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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 [...]

    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 [...]

    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 [...]