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Make Love Not Trash's Organic Denim Accessories Have Biker Chic in the Bag
You're hard-nosed about trash, run roughshod over junk mail, and crack down on plastic consumables. Despite that earth-mother, granola-crunching exterior, you're no one's patsy, so shouldn't your bag be just as tough?
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Actress Julia Stiles Parodies Celeb Designers With Mock Eco-Fashion Line
Actress Julia Stiles, whose oeuvre runs the gamut from drippy rom-coms (Down to You, The Prince and Me) to blockbuster thrillers (the Bourne trilogy), busts out her comedic chops in an online lampoon of
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Vanishing Creatures Chocolates Feature Zero-Waste Packaging With Bonus Surprise
When you've been reporting about sustainability in design as long as we have, well, jaded doesn't even begin to cover it. So it's no small feat when something rocks our proverbial socks off as much as
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Wembé Infuses Soap With Spirit of the Amazon
In this tough economy, launching a new biz is probably the last thing on anybody's mind. But recession or no recession, personal hygiene continues to be paramount, right? Paraguayan company Wembé is still wet behind the ears—it
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Memo to Neiman's, Bergdorf's: No Such Thing As "Cava" Fur (Also, Ocelots Are Endangered)
The Humane Society of the United States sent fur flying on Wednesday when it tried to sic the Federal Trade Commission on Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman for alleged false advertising and mislabeling of fur,
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Areaware's CarryMe DS: The Smallest, Lightest Folding Bike in the World?
Move over, Strida, Areaware has added a new folding bike to its fold, and the company is heralding it the lightest and smallest of its ilk. The CarryMe DS, which folding-bike aficionados will recognize as a George Lin/Pacific
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Artecnica Brings Flatpack Design to Life, Including a Reusable Bag You Haven't Seen Yet
From canvas carryalls to candy-wrapper shoppers, when it comes to reusable bags, we're suffering from a massive case of seen-that-schlepped-that. Then Artecnica swooped in out of left field with its StretchBag, an inspired
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Raquel M. Soares' Reclaimed Wooden Jewelry Makes Avant-Garde Statement
When dressing up for drama, it's go big or go home. That's one mantra Portuguese designer Raquel M. Soares has taken to heart with her Boaba line of wooden jewelry, available at TOUCH. The bold statement pieces,
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Old News: Funky Recycled Hangers by Ryan Frank Made From Newspapers
Photo credit: Ryan Frank Ryan Frank's Zilka hanger has undergone a bit of a makeover since we spied it last. Spotted at TOUCH's booth at the New York International Gift Fair, the hanger is made entirely from reclaimed British newspapers, with a pulpy,
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Designer Joey Roth Builds Zero-Waste Show Booth From Discarded Materials
You can take Joey Roth out of TreeHugger, but you can't take the tree-hugger out of Joey Roth. A man with a plan, the Sorapot designer and TreeHugger alum arrived on setup day at the New York International Gift Fair last
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Hemp for Hanes? Crunchy Fiber Set For World Domination
After toiling for nearly a decade to shake hemp's burlap-sack connotations—and prove that the fiber is a viable replacement for cotton—Naturally Advanced Technologies (née Hemptown) may finally have its day.
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PACT: It Designer Yves Béhar's Bold, Sexy Undies Spark Social Movement
The industrial designer who put green bunny ears on the XO Laptop, raised a flatpack stool origami-style, and conceptualized the sleek Herman Miller Leaf lamp now wants to get into your pants—or more accurately, his undies inside
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Denim Therapy Takes You From Here to Maternity (And Back Again)
There are a few ways to get through nine months of pregnancy without buying a stitch of maternity clothing: You can tap into your network of mama friends, stick to voluminous maxi dresses ala Angelina Jolie, fake it with a
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Less Sex, More TV Solution to India's Overpopulation?
Remember the Indian minister who suggested that late-night television could curb India's birthrate by making people too tired for sex? His proposal to wire every Indian village for boob-tube viewing made the airwaves of CNN
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Philippine Fiber Secret to Naturally Water-Repellent Rainwear
In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known
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8 Scary, Bizarre, and Gag-Inducing Natural Beauty Treatments
Oh, the astonishing lengths we'll go to slow the march of time. In the universal quest to thwart the aging process, people will try anything. And we do mean anything. Jabbing botulinum toxin into your forehead, it seems, is
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Men's Green Fashion Guide: Dress Shirts
A month ago, my colleague Matt McDermott bemoaned the dearth of eco-fashion for men beyond the preponderance of organic cotton T-shirts and denim jeans. "More often than not, men's eco-clothing is ill-conceived, poorly cut,
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Bamboozled? Bamboo Fabric Far From Eco-Friendly, Says FTC
Longstanding claims of bamboo fabric's planet-loving ways? Nothing but a load of horse hockey, says the Federal Trade Commission, who charged four companies on Tuesday with violating the Textile Act and Rules by making "false
