Adria Vasil

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Adria Vasil is a Canadian environmental journalist. She is the managing editor at Corporate Knights, a sustainable economy magazine circulated in the Globe and Mail, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. She started writing NOW Magazine's Ecoholic column in 2004 and has published three books based on her column: Ecoholic (2007), Ecoholic Home (2009), and Ecoholic Body (2012). Vasil was a lecturer at the Ryerson School of Journalism, from which she herself graduated in 2003. Beyond her post-graduate degree in magazine journalism from Ryerson, she has a degree in political science and cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto. [1]

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Writing

Column

Vasil started at NOW Magazine as an intern in 2001 and freelanced for NOW until she became a staff news journalist in 2003. She soon was writing regularly for them about environmental issues. Her column, Ecoholic started in 2004 after she began taking reader questions on the environment and green living. [2]

Books

Ecoholic, Vasil's first book was published by Vintage Canada (an imprint of Random House) in 2007. [3] David Suzuki said, "This book is for people who want to do something to lighten their impact on the planet. The small steps cost us little in the way of effort, money or time, but the cumulative effects can be enormous." [1]

Ecoholic Home (Vintage Canada 2009) [4] further explores how to live a greener life, this time focusing on our day-to-day home-life. [5] Lindsay Borthwick, of Green Living Online says Ecoholic Home gives "informed, affordable and practical advice on how to green your home on any budget, going on to test the brands making the big green claims to help you make the right choice." [6]

Ecoholic Body (Vintage Canada 2012) [7] Vasil's newest in her Ecoholic series, is, according to The Globe and Mail "An eclectic guide to enviro-friendly body products – think shampoo, toothpaste, jewellery, dildos – Ecoholic Body is part Consumer Reports, part political manifesto." [8] In Ecoholic Body, Vasil has created a list of the "Mean 15," 15 chemicals that we should be checking for and avoiding. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Random House Canada | Ecoholic". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  2. NOW Magazine | Author Bios | Adria Vasil Archived September 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Amazon.ca Ecoholic
  4. Amazon.ca Ecoholic Home
  5. "Random House Canada | Ecoholic Home". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  6. Green Living Online | Are You Ecoholic?
  7. Amazon.ca | Ecoholic Body
  8. The Globe and Mail Review of Ecoholic Body
  9. CBC Books | Adria Vasil on Going Green in the Bath and Beauty Department