Nukes 'R'nt Us
Model and Environmentalist Betcee May, and tireless Environmental Activist Remy Chevalier want to pull the plug on Indian Point, followed by Vermont Yankee and Millstone. If you’ve been following Eco Chick for awhile, you will know that we are anti-nuclear power, even though there are some environmentalists who think that…
Greenpeace Announces McVictory
This week, Greenpeace has praised McDonald’s for leading an international industry-based campaign to stop deforestation of the Amazon. Pressure from Greenpeace and other grassroots organizations has been applied to McDonald’s for purchasing soya grown in deforested regions in order to be used as chicken feed. Greenpeace had launched a campaign…
Energy Vampires
We all know someone in our lives who sucks the energy out of us….well this post is not about those people but the appliances that do the same thing. Maybe you have already heard about how much power all those TVs, PCs, and ACs use on ‘standby’ mode (that’s when…
Pretty Woman Pumps it Up
The Associated Press Reports that Pretty Woman Julia Roberts will be a spokeswoman for alternative fuel. Dallas-based Earth Biofuels announced that she will be a chair on the advisory board and spokesperson for the company. “It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term…
Treeflights!
Treeflight’s nursery of trees-to-be If you’re taking a flight soon, you’re no doubt feeling the guilt about how much carbon you’ll be spewing into the atmosphere. Ru Hartwell can allay your guilt for just a few bucks; he’ll plant a tree on his land in Wales, England for every flight…
Climate Chic: Are the Scots Better at Keeping their Word than Americans?
The Scotsmanreports that “climate chic” is becoming the rage now that the awareness of global warming is hitting the mainstream audience. The survey leaves much to be desired, however. The Energy Saving Trust study says that, “More than half of consumers surveyed in Scotland are willing to pay more for…
Good News Bears
OK, so this post has nothing to do with bears, but it does have to do with good news. Green Revolution is Heralded for Scotland – “ALL new property developments in Scotland will need to produce some of their own electricity through a micro-renewable generating plant, under one of Britain’s…
The Battle of the Green Media
A sampling from GOOD Magazine’s media pack I woke up this morning and I thought I was back in London. Why? Well, we are getting innundated with so much editorial on green things. Well, damn’t it’s about time. Newsweek, NY Times, WSJ, Time Out NY, Parade Magazine, USA Today, CNN,…
Sustainable Art Blooms in London
Photo by Edmund Sumner I love it when art and sustainability meet and create something wholly unexpected, something that’s fun, and gets us to think a little differently than we did before. The London Oasis is a flower-shaped sculpture, which, like a real flower, absorbs the sun’s energy (with photovoltaic…
A Woman of Action
There is a great interview of Dr. Deborah Bronson in E Magazine’s newsletter. The marine scientist talks about working with Sri Lankan fishermen to get them to stop dynamiting the reefs (an incredibly destructive, if efficent method of fishing), and the reef devastation wrought by Hurricanes, which are made worse by humanity’s…
