Leigh-Chantelle started the not-for-profit environmental awareness Green Earth Group in 2009 and organised the successful Green Earth Festival in March 2010.  She is the creator and operator of Viva la Vegan! and vivalavegan.net and has also been involved in the music industry in many ways for since the late 90's.  She looks forward to bringing Green Earth Day to more of the Brisbane public in 2011!

Seeing the potential for educating and inspiring others to the environmental and cruelty-free lifestyle in Brisbane as in other Australian states, Leigh-Chantelle started the Green Earth Group Inc with a group of like-minded friends. Green Earth Group is a not-for-profit charity group who aim to promote a better way of living – for us, for the animals and for our planet, and who aim to raise the awareness of the environmental problems we are currently facing by providing simple but effective ways in which every individual can make a positive change. One of the ways the Green Earth Group is aiming to educate the mainstream to all things green, sustainable and cruelty-free is via Green Earth Day (previously Green Earth Festival) in March 2011. Green Earth Day is a free, family orientated, grassroots, community event that aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye.

Green Earth Day encourages people to make simple changes in their everyday lives to help our environment and the world we leave for generations to come. Green Earth Day aims to empower the community and the people within it to become more aware, more informed and thus more able to take action to implement the basic changes we need to help our planet.

Leigh-Chantelle is the creator and operator of Viva la Vegan! and vivalavegan.net the online and interactive community for vegans and vegetarians. Leigh-Chantelle has released three Viva la Vegan! recipe calendars, combining her passion for vegan and vegetarian health along with her natural therapies and healing skills. Since 2005 Leigh-Chantelle has focused on the marketing and promotion involved in getting the Viva la Vegan! name and company to the vegan and vegetarian community within Australia and overseas. Her interactive website features her own recipes and information for vegans and vegetarians as well as allergy and intolerance sufferers. The vivalavegan.net website includes easy to prepare recipes as well as new interactive features including forum, articles, videos, interviews and a social connectivity to connect to other like-minded individuals. Leigh-Chantelle has most recently written and released her plant-based Viva la Vegan! Detox Diet as an online e-book as well as re-releasing her recipe calendars as recycled recipe cards. Over the past 5 years Leigh-Chantelle has been involved as a sponsor, performer, speaker and stall holder for various vegan/vegetarian and cruelty free fundraisers, organisations and festivals throughout Australia and internationally, and has an extensive membership, readership and mailing list for Viva la Vegan! Leigh-Chantelle has recently been recognised by Supreme Master Ching Hai for all her work for the animals, the planet and for her promotion of the vegan diet.

Leigh-Chantelle has also been involved in the music industry in many ways for over ten years, from festival organising, performing, promotion as well as photography, modelling and film clip production. In 2000 Leigh-Chantelle started her own independent record company, Fanatic Records and website leigh-chantelle.com to launch her debut EP Inspiration Relocation. Since this time she has promoted, marketed and advertised her website and its products, which now include a recycled clothing range, CDs, merchandise and other creative and interactive products. Leigh-Chantelle continues to write and record songs, as well as co-writing with various musicians in Brisbane.

Leigh-Chantelle is banding together with her many comrades from many areas including musicians, performers, artists, vegans and vegetarians, media and promotional people, festival organisers, grassroots activists, volunteers, and many other community groups to bring about the positive change needed to ensure that our planet is thriving in the greenest way possible.

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