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.
Alabama Chanin's Studio Style: More DIY Projects from the Southern Handcrafting Guru
Natalie Chanin’s new book, Alabama Studio Style. A CFDA finalist and long-time Eco Chick fave (see our coverage of S/S ’09 here), Natalie Chanin’s designs are, in these global times, truly Local. Made in the Southeastern United States by women crafting from home, each piece is a work of art,…
Gorgeous and Graphic Green T-Shirt Bonanza!
There are so many great things about t-shirts. You can wear them under a jacket (to leave any cheeky messaging to the imagination), over a long-sleeve for an always-beloved 90’s moment, you can wear them to bed, you can wear them on the red carpet. T-shirts are as American as…
Eco Chick Giveaway: Win an Organic Cotton Excentree T-Shirt
One of the four women’s tees available. Excentree t-shirts are all organic, limited-edition (only 100 of each design), and include a tree planting in a country of your choice. You have a chance to win both a t-shirt and a tree planting (which offsets one ton of carbon) by entering…
Adhesif Spring/Summer 2010: Vintage, Post-Victorian Eco Fashion from Vancouver
This is my favorite look (Pause blouse and Spin skirt) of the S/S ’10 Collection; a perfect feminine shape plus madcap mixed pattern. What could be more appropriately 2010? The Adhesif Spring/Summer 2010 collection is a riot of color, pattern, and vintage loveliness, for which it’s been getting lots of…
Sunday Splurge: Insanely Blingy (in a Good Way) Recycled Necklace from Dotted Loop
Totally over-the-top recycled/upcycled necklace from Dotted Loop This necklace would look great with almost any outfit, from amping up a pattern-on-pattern ensemble (it’s 2010, go for it!) or styling up an LBD. Or my fave idea: Really yum with jeans and a white button down, sleeves rolled up, black patent-leather…
Eco Chick Giveaway! Envirosax Totebag from New La Boheme Line
I’ve been using my green Envirosax bag for years and it just keeps on keepin’ on! The Queen of reusable shopping bags, it is made from some material that can hold superheavy loads (they say up to 44 lbs, and I believe them) but unlike a canvas bag, also folds…
Eco Fashion Designer Spotlight: Doie’s Sara Kirsner
Editor’s Note: At Eco Chick, we have long championed the eco fashion movement, and so as a new feature in 2010, we are debuting the Eco Fashion Designer Spotlight. Every other week we will be getting the low-down from a new eco fashion designer on how she or he works…
Hot Latin Calendar Draws Attention to Climate Change, Extinction, Conservation
Puerto Rican Alessandra Rampolla embodies global warming as the January image for the Ecological Footprint calendar. As reported by Treehugger, the Ecological Footprint calendar is a collaboration between the Azara Foundation and fashion photog Gaby Herbstein to raise awareness of global environmental issues. Super-creative and totally gorgeous shots, all! Very…
Human Ingredients T-Shirt: Fascinating and Disturbing
This thought-provoking tee isn’t organic, but it is available on American Apparel stock shirts, so at least you can choose a fair-trade option. I think this is totally genius, and includes all the heavy metals that have worked their way into the bodies of every human being on the planet-…
Eco Fashion Basics: An Ode to the Perfect Little Black Dress
Wearing my Carol Young LBD at the Mini Exhibit at the Go Green Expo in LA. It is only this year, my 32nd, that I have truly understood the value of the Little Black Dress. Of course I have heard the legend; what woman hasn’t? This mythical raiment could be…
