Celebrities Wear Cool Vintage Salvation Army "50|50" Shirts
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | 1 Comment »Run for the latest Salvation Armee shirt before they are sold out! Join the celebrities! Get that unique shirts! Cool Salvation Army Shirts? Really? The Dutch Salvation Army just presented it's new shirt collection under it's label 50|50 Shirts with great media ...
As Fast as Taking your Clothes Off: Drap Art International Recycling Art Festival in Barcelona
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Design, Recycling | 1 Comment »Drap Art is an International Recycling Art Festival, this year the 19th, 20th and 21st of December 2008. The festival promotes creative recycling, through the organisation of festivals, exhibitions and workshops. The festival has an OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS to ...
Brand New Sustainable Style Blog: Feelgood Style
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Web | No Comments »The amount of blogs on sustainable lifestyle and green fashion are a good sign that the item is still gaining more popularity around the globe. The newest one is Feelgood Style. Just launched yesterday, but already proving to become an ...
Win the First Ethical Fashion Price in the UK: The Re-Fashion Awards
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »The Re-Fashion Awards are a new Awards for Ethical Fashion. The categories will cover retail, manufacture and consumer campaigns. Awards will be made on the basis of improving social, environmental and economic standards in the fashion supply chain. According to ...
Happy birthday to Grass Routes!
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »We started Grass Routes a year ago with some vague ideas and a three months trip to visit sustainable projects in Europe and Turkey. Meanwhile, Grass Routes became the Grass Routes Foundation, we did some fun projects such as the ...
International ethical fashion teaching initiative
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion | No Comments »Always wanted to get something more out of your fashion or sustainable fashion know how? Well, go teaching on ethical fashion! Still most fashion schools do not have any program on social or environmental aspects of textile and clothing production. ...
Green Chic – Saving the Earth in Style
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Books, Fashion | No Comments »Can we live a gorgeous green lifestyle without giving in on the comfort of our luxury consumption habits? There is a boom of new conscious and green lifestyle magazines and advertisements that promise us that the new green is all ...
Beijing 2008: Catch the Olympic Flame for Labour Rights
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fair Trade | 1 Comment »These Olympic games are all about politics. It is both a great chance for action groups to get their topic on the agenda, and for the Chinese government to use the Games as one big PR event. And they ...
Eco-Chique Summer Dresses by Beau Soleil
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products | 1 Comment »There is a whole fashion market called eco-chique, and it's proving the new eco spirit has little to do with old eco spirit. Beau Soleil is a stylish green clothing brand from New York, for the ones who enjoy a ...
Go With the Green Flow: on Sustainable Skateboards
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Products, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Going green...over the pavements. Brazilian innovation group Let's EVO and materials developer Fibra Sustainable Design Materials have created a funky, sustainable skateboard. Go with the green flow! The cover layers of new eco skate board model are from Papunha Veneer, produced ...
Artistic action Pushes Climate Negotiations on Bali
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »Activists from Avaaz and an international coalition of youth organizations, along with local and national NGOs, created a human body activist art project on Kuta Beach in Bali. Artist John Quigley organized the crowd of over a 500 people to ...
Climate Change: the Ice is Melting Faster than Ever
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate | 1 Comment »New research analyses show that world wide Gletsjers are loosing ice faster and faster. The speed in hwich the ice melts is still going up. As gletsjers are seen as one the best indicators for the situation of our climate, ...
German Social Fashion Label Armed Angels launches New Collection & website
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »Social fashion - for the label Armed Angels this means more than organic cotton and fair trade production. The label also involves their online community in deciding over the models, print designs, and to which charity the 3,33 Euro per ...
Switching off the Light on Global Scale: join Earth Hour on March 29, 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »It's night and the sky is... orange....green...or pink. In a large part of the world real darkness is unknown, caused by electric light pollution from cities, street lamps and green houses. Researches shows that unlighted highways are as safe as ...
Funky Finnish Recycling Fashion from Globe Hope
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products, Recycling | No Comments »Using old hospital textiles, army wear and work outfits, the innovative recycling fashion company Globe Hope has a tasty and very own style. And somehow very Finnish. Their kitchen set Laituri which is made of old Swedish navy sacks is ...
Virtual activism: Plant a Tree in Facebook or Second Life
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Web | 1 Comment »It is a lot of tree planting actions these days, and I am wondering where all these forests are growing. Cleaning up our emissions, or just filling up the empty spaces of cut down Amazon forests? The latest sprout on the ...
Over 20 Supermodels Support the EJF Organic Cotton Campaign
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »More than 20 top models, including Irina Lazareanu, Coco Rocha, Catherine McNeil, Caroline Trentini, Siri Tollerød and Behati Prinsloo, have now been photographed in EJF’s ‘Pick Your Cotton Carefully’ campaign t-shirts. Most of the pictures were are taken by fashion ...
Eco Fashion Spotting: Gibbous, Recycling Fashion from LA
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Products, Recycling | No Comments »"From the freebox to the couture house" Gibbous is a small recycling fashion label from LA, very creative one-of-a kind items with Victorian style elements, which they also sell through their own webshop... through: wearing the future
Brave New Shirt: Wireless Chips in our Garments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Web | 1 Comment »Thousands of garments sold at German warehouse Galeria Kaufhof are equipped with small, almost invisible wireless chips that can be identified and traced through radio frequency. The shop that sold your garment can trace the product day and night, and ...
Womens Day & the Garment Industry: it’s Women’s Sweat on Your Shirt
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fair Trade, Fashion | 3 Comments »About a billion people (!) are working in textile related industries worldwide. Many of them are women, working from home, in slum situated sweatshops or high tech factories. As known, the circumstances are not always that funky. Without drawing to all ...