Author: Starre Vartan
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Health Magazine Quoted Me!
For a story on the natural benefits of brown sugar, I was quoted in the “Fast first aid” segment. Here’s the online link (page 3), but it was in the print magazine (September, 2011) too. If you nicked yourself shaving and don’t have antiseptic on hand, reach for the sweet stuff—it can help heal minor…
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Standard Magazine “Summer Abroad” Guest Editorship
I was lucky enough to be asked by the original eco-designer, Kelly LaPlante, if I would guest edit the “On the Boards” section of Standard magazine’s “Summer Abroad” Issue. Knowing that I’m a frequent and obsessive traveller, Kelly thought I’d be perfect to choose chic and sustainable decor and fashioney items for the front of…
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“Adventures in Om” in September Whole Living Magazine
I’ve been covering ethical travel for Martha Stewart’s Whole Living magazine, and here are the first fruits of my (and my editor’s) labor! Fun, short piece on travel that combines the best of yoga with other pursuits, like horseback riding, climbing and surfing. Check it out in the September, 2011 edition of the magazine, available now!
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The Yoxi “Trim the Waste of Fashion” Competition!
I love this new competition by Yoxi, a cool nonprofit that aims to find the “next social media rockstars” – their latest topic to tackle takes a look at the fashion industry. I helped them out a bit with my expertise and they were kind enough to feature me on the page for the competition:…
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“Practical Sublimities”: My Thesis for Columbia University’s MFA in Nonfiction Writing
Today I handed in my thesis! Needless to say I’m exhausted, but happy, and very, very proud. It came it at just over 34,000 words, and is a combination of memoir, science writing, essay and the chapter of the book project I’ve been working on, called Sense(Less). And now I just wait until my thesis…
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Summer/Autumn 2011 Speaking Engagements
Coming up, I will be speaking: Monday, July 18th, 2011: Prancing Leopard’s debut of their new collection at Jivamukti Yoga Center in NYC. I will be speaking about eco fashion. October 27th, 2011: Iowa High School Press Association Fall Conference, Iowa City, Iowa. I will be speaking about online journalism as well as running sessions…
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MNN Features Me :)
Thanks to my friend Shea Gunther, for featuring me on MNN! Starre Vartan: Environmental writer, blogger and green living expert | MNN – Mother Nature Network via kwout MNN asked me about my work and my new project, Eco Chick Escapes!
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Video: Afingo Fashion Forum Panel
I really enjoyed speaking at the recent Afingo Fashion Forum in NYC at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Check out the wrap-up video below, courtesy of Ecouterre.
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Starre Vartan, Founder and Editor of Eco Chick and Eco Chick Escapes, Speaks at the Afingo Fashion Forum at FIT
Starre Vartan (far right) speaks at FIT at the Afingo “Sustainability and Philanthropy” panel. Jill Fehrenbacher (not pictured), editor of Inhabitat moderated, and (L to R) Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, designers of Costello Tagliapietra, Julie Gilhart, the former creative director of Barneys, Melissa Kushner, founder of Goods for Good, Summer Rayne Oakes, eco model…
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Starre Vartan, Founder and Editor of Eco-Chick, Featured in Whole Living Magazine!
Starre Vartan, as featured in April, 2011 Whole Living Magazine If you follow my Tweets, I kinda gave away the fact that I was going to be the first in a new feature in Whole Living Magazine called “My Stylosophy” in April. The magazine is on newsstands now! (That’s the page, above.) It’s a jam-packed…
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