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A couple months back I had the chance to interview Hannah Kaminsky, the 18-year-old behind the new vegan dessert book, My Sweet Vegan.
Hannah is awesome. She has a super-cool blog called Bittersweet, where she details her crafty and foodie experiments, and she takes all the pictures on her blog, which are gorgeous (she took [...]

Whenever I start to feel a little cynical (depressed?) about being an environmentalist (i.e. whenever I get the urge to put on some snakeskin sneakers, wear diamonds bigger than my eyeballs, smoke CO2 cigarettes, and hop on my mahogany-furnished private jet to hurtle me and my friends around the world while drinking whiskey made from [...]

As a new mother, I am always researching various topics regarding child rearing and environmentally friendly practices. Here are a few sites that I frequent or find inspirational.

Healthy Child, Healthy World
Formally the CHEC (Children’s Health Environmental Coalition,) Healthy Child, Healthy World is an organization recommended here before, and it is certainly worth another mention. [...]

Look above! Our star, Starre Vartan, is spreading the good eco-word far and wide. Check her out on the Huffington Post’s new Living Now section . . . she’s currently on the front page! (or you can read her post above).
The Huffington Post (often referred to as HuffPo) is a politically-progressive online news website [...]

Harry Potter books give me a headache. I’ve read all of them and finished Deathly Hollows this morning.
Spoiler: I was extremely disappointed that Harry didn’t die. It would have been too cool.
The only good thing about this particular Harry Potter book was the way in which the publishers/author went out of their way to [...]

On Earth Day (I know, I know, that was April, but better late than never), The San Francisco Chronicle compiled a list of environmental books to read. A few of the picks were what I’d consider greeny standard reading: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
It also included the new-to-me World [...]

In response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that occurred in March, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, a newspaper out of Zurich, Switzerland, asked several writers to contribute articles about their experiences with climate change. Now, Signandsight.com has posted English translations of essays by Swiss author Leo Tuor, who writes of [...]

While the current Governor of California enacts some positive environmental initiatives, some feel he continues to toe the line of big-business consumerism, exemplifying a smurfy kind of eco-consciousness that allows one to avoid some tougher choices and keep running up that Fred Segal credit card.
Bill Walker of the Environmental Working Group has written a [...]

by guest-blogger Olivia Zaleski

Yesterday I went to my first global warming rally, which was part of the Step It Up 2007 campaign (check out their page to see fun images from all over the United States). In Battery Park at the lower tip of Manhattan, I joined an estimated 1,200 fellow protesters to create a [...]

Us Eco Chicks love E.O. Wilson; his books include Biophelia, The Future of Life, and his latest, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, are masterworks of nonfiction writing about the environment and our place in it.
Each year, the TED Prize is granted to three individuals with the
talent to change the world. [...]