No Child Left Inside
Environmental education and experiential learning need to be incorporated into our lives, and our children’s lives. No Child Left Inside is an initiative coordinated to raise awareness and government funding, so that no child is left sitting idly in front of a television screen or computer monitor during their education…
Watch: Water Bottles
Few things boil my blood like the disposable plastic water bottle. This thing stinks–literally! Go on, smell that oil-derived polyethylene. There are many reasons to despise the disposable plastic water bottle. For one, it is straight up terrible for the environment, it’s over-priced and the water’s not even better than…
SIGG for the Fashionably Parched
Need another reason to ditch the disposable plastic water bottle? How about fourteen reasons? SIGG (you know the hardwearing yet elegant water bottle Co.), Elle Magazine and Laurie David’s Stop Global Warming have joined forces to up the anti-plastic rationale. The iconic dream team has commissioned fourteen leading names in…
I'm Blogging for Elle's Green Issue!
Go check it out! I’m the guest-blogger for Elle Magazine’s annual Green issue (on newsstands the month of April)! I’ll be reposting some of my pieces here, but for more- plus all the behind the scenes reports from their other bloggers, go to the Elle Tell All blog. Besides the…
Green Goes to the Dogs
I already have an Earth Day outfit picked out for myself (vintage jacket, organic cotton 7’s, recycled jellies from Melissa), but what about my faithful hound dog? I adopted my gorgeous cocker spaniel from a local rescue group three years ago and he loves nothing more than a day outside.…
Toys R Us Goes Green-ish
This week Toys R Us announced that it is launching a new line of green toys to be released by Earth Day, April 22nd 2008. I tend to be skeptical when bigger companies like this try to hit a marketing sector they may have previously missed. The Forest Stewardship Council…
Treeless Squirrel: Funny But True!
This isn’t put together by a nonprofit, or anyone trying to sell anything, it’s just some guy trying to get folks to plant a damn tree (or 2). And like any modern squirrel, he has a blog! All things tree-centric are covered, including tree sculpture, a tree of the week…
Mon Petit Oiseau
Organic Cotton Cassie Dress Organic cotton tank I have two much-beloved items from Mon Petit Oiseau; my only white dress (with adorable silver threading) and a short cardi, both of which have gorgeous, subtle detailing, which is what the line is known for. Neither of my pieces is ecofriendly, but…
Good News Bears
For Long-Time Readers of Eco Chick, The Good News Bears Are Back! There’s a bevy of great green news I want to share with you all in case you hadn’t seen it: Hummer Goes Under….Eventually HummerGuy.net has been informed by official sources that there will be no “next generation” refresh…
Nuclear Is No Option
A few months ago, I posted here a compendium of reasons why I live in Germany. Though I’d intended the post as an answer to all those who’ve asked in the past, writing it also helped me to see through the myths I’d taken too seriously (i.e. all Germans are…
