Eco Chick Giveaway: Win an Organic Cotton Excentree T-Shirt
One of the four women’s tees available. Excentree t-shirts are all organic, limited-edition (only 100 of each design), and include a tree planting in a country of your choice. You have a chance to win both a t-shirt and a tree planting (which offsets one ton of carbon) by entering…
Adhesif Spring/Summer 2010: Vintage, Post-Victorian Eco Fashion from Vancouver
This is my favorite look (Pause blouse and Spin skirt) of the S/S ’10 Collection; a perfect feminine shape plus madcap mixed pattern. What could be more appropriately 2010? The Adhesif Spring/Summer 2010 collection is a riot of color, pattern, and vintage loveliness, for which it’s been getting lots of…
Chic Scents from Tallulah Jane and A Perfume Organic
Have you ever found a fragrance that blended so well with your natural scent, it seemed like it was made for you? The kind of scent that compels you to furtively sniff your own wrists, and makes men find your neck completely irresistible? For a long time I thought I…
Sunday Splurge: Insanely Blingy (in a Good Way) Recycled Necklace from Dotted Loop
Totally over-the-top recycled/upcycled necklace from Dotted Loop This necklace would look great with almost any outfit, from amping up a pattern-on-pattern ensemble (it’s 2010, go for it!) or styling up an LBD. Or my fave idea: Really yum with jeans and a white button down, sleeves rolled up, black patent-leather…
Eco Chick Giveaway! Envirosax Totebag from New La Boheme Line
I’ve been using my green Envirosax bag for years and it just keeps on keepin’ on! The Queen of reusable shopping bags, it is made from some material that can hold superheavy loads (they say up to 44 lbs, and I believe them) but unlike a canvas bag, also folds…
Eco Fashion Designer Spotlight: Doie’s Sara Kirsner
Editor’s Note: At Eco Chick, we have long championed the eco fashion movement, and so as a new feature in 2010, we are debuting the Eco Fashion Designer Spotlight. Every other week we will be getting the low-down from a new eco fashion designer on how she or he works…
Eco Chick’s Heroines for the Planet: Josie Maran
She’s a top model, actress, hot mama, businesswoman and one of the world’s most recognizable women in green. So it’s only natural that Josie Maran would be the first in a fun new series of interviews Eco Chick will be doing with green movers and shakers, Eco Chick’s Heroines for…
Hot Latin Calendar Draws Attention to Climate Change, Extinction, Conservation
Puerto Rican Alessandra Rampolla embodies global warming as the January image for the Ecological Footprint calendar. As reported by Treehugger, the Ecological Footprint calendar is a collaboration between the Azara Foundation and fashion photog Gaby Herbstein to raise awareness of global environmental issues. Super-creative and totally gorgeous shots, all! Very…
Human Ingredients T-Shirt: Fascinating and Disturbing
This thought-provoking tee isn’t organic, but it is available on American Apparel stock shirts, so at least you can choose a fair-trade option. I think this is totally genius, and includes all the heavy metals that have worked their way into the bodies of every human being on the planet-…
Fix Winter Frizz: 3 Organic Mega-Hydrating Deep Conditioner Recipes
Image via mikal_bisnovat Brrr! It’s brutally cold outside for most of us this winter, and the harsh wind combined with dry indoor heating robs our hair of its moisture. Get some luster back into your locks with easy, homemade deep conditioning recipes that only take a few minutes to whip…