Stephanie Rogers
Stephanie Rogers is a fashion- and beauty-obsessed freelance writer with an abiding love for kale and organic wine, living in Asheville, North Carolina.
Crazy Hair Colors: Green Beauty for Drag Queens & Makeup Fiends
Electric turquoise, pale lavender, icy blue-gray, baby pink - unnatural hair colors in every shade of the rainbow are showing up in fashion shoots, on the runways and in music videos.
The Fashion Duel: Greenpeace Challenges Fashion to Clean Up its Act
The leather industry is leading to deforestation in the Amazon, the textile industry pollutes rivers with hazardous chemicals, and the habitat of Sumatran tigers is being destroyed for low-cost pulp packaging. As Greenpeace puts it, “fashion is too beautiful to be involved in this mess.” The environmental organization challenges fashion…
Eco Fashion Label LYS Battles Kmart Over Brand Identity Rip-Off
It’s any small business owner’s worst nightmare: realizing that a larger, much more powerful company has stolen your intellectual property, and that fighting them will be an uphill battle at best. Designer Liz Seklir of the eco-friendly label LYS learned about a seemingly overt copy of her concept when her…
Make Your Own Energy Bars! 5 Healthy, Natural Snack Recipes
Protein-packed energy bars are an ideal snack before workouts, on the plane or any time you start to feel your eyelids drooping and your attention waning. Too bad most of the packaged energy bars sold in stores are either loaded with unnecessary sugar, overly processed, expensive or shipped from the…
Natural False Lashes: Green Beauty for Drag Queens & Makeup Fiends
Unfortunately, most false lashes are made from unsustainable or unethical materials, and lash adhesive is almost always loaded with formaldehyde. Here's some great healthy alts.
Well Dressed: Livia Firth’s Eco Age and the Observer Honor Stylish, Sustainable Fashion
Sustainable style guru and Eco-Chick Heroine for the Planet Livia Firth will have a hand in choosing the Observer Ethical Awards‘ first sustainable fashion champion for 2013! Organized by British newspaper The Observer in collaboration with eco-friendly cleaning product company Ecover, these awards celebrate the people, campaigns and initiatives making…
Make Your Own Kale Chips: A Healthy, Crunchy, Savory Snack Recipe
If you're going to be addicted to something, it might as well be one of the healthiest foods on the planet.
Green Beauty for Drag Queens & Makeup Fiends: Dramatic Eyes
Does loving dramatic, edgy makeup and hair styles mean you’re stuck with potentially toxic beauty products that get great results, but might be slowly poisoning you? No way. Sometimes, it seems like non-toxic beauty products are marketed to the kind of women who already have flawless skin, thick lashes, shiny…
Food Tastes Better When It's Fair Trade Certified
You know how every now and then, you take a bite of something and it’s so insanely good, your eyes involuntarily roll back into your head? Moments like those are few and far between for most of us, especially because food that divine is often outrageously decadent or made with…
3 Amazing Fall Vegetarian Soups That Will Rock Your World
That’s right, I said these three soup recipes are amazing. And they’re vegetarian, no less. Maybe it’s not often that such a strong adjective is used in connection with light brothy concoctions that generally serve as an unremarkable precursor to a more satisfying meal. But have you ever had butternut…
