published September 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos: Melissa.com.br. Responsibly produced and vegan, Melissa shoes are also beautiful looking and always innovating, teaming up with designers such as Zaha Hadid, Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano for amazing new models. Their recently launched new collection Amazonista takes a look at colors and textures from the Brazilian forest, which you'll be able to find soon at a new ...
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published September 21, 2010 and has No Comments
(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of ...
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published September 20, 2010 and has No Comments
The designs of Auralís Herrero wowed the crowds at last week's GreenShows. Green is the new black. And if you don't believe us, check this: eBay listings with the term "organic" have nearly doubled since this time last year, while sales for items with the term have risen 30 percent. Among the forces propelling green fashion along: the GreenShows, ...
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published September 20, 2010 and has No Comments
photos: Matthew McDermott Park(ing) Day has been a much-covered event here on TreeHugger for the past several years, and for good reason: It's undeniably good fun to reclaim a bit of pavement used every other day of the week save for a Friday in mid-September, roll out the sod and create your own little bit of park in the ...
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published September 12, 2010 and has No Comments
For ethical fashion label Edun , founded by U2 front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson , achieving their goal of creating more jobs in Africa, one of the company's founding principles back in 2005, has to be simultaneously developed with creating a product that is in high demand. On September 11, Edun showed their S... Read the ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
GULI Collection, Spring 2011 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady New York Fashion's Week 's GreenShows have yet to begin and I have already been pounding the pavement attending runway shows and presentations in search of up-and-coming green designers and for hints that more sustainable processes have begun to permeate mainstream fashion. Like de... Read the full story ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Life Dynamix There's (thankfully) been a lot of attention focused lately on the behind-the-scenes influence of corporations on public policy and opinion -- see Jane Mayer's great expose of the extremely powerful billionaire Koch brothers for a good example. Over the last year we've seen corporations sponsor "grassroots" movements fighting health care reform, the oil industry back ...
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published September 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Packing paper with recycled trim. Credit: Patti Robinson When Patti Robinson, a summer camp instructor at The Art Farm in Bridgehampton, NY, sent over some photos of recycled fashion, I was intrigued -- especially with the shape and design of the one, above -- and even more so when she told me that the young campers who crafted these ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
A design by Özgür Masur from Argande 's 2010-2011 fall-winter collection. Istanbul was abuzz last week about the latest efforts to position the city as a new fashion capital and help Turkey move from manufacturer of raw materials for clothing to purveyor of style. The third Istanbul Fashion Week drew plenty of press and party-goers and even a few ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
It's Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier ...
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