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Aveda


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Published March 4, 2009 at 3:06 p.m.

Aveda's green policy stems from its roots as a holistic, plant-based line of hair and beauty care items ... read more ...

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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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What Is The True Cost of Chocolate?


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Published Feb. 23, 2009 at 2:10 p.m.
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Original Beans The modern chocolate industry has a long history marred by slavery and deforestation. From the birth of the industry with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs to the modern industry centered in West Africa the problems have remained constant. Organic, fair trade chocolate has become more prevalent over the past couple of years, but one company has taken their commitment to creating an ecologically and socially sustainable product to the next level ...

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4 New Designers to Watch at London Fashion Week


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Published Feb. 10, 2009 at 3:42 p.m.
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Image via: London Fashion Week One more example of how eco-fashion is so not crunchy and so mainstream is the Renegade Fashion Show taking place in front of the Museum of Natural History during London's Fashion Week this year. Organized by the Conscious Design Collective, all artists featured are up and coming young designers, who use organic, recycled, and fair trade fabrics, as well as cutting edge d ...

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Original Good Offers 25% Off Beautiful, Artisan Products


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Published Jan. 27, 2009 at 9:15 p.m.
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Today's TreeHugger Deal comes to you from Original Good, which is World of Good’s signature and beautiful fair trade line of stylish, handmade gifts, fashion accessories, and housewares. Original Good enables artisans and their families in 34 countries around the world to earn a sustainable living. Through the organization’s work with more than 150 artisan groups worldwide, they not only ensure that each of the artisans is paid a fair wage in a local context, but since all the products are

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STINGplus Nettle Fabric Wins Sustainability Award


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Published Jan. 25, 2009 at 7:40 a.m.
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Would you buy an office chair upholstered with stinging nettles? What if you knew nettle fibers are stronger than cotton and finer than hemp, and that nettles grow like weeds without the benefits of the tons of pesticides and mass quantities of water required for cotton? What if the natural fire retardant properties of the nettle fabric means your seat covering is free from dangerous brominated fire retardants? What if nettles make the most sustainable fabric ever ? ...

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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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Indigenous Designs Sport Resort Collection


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Published Dec. 25, 2008 at 9:00 a.m.

Organic Apparel for Home or Travel If you spend much time listening to the radio or watching the news, you’d be forgiven for thinking that shopping is dead – and certainly the environment may benefit from a little less blind consumerism as we pass the holiday season. But the good folks at Indigenous Designs, whose organic, fair trade apparel has long been available in stores like REI, and have even hit the pages of the ...

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Kakayo Chocolates


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Published Dec. 23, 2008 at 9:51 p.m.

Kakayo has a passion for chocolate truffles and they are excited to share their special organic fair-trade chocolates with you! ... read more ...

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Crema Coffee


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Published Dec. 23, 2008 at 9:51 p.m.

Crema serves delicious organic coffees made with 49th Parallel beans, brought via direct trade, an exchange which is considered a much better deal for the coffee farmers than fair trade ... read more ...

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