Adria Vasil is a Canadian environmental

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. She is the managing editor a
Corporate Knights
a sustainable economy magazine circulated in the Globe and Mail, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. She started writing

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'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 th
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

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. She lives in

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Writing

Column

Vasil started at

as an

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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 Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. Further, these issues can be caused by humans (human impact on the environment) or they can be natural. These issues are considered serious when the ecosystem cannot recov ...

. Her

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''Ecoholic''
started in 2004 after she began taking reader questions on the environment and green living.NOW Magazine , Author Bios , Adria Vasil

Books

''Ecoholic,'' Vasil's first book was published by Vintage Canada (an imprint of

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) in 2007.Amazon.ca ''Ecoholic''
/ref>

David Suzuki David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the ...

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." ''Ecoholic Home'' (Vintage Canada 2009)Amazon.ca ''Ecoholic Home''
/ref> further explores how to live a greener life, this time focusing on our day-to-day home-life. 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."Green Living Online , Are You Ecoholic?
/ref> ''Ecoholic Body'' (Vintage Canada 2012)Amazon.ca , ''Ecoholic Body''
/ref> Vasil's newest in her ''Ecoholic'' series, is, according to

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"An eclectic guide to enviro-friendly body products – think shampoo, toothpaste, jewellery, dildos – ''Ecoholic Body'' is part Consumer Reports, part political manifesto."The Globe and Mail Review of ''Ecoholic Body''
/ref> In ''Ecoholic Body,'' Vasil has created a list of the "Mean 15," 15 chemicals that we should be checking for and avoiding.
/ref>

References

External links

Kick-Ass Canadians , Adria Vasil

Twitter , @EcoholicNation

Ecoholic.ca

Quill & Quire Review of ''Ecoholic''

* The Mean 15

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