5 Tips to Keep You Looking Eco-Fabulous Before the Holidays

Black Friday was as busy as ever this year with people wanting to catch good deals while they lasted. For you, the green connoisseur, the luxurious but still very eco-conscious consumer, here are some tips to keep you fashion forward this winter, but without environmental blunder or busting your budget.

1) Don’t Forget Your LayersLayering items is the best way to stay warm and show off your fashion sensibilities in the winter months. Instead of wearing your biggest and [...]

Online Black Friday Shopping: Eco-Friendly Deals and Discounts

First thing Friday morning, many people will be getting up and getting ready to find those great holiday deals. If you’re one of those people who would rather shop at home than risk getting an elbow in the eye or a kick in the shin – don’t worry.

There are plenty of great deals to be found online as well. Below are some of the best Black Friday eco-friendly deals around the web.

Envy – Get 30% off all Envy [...]

Innovative Eco-Fashion: Fragment Textiles

It’s hard to imagine what eco-fashion would be like if taken to its logical conclusion, but Dutch designers Berber Soepboer and Fioen van Balgooi offer one intriguing vision of the possibilities. The Fragments collection conforms to cradle-to-cradle standards, creating the absolute minimum amount of waste. Beginning with colorful zero-impact felt, these pieces are puzzles created from shapes that can be cut with hardly any fabric waste (squares for the dress, and stars for the skirt). In addition, the pieces are [...]

Fashion for a Good Cause: Let It Bee Jewelry

Following a September 2009 launch at the Eco-Luxe Expo in New York City, Let It Bee Jewelry is still generating a buzz as an eco-conscious luxury company with a purpose. Let It Bee Jewelry founder and creative designer, Meg Bryson, has made a commitment to elevate awareness of an environmental issue threatening the existence of honey bees – who play an often overlooked, integral role in our world. Sadly, one of the planet’s busiest little workers faces an uncertain future.

Colony [...]

Adding a Little Color to Your ‘Green’ Winter Wardrobe

Brrrr…

I’m just about as close as you can get to the Mississippi Gulf without wading – and mornings are getting chillier and chillier. In other places, winter weather has already kicked in and is settled to stay a while. With the great eco-friendly products below, we can keep ourselves toasty warm and add a bit of beautiful color to our winter wardrobes!

Organic Cotton Cable Gloves

These adorable and colorful gloves are available to you from FaeriesDance.com, and are created [...]

Eco Chic Design by Emily Anderson

When it comes to green lifestyles, there’s often a pretty serious aesthetic schism: on one hand, there are the crafters who prefer to make almost everything by hand, and on the other, high-end green consumers purchase luxury products with sustainable pedigrees. For those who long to bring the worlds of DIY and eco-chic closer together, designer Emily Anderson is a welcome voice of experience and innovation.

In 2007 she published a book called Eco-Chic Weddings, advising couples about how they could [...]

DreamSacks – Luxurious Natural Fiber Products

It’s impressive when a single company can turn just one travel product into a venture that now creates a wealth of eco-friendly products fashioned from natural fibers, such as silk, bamboo, soy and cashmere. DreamSacks produces an array of luxurious bedding, clothing, and accessories. From saving more than 300 gallons of gas per year driving an all-electric truck to giving back to poverty-stricken communities, Dream Sacks gets an A+ for creating a well-rounded, earth-conscious business. Just a few DreamSacks products [...]

Freitag Bags and Accessories

For brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag, it started with the need for a messenger bag that would not become ruined and soaked should it rain on the bicycler who carried it.

They ended up making their own bag, created from an old airplane tarpaulin, an inner tube and a bit of recycled seat belt. That one bag turned into a career for the brothers – with an online shop, and their products being sold all over the world.

Materials

Markus and Daniel [...]

Women’s Hemp and Tencel Clothing by Sympatico

When it comes to sustainability, it’s important to consider every aspect of a product. Besides offering beautiful designs, that’s where Sympatico Clothing really stands out, in line with their motto “good for life.”

Sympatico tops, pants, and skirts are wardrobe staples intended to flatter many different figures. These versatile pieces are designed to stand up to work and play, but they can also be dressed up for a wide variety of occasions. With proper care, they should last for years [...]

Sugar Sweet Baby – Bamboo Baby Wraps

Sheltering your little one with soft, lightweight material, Sugar Sweet Baby combines fashionably decorative panels with eco-friendly and ultra-versatile bamboo fabric. Parents may choose from an assortment of colorful, enriching patterns with the option of customization that accommodates a variety of concerns, from ample busts to figures larger than size 14. Take a look at the site and you’ll see that it’s pretty hard to settle on just one Sugar Sweet Baby Wrap.

Baby Wrap Instructions

If you think using a [...]