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.
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Journalist and Fashion Correspondent Emma Grady
Emma Grady is a multimedia journalist and freelance fashion correspondent (Discovery’s TreeHugger.com and Planet Green, her own style site Past Fashion Future, Coco Eco Magazine, and more) based in New York City. Emma’s days can get busy and she needs pretty versatile layers that can cross from relaxed to more…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Clothes Swapper Extraordinaire Rachel Avalon
Rachel Avalon at an Environmental Working Group Event in her swapped and ethical ensemble. Rachel Avalon is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist & Eco Expert, which means that on any given day she’s busy seeing clients, attending evening parties and functions, and ferreting out the latest ways to live as healthfully…
How I Wear Eco Fashion: Greenest New Yorker Kaity Tsui
On the heels of apparel giant H&M stating, “There aren’t any specific trends anymore. It’s more just personal style and how you put it together,” I contacted a number of my friends and colleagues about contributing to this new column on Eco Chick, “How I Wear Eco Fashion.” The response…
Westport Connecticut's Kaia Yoga: For a New Year Filled with Health and Peace
Recently, I had the chance to check out the newest Kaia Yoga in Westport, Connecticut (there’s two locations in Greenwich too), and walked away from my visit with the wonderful post-yoga calm and a pleasantly full belly. The former was due to an invigorating Vinyasa class in a gorgeously lit…
Madecasse Chocolate: Deliciously Ethical from Madagascar
I don’t really consider chocolate an indulgence- more like a part of my daily diet (I’m so not kidding about that!). And that means I eat a lot of chocolate; probably about a bar a week. And seeing that I enjoy it so much I def look for high quality,…
Team Eco Chick's Favorite Natural Beauty Products for a Healthy (Skin) New Year!
I know plenty of progressive, conscious ladies who eat organic, work out regularly, and even choose eco fashions over conventionally-made clothes when they can, but get stymied when it comes to makeup and beauty products. We all have our go-to’s, those tried-and-true products that will do what we want, when…
Cambodia's 2 Wheels 4 School: Art for Bikes!
Now that you’ve thought about how you are going to improve your own life in 2011, what about those that have so much less than most of us? In Cambodia, schools are few and far-between. One of the biggest impediments to children making their way to class is distance. And…
2011 Health and Happiness Resolutions from the Eco Chick Team!
African sun by Haley Sherif Happy 2011 to the Eco Chick community! As we roll into our sixth year of publishing this little blog dedicated to all the fabulous green fashion and living ideas out there, I look back over thousands of posts (some of them quite controversial!) with a…
Odette New York: Handcrafted Jewelry Inspired by Natural Ephemera
I was lucky enough to receive the gorgeous necklace above from my boyfriend for Christmas this year. Not only is it lovely and interesting, it is made by hand, locally, in NYC (Brooklyn, to be exact) and is one of the many creations that’s part of the modern jewelry line,…
These Eco Boots Were Made for Walking; Through Wind, Sleet and Snow
Guest post by Kathie Butler. Winter is upon us. For many of us, this means our delicate strappy sandals are now shoved to the back of the closet, only to be replaced by footwear that resembles something possibly worn in war trenches. But just because it’s cold and damp outside,…
