Tag: Footwear - Page 6
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Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done, Timberland Says To Cophenhagen Delegates
Image: Timberland Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done is a global campaign by the 54 year old boot maker, Timberland. They say it gives the public a forum to let their voices be heard, to challenge world leaders at the United Nation's Conference on Climate
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Spring/Summer 2010: Cri de Coeur for Bahar Shahpar (Photos)
Vegan shoe maker Cri de Coeur and eco fashion designer Bahar Shaphar are bringing the runway shoes we saw during New York Fashion Week's GreenShows to the masses in a cunning collaboration for
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Outdoors Enthusiast (Slideshow)
We can all appreciate the importance of choosing sustainable items to keep the environment pristine--but that thought will count double when you're wrapping up gifts for the outdoor weekend warrior on your list. Shoes made with minimal waste,
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The WeeHugger (Slideshow)
Give your kids that same awestruck wonder you remember as a tot--without investing in plastic toys that break within days, leaving behind a pile of landfill-ready junk and the feeling you would have been better off just giving the wrapping paper. From
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Common Soles Sells Thongs To Buy School Books
Thongs, Flip Flops, Jandals, or whatever they are called on your beach, are the sort of casual footwear that most people don't pay much attention to. After-all they are rather ubiquitous in any sultry clime. But Common Soles have
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Fashion Buff (Slideshow)
As any teenager who's ever feigned excitement over a pom-pom reindeer sweater on Christmas morning can tell you, buying clothes for other people can be--well, let's just say, a little hit or miss. Don't want to give a closet full of duds that go
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Green Gift Guide: The WeeHugger
Let's be honest: It is way more fun to buy gifts for kids. Toys wrapped in big, shiny boxes reveal dolls that must be immediately introduced to the family or games they can't wait to begin--gifts much more exciting than a tie or a cooking pan. But kids' g
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Green Gift Guide: The Fashion Buff
Slow down the chaos in your favorite fashion buff's closet with the classic, timeless pieces featured in our fashion gift guide for girls, guys, and even teens. By skipping trends with a six-month lifespan, you'll trim the dent in your wallet (and the lan
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Green Gift Guide: The Outdoors Enthusiast
While a true outdoors enthusiast doesn't need much to enjoy the great outdoors--just a sturdy pair of shoes and a taste for adventure--this individual is even more likely to appreciate gifts that are as eco-friendly as they are functional. Take the time t
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Can Consumption Do Something Good for the Planet?
It's easy to harp on the big guys for creating massive big-box stores that sell massive piles of cheap products that ultimately end up in landfills. But let's be honest, from time to time we're still going to need to
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Nike Strategizes on Deep Green Future
At the Pop!Tech Conference this year, one thing to come out of the event are the new Labs that Pop!Tech will be holding to find solutions to many of today's resource use 'issues.' Nike was first
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Simple Shoes Spring 2010 Preview: BIO-D Biodegradable Shoes
This past week I popped over to Simple Shoes' showroom to preview what's in store for Spring 2010 and checked out BIO-D, their first collection of biodegradable footwear -- outsoles and
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North Face Environmental FAIL: Disease-Preventing Footwear Claims Retracted
If a manufacturer claims that a consumer product suppresses bacterial growth to the
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Green Fashion: 10 Chic Ways for Women to Wear Hemp (Slideshow)
Don't mistake the ugly, coarse, scratchy hemp of the hippie era with the hemp of today: From catwalks to the office, this once-fringe fabric made of rapidly renewable material is geared for world domination. And it can be found in just about
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Patagonia Footwear's Zero Impact Backpacking Boot Update
Patagonia Footwear continue the open dialogue about their participation in Backpacker magazine's Zero Impact Challenge: to make a backpacking boot for a hiker hoisting a 13.5 kg (30 lb) pack and to do it with the least impact.
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Po-Zu Designs Wellington Boots to Save The Rainforest
How can a pair of Wellington boots save the rainforest I hear you ask? Well let me tell you about Po-Zu's new Well boots, yes that's Well for Wellington - geddit? Launching as the stars of Po-Zu's A/W 09 collection the Well boots are
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End of the Road for END Footwear. UPDATED. TWICE!
END Footwear, purveyor of Environmentally Neutral Designed trail and running shoes, is to be no more.
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Patagonia Footwear Take Up The Zero Impact Challenge (Updated)
For four years now we've been following Patagonia Footwear as they strive to apply their business mantra of "Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis" to the art of
