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- Though it may hurt her credibility, Olivia Zaleski has never hugged a tree. In fact, she can’t remember the last time she even climbed a tree. Living in New York City, Olivia finds trees hard to come by and prefers the relative ease and splinter-free safety of playground jungle gyms and municipally maintained monkey bars.
Urban backdrop aside, Olivia cares deeply for our planet’s plight. As Eco-Chick’s Managing Editor, she aims to expose and promote “greener options.” Her ultimate goal: to inspire responsible choices.
In addition to Eco-Chick, Olivia writes for green-living authority Treehugger.com and Hearst Magazines’ TheDailyGreen.com Her weekly syndicated column Enviro-Mental: Going Green without Going Crazy is one of the most popular blogs on the Huffington Post, repeatedly breaking over 80,000 unique page views.
Posts by Olivia:
The Art of Dumpster Diving
For many, the thought of going near a smelly dumpster, let alone touching, wearing or using the contents from inside of a dumpster is dirty, if not completely revolting. I say it’s wonderful!
Ok, ok, rewind. Though I have never riffled through the trash myself, I must admit to having tremendous respect for those who [...]
On the Menu: Super Cute Tees
Need a way to remember to eat your veggies? I know I do . . .
Check these out! FoodTee Market’s (by DietDetective.com) line of adorable 100 percent organic cotton t-shirts. They just might make it easier to remember our daily 5-8.
These tees are cute and did I mention they’re available in organic cotton too?
But [...]
Stink Free For Me
In an age where body sprays promise to turn teenage boys into babe magnets and Celine Dion is the number one perfumer in the world it’s sometimes tough to breathe. For those of us with a sensitive snout (or lungs) it’s painful, sometimes even debilitating to deal with all these (mostly artificial) scents. If you’d [...]
What NOT to do on Earth Day
Earth Day is tomorrow. I could give you a song and dance about what you should do (install CFLS, bring own bag to grocery store, move to a wind-powered Ashram), but I’ll spare the harangue. Instead, here’s a list of what not to do on Earth Day. Sure, you won’t be saving the planet, but [...]
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Isn’t it wonderful how many of life’s random necessities now come in green versions? The list of recycled products seems to get bigger by the day.
Take for example, Radley’s Recycled Umbrella.
Yes, this pretty polka-dot umbrella is more than just arm candy. It’s eco-innovation at it’s best. Made from recycled plastic bottles, the fabric [...]
SIGG for the Fashionably Parched
Need another reason to ditch the disposable plastic water bottle? How about fourteen reasons?
SIGG (you know the hardwearing yet elegant water bottle Co.), Elle Magazine and Laurie David’s Stop Global Warming have joined forces to up the anti-plastic rationale. The iconic dream team has commissioned fourteen leading names in fashion (yes, were talking Zac [...]
Watch: Water Bottles
Few things boil my blood like the disposable plastic water bottle. This thing stinks–literally! Go on, smell that oil-derived polyethylene.
There are many reasons to despise the disposable plastic water bottle. For one, it is straight up terrible for the environment, it’s over-priced and the water’s not even better than tap water–in many cases it simply [...]
Top 10 Most Useless Items of Crapola
Once upon a time, things were made to serve a purpose. Consider the light bulb, the compass, and the cardiac pacemaker. No doubt necessity was once the mother of invention.
Fast forward to the present. What’s happened? It seems that everywhere I go, I’m bombarded with completely useless and unnecessary stuff. Yesterday, someone tried to sell [...]
Green Your Easter
Giant. Chocolate. Bunny.
In case you haven’t noticed, the retail world has gone full force “Easter-Spectacular.” With Christmas over, it’s “out with the mince pies, in with the marshmallow hatchlings.” Every supermarket, drug store and big-box retailer is a psychedelic zoo of neon stuffed animals, disposable baskets and giant Styrofoam eggs.
So much of Easter has become [...]
Plastic Bag Plague: Five Easy Ways To Remember Your Reusable
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom started the fire. In March of 2007, Newsom passed the nation’s first plastic bag ban outlawing San Fran’s supermarkets and large retailers from offering customers non-biodegradable plastic bags.
Though Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Norway and Australia have long imposed restrictions on bag use, several countries and cities have recently jumped on [...]
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