…..you feel your blood pressure rise every time someone throws a cigarette butt in the street or out a car window.
….you sincerely wonder if there isn’t something that could be done with lint, vacuum bag fillings and all the old hair from your brush.
….you take home your recyclable items from work because they don’t have a bin for them (and sometimes you surreptitiously grab glass or aluminum from the breakroom trash if it’s on top and take that home too).
Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.
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Woohoo, I’m 3 for 3!
04/29/06 » 7:07 pm »
I must admit, with my allergies, I have never considered keeping the lint from my vacuum. That being said, I concur with the rest! Hey, if you are one of the people dragging recyclables home, why not try to convert the workplace to recycling!
04/30/06 » 7:35 am »
Sounds awfully familiar – might I add: turning off coworker’s lights at the end of the day, paying slightly more to buy locally grown veggies, giving out energy efficiency suggestion lists to your friends, and walking/biking (even when you’re soooo tired) instead of driving?
05/02/06 » 5:57 am »
This is a great post. There are actual points made about being ecologically minded.
05/05/06 » 9:31 am »
I guess I’m an eco-dude, because i definitely get pissed off by all the cigarette butts everywhere. Since when did tossing a butt become NOT littering? And i do take home cans sometimes from my office because i’m not convinced the building recyles it, even though NYC law requires them to.
05/13/06 » 6:52 pm »
Hey, we need a brother site….Eco Dude!
05/15/06 » 8:17 pm »
actually, there is a use for the hair in your brush. if you take a ball of it outside and put it in a tree (or even in a field, etc.) birds will swoop down, pick it up, and line nests with it. we had a great golden lab for 16 years and i used to comb his hair and let it blow away. he’s been gone 3 years now and i still find a next lined with his fur once in a while!
05/21/08 » 4:04 pm »
you can put the lint of your dryer and your hair in compost! at least, that’s what they say in my city’s guide to compost, and that’s what I do…even put my nail clippings in it!
06/08/09 » 7:00 pm »