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Eco-Chick Covers Project Earth Day Fashion Show
Photo by Starre Vartan As we told you earlier this month, Allison Teich of AGaiN NYC went straight from London Fashion Week's Estethica exhibition to pulling together students and NYC green designers for a fashion-forward nod to Earth Day. Eco-Chick was
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Style.com Green Shopping Guide: Greenwashing a gogo?
It seems like we're over the hump when it comes to convincing influential consumers that green is sexy. You know about all of the green magazine issues and green fashion events. Now we're at that critical point where "green" needs to become integrated
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Alisha Trimble and Sarah Shears: Re-fashioning Williamsburg
It's spring, and you have choices: make last year's warm weather clothes work again, or go on a seasonal shopping spree. Alisha Trimble and Sarah Shears can help you with TreeHuggery ways of doing both. First, the duo will show you how to turn your
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Vanity Fair Green Issue II: Bigger, Better, Longer Lasting
It's Vanity Fair, people. We could wax poetic about RFK Jr.'s two articles (one on the Bush administration's environmental decision-maker appointments, another on falconing) or E.O. Wilson's report on the state of the planet. Really, though, we don't
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Slow Food, Slow Fashion
You don't necessarily hear "London" and think "culinary extravaganza." Imagine how surprising it was to find the food as engrossing as the fashion during February's London Fashion week (and we don't just mean potato chips). After sampling as many
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Project Earth Day Fashion Show
New Yorkers: o2-NYC and the New York chapter of Emerging Green Builders (part of the USGBC) want you to celebrate Earth Day by watching some of your best up-and-coming and established eco-fashion designers on the catwalk!Allison Teich of AgaIN NYC has
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Sharkwater: Demystifying Ocean Beasts
Can terror pass through amniotic fluid? My mother jokes that seeing Jaws at the height of her pregnancy transmitted the phobia that kept me from snorkeling in the open seas until age 27. Who knows? Certainly there are many of us out there whose
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Burt's Chips During London Fashion Week
As the Size 0 row raged on at London Fashion Week, we stuffed our faces. (How fun it is to use the TreeHugger Imperial We when writing about England!) That's right. At London's version of Whole Foods, Burt's Chips stood out as a cute, lightweight and
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An Inconvenient Truth: Oscar Winner
AP Photo Like nearly every Grey's Anatomy episode, the Oscars generally make me cry and laugh out loud at least twice. This year of feel-good internationalism and "every nominee is a winner" egalitarianism was no exception. However, a brand new, twist
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Britney Spears: Baldness is an Environmentally Responsible Choice
Ah, the good old days, when Britney's Zeitgeist-ing life choices centered around affecting a British accent and eco-mom-ing it. In case you're in some sort of subterranean bliss, Britney Spears went all Sinead on us this weekend. I'm choosing not to
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The Citizen's Band: Get on Their Mailing List
At last week's EDUN show, we were introduced to the Citizen's Band. The performance art collective deals with social issues through cabaret, employing original numbers and innovative interpretations. A sampling of their
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charity: water. Give Clean Drinking Water Valentine's Day
At Sundance, charity: water raised $23,200, "Enough for 6 wells in Ethiopia, or 15 wells in Liberia." Today they're bringing on an e-greeting donation challenge: We're offering $20 charity: water Valentine's Day cards until 7 p.m eastern time. You've
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EDUN: Intriguing. But How Green? How Fair?
Over the last week you've likely seen photos of darkly clad crooners along with headlines about "Green fashion" and "Fashion getting its conscience" and "Indie film stars"
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"So Ethic" at Salon Prêt à Porter Paris
Don't you wish you could clone yourself sometimes? This week, TreeHugger Celine Ruben-Salama and I are covering NY Fashion week, filling you in on the millionth of a percent of eco and ethical fashion on the runways. If we were in Paris, we'd be at the
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The North Face/Lexus Ice Lounge at Sundance: Celeb Offsetting Bonanza
In addition to making Project Greenhouse happen, Lexus partnered with The North Face to create the Ice Lounge.
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The Unforeseen: Smart, Beautiful Sundance Documentary Explores Residential Growth
Though it draws from a rich cast of Austin, TX characters, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen could have been set just about anywhere in the U.S. Most of us know what it's like to see residential real estate development radically transform the landscape we
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Lexus Hybrid Living's Project Greenhouse at Sundance
Ok. There was a lot of criticism of non-film-related marketing at the Sundance this year. It's super easy to approach eco-SWAG and marketing with cynicism. But, guess what? In an all-around optimistic frame of mind, I found myself feeling like that
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Freedom Fuels: FREE, Downloadable Alternative Fuels Doc
Have you wondered about the differences among biodiesel, vegetable oil, and ethanol? Curious about why we're using gasoline when there are so many cheap and easy alternatives available? At around 45 minutes, Freedom Fuels is a quick and painless way
