Danny Seo, Eco-Stylist
by on 11.19.04
He shows you how to live green with style. We show you how to live green with style. Could Danny Seo be a long-lost TreeHugger relation? The eco-stylist who’s editor-at-large for Organic Style is fast becoming a Martha Stewart for the young, green crowd. A few years back...
...he released his book Conscious Style Home, where he renovated his parents’ house with bamboo flooring, recycled glass tiles, recycled paint, and the like. Now he’s working on SuperNatural Style With Danny Seo, a soon-to-be cable TV series on eco-friendly living. He’s doing everything he can to convince the unconverted that it’s chic to be eco-friendly, including harnessing the power of celebrity (Paris Hilton wore one of his anti-fur T-shirts and Abercrombie & Fitch picked it up for their line). His consumer philosophy, he says in a Grist interview, isn’t “buy more,” but “buy right,” and he wants to tell you what’s out there so you can. Like I said, this is our kinda guy.
His website will let you know when the show launches, and so will we. Quick, while Martha’s not looking! ::Outside Online, ::USATODAY.com [by KK]
Organic Style? Making minor adjustments to your over-consumptive, fashion driven, want-satisfying-shopping consumerist life is not an "organic style".
Granted, this publication taking advantage of the crisis in over-consumption by acknowledging it is usefull.
But dont fool yourself, the trouble isnt simply that people by non-organic cotton tshirts, the 'trouble is' they are compelled by our shallow consumer culture to buy 15 tshirts a year in order to maintain their 'style'.
You cannot buy happiness. And we cannot shop our way to a safe and sustainable ecology.
Because we live in a consumer based economy which in turn effects the comodities whihc have been come our ecology, the relationship of buying and shopping have everything to do with "sustainable ecology".
While the means of presenting organic style might be no similar than "lucky magazine it uses a powerful tool; popular consumer culture. If consumers are in demand, why not have them demand something a little smarter, better, and that might last longer.
While I agree with Be Realistic that 'organic' per se is not a complete answer to the problem of "consumeristism", I think it is taking Organic Style a little too literally.
I agree with Scott Meriam - for me, you nailed it on the head. Sustainability is really important, we cannot go on producing the way we do now. Big-picture-wise I wouldn't say it is necessarily more important than organics - I think the two go hand in hand. But when addressing this consumeristism, it might just be the cure...
You cannot curb the human desire to want more, so finding sustainability in industry is key. It is unrealistic to expect human beings to stop wanting. It's a big problem that is just begging for some innovative mind(s) to fix it.
If people like Danny Seo can make sustainable, green living into a cool commodity, then I am all for it. The dark side to this of course, is when it's cool, it will be be over produced at some point. ;)
An aside: The jokers on top of our apartment building here (in The Netherlands) are re-installing the insulation in the roof. A whole lot of old fibreglass matting just fell outside my window! *cough*... *American style lawsuit*... *cough*
why can't i get Danny Seo's email address i really wish to get intouch with him one on one,i have thrpough his website and i couldn't find his email adddress i shall be very happy if i can get his mailling address .Okache Douglass from west Africa