Posts with tag Al Gore

If there is one thing that we love as much as fashion it's conservation and corporations that believe in it, that's why we were happy to find The Natural Store.

This is what they say about themselves:

The Natural Store is a different type of Department Store – dealing only with suppliers who operate on a Fair Trade basis, have high ethical and moral values, or who try to minimise their impact on the environment. So whether you're after individually made organic chocolates endorsed by the Soil Association, sensual underwear in organic cotton and hemp/silk or a wind-up radio so you can tune to your favourite station, we're the natural choice.

Even if Arbor didn't make awesome apparel (and skate and snow boards) it would be a great company. They have a commitment to the environment that would make Al Gore blush, and that's saying something.

From their website: "Arbor's long-standing assertion is that solutions to many of today's most difficult snow, skate, and apparel design challenges exist in the natural world."

Here are some samples of their shirts for men:



If you want to know why these shirts, and Arbor in general, are even cooler than you think, click the read more:

The Quiet Life has released its collection of t-shirts for the upcoming season and they have focused on a green message as well as raising money for charity.

The green is in the planet, or should be anyway, hence the Happy Planet/ Sad Planet image. You decide how happy the Earth is. Oddly enough, both Happy and Sad are doing the exact same dance move. Maybe the dance is life, and the fact that it continues despite... um, sorry. I get carried away when my inner-Al Gore starts tingling.

The charity shirt is Right On Fight On (pictured) which was designed by Neil Doshi in an online contest. All of the materials involved in the printing of the shirt have been donated by vendors which allows for 100% of the proceeds to go to a good cause. Hence the contest being called the "Design a t-shirt for a good cause contest." See how that works?

The good cause in this case is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. A good cause indeed.

There are many more shirts available on their website. The shirts below are from the 2008 Spring/Summer release:



[via Haute Concept]

In an article entitled "I Wore Shorts to Work, and They All Laughed" in yesterday's New York Times, Eric Wilson ponders the age-old question: namely, why is it that women get to wear skirts when it's hot, while men still have to wear suits?

After a rash of record temperatures on the East Coast (thank you, Al Gore!), male executives have been pointing out the inequality that their female counterparts get to wear sleeveless loose tops and open-toed shoes, while businessmen have to bunker down in full suits, socks, shoes that don't breathe and, yes, ties.

Is this fair? No. I absolutely mean that.

Yet I also mean it when I say that a grown man in shorts looks an awful lot like a cub scout going to a jamboree.