You Might Be an Eco Chick If…..

……you wonder, while working out at the gym, how much energy could be generated by the machines everyone is running/ellipticalling on. And then you try to do some calculations while running, and almost fall off the machine. (And when you get home you remember that someone’s already started a green gym based on that very idea!!)

…..you feel like SUCH an awful person for actually pulling into the drive-thru lane at Starbucks. (Note: I picketed Starbucks when I lived in Berkeley, so just going there AT ALL makes me guilty) Your engine runs, and you can’t back out, you can’t give them your reusable container to fill, and there’s no cinnamon and nutmeg either. FAIL!

…..you can’t figure out what to put your garbage in since you carry your reusable totes and almost never pick up a plastic bag anymore (which you used to use as a garbage can liner).

…..you prefer the scent of a real male human being to that of Dial, Irish Spring, or any other overpowering commercial scent. (And I’m not the only one, though if you’re on the Pill, your natural senses are altered.)

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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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5 Comments on “You Might Be an Eco Chick If…..”

Wendy

I love this post! You are not alone on the male scent thing. Whenever asked on one of those email “getting to know you” thingies what my favorite smell is, the answer is always “my husband’s skin.” Anything else gives me a headache!

12/08/08 » 1:42 pm »
Stephanie

Agreed, especially about the male scent thing. My husband’s natural smell is the best smell on earth to me! Luckily he only uses unscented castile soap and nothing else!

I do forget my reusable bags every now and then, and I use those plastic bags I end up with for the bathroom trash can. Though I always feel bad throwing a plastic bag away, even if it’s filled with used cat litter or something.

12/08/08 » 3:17 pm »
RemyC

Starre,
We have a gym right up the road which has all its spin bikes rigged to dynamos!
The Green Revolution, Inc.
54 Danbury Road Suite 417
Ridgefield CT 06877
http://www.egreenrevolution.com

12/08/08 » 4:18 pm »
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06/01/09 » 10:39 pm »
Julie Bigras

I once felt so guilty about number one while on the treadmill, I almost fell out of it out of distraction…all this energy wasted…at least it makes us healthier, but no more treadmill for me in summer!

06/08/09 » 6:56 pm »