“It’s Amazing How Often Nature and Fashion Collide”
So sayeth the NYTimes' Bill Cunningham.
This Incredible Video Will Change the Way You See the Rain Forever
I have always loved the smell of rain.
High Fructose Corn Syrup IS Bad for Your Kidney, Liver and the Planet (but can be Funny Too)!
The original SHAMEFUL ad that was showing during the spring and early summer. Really. Anyone with even a modicum of concern about what they eat (or what their family eats) has cut out high fructose corn syrup. WHY is HFCS so bad for us? Mainly, because it’s processed, and processed…
Welcome Eco Moms!
For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home – New York Times via kwout The team at Eco-Chick are very excited to have been mentioned in today’s New York Times’ article about Eco Moms! For those of you new to Eco Chick, you can find all the “Mom” content by browsing…
The Kids Are Not Going to Be Alright: They're Going to Be Pissed
Several of my friends have had babies in the last few years, and some are on their second round already. Though it seems to me that there are far too many people on the planet already, it’s difficult to begrudge anyone the basic human drive to reproduce, and my friends’…
Mortgaging Planet Earth
Whenever I start to feel a little cynical (depressed?) about being an environmentalist (i.e. whenever I get the urge to put on some snakeskin sneakers, wear diamonds bigger than my eyeballs, smoke CO2 cigarettes, and hop on my mahogany-furnished private jet to hurtle me and my friends around the world…
The Car-free Life in Paris
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the trend toward building entire subdivisions as car-free communities here in Germany; though these neighborhoods eschew cars and roads for bikes and courtyards, they also offer a bit of storage space to house the bikes (either as covered garages or, in the single-family…
Why is Europe greener (really)?
In case you missed it, The New York Times Magazine was devoted to green architecture on Sunday. It printed several articles, including a piece by the Times’ chief architecture critic, Nicolai Ourousoff, that I found especially interesting. In it, he asks, not entirely rhetorically, Why Are They (Europe) Greener Than…
Love Lost and Hope Found at "Design for the Other 90%"
Text by Guest-Blogger Josh Wiese Images by Starre Vartan and Josh Wiese Have you ever just known that the person who’s call you’re eagerly awaiting is the one for you? I mean THE ONE. It’s this strange penetrating feeling you just can’t shake. You want to. It doesn’t make sense,…
Andrew Revkin and the NY Times
With all the recent global warming coverage in the mainstream media, I find it reassuring that some journalists, though certainly not enough, are writing about the implications for people who live in poverty. Environmentalism—whether we’re talking about climate change, organic food, or access to green space— is a class issue.…
