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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:
Ecofashion Summer Sales
FashionEthic is a new online ecofashion boutique and they’re having a summer sale at 20%-70% off with some consciously curated cuteness. They’re adding some great lines in the near future so be sure to check back for their fall collections.
The Lizzie Parker Trenchy Coat overcame me with it’s bamboo/organic cotton lovliness- I’ll admit I [...]
Eco Chick Book Coming (Very) Soon!
Get ready chickies! My book, based on this very blog, will be available in just a few short weeks!!
The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green contains all new content that you won’t find here on the blog, and (hint, hint) makes a great present for yourself or for those stylish slackers [...]
Pickens Plan LIES, plus Recycling Your Gadgets for Cashola
The folks over at Zaproot continually impress me with their weekly show. This round is one of the best ever, showcasing a devious greenwashing plan in Texas and how you can buy an iPhone (guilty!) and recycle it too.
Green MUA? Futurenatural’s Emma Pezzack
Futurenatural’s Emma Pezzack
Though it may feel like makeup is a necessity when you wake up exhausted, hung over or both, in reality our little pots and tubes of color are extravagances. And like four-dollar coffees, frosted-to-death cupcakes and doggie sweaters, these little indulgences are what makes life fun.
But at what cost do our good [...]
Natural, Cheap Mango Facemask: Fruitilicious!
Starre with mango on my face (and in yummy chunks in the bowl)!
The big cosmetics companies have been slapping the “AHA” label on skin cleansers, creams and masks for a few years now, but translate that sciencey-sounding name (AHA stands for alpha-hydroxy acids) and you get simple fruit acids, which you can find in high [...]
Nau Fall/Winter 2008 Collection: Gorgeousness!!!
Flourish Dress: I MUST have it. And I will, now that Nau is still around. Phew! Can you imagine a tunic this fab tossed into the design dustbin?
Herewith, the reason I was so damn excited that Nau’s NOT Dead. Their sh*t is too sweet. Images above and below are from their upcoming Fall/Winter 2008 [...]
Sharkah Chakra WhiteHot Jeans: Win Them!
These are the gorgeous new bleach-free white jeans, which are whitened using the sun’s rays and nothing more.
I’ve written here about Sharkah Chakra jeans- the super-sustainable jeans that are not only organic cotton and Fairtrade certified, but hand-dyed with natural indigo and hand finished in Italy– even the pocket rivets are made from ethically sourced [...]
Smart Garden and Lawn Watering
What are your recommendations for keeping a garden quenched without wasting water?
—Rachel Carter, Ludlow, VT
You can forget juicy tomatoes this summer if you don’t give your plants enough to drink, but the fact is, most people water their gardens wrong. Each year, from May to September, water use nearly doubles in parts of the country [...]
The Five (New) Rules for Driving Green
So you have a car, and not only do you feel a wee bit of carbon footprint guilt every time you start the engine, you just plain can’t afford $71 a pop to fill up the tank. But for whatever reason, you can’t quite give that fossil fuel fiend sitting in the garage up completely. [...]
NIMBY Greenwashing Uncovered, Plus Prius Naughtiness
More fun (and faster) than a barrel of monkeys, from Zaproot.
(P.S. There aren’t any actual monkeys in this episode, but there is a little murder and some mayhem).
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