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Victoria E - Writer, Model, EnvironmentalistVictoria E - Writer, Model, EnvironmentalistStarting as an outlet for updates about my freelance writing and modeling, Victoria-E.com has quickly grown into a dependable source for a variety of information on green, crafty, and DIY living. Articles
Refab UK?s Vintage Fabric Home Accessories
2007-11-23 22:24:00 After the blue jean insulation is fitted, the low-VOC paints have dried, and the solar panels are functioning, it’s time to focus on the inside of your new home. With air quality indoors being rated as 4 to 5 times worse than outdoors and the fact that we spend 3/4th of our day indoors, the ... More About: Accessories , Home , Vintage , Fabric
Sustainable Crafting Has a New Home - and I Started It!
2007-11-21 15:04:00 That’s right - eco-minded crafters now have a new home at Crafting a Green World. Part of the Green Options blog network, I’m functioning as blog editor and head writer for this nifty new blog. For more details, here is my introductory/first post on the site: Green is the new black, as they say, but what ... More About: Home , Sustainable
Behind the Seams with Jenny Hwa of Loyale
2007-11-20 20:17:00 Who are the creative figures behind these cutting-edge, planet-friendly styles that are showing us sustainable has nothing to do with tie dye or itchy fabrics. We asked our resident fashion writer Victoria Everman to catch-up with New York?s Jenny Hwa. New York based Jenny Hwa is the creative force behind loyale clothing. She first caught our ...
3 Crafty Creations to Bring the Holidays Alive
2007-11-20 18:40:00 Personalize your holidays and make them enviro-friendly with homemade decorations. The following three projects are fun and easy to do. They?ll be sure to bring your home to life during this special season. COOKIE CUTTER ORNAMENTS There?s a two to one chance that you have some cookie cutters shoved into the back of a kitchen drawer. After ... More About: Holidays , Alive , The Holidays
New SunEye Device Visualizes Solar Access
2007-11-19 19:10:00 Preparing to install your first set of solar panels? Wondering if you are harnessing all the sun’s energy that you possibly can? A new device from California-based Solmetric stands to help both residential and commercial solar power users get the most from their investment. Also useful when designing the layout of new construction or remodeling projects, ... More About: Solar , Green Building , Access , Device
Enjoy Those Leftovers: Buy Nothing Day 2007
2007-11-19 18:02:00 Another year, another Buy Nothing Day I’m happy to be a part of. More About: Enjoy , Leftovers
Envirosax Gives Away Water-Saving Tool For the Holidays
2007-11-16 21:33:00 “Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.” Sound familiar? If we don’t preserve our favorite life-sustaining liquid, that classic saying is going to become commonplace - in some areas of the world, it already has! Here are a few modern water facts: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the current drought happening on the ... More About: Holidays , Tool , Saving , Envi
Green Shopping Spotlight: Organic Style
2007-11-15 18:59:00 Thanksgiving is only a week away, which means the gift-giving season is in full swing. To make your seasonal shopping easier and more sustainable, I?m bringing you a series of green online stores that offer a wide variety of eco-gifts that would make anyone on your list feel appreciated. The first offering in this series ... More About: Shopping , Green , Style , Organic , Spotlight
Portland Series :: Ryan Jacob Smith Makes Pastels More Powerful
2007-11-13 22:34:00 Eep - Monday has come and gone, but I have yet to post my weekly interview with one of Portland ’s finest. Though I am a day late, I’m no less excited to bring your my chat with Ryan Jacob Smith . Inspired by the beauty of the past and the ever-morphing punk scene, Ryan’s work features ... More About: Series , Portland Oregon
San Francisco! November 15th! Broke-Ass Stuart?s Book Release Party!
2007-11-13 22:18:00 For penny pinchers and poor folks alike, Broke-Ass Stuart ’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco has been an indispensable resource for affordable food and fun. After two volumes printed on his own dime, Stuart signed with NYC’s Falls Media to publish a full book of his Yelp-worthy suggestions and reviews. The original San Francisco ... More About: Party , Book , Release
Sustainable Skincare Sell-Outs Are Giving Me Acne
2007-11-12 22:20:00 Am I the only person that felt up-in-arms after hearing about all-natural Burt?s Bees being bought by the Clorox conglomerate? Having touched on the subject of sustainable sellouts once before on Victoria-E.com, the buyouts within the beauty industry have increased immensely in the past year (including Body Shop going to L?Oreal and Jason/Zia to Hain ... More About: Commentary , Acne , Skincare , Giving , Sell
Join Me For Apartment Therapy?s Online Green Book Club
2007-11-12 19:42:00 I wouldn’t be much of a writer if I didn’t spend part of my time reading. Not the best in the social department, the idea of joining a book club has been both intriguing and frightening to me. On top of that, I’m so oddly picky when reading fiction books that I rarely make it ... More About: Books , Green , Book , Join , Online
Unearth Conscious Living?s New Home: MindBodyGreen.com
2007-11-09 18:46:00 Recycling, organic cotton clothing, paraben-free cosmetics, public transportation - you’ve probably got the basics of green living integrated into your daily life already. Having done so many great things (big and small) to help out good ole planet Earth, how about doing something for yourself? A planet is only as healthy as all of its ... More About: Living , Home
Greenloop Pre-Holiday Sale: 10 DAYS ONLY!
2007-11-08 19:56:00 The Greenloop Pre-Holiday Sale is on! The holidays have come early this year for all you budding Eco Fashionistas out there (guys too!) Starting Friday, November 9th and running through Sunday, November 18th, Greenloop has slashed prices up to 50% on a ton of amazing Fall Fashion - just in time for you to make ... More About: Days , Loop
Portland Series :: Trish Grantham?s Troubled Toast, Pablo, and Plushies
2007-11-08 18:54:00 Another week, another kick ass interview with a creative Portland dweller. Today I bring you the down-low on Trish Grantham: a self-taught painter with a playful imagination that comes through in her works. She didn’t start painting until she was 28 and now, almost 10 years later, her pieces are some of the most recognized ... More About: Series , Toast , Troubled , Portland Oregon
Motel 6 to Offer Affordable, Energy Effecient Accomidations
2007-11-07 22:51:00 The cool breezes of autumn have only been whipping at our windows for a few weeks, but many of us are already dreaming of sunny days and beach picnics. Environmentally friendly sleeping arrangements are one of the key parts of any vacation and starting next June, you’ll have a much more affordable options to add ... More About: Motel , Energy , Offer , Dati , Mote
I Was VenusZine?s Reader of the Week!
2007-11-07 22:04:00 Though this news is two weeks old now, it is still pretty nifty. Having written two pieces for VenusZine (Katharine ?E? Hamnett and Podcasts and Potions - Andrea Kane), I was recently featured as “Reader of the Week ” in their newsletter - what a fun honor. I was hoping they would put in one of ... More About: Press
New Green Building Materials Site Launches at GreenBuild 2007
2007-11-06 23:53:00 The yearly Green Build Expo doesn’t start until November 7th in Chicago and we already have a great update to pass on to you! Officially launching at this year’s event, Green2Green’s beta website version is up and running. Built by GreenBlue, an organization founded by William McDonough of Cradle to Cradle fame, Green2Green “features comprehensive information regarding ... More About: Building , Green Building , Site , Building Materials
Make Your Global Warming Actions ?Count? at We Add up
2007-11-06 19:23:00 Even after making small changes in my day-to-day life, like changing to CFL bulbs and taking reusable bags to the store, I often find myself feeling a bit defeated when I see so much random garbage on the streets of San Francisco, especially fast food cups and plastic bags. The mother-daughter team who started I’m ... More About: Global Warming , Global , Make , Count , Armin
Most Huggable #13
2007-11-06 18:50:00 Though this Hugg isn’t linked to something on my site, my 13th listing in Treehugger’s Most Huggable is a piece that I helped write. If you haven’t read my holiday book suggestion, which I wrote for the great folks over at Eco-Libris, you can read the post on their blog and here on Victoria-E.com. A big thank ... More About: Press
Chicago Hosts USGBC GreenBuild Expo Nov 7-9
2007-11-05 17:47:00 Started in 2002 by the infamous United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the GreenBuild Expo has quickly become the largest conference and exhibition focused solely on green building (both practices and products). Nearly 20,000 people are expected to attend this year’s GreenBuild in Chicago . In recent years, Chicago has been working to become on of the ... More About: Hosts
The Joy of Vegan Baking - Holiday green gift guide for book lovers: part 3
2007-11-05 15:08:00 Welcome to part 3 of Eco-Libris blog’s green gift guide, the one that will help you find the best green books to give as gifts this holiday season. Today I am very excited to bring you today the recommendation of Victoria E. For those of you who don’t know her, Victoria E is a creatively versatile ... More About: Baking , Holiday , Press , Green , Book
Healthy Child Healthy World Org. Touts Sustainable Kids Bedding
2007-11-02 17:05:00 We’ve all read about toxic chemicals that the government allows in food. Recent news about toys made in China containing lead and unhealthy plastics has brought more attention to the important sustainable children’s market. The next generations will be inheriting all of our successes and failures - shouldn’t we start them off on a positive ... More About: Kids , World , Child , Healthy , Bedding
Green Shopping Spotlight: Max and Zane
2007-11-01 16:53:00 Oh yeah, you read the subject of this post correctly ? shopping, eek. The holiday gift season usually begins the day after Thanksgiving, a day which I intentionally avoid doing any buying. This year, shops and merchants are breaking out the good stuff (and the good deals) right after Halloween to try and help jump-start ... More About: Shopping , Green , Spotlight
San Francisco! November 10th! Susie Ghahremani Art Show!
2007-11-01 16:02:00 Be there or be not square (wink); you know I wouldn’t miss it for the world. Looking for more info about Susie? Check out the interview I did with here recently right here on Victoria-E.com. More About: San Francisco , Show , November , Francisco , Franc
Top 5: Posts for October 2007
2007-10-31 21:04:00 Ho ho ho and … oh, wait, that’s still a few months away … HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! I hope you are all having a wonderfully spooky day; other than it being overcast here in San Francisco, I don’t have much planned for celebrating this special day - maybe next year. 1) Green Style Spotlight: ... More About: Posts , October 2007 , October
Portland Series :: Portland Fashion Week - Final Day and Full Wrap Up
2007-10-30 18:07:00 The last day of Portland ’s fashion week was last Wednesday, so why the delay in posting? A week on sustainable style is a lot to take in, so before giving an intelligent overview, I wanted to let it all sink in. Now that I’m done with that, let’s get to the reviews! TRENDS AND TRAIL-OFFS Four of ... More About: Fashion , Series , Final , Week
Portland Series :: Martin Ontiveros Blends Heavy Metal and Mexican Folklore
2007-10-29 17:23:00 How are you enjoy the Portland series so far? Have all the pictures of artist’s work and sustainable fashion driven you batty with inspiration? Are you just sick of all the interviews? Come on … leave a comment and let me know. I have over 20 posts (all of which aren’t interviews) waiting in the wings; ... More About: Metal , Mexican , Series , Heavy metal
USGBC Certifies ?Greenest Building on the Planet?
2007-10-26 22:19:00 Situated smack dab in the middle of southern Wisconsin, the recently completed Aldo Leopold Legacy Center (ALLC) is a most befitting dedication to Leopold’s tireless work for the planet. “Considered by many as the father of wildlife management and of the United States? wilderness system, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and ... More About: Building , Planet , Green Building , The Planet , Cert
Green Style Spotlight: Little Marmara
More articles from this author:2007-10-25 19:08:00 This past week, I have been immersed in the pleasing insanity that is Portland Fashion Week. Though there were not any children?s lines being shown at the event, I learned about Little Marmara while I was in town, thanks to an e-mail from founder Gabrielle Ackerman. At Little Marmara, we believe in simple things. That ... More About: Green , Style , Spotlight , Portland Oregon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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