Engage(ingly) Green
I spotted Leonor Mendoza’s super-cool Engage Green bags in Grand Central at the Christmas Bazaar as I was zooming by to catch a bus to JFK airport, and I had to stop! I was so caught up in her descriptions and checking out the bags that I almost missed my…
Plastic Bag Plague: Five Easy Ways To Remember Your Reusable
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom started the fire. In March of 2007, Newsom passed the nation’s first plastic bag ban outlawing San Fran’s supermarkets and large retailers from offering customers non-biodegradable plastic bags. Though Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Norway and Australia have long imposed restrictions on bag use, several countries…
Lucky Mag's Great Green Resources
The February issue of Lucky Magazine (with an Eco-Chick favorite, Hayden Panettiere), on the cover, has some really fun green content, along with their regular fashion how-to’s and trend reports. It’s great that mags aren’t just running ‘green’ issues anymore; now ecofashion and beauty products are just a part of…
EVO's Big-Tent Green Shopping Revolution
Last week, EVO, the get-everything-green-in-one-place site launched, and it’s pretty awesome. They have a ‘Green Rating System’ for each one of their products that works like this: Simply put, how green a product is depends on what it’s made from, how it’s produced, the distance it travels to reach the…
Lululemon & oqoqo in Chicago
One thing that’s driven me crazy since moving to Germany is the total lack of decent clothing for working out … and by decent, I mean that it had to fulfill at least one of my sustainability criteria: be made of organic or sustainable fabric, be recycled or secondhand, or…
Change Handbags
Change Handbags is a small company run by two moms, Meg and Sara, so they know how to make a bag that’s useful and fabulous. There’s the super-tough shopping/beach/carryall bags that you can have customized for fundraisers or an organization, or just use for shopping or the gym (made from…
Fab Green Thanksgiving Weekend Sales
OK, so I totally forgot and just bought used books despite the fact that I was trying to partake in Buy Nothing Day. If you’re also doing a little shopping this weekend (trying to get a head-start on holiday gifts, of course!), then check out one of these eco-friendly boutiques:…
Shopping Blogroll Shout-Out!
Whether you’re a regular visitor to Eco Chick or are here for the first time, I have to point out the new and improved Ecofashion links on the right side of the page! I’ve been working very hard, trying to include all the latest sustainable and environmentally-friendly brands, stores and…
Car-free living
Car-free living is unbelievably easy here in Germany; the country has one of the most extensive train networks in the world. Every major city has a subway or tram line to get you in and out of the city quickly. And bike paths are laid through cities and farm fields,…
Etsy’s handmade goodies
A few weeks ago, while strolling through a farmer’s market in Amsterdam, I came upon a stall selling these purses … I chatted with the seller for a bit and he explained the process his partner went through making these. The idea was simple, really … recycled munitions pouches from…
