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What’s the Most Energy Efficient Home A/C Unit?

What’s the Most Energy Efficient Home A/C Unit?

Cooling leads to annual emissions of about 195 million tons of CO2—or two tons per year for each American home with A/C.

by × May 16, 2013 × 0 comments

Creative Arts

Party Time! Support Manufacture NY’s New Space and Made in NYC This Weekend

Party Time! Support Manufacture NY’s New Space and Made in NYC This Weekend

Join Manufacture NY as it toasts it’s new factory space in style!

by × May 15, 2013 × 0 comments

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Green Touch of Spain Pop-Up Shop in Brooklyn

Green Touch of Spain Pop-Up Shop in Brooklyn

The Green Touch of Spain is open Monday through Friday 11am-8pm, and Saturday and Sunday from Noon – 8pm from May 2 – 10. The shop is located at GGrippo art + design at 174 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.

by × May 7, 2013 × 0 comments

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A Real Solution to Fast Fashion and the Horrors of Foreign Clothing Production is Here (Video)

Manufacture New York founder Bob Bland tells CBS News that producing clothing in America is the answer to what happened in Bangladesh, and she makes [...]

by × May 6, 2013 × 0 comments

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Bangladesh’s Awful Building Collapse: Almost 400 dead, Over a Thousand Injured: This is Fast Fashion

Bangladesh’s Awful Building Collapse: Almost 400 dead, Over a Thousand Injured: This is Fast Fashion

Making just $37-$90 a month, its those incredibly low wages that are part of the reason we can buy clothing more cheaply in 2013 than in 1995, despite all other costs (materials, transportation, rents) having risen.

by × May 2, 2013 × 0 comments

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Maheya by Free People: Natural Dyes for Dresses, Caftans

Maheya by Free People: Natural Dyes for Dresses, Caftans

Launched on Earth Day, Maheya (meaning ‘of the earth’), is colored with marigold flowers, rhubarb, lilac, natural indigo, pomegranate skin, and annatto seeds.

by × April 29, 2013 × 0 comments

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Eco-Chick’s Sustainable Spring Fashion Party: Photos, Beauty, Love

Eco-Chick’s Sustainable Spring Fashion Party: Photos, Beauty, Love

It was all about local, local, local at the first ever Eco-Chick Sustainable Spring Fashion Party at Green Spaces in Tribeca.

by × April 23, 2013 × 0 comments

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BeGood Clothing’s Bright Colors for a Sustainable Spring

BeGood Clothing’s Bright Colors for a Sustainable Spring

BeGood Clothing is a socially responsible and eco-friendly clothing store located online and on Union Street in San Francisco. The store is giving a new [...]

by × April 22, 2013 × 0 comments

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Artist Asher Jay’s “Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle” at the American Museum of Natural History

Artist Asher Jay’s “Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle” at the American Museum of Natural History

A special installation of Asher Jay’s visually arresting campaign of hand-painted PET bottles titled SEA SPEAK SPHERE: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE will be on display [...]

by × April 13, 2013 × 0 comments

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Emma Grady’s Vintage Style for Spring: Found Accessories from Brooklyn to Maine

Emma Grady’s Vintage Style for Spring: Found Accessories from Brooklyn to Maine

Emma Grady, founder of PastFashionFuture.com, is one of those women with an incredible eye, able to spot the perfect accessory from 50 paces off (see [...]

by × April 10, 2013 × 0 comments