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Starre was born in Sydney, Australia, and spent long sojourns, summers and holidays Down Under. Contrasting with the sandstone cliffs, ocean culture and dry climate of the Sydney environs, Starre spent the balance of her younger years attending school in the tiny town of Garrison, New York. Situated in the Hudson Highlands, the lush woods, deep green lakes, and precipitous mountains of Garrison (not to mention the majestic Hudson River) still inspire her.
The environments of her youth and world travels led her to achieve a B.S. in geology, a B.A. in English and a minor in Biology at Syracuse University. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing at Columbia University. Starre has pursued these courses of study to both understand and better communicate the importance of the connections between the natural world and human life. Starre thinks that the health of the environment is the most pressing issue of our time.
Now residing in coastal Connecticut, Starre is a freelance writer who specializes in environmental health, green fashion, health and eco-beauty, wildlife issues, and food. She is the founder and editor of Eco Chick, a blog for hip, environmentally oriented women. Eco Chick has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Grist, Treehugger, and a host of green blogs.
Starre is a contributing writer for E/The Environmental Magazine, the nation’s oldest independent environmental publication, and a dining columnist for The Fairfield County Weekly, where she also regularly writes about commuting, transportation, and alternative energy. Starre has also been published online at Hearst Magazine’s green consumer site, The Daily Green, where she writes a column called Starre Power: Fashion and Beauty and she also writes for the Huffington Post, Alternet.org, Worldchanging New York, and jewschool.com. In print, her work can be seen in Audubon Magazine, Elle South Africa, The Berkeley Daily Planet, The Honolulu Weekly, Friends of Animals’ member magazine, ActionLine, and others.
She is excited to have been an associate producer for the Discovery Channel’s upcoming mini-series, Final Hour, a parable about humanity’s impact on Earth’s ecosystems.
A world traveler, vegetarian, artist, and animal lover, Starre loves snowboarding, reading, arguing and being crafty. She shares her home with three rescued cats and a crazy cocker spaniel.
Posts by Starre:
Sharing, A Truly Radical (and Green) Idea
One of the first lessons we teach kids is to share, so you’d think our grown-up society would be all about give and take. In our super-consumer culture though, we’re all convinced by companies that we each need our own versions of everything. But do we? Maybe sharing is one of the keys to saving [...]
Rogan for Target at Barney’s: Inside the Dressing Room
This shirt was the hit of the event.
You can’t say I don’t do anything for you, my faithful Eco Chick readers- for goodness’ sake, I took you inside the dressing room at Barney’s with me at the Rogan for Target debut, which was held at Barney’s on Madison Avenue in NYC last Thursday night. I [...]
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How The Media Abandoned the Environment, at new techie-with-a-heart-of-green EcoTechDaily.
Check Chris Baskind’s op/ed on the lack of environmental coverage in mainstream media:
No, you’re not imagining things.
With U.S. gasoline prices edging toward $4.00 a gallon; oil prices at an all-time high, demand for materials such as copper outstripping demand; worldwide food shortages; major cities running [...]
Ecofashion Label Toggery: A Look Inside
I’ve been a fan of Kate D’Arcy’s line, Toggery, for some time. Her comfy, simple, and stylish pieces are all a little more than basic, with great detail. Best of all, they come in COLOR! and lots of it. Kate’s an ecofashion designer who works in way more than neutral. The better to accessorize with!
Kate [...]
For the Birds
When I was a little girl I would watch the songbirds that alighted on the birdfeeder deep in the woods of my Hudson Valley, NY home. I learned their names, counted them for the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, and even learned to identify individuals (birds look less alike than you’d think).
These pretty hand-painted songbird [...]
Project Earth Day Fashion Show!
Had a blast at the Project Earth Day Fashion Show tonight and it’s late, but in a word, it was VIVACIOUS! Lots of fun looks and more than a few I can see myself wearing. So here are all the student’s competition looks. I’ll update over the weekend with who’s designed what and also upload [...]
Katrina’s Damage Due to Destruction of Wetlands?
Sometimes you’re doing some online research and you come across something that makes you shake your head in wonder. Today, I found this in a search for something else- a headline from the June 12, 1910 issue of the New York Times.
NEW ORLEANS’S PLANS FOR GREAT SUBURBS; Over a Million Acres of Marsh-l… - [...]
Got Allergies? Blame Global Warming
The latest Vogue (May, with the ever-princessey- in a good way- Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover) has a great piece entitled, “Spring Awakening” wherein writer Ginny Graves does some great round-up reporting regarding the causes of allergies and what the heck to do about them. It’s not online yet, but I excerpted below.
While I’ve [...]
Give it Away Now
So you’ve paid your dastardly taxes and you realize that you could’ve been a wee bit more generous this year with your cash, but you don’t know which group is the most deserving. Good thing the folks at EarthShare have picked and chosen the best national (and local!) environmental orgs to work with.
Through their workplace [...]
Dubai Greenwashing and (Ew!!) Inedible Corn
Way more amusing than environmental news has a right to be, as usual!
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