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Eco Chick Escapes to Kaua’i: Hiking and Staying in Sustainable Style

The walk from the St. Regis Princeville to the beach.

My favorite kind of wedding to attend is, by far, the destination wedding. While an open bar is never not fun, it’s even better if the drinks are located in a country that takes a passport to get into. And a wedding is a genuine excuse to blow your budget to travel (I barely need an excuse to get out of town, but it’s always nice to have one).

So when my boyfriend received an invitation to nuptials in Kaua’i, I started planning the trip immediately, even though I had never met the bride or groom. Having sojourned on the Big Island and visited Oahu numerous times growing up, I was excited to check out “The Garden Isle” of Kaua’i, which I’d heard so much about.

The Makana Terrace at the St. Regis is just one of the hotel’s restaurants that serves local, organic food. Image courtesy St. Regis Princeville.

After scouring the web for ethical accommodations, I ended up at the St. Regis in Princeville, a stunning hotel in the old-school style, with impeccable customer service and a lobby that I’ll never forget (picture several story-high glass windows fronting a view of one of the most famed spots in Kaua’i and miles of ocean and sky).

While not a small lodging, the St. Regis is well integrated into its environment, and unlike many of the newer hotels I’ve lately seen, it doesn’t try to be more than its location. I have a major antipathy for cheesy, overdone, glitzy hotels that seem designed in Des Moines and plopped down wherever tourists are flying this year. The St. Regis is not one of these, but in its elegance, seems almost to serve to remind us why a boutique hotel isn’t always the way to go.

I had a bit of a stretch out on the rocks in the bay off the beach at the St. Regis.

I had the chance to have a lovely breakfast with Stephanie Reid, the Director of Public Relations for the hotel; she is both a native Hawaiian from Kaua’i (going back 10 generations) and a wealth of knowledge of the natural and human history about the area where the St. Regis is located.

To read the rest of this post, and see all the amazing images, please click over to our sister site, Eco Chick Escapes.

green, hawaii, Hiking, Kauai, princeville, st. regis, sustainable style, travel

Mission Savvy: An Eco Boutique Built on Passion for Animals and Sustainable Style (Video)

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by Starre Vartan · 10/12/11

What’s not to love? Mission Savvy is an eco boutique with a heart of gold. Check out the video below to hear about founder Jennifer Miller’s love of sustainable fashion and animals, and how she uses one to benefit the other.

Be sure to check out Mission Savvy’s Fall/Winter 2011 offerings from some of our favorite eco fashion designers, including Kelly Lane, Feral Childe, and Carrie Parry.

animal rights, animal welfare, boutique, eco fashion, mission savvy, Shopping, sustainable style

Eco Fashion Makeover: Sex & the City, Sustainable Style!

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by Greta Eagan · 06/15/10

SATC 2 Sustainable Style. The second Sex and the City Movie was a much anticipated style forecaster. Now, hot summer days are heating up the summer street scene and the cast of SATC was no exception!

Capture Kim Cattrall’s balanced sultry look with an organic bamboo and cotton blend dress from Jonano, vegan shoes from Cri de Coeur and handmade earrings from the human trafficking survivors in Vietnam. Traffic-stopping fashion never looked so good!

cri de coeur, eco fashion, Fashion Me Green, green fashion, Greta Eagan, jonano, made by survivors, SATC 2, summer fashion 2010, sustainable style

Eco Chic Weekly – December 16, 2008

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by Amanda Quraishi · 12/16/08

The Alternative Consumer tells you how to recognize if you’re a Trendy Fashion Victim…and how to slow it down if you are!

Eco-Chick encourages her readers to rock an Ugly Christmas Sweater.

Fashion, Evolved has a gift idea for the girl who has everything!

Green Cotton reports on the economic downfall crippling the recycling market and asks– is there anything we can do?

Green Girls Global introduces their newest team member, ethical fashion stylist Lou Taylor!

Green Girls.tv has an exclusive interview with eco fashion designer Nicole Facciuto.

Green Glam Girl sings the praises of the Goody Green Bag.