Green Your Summer Routine: Eat Local
Whether from garden, potted plants or you local farmer’s market, summer is perfect for eating local. More
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in Feelgood Quickies, Healthy Habits, SummerWhether from garden, potted plants or you local farmer’s market, summer is perfect for eating local. More
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in Materials, Spring, Summer, Sustainable Fashion, UpcycledRocking a new trend or fad can be hard to do while remaining true to staying eco-friendly.The colored jeans trend gets eco-friendly with sustainable practices, natural dying processes, and natural materials. More
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in Interviews, UpcycledBetter known by “Juniper James,” the name of her company, and her childhood imaginary friend, Kari is an independent fashion stylist and blogger in Sacramento. Specializing in all things thrift, second hand and unique, she’s a wealth of information for those of us that aren’t sure where to begin. Not to mention, she’s an expert at throwing together an outfit for almost any occasion with less than $20. Here’s five of her most helpful tips. More
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in Accessories, Sustainable Fashion, UpcycledIn Manila, a suburban area of the Philippines, juice containers that once littered the country-side have become a valuable commodity, not only for local business, but for the international fashion market. More
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in Designers + Brands, UpcycledAt 5th Season, waste is the only material used to create backpacks, handbags, iPad sleeves and makeup bags, among other products. Oguchi’s material comes from coffee bag burlap, cotton textiles, cherry wood taken from tree cuttings, old clothing and other recycled material. Apart from each season’s line of bags, she also regularly creates custom made products out of old materials brought to her by customers. She has used old dresses, jeans and even a grandfather’s shirt to create bags that are not only recycled, but sentimental. More
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in Accessories, Designers + Brands, Sustainable FashionIn Ethiopia, the sick travel to Entoto mountain by the thousands. There, on the highest peak overlooking Addis Ababa, it is said that a pool of holy water can cure HIV/AIDS. For women that remain unhealed by the pool, ostracized by their families and without financial hope, design company Raven + Lily is providing a different kind of healing. More
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in Designers + Brands, Lingerie, Sustainable Fashion, UpcycledModel and designer Rachel Mace takes trashion to the next level with her Totally Trashed Fashion collection! More
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in Feelgood Quickies, Natural Beauty, Sustainable FashionEco-friendly, charitable and fashionable. Enter JP Selects… More
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in Celebrity StyleLast Friday I reported on Bid to Save the Earth charity auction and eco-jewelry line John Hardy. This Earth Day I have something very special lined up for Feelgood Style readers…A closer look inside the green initiatives of John Hardy Head Designer and Creative Director Guy Bedarida and model Angela Lindvall + a very exciting giveaway! Read on to learn more and to enter the contest…
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in Healthy Habits, Natural Beauty, Skin SmartAre you the dreaded “angry environmentalist?” More
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in Beauty Supplies, Healthy Habits, Natural Beauty, Natural Hair Care, Skin Smart, Toxic IngredientsAs consumers increasingly look to third party certifications when choosing natural and/or organic products, the USDA has often been held up as the gold standard for US-based products. This month, they announced the launch of their new BioBased label, designed to give companies the opportunity to seek certification without meeting the food-grade standard of USDA Certified Organic. Unfortunately, the gap between USDA Certified Organic and the new BioBased standard is so large, it will likely only increase consumer confusion and decrease America’s standards for what are truly natural, organic, and sustainable consumer goods. More
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in Accessories, Sustainable FashionWhile deciding what to wear this morning, why not accessorize with a leather handbag that is made of recycled materials? More
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in Accessories, Designers + Brands, Materials, Sustainable Fashion, Vintage + Classic StyleThis lava colored dress is from Costello Tagliapietra’s spring 2010 collection and gets its color via AirDye technology. Photo Courtesy AirDye via Creative Commons License Eco-Fashion: Going Green The Museum at FIT through November 13 This exhibit is free of charge and housed in the museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, one of the […] More
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in Sustainable FashionNot long ago, I wrote about how you can help free women in Thailand from the sex trade, simply by purchasing handmade jewelry. Now I want to share with you how you can support alternate employment opportunities for women beginning a journey of freedom from the sex trade in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. More
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in Designers + Brands, Materials, Sustainable FashionEcogear apparels are made from 100% recycled material. The company was founded early 2008 by Robert Hii, who is a 25-year fashion veteran with a passion to create clothing with only slight impacts on our planet. Robert says it took more than a year to complete their ecowear collections as the most eco-friendly clothing in […] More
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in Designers + Brands, Home LivingSolar power potential is active in many minds these days. It really makes sense for the yurt lifestyle, but creativity is required since you can’t rest solar panels on a fabric/vinyl yurt roof. Here stands John M. Brown on his yurt site in Glenville, West Virginia. He is so kind to share his knowledge on […] More
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in TravelingWhat a great new earth-friendly and stylish product! Introducing FLOAA Dish-sposables made from sugarcane. Yet it’s not just the material that’s eco-inventive, but the design. The bowl’s cavity catches the excess incase you happen to pour too much food or water in it. Perfect to prevent messes, especially for travelers. They’re stack-able and reusable too. More
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in Home LivingThere are a number of reasons to have single or several walls in a yurt, ‒ whether it be residential, commercial, or otherwise. And if you’ve been following the Yurt Living series, you know those walls are more like partitions, not flush with the ceiling. Sounds restricting, but actually not so. More
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in Accessories, Designers + Brands, MaterialsCork production methods continuously change, yet harvesting practices remain. Such a fine example of merging cultural respect with new technologies is Corx. This is a company in Sonoma, California with production in Portugal. There they make a new material, cork fabric. The fabric is organic and renewable, with characteristics similar to leather. More
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in Materials, Reviews, Sustainable FashionThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded this year that bamboo mills actually producing rayon or vicose were guilty of false advertising. The FTC action followed the Canadian Competition Bureau (CCB) in that the true rayon description be enforced. More
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in Contests, Designers + Brands, Materials, Sustainable FashionSandy Swan is the lead designer for Holy Cow. Her bio is an impressive design history that includes little boy’s apparel at OshKosh B’Gosh for six years. She recently created the kids collection in collaboration with Nordstrom stores. More