Picking Up On Our Green Hotties: Olivia Zaleski’s Getting Noticed

Olivia Zaleski is a NYC based green blogger, news editor, and budding TV personality. She’s also pretty smoking hot. The math is simple:

Green + Smart + Hot = Olivia Zaleski

Obviously she made the list at #5 on our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green, but I also spotted her on Urlesque this morning on their list of Bloggers We Want to See in Bikinis.

They have it:

Who? The girl making-do with monkey bars at your kid’s playground. This self-professed jungle gym enthusiast isn’t around many trees in NYC, but likes the few obligatory ones in the park enough to act as managing editor of Eco-Chick. You’ll also find Olivia not taking any crap as environmental columnist for The Huffington Post.

Good spot Urlesque, Olivia is going places.

Link [Urlesque]

Confessions of A Greenwasher: Like an AA Meeting, but with More Guilt

Hello, my name is Stephanie Rogers, and I’m a former greenwasher. It’s true. I know, I’m ashamed. I’m a writer and graphic designer from Asheville, North Carolina and once worked for a company that was attempting to jump on the eco-friendly bandwagon. When I say attempting, I mean they had good intentions and were really trying to be legit, but realized after a good six months of planning that they were in way over their heads.

Being the staff writer, I was in charge of coming up with all kinds of ways to justify calling the products we were selling ‘green’. “Was part of it possibly handmade? Can we verify whether it was handmade by an 8-year-old in Cambodia? No? Okay… hmm.” It could get particularly challenging when said product had, for example, a solar component, but the main part of it was shipped in on a boat from China. Moral dilemmas galore.

That’s just one of many reasons why I’m happy to be joining EarthFirst. I’m excited that instead of being a part of the problem, I can now be a part of the revolution that’s gathering steam - the call to change. I’m dedicated to earth friendly practices in my own life and am constantly seeking ways I can improve, and I’m psyched to share in that process with all of you. So howdy, EarthFirst readers - I hope this is the start of a beautiful friendship (sniff).