Starre Vartan
Starre Vartan is founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick.com and the author of the Eco-Chick Guide to Life. She's also a freelance science and environment writer who has published in National Geographic, CNN, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Pacific Standard, the NRDC, and many more. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her partner and black cat. She was a geologist in her first career, and still picks up rocks wherever she goes.
A Real Solution to Fast Fashion and the Horrors of Foreign Clothing Production is Here (Video)
Manufacture New York founder Bob Bland tells CBS News that producing clothing in America is the answer to what happened in Bangladesh, and she makes an incredibly compelling argument for why a ‘good deal’ on a cheap clothing isn’t so great.
Bangladesh’s Awful Building Collapse: Almost 400 dead, Over a Thousand Injured: This is Fast Fashion
Making just $37-$90 a month, its those incredibly low wages that are part of the reason we can buy clothing more cheaply in 2013 than in 1995, despite all other costs (materials, transportation, rents) having risen.
Maheya by Free People: Natural Dyes for Dresses, Caftans
Launched on Earth Day, Maheya (meaning 'of the earth'), is colored with marigold flowers, rhubarb, lilac, natural indigo, pomegranate skin, and annatto seeds.
Eco-Chick’s Sustainable Spring Fashion Party: Photos, Beauty, Love
It was all about local, local, local at the first ever Eco-Chick Sustainable Spring Fashion Party at Green Spaces in Tribeca.
BeGood Clothing’s Bright Colors for a Sustainable Spring
BeGood Clothing is a socially responsible and eco-friendly clothing store located online and on Union Street in San Francisco. The store is giving a new face to sustainable fashion by carrying 40 brands and designers that each give back to a different eco or humanitarian cause, while being on the…
Artist Asher Jay’s “Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle” at the American Museum of Natural History
A special installation of Asher Jay’s visually arresting campaign of hand-painted PET bottles titled SEA SPEAK SPHERE: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE will be on display this Sunday at the American Museum of Natural History at “Island Life.” Asher Jay’s Message in a Bottle showcase presently consists of a hanging display…
Emma Grady’s Vintage Style for Spring: Found Accessories from Brooklyn to Maine
Emma Grady, founder of PastFashionFuture.com, is one of those women with an incredible eye, able to spot the perfect accessory from 50 paces off (see examples of her prowess below); but she keeps it planet- and budget-friendly by sticking to the second of the three R’s (that’s the Reuse part…
Eco-Chick’s Sustainable Spring Eco Fashion Party
Because it's spring! And we wanted to get a head-start on celebrating Earth Day.
How To Plant a Bee- and Butterfly-Friendly Garden This Spring
Any garden, whether a window box on a balcony or a multi-acre backyard, can be made friendlier to pollinators.
Creating a Clean, Green Bathroom Ready for Spring!
It’s spring cleaning time, and I’m sure I’m not the only one with the desire to put away the woolen sweaters, pack away the snowboots and get the bathroom smelling clean and looking fresh. But bleach, toxic cleaners for your body and bathroom and too many cluttered bottles aren’t the…
