GreenShows Street Fashion: Environmental Activists Summer Rayne Oakes and Olivia Zaleski's Style (Video)

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Published Sept. 19, 2009 at 3:20 p.m.
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Environmental Journalist Olivia Zaleski at Green Fashion Week. Credit Emma Grady We hit the green carpet opening night at GreenShows -- the premiere eco-friendly, ethically sound, and fair-trade fashion event during New York Fashion Week -- and spoke with model activist Summer Rayne Oakes and environmental journalist ...

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Miksani Goes Carbon Neutral, Lets Customers Track Their Impact

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Published Aug. 27, 2009 at 3:27 p.m.
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Photo credit: Miksani A company hopping on the carbon-neutral route isn't newsworthy these days—and that's a GOOD thing—but Miksani (née Miksa) is allowing its customers to qualify their purchases by tracking their impact online.Starting in September, the recently rebranded purveyor of luxury organic and fair-trade clothing is partnering with Piqqo, a nascent carbon-offset firm, to fund carbon-reduction projects such as the Scolel Te Social Forestry Project in Chiapas, Mexico ...

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Gretchen and Grace Offers 25% Off Eco-Apparel & Accessories

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Published Aug. 12, 2009 at 8:23 p.m.
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One of the frustrations we hear time and time again is that when it comes to fashion, consumers are still looking for affordable and stylish eco-friendly finds for adults and kids. And even beyond that, consumers are also looking for fashionable clothing and accessories that are produced and distributed by environmentally and socially conscious companies, which makes it more difficult. Because of this difficulty, the folks at Gretchen and Grace have made it their mission to bring together the

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Harry Potter's Emma Watson to Launch Sustainable Clothing Line?

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Published Aug. 3, 2009 at 6:48 p.m.
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Photo credit: Getty Images From Hogwarts to haute couture, our little Hermione is growing up fast. But rumor has it that Emma Watson, who also happens to be the new face of Burberry, isn't content to merely play clotheshorse—the fashion-forward ingenue might be designing her own line with organic and fair-trade clothier People Tree, according the Daily Mail ...

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Fair-Trade, Vegan-Friendly Mola Shoes Fuse Traditional Art With Contemporary Design

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Published July 16, 2009 at 4:36 p.m.
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Photo credit: The Aware Network These hot tamale Mola shoes from Down Under-by-way-of-Colombia are not for the wilting wallflower or the fashion conformist. Ethically made by the indigenous Kuna Indians from reclaimed Mola textile art, the hand-tailored kicks feature reverse applique embroidery in psychedelic, retina-searing hues and acid-trippy designs inspired by tribal body tattoos. Each artfully rendered pair is one-of-a-kind, vegan friendly, and a masterful fusion of ancient and modern

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Sweet Beauty's Organic, Fair Trade Chocolate Lip Balms Are a Mouthwatering Treat

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Published June 30, 2009 at 8:53 p.m.
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Photo credit: Sweet Beauty When it comes to skin care, Lisa Françoise, founder and owner of Sweet Beauty Organic Chocolate Spa Treatments has one cardinal rule: If you wouldn't eat it, don't wear it on your skin. It's an easy tenet to get behind when you realize that Françoise's brand of edible skin care involves premium organic, fair-trade chocolate that turns that whole moment-on-your-lips-lifetime-on-your-hips chestnut on its head ...

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U.K. Sees Launch of First Fair Trade and Organic Beauty Products

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Published June 26, 2009 at 11:42 a.m.
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Photo credit: Fairtrade Foundation The Fairtrade Foundation has announced the first beauty products to bear the fair-trade seal of approval in the United Kingdom. Beauty buffs across the pond will now be able to bag lip balms, face masks, body butters, and shower gels from five companies: Boots, Bubble & Balm, Essential Care, ...

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Organic chocolate baskets and free-range egg hunts

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Published April 12, 2009 at 1:03 a.m.
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Skip the baskets and raise the organic bar. Photo via: Flickr by Sister72 Whether celebrating Easter, Ishtar or Baisakhi—the Hindu festival of rebirth and renewal—skip the marshmallow peeps, tinfoil-covered chocolate eggs and hallow bunnies. Feast on organic chocolate bars. Pioneers like Green + Black and Dagoba have spawned lots of fellow chocolatiers. And now that Cadbury’s has gone fair-trade and Mars committe ...

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Fair-Trade Coffee, Coming To a Dorm Near You

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Published Feb. 24, 2009 at 12:50 p.m.
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Image via: Flickr Two creative Bethel College students recently opened a fair trade coffee shop in the lounge of their dorm building. The shop is so new (and so trendy) that it doesn't even have a name yet. Seth Dunn and Lisa Penner, both Fresno, CA natives, wanted a place for students to chill out, study, relax and came up with the coffee shop after visiting another campus. They chose fair trade ...

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Carla Bruni Does Fair-Trade Bags

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Published Dec. 29, 2008 at 5:23 a.m.

Carla Bruni is a former model, pop-singer, sex-pot and, oh yes, the wife of the President of France ... So when this ultra-stylish and stunning First Lady carries a handbag--people look out for it ... Bruni went to South Africa with her husband the President and visited a South African township, Khayelitsha, near Cape Town ... She was given a cotton and hessian stitched bag in the six colours of the South African flag. She started to use it, and suddenly the most fashionable boutique in all of

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