Eco Chick's Totally Unofficial and Entirely Subjective Earth Day Fashion and Beauty Awards
Everyone’s doing awards these days (Treehugger’s Best of Green, The Daily Green’s Heart of Green), and most of the sites include some kind of public participation and voting of some sort. Well, I wanted to do awards for some of my favorite things from the past year, and the only…
Starre Vartan and Eco-chick.com Featured in Glamour's 70th Anniversary Issue!
I am so honored to have been invited to take part in Glamour Magazine’s 70th Anniversary issue, out this month (look for Katie Holmes on the cover of the April issue). To celebrate, they brought together 70 of the most influential women in green, including me! Standing next to me…
Style, Naturally by Summer Rayne Oakes Debuts!
Watch Summer describe her new book, Style Naturally, and the motivations behind its content and design. I’m excited to announce that Eco Chick’s favorite eco model, Summer Rayne Oakes, has just debuted her first book, Style, Naturally! Congratulations Summer! I can’t WAIT to take a look (I haven’t gotten my…
Soy's Eco Creds
Last month, when Starre asked us all for our New Year’s resolutions, I didn’t have to think twice about them because I’ve been thinking so much about these goals over the last year. But I just put all my eco goals for the year out there for the world to…
Eco-Beauty Consultant Jessa Blade's Recommendations for Dry Winter Skin
During Eco-Chick’s 3rd birthday party last month, I had the chance to meet eco-beauty consultant and make-up artist, Jessa Blades. Jessa is the founder of Blades Natural Beauty and is a vessel of information regarding all things organic beauty and skincare. Shortly after learning about the breast cancer and body…
Top 5 Fave Natural Beauty Products for Winter
During the winter, I use more products than at any other time of year out of pure necessity. In order to avoid dry, scaly skin and lips, I do a lot of scrubbing and moisturizing. This winter, I became even more of a purist (or what some may call a…
Dose of Reality: Engagements
To produce that single ounce, miners have to quarry hundreds of tons of rock, which are then doused in a liquid cyanide solution to separate the gold. Payal Sampat, the campaign director for Earthworks, the mining watchdog, told The Independent: “Gold mining is arguably the world’s dirtiest and most polluting…
Starre Vartan to Speak at "Plugging Into Green" Panel in Brooklyn
P.S. 107 Kicks off its 5th Annual “Readings on the 4th Floor” Series by Plugging into the Green Movement Leading writers from the frontlines of “green” discuss life and community-changing strategies. Why in a city with the cleanest water in the country do the mass of New Yorkers cling to…
Dose of Reality: Happy New Year
“The science is beyond dispute… Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response.” I never thought I’d see the day when the President of the USA would be considered “more green” than the prime minister of Canada. I’m happy to say, that I truly believe…
Eco Chick Third Birthday and Book Party: Fun for All (Species)!!
Eco Chick is three years old! To celebrate her growing up (there are over 900 posts!) as well as the launch of my book, based on the blog, The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green, called for a kid’s themed party of course! Eco Chick Founder…