The Italian Job

The Italian newspaper, Il Sol 24 Ore, interviewed me for their Earth Day coverage. It's a bit of an amalgam of the interview and other content from my blog.

If you can read Italian (or not) or use a Babelfish, go check it out!

Grazie!

Seattle's hottest sustainability blogtress

... would apparently be me. At least, according to the May issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine:

SEATTLE’S MOST INFLUENTIAL BLOGGER just might be a tall, blonde mother of two named Deanna Duke, a hardcore sustainability advocate with a soft, entertaining online touch.

Duke’s green-living site, thecrunchychicken.com (“Converting people to Crunchianity since 2007”), draws 50,000 hits a month and has been touted and quoted by The Economist, The New York Times (three times since last year), and, most recently, National Enquirer.

All this while exploring such esoteric and hair-shirt-sounding topics as keeping backyard ducks, growing blackberries in pots, living refrigerator-free (an incipient trend Duke thinks is actually earth-unfriendly), and the environmental impact of depilating one's nether regions (Brazilian wax vs. disposal razors vs. homemade sugar packs).

If those topics mentioned are hair-shirt-sounding, well, I guess cloth wipes, peeing on your plants and DivaCups need more promotion as they should be topping the list.

You can read the rest of the profile in the actual article. And feel free to leave a comment. I'm still wondering why the picture they did of me looks like something out of South Park. I'm surprised I'm not shooting flames out of my ass.

I just have one thing to say, "Respect mah authoritah!"

Crunchy Chicken in TechNewsWorld

What a nice thing to wake up to! An article that makes me look way more cool than I actually am!

In the article, this time in Technology News World, about the Green Army's Social Network March, the writer calls me a "sustainability force to be reckoned with". I can live with that description :)

Oh yeah, and for those of you interested in following my additional nuttiness on Facebook (as mentioned in the article) you can friend me here.