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.
Eco Chic Exhibit Now On at Scandinavia House, NYC
Righteous Fashion Leave it to the Swedes to put together an exhibit concerning eco fashion that’s both beautiful and seriously thought-provoking. Eco Chic: Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion, which runs through August 21st, is a multimedia endeavor that showcases the whys, the hows and the hows of sustainable design. Video by…
Starre's Healthy Summer Coffee Energy Drink Recipe
Too many so-called energy drinks are missing key ingredients to give you truly sustained and healthy power. Too many refined sugars and caffeine, but no sustenance, and ingredients are processed and packaged months before you drink it. Fresh is always better and more life-sustaining– and if you’re looking for real…
Recipe from Emeril LaGasse's New Book "Farm to Fork": Crostini with Ricotta and Spring Peas
Emeril LaGasse’s newest cookbook, Farm to Fork (available June 1, 2010), embraces local, organic, healthy food and recipes. From the man who hosts the popular Emeril Green cooking show on the Discovery Channel, the book covers how to cook up leafy greens, herbs, milk, eggs, cheese, meats, fish, grains, homemade…
Brooklyn Designs 2010: Frameicarium's Ant Farm Art
FRAMEicariums are the brainchild of designers Katie Vitale and Hugh Hayden, and they are seriously one of the coolest pieces of affordable art I have ever seen. They are ant farms reimagined as wall art, literally living sculptures made by the hard work of the ants enclosed in them. Using…
First Princeton Sustainable Fashion Competition: Creative Recycling at Its Best
The Sustainable Fashion Competition was held at the lovely Princeton Art Museum Galleries I was lucky enough to be asked to judge Princeton University’s first-ever Sustainable Fashion Competition a few weeks ago, and it was so much fun. The event was organized through student group Greening Princeton. Kelly Rouser, Chenyu…
Video Tour of Stewart+Brown's Fall, 2010 Collection
Stewart + Brown has been making eco fashion since 2002, and from the very first collection I spied in late 2004 until today, the brand has been defined by an incredible sense of classy sophistication, without ever being considered old ladyesque (though I’ve always felt that most of the companies’…
Brooklyn Designs 2010 Green Finds: Colleen and Eric
It was a sunny and perfect afternoon on the Brooklyn waterfront (specifically, DUMBO) last Thursday, and also the opening of Brooklyn Designs, the annual local-BK event that highlights the borough’s most creative furniture and home decor. Inhabitat has the full coverage of the event and all the green furniture (plus…
On the Run with Label Eco Fashion: Spring/Summer 2010
Elvira Dress • 91% Silk / 9% Spandex. The first thing you’ll notice about Label, by Natalie Sydoruk and Shawna Robinson is the edginess of the design, then you’ll clue into the sustainable aspects. Or at least that was my reaction to this 80’s meets Blade Runner interpretation of day-…
What Does a Terrestrial Oil Spill Look Like? Chevron’s Mess in the Amazon
A group of people washing their clothes beneath a mass of oil pipelines. Some broken. It smelled strongly of petroleum here. Beth Doane has seen the impact of oil spills on communities, first-hand. And unlike the recent oil spill in the Gulf that’s got the world’s attention, Chevron’s negligence in…
Stylish (and Sustainable) Saturday: Two Eco Outfits for Guys
Guest Post by Brad at the fantastic guy’s ethical style blog, Commerce with a Conscience Ed Note: I’m loving the site, Commerce with a Conscience, a guest post from which is featured below. Brad has a classic/cool sense of style and knows where to find the good stuff, as evidenced…
