this is part of her green mission, don’t just do the tv
spots for the best 10 things.  No, be involved in your [organization Ally Teens Turning Green](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/09/green-living-guy-ustream-video-interview-with-shane-snipes-on-the-sustainable1000/).
Make a statement and be [focused on the green](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/02/toyotas-green-initiatives-in-the-automotive-industry/)
mission with words and passion.  It would make me realize this is the real deal 
for the future. This would not just be a quick thing.

We’ll stay tuned.

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