Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin’s Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post,...

Sparklehearts are natural and organic beauty products for young girls. Made with vegetable and plant-based ingredients including essential fragrances, Sparklehearts are petroleum, paraben, phthalate, and sodium lauryl/laureth sulfate free. Listen to my interview with Sparklehearts co-founder,...

I recently had the privilege of spending some time speaking with Dolly Freed, author of Possum Living: How To Live Well Without a Job and (Almost) No Money. Dolly wrote the book, which has since become a cult classic, at the age of eighteen in the late seventies. When she was thirteen, she and...

As our population grows, our urban centers are starting to heat up. With all of that extra vehicular transportation, most of us have realized that our climate is heating up as well. However, as our culture starts moving back toward the Main Street mentality with people living, working, and...

Though his career as an emergency room doctor allowed him to offer help to the lives of many, as Dr. Matthew Sleeth watched the degradation occurring in the world around him he felt a new calling to help the world in a different way. Leading through the example of his own lifestyle by working...

In 1999, William Powers went to Liberia with the mission of fighting poverty and saving the rainforest. The life-changing experience then turned into a riveting read when he penned the page-turning memoir Blue Clay People. Later, he followed his passion of helping the less fortunate in Bolivia...

Last week, we shared the video of Jaszy’s discussion with Dr. Rich Pierce of Mote Marine Laboratory on their efforts to gain information on what is happening with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is the complete, uncut interview to give you a greater perspective into what is...

In case you missed them, check out our most recent podcast interviews: Leanne Hilgart, founder of  Vaute Couture, a conscientious fashion house based in Chicago that specializes in high style, high performance fashion coats and outerwear using no animal derived materials, spoke with us about...

Alanna Mitchell, a Canadian author and journalist who specializes in global science issues, recently took some time to speak with Modern Hippie Mag about the state of our oceans as described in her latest book Seasick: The Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean. “Sea Sick is the first book...

This is a bit out of the norm for us, but we’ve had a lot of people ask us how Jaszy’s audition experience went this past weekend as she traveled to Linden, New Jersey to audition for the “Your OWN Show” contest being produced by Oprah Winfrey and Mark Burnett. We...