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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:
The Best Nonmilk Cappuccino EVER!
A thing of beauty, no?
I’m so excited (or maybe it’s a caffeine buzz)! But I just made the best cappuccino I’ve ever had in my life (see above- I was so happy I took a damn picture of it).
I recently bought a Bialetti Mukka glass cappuccino maker from Williams Sonoma after looking for a [...]
Pointless Packaging Winner: Neutrogena Wave Power Cleanser
You know, there was a time, when I was a teenager, that I used to love Neutrogena products. I had the idea that they were cleaner, purer and better for my skin and hair than other drugstore brands. I definitely fell for their shampoo that was supposed to clean all the other shampoos from your [...]
Ethical (?) Squirrel Meat, Lame Journalists (But Awesome Bloggers) and “Fockters”
In this week’s Zaproot:
-Meat is meat, so why is squirrel meat ‘gross’ while other meat is ‘yummy’?
-Shocking Conservative group LIED about global warming deniers (and DeSmogBlog blogger Kevin Grandia is the only one who bothered to call them out on it!)
-Sarah Silverman Rules, In General
To get the full stories, check out the video:
Top 6 Hottest Ecofabulous Swimsuits
I know, I know, when it comes to discussion of ecofriendly swimsuits, going au naturale, AKA skinny dipping has the lowest environmental impact (except if you scare the fish with your exposed ladybits, ha ha) since there’s no bathing costume to manufacture, ship and package.
But since most public beaches, at least here in the [...]
Coal IS Dirty!
If you’ve seen one of the ‘clean coal’ ads on TV lately, you’ve been subject to the massive greenwashing that American’s coal companies are engaged in before the fall elections. If you want more information about exactly why ‘clean coal’ is an oxymoron, check out coal-is-dirty.com
For a bit of satire, check out this funny video [...]
Adventures in Green Beantown
Took off on Amtrak to Boston this weekend and had a blast visiting my old college friend and ex-roomie. I stayed at his place in Cambridge, home of MIT and a lot of large brains in general. I got to meet some of them during my visit (including an hilarious midwife and a climate [...]
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 [...]
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