People Won't Change for the Environment (on my campus)
A recent article outlines a pretty simplistic poll conducted in London about people’s willingness to change their behaviour for the good of the planet. A straw poll of 15 British men and 15 British women between the ages of 25-75 in central London, showed all were willing to make small…
We Add Up
Last month I attended a green expo in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It was fun and there were a lot of interesting people to share stories, peddle eco-wares, and wax prolific on everything organic, local, and carbon neutral. One of the booths at the event was We Add Up. We Add…
Prairie Underground: Refined Sweatshirt Dressing for Fall
Starre Vartan and Arina Vikdorchik model matching Prairie Underground sweatshirt/dresses at Kaight. We BOTH ended up buying these organic cotton lovelies. I’m very excited by Prairie Underground‘s Fall collection, which is absolutely packed with pieces you’ll definitely wear as soon as the temperature dips. Organic cotton rules the line, with…
Deplasticize Your Life!
This movie from the 1950’s shows Disney’s “House of the Future” which is totally kitted out in plastic EVERYthing. Ironic that here I am from 2008 writing about how to get plastic out of my life! I haven’t picked up a plastic bag in weeks now*, and I’m looking for…
Autumn Eco Style Preview 1
Autumn is my absolute favorite time for buying clothes (one word: layers!!). I’m practically craving the cool days, cold nights and swirling leaves as I pant my way through August. One way I deal with my chilly-weather craving is to pour over possible outfits and how new additions will fit…
Nau Fall/Winter 2008 Collection: Gorgeousness!!!
Flourish Dress: I MUST have it. And I will, now that Nau is still around. Phew! Can you imagine a tunic this fab tossed into the design dustbin? Herewith, the reason I was so damn excited that Nau’s NOT Dead. Their sh*t is too sweet. Images above and below are…
Crunchy Greenolas: Organic and Sustainable Clothing
Crunchy Greenolas is my own personal review of new green stuff I’ve found- I’ve tried everything and these are the goods! • Tees For Change — “Sustainable tee on a mission, ” this fun and inspiring t-shirt line is made from organic cotton and bamboo. Shirts are adorned with positive…
Organic Stereo Cute Tunicness
Call me a kid, but I love the little-girl-in-a-tunic look that’s so prevalent this summer. I like wearing them over short-shorts since I’m a little tall to rock them purely as a dress, but I’m betting my more petite sisters could definitely get away with it. I like that I…
Nau's Not Dead!!
I was really bummed when I was planning on featuring some of Nau’s new summer fashions on this site and I got to their homepage and learned they were closing shop. But then….. ……they confounded us all by throwing a HUGE summer sale which had ridiculously good deals as part…
Sharkah Chakra: Greenest Jeans EVER?
Thankfully, there are a quite a few organic denim companies out there, so those of us who jones for jeans have great choices. (We’ve covered some of them here and here.) But
