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With options including Provencal Saffron Cashew Cheese Ball, Deep Green Salad and Red Thai Curry, CRU offers sophisticated organic, vegan, raw food in Los Angeles. Drinks like ginger limeade and a chocolate maca smoothie and desserts like gelato and a banana split round out the menu that's "thoughtfully prepared, artfully presented and deeply satisfying." CRU is at 1521 Griffith Park Blvd, open Wednesday through Monday, 12 pm to 10 pm. [CRU] via [green LA girl]

Local San Diego Stone Brewery announced that it will use a B20 biodiesel blend to fuel its fleet of SoCal delivery trucks with plans to switch to 100% biodiesel later this year. With a brand new 50,000 sq ft brewery and bistro in San Marcos, Stone will produce its own biodiesel from greasy treats such as the Arrogant Bastard Ale Onion Rings made famous in past brewfests. [Read about it here]

Offering the very best organic teas and select botanicals while ensuring the employees and the teas are treated with great respect, Art of Tea is committed to creating a great tea-drinking experience by combining aesthetics with passion, flavor, and high quality control. It's tasty enough that it's the tea of choice at many of LA's fine restaurants. Join the Tea of the Month Club, dive in to Blooming Teas...the possibilities are endless. [Art of Tea] via [green LA girl]

With approximately 90 farmers, 30 local artisans, and 30 baked goods and prepared food vendors who sell their own products every Sunday, the Hollywood Farmer's Market offers stand after stand of organic farmers proudly showcasing a cornucopia of the earth's bounty; a reminder that good food makes for a better life. It is a direct-to-consumer marketplace with all produce and products from local, California vendors and growers. Check the website to see what's in season; hope to see you there! [Hollywood Farmer's Market]

Featuring a menu including free range chicken and line-caught ahi tuna, Tender Greens believes there should be a conscious connection between eating food and the source of the sustenance. They're able to get their fresh produce to the table within hours of harvesting, use organic whenever they can, and source everything from a handful of local farms who believe that organic and local aren't just better for the planet; they taste better, too. [Tender Greens]

A part of the Venice community since 1978, Figtree's Cafe specializes in sustainable foods like local organic fresh fruit & veggies, free-range organic eggs and wild & line-caught fish. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & dessert are all served in the unique and beautiful backdrop of Venice Beach; Figtree's also offers to-go service and cafe products, like organic granola and "Figwear" like t-shirts & sweatshirts. [Figtree's Cafe]

The idea behind Le Pain Quotidien is simply to make good daily bread. Naturally, that means it's organic, supporting sustainable farming and bringing customers the best possible bread. Organic coffee, tea and milk help round out the menu; your visit might also include the "communal table," where customers can gather to share the organic food and create an organic experience. [Le Pain Quotidien]

Giving cocktail hour a healthy, modern makeover, modmix stirs things up with their organic cocktail mixers. With luscious flavors like lavender lemon drop, citrus margerita and pomegranate cosmopolitan, they encourage you to enjoy life slowly and completely, sip by sip. Used at events by conscious celebs like Heather Graham and Gwen Stefani, modmix has also been put to the task at the MTV Movie Awards, The Apprentice and designer Ben Sherman. [modmix]

With branches in Orange County, Los Angeles and Washington State, Organic To Go is a great alternative to fast food and lunch box deliveries. Specializing in corporate delivery and small catering events, they create a new standard for "fast" food by using all organic and sustainably-grown ingredients in their sandwiches, salads, snacks and desserts, available for both delivery and pick-up for your next organic event. [Organic To Go]

Nearly single-handedly responsible for transforming the organic food market and bringing it to the mainstream, Whole Foods Market the is world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with 184 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. They strive to offer the highest quality, least processed, most flavorful and naturally preserved foods, and are also leaders in alternative energy boosters, as a 100% wind-powered business for 2006. [Whole Foods Market]

A traveling restaurant-style evening showcasing the fabulous connection between farm and table, Outstanding in the Field roams the country putting on dinners that feature the best of local foods. Generally on a farm, ranch, sea cave, winery or other locale, the dinners are combine fabulous food, passionate people and local producers who pair dinner with wine and information to provide the best that the local food experience has to offer. Check the site to see when they'll come to your town. [Outstanding in the Field]