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Mission Savvy: An Eco Boutique Built on Passion for Animals and Sustainable Style (Video)

What’s not to love? Mission Savvy is an eco boutique with a heart of gold. Check out the video below to hear about founder Jennifer Miller’s love of sustainable fashion and animals, and how she uses one to benefit the other.

Be sure to check out Mission Savvy’s Fall/Winter 2011 offerings from some of our favorite eco fashion designers, including Kelly Lane, Feral Childe, and Carrie Parry.

animal rights, animal welfare, boutique, eco fashion, mission savvy, Shopping, sustainable style

When (Skinned-for-Their-Fur) Animals Attack! PETA Video Awesomeness

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by Starre Vartan · 03/16/09

Sometimes a picture (or in this case, a well-made commercial) says more than ten books on the subject ever could. Next time I see a Croc bag or rabbit-fur earmuffs, I will totally think of this awesome ad.

“Stolen for Fashion”—Learn More at PETA.org.

animal rights, fur, PETA, Wildlife

The Sweetest (Vegan) Tooth

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by Starre Vartan · 04/17/08

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 the photos in her book as well). Besides her yummy recipes (Luckily I got to try some, all delicious!) Hannah’s a combination of sweet and punky is so unique and fun (check out the video at the bottom. An anti-authoritarian at heart (no surprise that she’s a blogger then), she told me, “I hate other people telling me what to do and I can’t follow recipe directions, so I have to make my own.” Love it!

Some of Hannah’s Spring craft creations- BUNNIES!!!

From the Fairfield Weekly article I wrote about her:

Hannah was inspired by her vegetarian friends, who filled her in on animal-rights issues. First she went veggie, soon after began eating vegan, and hasn’t looked back since. And while she favors animal-free recipes and blogs, she reads about all kinds of cooking. “I subscribe to over 300 blogs, from Post-punk Kitchen to Have Cake Will Travel to the Fat Free Vegan,” she says. “I have a huge notebook and I’m always coming up with ideas. Sometimes I have dreams about recipes!”
These days, it’s not hard being a vegan baker, and Hannah uses all sorts of veg-based substitutions found in area supermarkets. “Eggs are the trickiest.” Apple cider vinegar gives moisture and lift to cakes and cupcakes. You can use bananas or apple sauce to add moisture. I like agave or maple syrup rather than honey.”
Some recipes required some real experimenting in the kitchen. “I sometimes have to try things four, five, or six times before I get it right,” she says. Visiting her family’s home in Fairfield (CT) recently, I enjoyed a top-secret treat: a vegan lemon meringue pie. She wouldn’t tell me how she created the light, usually egg-white based meringue topper, but the recipe will appear in her next book. In the vegan cooking world, it’s sure to create a stir, as this has been a sought-after, but heretofore hard-to-find recipe. As she writes in her book’s introduction: “It was unacceptable in my eyes to serve a good vegan pastry; it needed to be delicious by anybody’s standards.”

animal rights, desserts, vegan, vegetarian

Design a Shirt for Animal Rights!

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by Starre Vartan · 07/04/07

Peta2 and the animal-free clothing label April 77 are looking for designs for a t-shirt! Check out the deets here:

The only condition of the competition is that the design must promote an animal-friendly, vegetarian message and feature the tagline “Meat Is Still Murder.” April77 doesn’t use any leather or fur in any of its collections—after all, it doesn’t take a creative genius to rip the skin off an animal’s back!

animal rights, animal-friendly, clothing, design, farm, fur, leather, meat, PETA, skin, t-shirt, vegetarian

Save The Chimps

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by Kimberly Jordan Allen · 11/19/06

We haven’t done a lot on animals/mammals here at Eco Chick, but it seems to me that our relationship with other species is a huge part of our societal experience. Some say I am anthropomorphizing other creatures, and that my passion for animal rights is sentimental at best. I think that being raised on National Geographic PBS specials, picture books of oceanic tours with Jacques Cousteau, and being taught to support the WWF made me predisposed to this ‘big-hearted naivety,’ and I am grateful to my father for always exposing me to the natural world.

The other night I saw a show done by PBS’ Nature called “Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History,” that traces the way chimps have been treated in Western culture. Used for space travel, scientific testing, and for entertainment in Hollywood, this creature, that has 99% of the same DNA as humans (closer to us genetically than they are to gorillas,) has suffered horrifying injustices. Some of the chimps shown on the program had not been out of a cage or felt sunlight for fifteen years. This moving study shows the chimps being transported from a bio-medical facility in New Mexico to an island in Florida that was created for them to be free and enjoy their final years in peace without ever having the threat of going back into a laboratory. Save The Chimps, headed by Carole Noon, Ph.D., was founded when the U.S. Air Force announced it was “getting out of the chimpanzee research business.” STC built the sanctuary in Florida for the chimps only. There is no gift shop, there are no viewing pens, and there is no exploitation. If you are interested in volunteering, donating, or giving a memorable gift this year, check out the site of this benevolent organization. You can do everything from donate money to sending some cran-raisins for an adopted chimp. I plan to take my kids to do some volunteer work one day as a mini eco-vacation.