published April 17, 2009 and has No Comments
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff of EcoStiletto.com If bags are your bag, then Monday night's BagTrends Green Arm Candy Party would have been your Mecca. Co-hosted by the effervescent Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff of EcoStiletto.com in New York City, the schmooze-booze-and-fondle-the-goods fest served up purses, totes, satchels, clutches, duffels, backpacks, hobos, and messengers galore, all with a sustainable schtick for guilt-free schlepping. ...
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published April 16, 2009 and has No Comments
Recently I penned a scathing post about a move by the USDA to designate PVC as “ organic vinyl ”. However, I didn’t publish the post. Because, on double checking my sources, I discovered it was an April Fools joke. I’m therefore very pleased to have a positive (and factual) story in the same realm. Mountain Equipment Cooperative (MEC) ...
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published April 14, 2009 and has No Comments
Nemo Equipment and their ambition to make green lightweight camping gear , especially tents, first scored a mention back in August 2008. Their recent winning of an Outside Magazine’s 2009 Gear of the Year Award (for the Losi 3P Tent) prompted us to check in on their progress in crafting a recycled tent and bamboo tent poles....
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published April 11, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Rickshaw Bagworks The marriage of form and function has yielded a generation of elegant, ergonomic, extraordinarily functional and economical products. Great design is no longer confined to high-end goods, as mass marketers such as Target have partnered with top designers to “democratize” great design. We are indeed in a golden age of product design. ...
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published April 7, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: BagTrends BagTrends' popular Arm Candy Party has turned a bright shade of chartreuse. The first BagTrends Green Arm Candy Party, which will take place in the Big Apple on April 13, will bring you a stellar—and sustainable—cast of bag and jewelry designers, including TreeHugger faves like Teich (formerly aGaiN NYC ), Canopy Verde , and Ashley Watson ...
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published April 4, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: its-laS-tik As Earth Month celebrations kick into high gear, Sue Princiotto, the designer and CEO of What'S ur Bag , has sent complete sets of her ultrastretchy its-laS-tik bags and pouches to the White House, in the hopes that President Barack Obama will get his staff to do away with disposable plastic bags . The reusable shoppers, ...
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published March 31, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Crystalyn Kae That squeaking sound you hear? That's me saving up my pennies for one of Crystalyn Kae's luscious climate-forward bags. Handmade in Seattle from start to finish, most of the designer's distinctive totes and clutches are crafted from a waterproof faux leather made by coating upholstery-grade fabric with a colored glaze, then embossing it with a ...
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published March 26, 2009 and has No Comments
Photos: Klättermusen Klättermusen are having a busy March, being an environmentally active manufacturer of outdoor clothing and equipment. At the start of the month they launched their recycling programme, dubbed rECOver . From now on Klättermusen products will bear a small label indicating the value that product has if returned to a Klättermusen stockist. Customers will be refunded up ...
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published March 10, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Canopy Verde Linda Wong admits to having a major bag fixation. In fact, the designer and founder of Canopy Verde , a line of eco-friendly clutches and totes that debuted last fall, was so vociferous about curtailing the use of plastic bags that her high-school friends soon dubbed her the "bag police." Canopy Verde's premiere collection features ...
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