How Does Your Horse Finish?
SustainLane.com, a quickly growing repository and multi-media website on sustainability recently released City Sustainabilty Rankings. The well-designed, easily navigable, picturesque city rankings are a great educational tool to see where your city finishes(if it is listed of course!). See who the cinderella sustainable cities are and where some so-called “sustainable”…
Seasonal Fiction Contest
Here’s calling all aspiring writers! I’m opening up a new Fiction section on Eco Chick, and I’m looking for entries. The piece could be anywhere from 1500-7,000 words. The only guiding principles would be that it should have something to do with women and the environment, but that could be loosely…
Eco-Chick Chic Peek at Great New Products from ICFF
(Click on the Photo for Larger Image) So the whirlwind of design week has now dissipated. It was great to see even more of “green presence” this year around during all of the NYC design week trade shows and parties. So after my little deliberation, I created a list of…
Wardrobe Refashion
My very talented and crafty friend, Este just brought this cool blog to my attention. Providing an alternative to purchasing new clothes, this site features interesting ways to give your old clothes a new identity. Although my sewing skills are limited to button sewing (!), this site makes me want…
Poor Unfortunate Coral
As beach season officially begins, it is important to remember the fragile state of the ocean and try not to take the beach going experience for granted. It’s harder for us Americans to comprehend the most obvious affects of global warming such as the melting of glaciers and the starvation…
Um yeah — "Did hell just freeze over?"
Maybe its my own pessimism, but the recent reports about Walmart’s plan to clean up its act have left me feeling like I’m reading a story from the Onion instead of the Times. After seeing the anti-Walmart film, “The High Cost of Low Price,” my feelings for the ginormous chain…
Holy Motherboard
Working in a field that requires I use only state-of-the-art computers, I often wonder what happens to the technological waste left behind when my computer becomes obsolete every 4 years. It comforts me to know that companies like Motherboard Gifts and More are discovering inventive ways to reuse some of…
From the Left and the Right: Meeting in the Green
I may not agree with Greg on every issue, but I love the fact that his explanation for “Why I’m Green” is just a photo essay of him in beautiful surroundings like the above shot. The Republican party was not always the go-to group when it came to environmental armageddon (not…
A Story No Less Important
All this talk about global warming and the current backlash from “anti-environmentalists” reminds me of something I experienced only months ago. Photo of Dr. Jim Hanson courtesy of the New York Times I attended conference at the New School in January 2006 entitled “Politics & Science” and the place was…
"An Inconvenient Truth"
Former VP Al Gore’s inspirational multi-media presentation demythologizing some of the misconceptions surrounding global warming is scientifically grounded and his passionate discussion of the real and true concerns is highly effective. After appearing over 1,000 times around the world to bring attention to the severity of climate change, Gore’s hard…
