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Stewart + Brown Sustainable Sweaters for Fall 2010 (Photos)

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Published July 15, 2010 at 6:15 a.m.

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Stewart + Brown Image courtesy of Stewart + Brown ... Stewart + Brown's luscious knits for fall have us craving crisp, cool weather. The California-based green fashion label uses only fine merino wool or Mongolian cashmere, culled from a co-op that help nomads in the region sustain their centuries-old practices, in their line of luxury sweaters. We exclusively released images from ...

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How to Mind Your Own Bees Wax

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Published April 20, 2010 at 5:02 p.m.

Image credit: .martin/Flickr As part of their "I Have a Green Job" series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson, a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that's dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping ...

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Local Fashion NOW: Ryann, Feral Childe, JAI, Loudermilk, and More (Slideshow)

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Published Feb. 25, 2010 at 9:07 a.m.

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Designer Kizzy Knight models a denim vest from her fall 2010 collection at the NOW Showcase. Credit: Emma Grady Local, independent, and sustainable designers showed their designs for fall 2010 this past weekend at the NOW Showcase, an apparel tradeshow co-op. We caught up with Designers Linda Loudermilk; Kizzy Knight from JAI (above); Raina Blyer from ...

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Independent Sustainable Designers to Showcase at NOW During NYC Market Week

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Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 8:34 a.m.

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Credit: Jai, NOW Emerging and independent fashion designers in New York City are coming together for the sake of green fashion to show at the apparel tradeshow co-op NOW Showcase, which occurs during NYC Market Week, alongside D&A, Coterie, and Train. We visited last year and saw innovation in design from reigning green queen Linda Loudermilk to to notable newcomer Sarah Dixons Nova (SDN) -- and their fab ...

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Solar By Numbers Part 1: my meeting with a co-op housing manager

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Published Oct. 1, 2009 at 2:32 p.m.

Some days being a Canadian renewable energy entrepreneur is a lot like being on a police bomb squad ... read more ...

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Is This Permaculture? Building Hugelkultur Raised Beds

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Published Aug. 2, 2009 at 10:14 a.m.

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No Compost and Cornerstone Housing Co-op A mini-digger picking up piles of dead trees, brash and leaves and dumping them in a huge hole in the ground is hardly most people's idea of permaculture - a practice more commonly associated with low tech solutions like chicken tractors, chicken greenhouses and ...

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Madison architects advance to nationals in Green Building design competition

Published July 28, 2009 at 11:35 a.m.

Flad Architects recently took first place at the local level of the Natural Design Competition, hosted in Milwaukee by the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance and Walnut Way Conservation Corp., a resident-led, community development organization serving the neighborhood bound by North Avenue, 12th Street, Fond du Lac Avenue, Walnut Street and 20th Street.

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Eat Khaya Cookies to Support Women In South Africa? No Problem...Or Is There?

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Published June 15, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.

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Image via: Khaya Cookies Recently I sampled several of the creations from the Khaya Cookie Company , a women's cookie co-op located in South Africa, and the only problem I had with them was ... that I couldn't stop eating them ...

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Flower essences nip ailments in the bud

Published May 5, 2009 at 2:33 p.m.

Flower essences -- also called flower remedies -- are homeopathic "medicines" made from 100 percent spring water infused with wild flowers. They are available in Milwaukee at numerous markets and co-ops.

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UWM presents plenty of ways to green your 'hood

Published April 24, 2009 at 1:32 p.m.

This week UWM has been celebrating Earth Week. Not content to spend a mere 24 hours honoring the planet we call home, the university has been discussing our addiction to plastics, our dilemmas with clean water, displaying environmental art projects in the Harambee neighborhood, recycled fashion and much, much more.