With only a few days left of holiday shopping, here are seven ideas to help you choose one-of-a kind gifts for the environmentally-conscious, fashionable ladies in your life. Take it [ … ]
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Brighten Up Your Holidays – Sustainably – with LED Lights
It all started with candles. The tradition of an illuminated holiday tree emerged around the 18th century, when wax candles were used to festoon the branches of fresh evergreens. Candles. [ … ]
Ethical Underwear, Straight to Your Door: the Quarterly Underwear Club
My idea of the worst business concept ever: a “Victoria’s Secret” for men. Very simply, guys don’t want to shop for underwear, and will wait until every last pair they [ … ]
Just for Kids: Fashion Brands Create Eco-Friendly Looks for Little Tykes
Grown-ups are no longer the only ones dressing in ultra-chic, sustainable fashions; designers are creating a niche especially for kids.
Change Your Furnace Filter at the Right Time, Every Time: FilterWatch
Are you religious about changing your air conditioning/furnace filter every 30 or 90 days? You’re saving yourself energy and money… but not as much as you could if you changed the filter at the exact point it became too clogged to work efficiently.
Five Ideas for Revamping Old Shoes Just in Time for Shoe Week
Got a closet full of shoes that you wouldn’t wear on a dare? Don’t throw them away: try out some of these ideas for revamping last season’s looks into something “new” and stylish… without spending a lot of money.
No More Business as Usual: Eight Innovations & Opportunities Developing in the Sustainable Fashion Industry
Eco-fashion designers and business owners are completely revamping how they work with one another as well as with those in the ‘fast fashion’ industry. In fact, there are at least eight innovations and opportunities happening in the sustainable fashion industry that you’re sure to notice as you shop your favorite brands.
Buying Second-Hand Online: Better for your Wallet & the Planet
Buying second-hand products as a means to saving money and resources is kind of a no-brainer: gently used items will always cost you less, and you’re making more efficient use of the materials and energy that went into creating them. Taking your thrift shopping online expands the possibilities of finding just the right thing…
Ziploc’s Compostable Plastic Bags: Great if You’ve Got Commercial Composting Available
Compostable plastics provide no environmental benefit unless you’ve got a nearby commercial composting facility that accepts such materials. If you do, though, SC Johnson is trying out a new product that can help you green up your food storage practices: compostable Ziploc plastic bags.
How One Small Business is “Refrying” T-Shirts into “Funner” Upcycled Fashions [Interview]
T-shirts are a comfortable, inexpensive and fun way to tell others about things that interest you. Unfortunately, they also are quickly piling up in America’s landfills, which collect about 12.4 million tons of textile waste each year. Lisa Stout, founder and Chief Upcycling Officer at Refried Tees is working to lessen this outrageously high amount by creating her entire clothing line from reclaimed t-shirts.
Another Small Aquaponics System for the Not So Handy: The Blue Green Box
Want to give home aquaponics a try, but not interested in trying to piece together a do-it-yourself system? The Blue Green Box is plug-n-play, and designed to work with a standard 10 gallon aquarium.
How to Move Sustainable Fashion Even More into the Mainstream
More consumers are willing to recycle their used clothing for vouchers, and big brands are working to create ‘closed-loop’ garments for the masses. Indicative of this year’s theme “Momentum”, these are the types of significant changes that industry leaders hope to continue by joining forces at the annual Ethical Fashion Forum’s (EFF) Source Summit.
Oxnard, California’s Café Nefola: Leading the Green Lunch Brigade
Her name is Cynthia Neftin, and she is the owner of Oxnard, California-based Café Nefola, whose motto is “healthy, local, fresh and natural.” An additional tag line – “from fat to fit, this is it” – leaves returning customers and new visitors in no doubt as to the restaurant’s orientation.