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Summer Rayne Oakes

Summer Rayne Oakes is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Summer Rayne Oakes rather than just read about it. In short: Summer Rayne Hyacinth Oakes (born June 1984) is an American fashion model, environmental activist, author, and entrepreneur, known as the first "eco-model". Oakes grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where her concern for the environment began early.

Summer Rayne Oakes — main illustration
Summer Rayne Oakes — illustration

Key takeaways

  • Summer Rayne Oakes belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Summer Rayne Oakes to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Summer Rayne Oakes from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Summer Rayne Hyacinth Oakes (born June 1984) is an American fashion model, environmental activist, author, and entrepreneur, known as the first "eco-model". Oakes grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where her concern for the environment began early. She studied ecology in college, where she noticed that scientific papers on the environment received much less attention than popular media. She became a model in New York City, and insisted on only modeling clothing made from organic or recycled materials. These principles cost her work, but gained her notice and the title of first "eco-model". Besides modeling, Oakes has worked as a writer and editor for fashion magazine Lucire, as a television reporter for environmental network Planet Green, and has written three books: Style, Naturally, a shopping guide to eco-friendly fashion and beauty products; SugarDetoxMe, a book of recipes to remove free sugars; and How to Make a Plant Love You on raising plants in an urban homestead. She also co-founded an award-winning web site, Le Souk, formerly Source4Style, which connects environmentally conscious fashion designers to ecologically friendly fabric producers. She lives in a loft apartment in Brooklyn which she has filled with over 1100 plants, and formerly a pet chicken, who has now passed.

Early life Oakes was named Summer Rayne due to being born during a downpour in June 1984. Oakes's concern for the environment began early: while growing up, she would post photographs of appliances and dead animals left alongside local roads, hoping to shame the owners into removing their litter. While she attended Lakeland High School, she also worked at the Lackawanna County Conservation District biosolids program, which applied treated sewage sludge onto farmland. After graduating, Oakes earned scholarships, including a Udall Scholarship, to Cornell University, where she studied natural resources, ecology, and entomology. There she jointly published two papers on sludge toxicity and contaminants, but she was frustrated by how she couldn't communicate the relevance of her work beyond a narrow audience of scientists, and noticed how much more attention advertising and media received. In 2003, while a student at Cornell, Oakes became involved with "The Organic Portraits Project", a project to produce a book of photographs about humanity's connection to nature by New York City photographer John F. Cooper that had been put on hold due to the September 11 attacks. Oakes applied for and got a National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology fellowship for the project, which was instrumental in moving the project forward. The book Organic Portraits: A Photo Book of Polaroid & Film Images was published in 2015.

Career

Model

Oakes began modeling in New York City during her sophomore year in Cornell. Within two months, she was working for lingerie company StockingGirl. When she graduated in 2004, she moved to New York City to model full-time. The title of world's first "eco-model" was first bestowed on Oakes by Grist Magazine in their 2006 Earth Day issue, since she models only clothes made from organic or recycled materials. The moniker has since been taken up by multiple newspapers in the US, UK, and Canada. These principles lost her multiple campaigns and her first New York City modeling agency contract, before she signed with Faith Kates of Next Model Management, who approved of them. In 2007, Oakes was profiled in Vanity Fair's "Green Issue", and was featured in a CNN video interview as part of the series "Young People Who Rock". In 2011, Oakes represented Aveeno beauty products in creating a temporary "pop-up" forest in Times Square. She also appeared in an environmental short film, eXtinction, which was shown at festivals around the world. She was photographed for the 2013 Pirelli Calendar by Steve McCurry. In 2012, designers for the Toyota Prius C said that they created the subcompact hybrid electric vehicle with Oakes in mind and named the "Summer Rain Metallic" paint color after her. Ironically, since Oakes lives in New York City, she does not drive.

Activist

Oakes says she sees modeling as "a conduit to get into socially responsible causes" such as fair trade and pollution from the textile and garment industry. Since 2009, she has worked to promote the Mezimbite Forest Center conservation project in Mozambique. She spoke about fair trade and the textile industry at the Hong Kong World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005 and attended the 2012 "Rio+20" United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, where she was profiled by the magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme. She teaches others to grow plants in a Brooklyn neighborhood community garden.

Writer

Oakes was interviewed in New Zealand fashion magazine Lucire in April 2005. She went on to write for the magazine, starting with "Behind the Label", a series of articles on ethical and sustainable fashion designers. Oakes became Lucire's acting editor for two issues in 2006, then US editor in 2007, and editor-at-large since then, contributing stories on body image, fair trade, and trends in sustainable design. She hosted the 2007 season of Singapore-based environmental television program Eco 4 the World. In 2008, Oakes became an environmental reporter on Planet Green, an environmental-focused network from Discovery Communications. She served as a correspondent for the program G Word, during which she reported from a methane-recapture farm, climbed windmills, and swam in the Pacific Trash Vortex. She had her own environmentally friendly fashion and beauty advice column "Ask Summer Rayne" on the Planet Green web site. Discovery relaunched Planet Green with a different focus in 2012. Oakes launched her first book, Style, Naturally, in early 2009. It is a shopping guide to eco-friendly fashion and beauty products. SugarDetoxMe began as a 2014 blog and website to document Oakes's 30-day removal of free sugars from her diet, then grew to a program to help others do the same. In 2017, it was joined by a book of recipes of the same name, partly based on Dr. Mark Hyman's book The Blood Sugar Solution; Hyman also endorses Oakes's program.

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Illustrations

Summer Rayne Oakes illustration
Summer Rayne Oakes: Behind the scenes at the Pirelli Calendar 2013: (left to right) Summer Rayne Oakes, Petra Němcová, Stuart Chapman, Kyleigh Kühn
Behind the scenes at the Pirelli Calendar 2013: (left to right) Summer Rayne Oakes, Petra Němcová, Stuart Chapman, Kyleigh Kühn
Summer Rayne Oakes: Oakes speaks at the 2014 Copenhagen Fashion Summit.
Oakes speaks at the 2014 Copenhagen Fashion Summit.
Summer Rayne Oakes: Oakes holding her book SugarDetoxMe in her plant-covered apartment, in 2017
Oakes holding her book SugarDetoxMe in her plant-covered apartment, in 2017
Summer Rayne Oakes: Oakes teaching at a New York City community garden, in 2018
Oakes teaching at a New York City community garden, in 2018

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Summer Rayne Oakes

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Summer Rayne Oakes claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Summer Rayne Oakes before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Summer Rayne Oakes ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Summer Rayne Oakes

In research
Summer Rayne Oakes appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Summer Rayne Oakes in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Summer Rayne Oakes is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1984 births, 21st-century American women, American environmentalists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Summer Rayne Oakes outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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How to study Summer Rayne Oakes in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Summer Rayne Oakes means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Summer Rayne Oakes out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Summer Rayne Oakes in simple terms?

Summer Rayne Hyacinth Oakes (born June 1984) is an American fashion model, environmental activist, author, and entrepreneur, known as the first "eco-model". Oakes grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where her concern for the environment began early.

Why does Summer Rayne Oakes matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Summer Rayne Oakes?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Summer Rayne Oakes.

Tags

  • 1984 births
  • 21st-century American women
  • American environmentalists
  • American women environmentalists
  • Cornell University alumni
  • Female models from Pennsylvania
  • Living people
  • People from Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

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