What Would Google Say?
I love creative projects, and this one is interesting. Entitled “What Would Google Say?” the site’s creator put together the first 200 images that come up under a Google image search for global warming, and set it to music. This is like a digital version of found art, and is…
Project Earth Day Fashion Show in NYC
By Olivia Zaleski and Starre Vartan The above video, filmed by Brian Clark Howard, with Olivia Zaleski as host and Starre Vartan as producer, was recorded the night before the fashion show. Check it out to hear from some of the designers who showed their stuff, as well as learn…
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…
Score one for PCs
Health Hazards in Electronics: · Some brominated flame retardants, used in circuit boards and plastic casings, do not break down easily and build up in the environment. Long-term exposure can lead to impaired learning and memory functions. They can also interfere with thyroid and oestrogen hormone systems and exposure in…
E.O. Wilson Wins TED Prize
Us Eco Chicks love E.O. Wilson; his books include Biophelia, The Future of Life, and his latest, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, are masterworks of nonfiction writing about the environment and our place in it. Each year, the TED Prize is granted to three individuals with…
Solar to power the world
The amount of energy hitting the earth from the sun every minute is great than the amount of energy the would burns up in fossil fuels in one year. That’s a whole lot of energy just sitting around waiting to be used while we continue to use oil and crap…
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.…
Step It Up 2007 and Sea of People
Feeling like you just can’t curb your carbon emissions much more, and wondering what else YOU can do about global warming? The next step is getting the government on the bandwagon, and Step It Up 2007 is doing just that, through public action: This April 14th, tens of thousands of…
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…
Vegan and veggie products
As a newly proclaimed vegan I found this site extremely awesome and helpful. I’ve been a vegetarian for about 8 years but I never wanted to get into the vegan thing because of milk and cheese. But 3 weeks ago I decided to go for it! Now it’s great to…
