Articles tagged “Clothing”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Save Energy With Your Jeans By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 8 2008 This odd little vid from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-which features a couple boogeying down to the "Tecktonic," a popular new dance in France-offers advice on how to you can consume up to five times less energy by wearing your jeans at least three times, washing them in cold water, and skipping the... + READ MORE

Turn an Unwanted Shirt into a Scented Sachet By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 7 2008 If the frou-frouness of lavender sachets offends you or your mate's masculine sensibilities-but you wish your closet would stop assailing your nostrils with assorted mystery smells-take a page from Barbara Milo Ohrbach, author of The Scented Room (1986, Clarkson Potter), who suggests recycling worn shirts into unfrilly... + READ MORE

Get a Fixit Solution at FixYa By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 28 2008 Before you declare your electronic doodad or geegaw a goner, consider getting some free technical advice on Fixya, a Web site packed with community-generated content on how to troubleshoot a host of gadgets, electronic equipment, and consumer products. Not only does Fixya connect you with 165 experts who can offer... + READ MORE

Eat Häagen-Dazs, Save Bees By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Mar 26 2008 Thanks to Haagen-Dazs, eating ice cream is a good start to helping save the dwindling honeybee population, which we rely on for one-third of our food supply.Increase native bee populations by planting bee-friendly plants such as lavender, jasmine, rosemary, violets, thyme, and sunflowers. + READ MORE

Help Britney Help the Environment By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 25 2008 Britney Spears has never struck us a Mother Earth-type figure, but the beleaguered chanteuse is giving the planet the clothes off her back-literally. At press time, bids totaled ,979.43, with most of the attention fluttering around a rust-colored embroidered dress by Nanette Lepore, which started at 0 and quickly... + READ MORE

Help End Sweatshops By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 25 2008 Sweatshops and forced child labor are a growing problem, especially in the clothing and textiles industry.Ask questions about how the workers who make its products are treated, whether the workers are paid a living wage-enough to support their families-and if the business has a code of conduct that protects human rights + READ MORE

Green Your Exercise Routine By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Mar 18 2008 While medical and exercise experts clash over whether exercise is the best remedy for a hangover, after all that green beer last night, why not stick to the theme and give your workout a bright shade of emerald, as well?Unplug at home: If outdoor exercise isn't an option, you can still create a home gym using equipment... + READ MORE

Choose a Green Wedding Dress By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 14 2008 Who cares what anybody else is wearing? Let's be honest-it's all about The Dress. (We might talk about garb for the groom-to-be later. Maybe.) Whether you're gliding down a rose-petal-strewn aisle or kicking off your clogs at the beach, here's how you can look like one hot matrimonial mama, without running roughshed over the environment. + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: Quit Your Job By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 14 2008 While quitting your job to save money may sound counterintuitive-and to folks from my parents' generation, pure insanity-Trent from The Simple Dollar estimates that his leap from 9-to-5 drone to work-from-home mercenary will save him approximately ,000 per year. Eliminated travel expenses: Trent's job required him to + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: gDiapers, the Hybrid Diaper By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Mar 13 2008 Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert.They know they are making a lot less trash, and they can work laundering the covers into a doable schedule in the building's shared laundry room-something they say they couldn't have done with 100 percent cloth. + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Heidi Matonis, Founder of Positivitee By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 12 2008 Today, we're going to meet Heidi Matonis, founder and principal designer for Positivitee, a line of sustainable and sweatshop-free activist shirts and tees with a difference: $5 from the sale of each shirt goes toward a non-profit organization such as the Retired Thoroughbred Foundation, Oceana, and Heifer International. + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Caroline Priebe of Uluru By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Mar 5 2008 Today, we're going to meet Caroline Priebe, the fashion designer behind the glamorous sustainable label Uluru.Change Makers is series of interviews with people famous and obscure, who answer questions about how they are creating a more sustainable world through their work and personal lives. + READ MORE

Dress Baby in Hand-Me-Downs By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 3 2008 There's no need to swaddle your baby in expensive brand-new clothing when hand-me-downs are perfectly serviceable-trust us, the kid willn't be able to tell the difference, much less be emotionally scarred by the indignity of wearing "used".Most cities have resale and consignment stores that supply gently used baby... + READ MORE

Swap Your Baby Stuff for Free With Freepeats By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 15 2008 Babies and little ones light up our lives, but, baby, they grow fast. The site hosts an online community that helps parents trade gently-used baby, kid, and maternity items like clothing, high chairs, bouncers, swings, bikes, and toys, all for free, from other local parents who have finished with them. + READ MORE

Request a Clothing Recycling Bin from Wearable Collections By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Jan 30 2008 While most clothing brands don't have a take-back program like Patagonia does, Manhattanites in the Big Apple have another option that makes recycling used duds as easy as recycling bottles. cans. and newspapers. Wearable Collections makes it easy for people to donate used clothing by placing collection bins in their... + READ MORE

Recycle Your Old Clothes with Patagonia By Collin Dunn IN Fashion & Beauty Jan 28 2008 Cleaning out your unused clothes by practicing the closet trick and hosting a clothing swap party are great ways to cut back on clothes and benefit the planet, but what do you do with things that nobody else wants like long underwear and worn-out fleece?They use a fiber-to-fiber recycling system to make new long... + READ MORE

Dry Clean Your Clothes Without Harming the Planet By Collin Dunn IN Fashion & Beauty Jan 23 2008 It'd be great if we could all just toss our clothes into the washing machine (with the cold/cold setting, of course), but lots of wintertime wear, like wool sweaters and jackets, have the "dry clean only" label attached. Unfortunately, conventional dry cleaning is a decidedly un-green process-most dry cleaners use the... + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Paul Weinstein Of Truly Organic Apparel By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Jan 23 2008 Today, we're going to meet Paul Weinstein of Tenfold Organic Textiles.The most rewarding part of my work is: knowing that we are making a difference in how consumers and businesses look at textiles, and [by] encouraging them to ask questions about the total impact of the product, including processing.The results I... + READ MORE

Ask Why Before You Buy By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 22 2008 The best way to win the war with clutter? How tied are my present job and lifestyle to installment payments, maintenance and repair costs, and the expectations of others? + READ MORE

Join the Shift to Thrift By Lloyd Alter IN Tech & Transport Jan 21 2008 In the United Kingdom, one of the surprise hits in the book world is David Kynaston's Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (2008, Walker & Company), which documents the way Britons adapted to the dire shortages after World War II.Create a soap ball in the kitchen: Collect tiny fragments of soap from elsewhere in the house, then + READ MORE