Gamers Face Global Climate Change, Flooding
I had the pleasure of meeting David de Rothschild, National Geographic Society emerging explorer – and founder of Adventure Ecology – on a recent shoot for Outside Magazine. David uses his adventurous treks across the globe to teach audiences about global warming. In January 2005, he completed a trek across…
Castro on Climate Change
Eco-Hunk Fidel Castro This might be old news to everyone by now or it might never have been news at all, but Fidel Castro recently wrote a piece called “Where Have All the Bees Gone?” following Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lulu da Silva’s meeting with George Bush at Camp David…
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.…
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Please email Starre at starre (at) eco-chick.com if you’re interested in being a correspondent for Chickiest blog on the web. We are especially looking for people interested in covering: European, Asian and South American Eco News Design and Cool New Stuff Youth Culture and Opinion (high school and college-aged women)…
S4 launches DENIM issue: "Caught with our Pants Down"
This issue of S4 was an enlightening one to write. Denim is the perfect product to highlight pertinent issues around: There is so much activity happening in the world of denim on the sustainability front + it is such a staple in so many people’s wardrobes. How can you go…
Where will your city be?
From Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; what Manhattan would look like… Despite skepticism and all the video “proof” and GW cover ups, I’m still an avid believer in the fact that global warming is going to screw us all over in a short period of time. It’s finally hitting the…
Ocean Acidification: Another Symptom of Global Warming
I attended the 8th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture at the Smithsonian on March 5th entitled “What Corals Are Dying To Tell Us About CO2 and Ocean Acidification.” Ken Caldeira, the presenter, spoke to about 500 people in a packed auditorium about the current trends worldwide in coral reef…
The Climate Cover-Up
This bit of news is getting up slightly later than I’d like to be getting it up – but I know a few people who will want to read this who may not have read it else where and it is no less important today than it was 3 days…
Domino and Glamour AND Sports Illustrated (?)
There are more ‘green theme’ magazine issues than you can shake a stick at! First up, there’s the April edition of Glamour, which featured Eco Chick in its links page for best Eco Sites on the Web. Thanks Glamour! 10 pages were dedicated to environmental issues, with Laurie David lending…
Oscars Still Light Green
Well, the Oscars are over, and while there’s just no way that a party this big can be environmentally-friendly, efforts were made to make this Oscar greener than ever (though the website doesn’t detail exactly how impacts were reduced), it says: This year, the Academy, the Oscar telecast producer Laura…
