Articles tagged “Responsible Shopping”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

It's Here: Green Your Black Friday By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 25 2008 Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is my least favorite day of the year. It's crazy-bananas-shopping day. A flood of Christmas shoppers descend upon the country and root through our nation's malls and shopping centers with a fervency that mirrors Ponce De Leon's fruitless search for the Fountain of Youth. There has got to be a better way. + READ MORE

Have a Thanksgiving Conversation about Conservation with Your Family By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Nov 25 2008 In these heady, giddy days of the early holiday season, we can get caught up in a current of commercialism and materialism. Our hearts become bigger than our heads and a wave of euphoric shopoholism washes over us like a mercantile baptismal fount. Our family members, isolated and globe-scattered as they might be, may want to reunite for the holiday season. + READ MORE

Three Great Source Lists for Organic and Eco-Friendly Fabrics By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 29 2008 For the DIYers among us, knowing where to find eco-friendly fabrics for crafting and sewing projects is essential. The more we can support green and sustainable fabrics, the faster we can help transform the textile industry's impact on the environment. + READ MORE

Don't Buy Eco-Nightmare Collectible Plates By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 9 2008 Ever see those videos late at night for collectible plates or commemorative coin sets? Who in the lame invented those? What kind of thrill seeker is sitting at home pining for a plate featuring famous presidents, mountain wildlife or religious icons? Don't get me started about Precious Moments Figurines. Those things are awful. + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Save More By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 8 2008 Marketers often tout tinier versions of regular-sized food as fun-sized or snack-sized. A candy bar by its very definition is a snack. So how can a smaller candy bar be considered more snack-sized? Wouldn't it be a snackier-sized or resized snack? Besides for posing a threat to the English language, these tyke-sized treats pose a threat to the environment. + READ MORE

Stop Using Plastic Bags, Save Dolphins By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 8 2008 Not to be overly angst-ridden here, but you know what really drives me nuts? People adoring dolphins and then not minding using plastic bags at every opportunity. Dolphins are well-noted for being graceful and highly intelligent animals. We watch them perform at shows. We buy trinkets with their image. And yet, for whatever reason, we (collectively) love to ignore the fact that our plastic bag habit is destroying them. + READ MORE

Hollywood Green Episode: Miley Cyrus Gives Back & Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Baby Food Recipe By Team Planet Green IN Aug 6 2008 Highlights include: Learn eco-tourism tips like how to get away and give back in New Orleans. Checkout Miley Cyrus on her new eco-single whose earnings give back to the planet. Rita Wilson on Mama Mia and line drying. Gwyneth Paltrow's... + READ MORE

Ecoist Turns Trash into Treasure By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 1 2008 When I was in 3rd grade I used a shoestring, some paperclips and a penny to make a necklace for my mom. I just knew she would wear it with pride to all her formal functions. Unfortunately, the day I gave it to her was the last time I saw my precious creation. Perhaps she didn?t know that one day it would be fashionable to wear repurposed materials as jewelry. Though mom wasn?t on the cutting edge, today environmentally conscious companies are creating functional works of art from discarded items. + READ MORE

Wearing Sustainability on Your Sleeve By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty May 14 2008 One of the 7 foundational habits of highly effective people is thinking win-win, which is also one of the working mantras of sustainability. Indeed today many of us want to live more sustainable, more eco-friendly lives, but we want to look good too. + READ MORE

Bring Your Own Takeout Lunch Box By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health May 2 2008 You're a savvy eco-consumer: You bring your own mug to the coffee shop and your own bags to the supermarket. How about kicking up a tasty notch and toting along your own lunch box, too? + READ MORE

Celebrate Earth Day, Doggy-Style By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 14 2008 Get your pup Earth Day-ready with From Scratch's latest crop of 100 percent recycled-cotton dog tees.Comprising 65 percent reclaimed cotton waste and 35 percent used plastic bottles, the 10 styles include planet-loving tag lines such as "TreeHugger" (our personal favorite), "Be Kind to Mother Earth," "I'm All Natural,"... + READ MORE

Ask Summer Rayne: What Is Fair Trade Fashion? By Summer Rayne Oakes IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 9 2008 What exactly is fair-trade fashion?A fair-trade label also ensures that artisans receive long-term trading agreements, living wages, fair working conditions, and, often, reinvestment back in their community through education and other facilities.People Tree, a label based out of the U.K. and Japan, really helped put the + READ MORE

Know Your Organic Food Brands By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Apr 2 2008 Unless you've been in a coma or a self-imposed media blackout for the past couple of years, you know that Burt's Bees has been snapped up by bleach-loving Clorox, and that Dagoba Organic Chocolate now belongs to the multinational Hershey corporation.With innumerable acquisitions and mergers happening by the minute, it's + READ MORE

Meet Lea Simpson of Unchained, a Guide to Independent Shops By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Apr 2 2008 Welcome to Planet Green's series about Change Makers.For example, two weeks ago I sat in an antique shop in Islington, drinking cherry tea with the shop owner's dog curled up in my lap as we chatted.I also meet... + 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

Learn About, Find Fair-Trade Goods By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Feb 6 2008 Fair trade is a model of international trade that promotes giving farmers and producers equitable compensation for their labors-or what counts as a living wage in the country of their origin-so that the lion's share of the producers' hard-earned profits aren't whisked away by predatory (and unnecessary) middlemen. To... + READ MORE

Learn What Goes into Your Clothes By Collin Dunn IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 4 2007 Think about the shirt you're wearing, or your rain jacket, or your shoes: What are they made of? In the case of a single cotton men's polo shirt, it all adds up to a long distance traveled (over 14,000 miles), a lot of carbon dioxide emissions (27 pounds per shirt), 10 ounces of waste produced (roughly the same weight... + READ MORE

Apparel Stores: Our Favorite Sites. By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 23 2007 BeklinaComforted by nature, inspired by design, Beklina is passionate about living at the harmonious crossroads of the two.The Green LoopGreenloop provides the opportunity to do good with out sacrificing your sense of style, by providing sustainable fashions made by conscientious companies who are committed to... + READ MORE