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Phat Hemp Handmade Hemp Jewelry

Email thisPosted Dec 31st 2008 at 8:00AM by Mallory Whitfield

Filed under: Accessories, Interviews, Green Fashion

Phat Hemp handmade eco-friendly hemp jewelry

The appeal of hemp jewelry has always been a little lost on us. That is, until we saw some of the work of Phat Hemp jewelry designer Tiffany Garden. Her handmade hemp jewelry pieces for men and women are not exactly the hemp jewelry you grew up wearing in high school. Combining Czech glass and gemstones with this naturally eco-friendly fiber, her pieces have us looking at hemp in a new light.

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Terrapax eco-chic luggage

Email thisPosted May 14th 2008 at 9:08AM by Josh Loposer

Filed under: Handbags, Accessories, Green Fashion

These days, with laptops, Blackberries, iPhones, etc., it seems like everybody's looking for the perfect piece of luggage to tote around their gadgets and junk. Now, you could throw down a few hundred bucks for a celebrity-endorsed luxury hand bag. Or, if you happen to have a soft spot for the environment, you could be a responsible human being and get a sustainable purse, murse, courier bag or hold-all from Terrapax.

Terrapax has a seriously green business model that includes the uses of all organic, renewable fabrics like hemp and linen, and they turn out some seriously durable luggage. The even buy back their old bags and recycle the hardware and hemp. The company was started by James Cox, who left North Face in '92 to design bags that don't contain petrochemical-based fibers like nylon and polyester.

Just in case you were wondering, those are genuine stag horn closures on this organic hemp shoulder bag. No animals were not harmed in the making of it though -- they shed their antlers each spring.

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Rogan for Target

Email thisPosted Apr 28th 2008 at 1:04PM by Tiffany Neal

Filed under: Style in the News

And you thought the green coverage ended last week.

Rogan Gregory -- the eco-friendly winner of the 2007 CFDA award -- has been tapped to create a capsule collection for Target that will roll into stores and online beginning May 18th.

The total collection of safari-inspired swimwear, tops, jumpers, and shorts is made of %100 certified organic cotton, linen, bamboo and hemp.

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Top 5 ways to green up your wardrobe

Email thisPosted Apr 22nd 2008 at 4:04PM by Mallory Whitfield

Filed under: Style for a Cause, Green Fashion

By this point we've all heard how important it is to buy eco-friendly products, and that includes fashion. But is it all just hype? Just another marketing gimmick employed by corporate America to try and get us to spend more dollars but feel less guilty about doing it? Many companies have been accused of greenwashing, and it's certainly true that buy buy buy is not the way to help our environment.

No matter what though, people will always want to dress in a way that makes them feel good about the way they look. We shouldn't have to compromise style in our quest to save the planet. Sure, we need to adjust our habits, but that doesn't mean that we'll all end up looking like a bunch of dirty hippies. Here's our list of the top 5 ways to really green up your wardrobe.

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Sustainable style must-haves

Email thisPosted Apr 22nd 2008 at 1:08PM by Annie Scott

Filed under: Holiday Style, Handbags, Haute Home, Stores We Love, Accessories, Style in the News, Clothing, Shoes, Men, Dresses, Style for a Cause, Books, Green Fashion

Men and women alike can be sustainably stylish. Here are the must-haves:

1. The reusable bag. It doesn't have to be Anya Hindmarch's bag you see at right (which we've all seen about enough of, frankly), but re-usable bags are eco-friendly and can say a lot about you. You read? Get one at a bookstore. In fact, you probably already have one. They're called tote bags. Use them when you go to the farmer's market (or the drug store) and feel good about yourself.

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Keeping it Simple

Email thisPosted Apr 22nd 2008 at 12:06PM by Whit Honea

Filed under: Accessories, Clothing, Shoes, Vintage and Retro, Men, Kids and Babies, Style for a Cause, Green Fashion

Simply put, Simple brand shoes have always ruled, but their ecoSNEAKS and GreenToe (Green Piggies for the kiddies) lines are so fantastic that we feel a bit guilty wearing anything else.

Simple started out as a "stereotypical, anti-stereotype brand offering good shoes." They claim to have learned a few things along the way, and we are inclined to believe them. They say the biggest lesson thus far is this: "HOW we make our shoes is just as important as WHY we make them."

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Fair trade jewelery: not just for hippies

Email thisPosted Aug 23rd 2007 at 12:35PM by Jonathon Morgan

Filed under: Accessories, Style for a Cause

I have a soul, and a conscience, so the thought of buying things made by near-starving children who get paid $3 a day in developing countries is hard for me to stomach. Hence, I'm draw to the idea of fair trade goods.

Unfortunately, it seems like the only fair trade products I ever run into are potato-sack skirts decorated excessively with beads, wood-carvings of elephants and a wide variety of products made from hemp. Plus, these products are inevitably sold by a store with "Earth" or "Mother" in it's name -- so if I'm even thinking about buying something, I have to put up with patchouli stench, world music, and all that other irritating new age stuff.

Fortunately, there's hope. The UK's Guardian newspaper has put together a photo essay called "Ethical bling," that's comprised entirely of fair trade jewelery. Some of it's a little hippy-dippy, but for the most part, these are all cute pieces that you can wear without looking like you work at your local leftist coffee shop.

Not that there's anything wrong with hippies, coffee shops, or world music -- I'm just happy there's something out there for the rest of us.

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