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Eco Links to Green Your Weekend

The major problem with biofuel production is that it often takes over land used to grow food crops – take palm oil, for example. But that’s thinking terrestrially…and we live on a planet that is two-thirds sea water. As reported by The Energy Roadmap, algae biofuel production is currently ramping up – so could this be the answer to the biofuel question?

The cities of tomorrow will not only have to meet our functional needs and make the most of clean energy-saving technologies

The Starre Behind Eco Chick


Starre Vartan, founder and editor of the green lifestyle website Eco Chick, is one of our favorite go-to girls for sustainable practices. She offers a wealth of information and presents her knowledge in a fun, practical way. Starre has recently taken her duties one step further to create a book of tips called The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green. Inside, she walks us through ways to be ecologically smart without sacrificing style and happiness. We caught up with Starre from her home in Connecticut to dish about the book. …

Week in Chic #2

This week in the fashion blogosphere, be sure to check out:

Fashion Pulse has a terrific interview with fashion subversive – jewelry and lighting designer and painter – Justin Giunta.

Comfortable, cute, artisan-made Mary Janes? They exist. Read up and check out at Barking Dog Shoes.

Fashion Fille blogs her recent penny-saving shoe trip to Payless – what is with all the booties around this season? Don’t miss our …

This Week in Chic #1

Sara, your editor, here. Something I have neglected to share with everyone is that I frequently spend time hanging out with some really terrific fashion bloggers talking design and style (well, “hanging out” in the digital sense). I’m going to share some links from these ladies that I think you’ll enjoy. Now, I’m the greenie of the bunch, so while the links I’m sharing from my blogging pals are not always green, they do offer interesting trends, looks, and creative insights. I’ll suggest a green alternative when appropriate, but I thought it would be fun to …

Classified Tips on a Good Green Deal

When you’re searching online for a good green deal, where do you go first?
The two behemoths of the online classifieds world are Craigslist and eBay. Their continent-cracking size isn’t always a good thing – sifting out the eco-friendly from the not-so-much can turn into one of the labors of Hercules. Luckily these sites have corners that are greening up nicely, such as eBay’s World of Good – but in the main, you’re on your own.
Alternatives? Here are a couple we’ve spotted.

10 Eco Links to Green Your Week

Here are our favorites for starting your week in a green way:Impulse buying, one of the great eco-curses of our age, just got hi-tech. As ABC News reports, new phone technology allows you to buy clothes the split-second you see them, cutting out all that tedious thinking about whether you need it or not. Red means Danger – and never more so than in this map of areas of the US that have been offered for leasing by

Thread. Fashion Without Victim: BBC's New Eco-Fashion Site

The reputable BBC has recently launched its own eco-focused style website called Thread. Competitor? Nah, newcomers to the eco-world only help promote the green cause and continue to make eco style mainstream. (Though I have to mention that the BBC site looks eerily familiar ““ maybe their web designers have been looking a little too closely at Style Will Save Us.)
Geared toward the MTV demographic, the site brings readers videos and competitions, profiles, celeb news, style features, and more. What do you think about Thread ““ will it be a hit or …

Eco Links to Green Your Weekend

Just before you go off and enjoy your hard-earned weekend, we’d like to tell you about these…Lifehacker is keen for us to save a little money by powering down our computers  – and they recommend using Edison (free, 45mb) or Local Cooling (free, 4mb) to do it.As Greenthinkers reports, the internet show EPIC FU is going plastic free for a week. (They should check out Envirowoman’s blog. She did it …

Eco Links to Green Your Weekend

As usual, we’re overflowing with things to tell you. We just can’t help it! So let’s spill.Joining the hot debate over biofuels is Frances Cerra Whittelsey over at Alternet’s Environment section: she’s keen to point out the environmental cost of a meat-eating diet. Point taken.You might have noticed all eyes are on a certain event in China at the moment. What you might not know is that there more than a little green-promoting going on. Grist

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