Eco Chic Weekly – November 3, 2008
Victoria Everman experiences Eco-Fashion Euphoria with Emily Katz. Fig+Sage launches the high end eco beauty store Spirit Beauty Lounge–and has an introductory discount for readers! Green My Style has tickets to the Eco Style Oscars. Enter to win! Green Girls Global has shares their eco-friendly Hand Made Statement. Eco Chick…
Are Aveda Products as Safe and Natural as They Claim?
Aveda is one of those brands that has long held a reputation for being pure, natural, safe and environmentally friendly. After all, Aveda brands itself as “providing beauty industry professionals with high performance, botanically based products that would be better for service providers and their guests, as well as for…
Get Warm & Cozy This Fall with a Cup of Organic, Fair Trade Tea
There’s nothing in the world that comforts and calms me quite like a good cup of tea. I’ve been a tea drinker since I had my first cup as a preteen, and I’ve got a huge basket in my pantry full of dozens of varieties. Every day, it’s like I’m…
A Victory Garden at the White House?
The next U.S. president is going to have the daunting task of fixing all that has gone wrong in this country. However, I believe that both candidates are overlooking an extremely important issue — our food system. As Michael Pollan said on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show, “It’s true that neither…
Still Rock N’ Roll: The Balanced Stone Art of Shane Hart
Guest post by Alicia Lubowski-Jahn All images by Paul Gregory Newman Stillness and Dynamism A photograph of the sculpture artist Shane Hart creating an installation of balanced stones conveys a profound sense of stillness amidst dynamism. His work’s mesmerizing tranquility at a moment of seemingly impossible balance inspires a parallel…
McCain Rails Against ‘Liberal Feminist Agenda’, But His Record Speaks for Itself
“They need education and training”. That was John McCain’s practice of charging rape victims up to $1,200 for evidence kits. She, who would deny 10-year-old barely pubescent incest victims complaining at rallies that he and Palin are under attack by the “Feminist Left”, attributing his downslide in the polls to…
E Magazine's Eco Luxe Issue: Eco Fashion Rules!
Recently, I was lucky enough to get to write again for E Magazine (I was a contributing writer there for four years and really got my enviro journalism chops while putting stories together for them each issue); they tapped me to write about my very favorite topic- eco fashion! The…
Rubie Green's Gorgeous Organic Prints and My Grandma's Chaise
I dedicated my book, The Eco Chick Guide to Life to my grandma for a reason; she taught me most of what I know about being both eco and chicky- an inveterate animal-lover, ecosystem preserver, and queen of all things green, she was also a truly independent, fabulous, and inspiring…
WebEcoist: Sustainable Living, Green Design and Environmental Oddities
One of the latest additions to the green blogosphere comes to us from the creators of visually breathtaking, fascinating web magazine WebUrbanist. It’s called 10 Breathtaking Natural Cloud and Color Formations’. It’s part of a four-week four-elements series, which also includes sublime airborne disasters and weather patterns. From
Westfalia’s SuperGreen Eco Van: This Ain’t No Hippie-Mobile!
Twenty years ago when I travelled all over the country to see the Grateful Dead, I always thought it would be cool to have a Westfalia VW van to travel around in. Cruising the parking lot of a show I loved to poke my head in the Westfalia’s, checking them…
