About: Jenn
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- Jennifer Cross
European Correspondent and Marketing Specialist
Jenn lives in Barcelona, Spain and specializes in travel writing.
She has a widely-read personal blog (www.detouring-daily.net) about her
experiences as an American living in Spain. She also publishes Detouring.net
(www.detouring.net), a travel writing website with original content by up-and-coming authors.
Though she is an avowed city girl, Jenn loves to get out and enjoy
natural spaces, especially the beach. Living and traveling in both > environmentally progressive Western Europe and developing Eastern Europe has given Jenn a unique perspective on how different cultures treat waste, consumerism and their natural spaces.
In addition to Jenn's web publishing, her writing has appeared in
Barcelona Metropolitan Magazine(www.barcelona-metropolitan.com), Barcelona Connect (www.barcelonaconnect.com), and The Broadsheet (www.tbs.com.es).
In a previous life, Jenn was an advertising sales executive in Manhattan for American Lawyer Media and Jungle Media Group. She lives with her fiancee, Marcus, Co-Founder of Jardi + Utensil, a Barcelona-based graphic design firm.
Posts by Jenn:
Ekovaruhuset - Translates to “Totally Justifiable”
If Eco Chick were a store, it would be Ekovaruhuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tucked into the old part of Stockholm, between junk-riddled flea markets and souvenir shops toting more viking paraphernalia than you can shake a sword at, Ekovaruhusset showcases the most fashionably feminine eco-clothes we have ever come across in one place.
When we found Ekovaruhuset, [...]
Move Over McMansion
Here’s a home that is built with no non-recyclable residue or plastics, utilizes solar energy (not only to heat the water but to produce energy as well) and looks incredibly fabulous. Sound like a fantasy of the eco-chick’s distant future? Not so - it exists today thanks to Germany’s WeberHaus.
According to Ann M. Requa, the [...]
Rural Tourism in Catalonia– Not Quite There Yet
Being such a slave to metropolises, I rarely consider entertaining the idea of any type of rural tourism. In fact, I know little about anything rural. According to Planeta.com, an online global journal of practical ecotourism, rural tourism can be defined as a type of travel that “allows travelers to visit areas outside of urban [...]
Greenpeace TV
According to a survey by Salary.com, the average worker admits to wasting 2.09 hours per eight-hour workday (not including lunch and scheduled break times). Participants in the survey sited “personal Internet” use as the biggest distracter from their workday.
It is well known that the Internet does have the ability to beckon us away from end-of-the-month [...]
EU Eco-Label
During my investigations into the greener side of Europe, I have come across an interesting logo. Part flower, part euro and part flag, it symbolizes the EU Eco-label.
It is called the “flower logo,” and it was established in 1992. The Web site Eco-label.com describes the eco-label as a unique certification scheme aimed to help European [...]
OBEN is OPEN (in Barcelona)
The 100% recyclable placemat at my table read: “El primer restaurant amb tots els plats 100% ecologics de Barcelona.” For those that don’t speak Catalan, that means: “First 100% organic restaurant in town”
Continuing with my series exposing every organic resource available to eco-chicks passing through Barcelona, today I lunched at OBEN (Organic, Biologic, Environmental, Natural). [...]
The UK: Shedding Light on the Destruction of the Earth
Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair is on the ball. He is a man with his finger on the pulse. In a forward-for–the-U.K., government-commissioned report released Monday, he made the following statement:
“It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth from a world population that has increased six-fold in [...]
Mapu in Barcelona
Mapu, with its wide-ranging array of organic and biologic products, and focus on mother´s and women, is a must-stop spot for the environmentally minded eco-chick tourist while in Barcelona.
Mapu is tucked away in the maze-like Bari Gotic — the old quarter of Barcelona. If you weren’t looking for it, you most likely wouldn’t find it. [...]
Organic in BCN
Spain is the world’s #2 tourist destination following France. In 2003, 51.8 million vacationers descended upon Sunny Spain to bask in the Mediterranean rays and bathe their brains in the best sangria the world has to offer. Not to mention the food — Paella, Jamon Iberico (Iberian Ham), tantalizing tapas, and more olives than you [...]
Pious Pollutants
The Vatican
—-Rome
Everyone knew the Vatican wasn’t good for women’s liberation, but who knew the Vatican was no good for the environment as well? This week a Roman court convicted two Vatican Radio officials of “polluting the environment”with electromagnetic waves from a transmission tower.
The Week reported that “Cardinal Roberto Tucci, Vatican liaison for the station, [...]
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