Starre Vartan, Founder and Editor of Eco Chick
Breakout Session Speaker on Saturday, April 26
Starre Vartan is the founder and editor of Eco Chick (www.eco-chick.com), a blog for hip, environmentally savvy young women. Eco Chick has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, Glamour, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Grist, Treehugger, and a host of green blogs, and Starre has been featured on WB-11 and ABC-TV in New York City as an expert on green living and products. A forthcoming book entitled The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green is due out in Spring, 2008 from St. Martin’s Press.
Starre is the Green Guru columnist for Audubon Magazine, where she answers reader's questions about the environment, is a contributing writer for E/The Environmental Magazine (www.emagazine.com), the nation's oldest independent environmental publication, and a dining columnist for The Fairfield County Weekly (www.fairfieldweekly.com), where she also regularly writes about commuting, transportation, and alternative energy. She is the author of the fashion blog on Hearst Magazine's website, The Daily Green (www.thedailygreen.com) called "Starre Power: Fashion and Beauty", and has also been published online at Worldchanging, Alternet and Jewschool.She has written for Elle South Africa, The Berkeley Daily Planet, The Honolulu Weekly, and others. She is excited to have been an associate producer for the Discovery Channel's upcoming mini-series, Final Hour, a parable about humanity's impact on Earth's ecosystems.
Starre grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York and Sydney, Australia; both environments instilled in her a deep love and appreciation for the natural world. She considers the health of the environment to be the most pressing issue of our time. She lives and writes from her circa-1911 home that she shares with three rescued cats and a completely insane cocker spaniel.
