Book Review: The Eco Chick Guide to Life

If you’ve been looking for ways to be more environmentally responsible, but still want to maintain a stylish, convenient, modern lifestyle, we know just the book you should be reading. The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green, by Eco-Chick.com’s Starre Vartan, is the definitive guide to going green without sacrificing the good things in life. In fact, the book is jam-packed with practical, fun advice on topics like fashion, travel, cleaning, beauty, saving energy and decorating your home.

Starre, a noted journalist and environmental scientist with a fantastic eye for chic eco-friendly fashion, doesn’t just give tips for living a greener life. She gives the rationale behind them, explaining, for example, that diamond, gold, silver and platinum mining create gaping holes in the earth and pollute the water and topsoil. Her solution? Buy vintage jewelry, or seek out suppliers that meet Fair Trade and ethical and environmental mining standards. Even better, Starre illustrates how you can be ‘fabulously green’ without having to drop loads of cash – you can be eco-chic on a budget.

A ‘green shopping basket’ is also provided for each chapter, giving you the inside scoop on where to score goods like ethically produced jewelry, toxin-free personal care products, drain cleaners that won’t harm the earth and even organic beer and wine. In fact, The Eco Chick Guide to Life even provides recipes for delicious fresh, seasonal cocktails like the Fizzy Harvest Mojito – which would be perfect for autumn!

My personal favorite chapter is ‘Fab, Eco-Friendly Fiestas’ which contains a quiz to help you determine your party style, tips for encouraging your guests to go with the green flow at all of your soirees and all of the various ways you can make every aspect of entertaining more earth-friendly. It’ll be a great guide to have on hand for the upcoming holiday season.

The best thing about this little book is you can use it as a compact little resource for practically any questions that pop up in your mind about to green up your clothes, home, transportation, vacations, groceries and more. Pick it up at Amazon.com or your local bookstore, and be sure to check out the Eco Chick blog for even more tips!

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