GREEN JAR

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Feb 11 2010

VA VA CATHERINE

Showing us chic biking to the extreme: Catherine Baba on her way to Christian Dior Haute Couture show in Paris. Via: Hanneli.com...

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Feb 11 2010

SAN FRANCISCO’S ELECTRIC CAR SWAG

I was recently in San Francisco and couldn’t help but jump for joy when I saw two parking spaces designated specifically for electric car charging and parking. Weird how there are so many electric cars out there, yet this was the first time I ever came across such a parking...

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Feb 10 2010

BAPE CANVAS BAGS! OH MY!

It’s the best when your favorite brands come out with ethical products. Products you can wear, look good in, that at the same time represent your views on some pretty big issues in life. Right now of course I am talking about the environment. It’s hard to always meet a...

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Feb 10 2010

FOR ALL THE GREEN SHOPAHOLICS…

Idly browsing among some of the internet’s best shopping sites the other day in search for a pair of winter boots, I came across a very cool addition to SHOP BOP’S website. SHOP BOP has created an “EARTH FRIENDLY PAGE” just so that you can make shopping choices based on...

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Feb 07 2010

Rihanna Rocks Hands Up Not Handouts’ Artisan-Made Accessories

There are multiple layers of beauty behind the organization Hands Up Not Handouts (HUNHO) whose mission is to help empower the world’s impoverished women. How you ask? By helping them hone in on their knack for handcrafting goods from native materials which in turn, generates income that they, their families and...

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Feb 07 2010

Top Fashion Designers Think Fair Trade for EJF Cotton Campaign

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix — to name a few — for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed...

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Jan 29 2010

KiD GReeN 4 URB MAGAZINE

In case you haven’t checked it yet, peep URB Magazine’s new website launched just this January. They are now 100% digital so for all updates be sure to refer to the site. In addition to the new launch, I have recently begun writing for URB as their environmental lifestyle correspondent....

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Jan 16 2010

PLANT TREES TO SUPPORT GREEN JAR

GREEN JAR has teamed up with MOKUGIFT for 2010 with the mission to foster environmental solidarity by making it easy and rewarding for anyone to fight climate change and by providing the tools to inspire others to do the same. MOKUGIFT’S tree planting website makes it possible for concerned citizens, even those...

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Jan 13 2010

ECO FRIENDLY NOKIA PHONE BY DAIZI ZHENG

Chinese designer Daizi Zheng (whose Stereotype Food Packaging we have featured yesterday) has created a conceptual mobile phone for Finnish brand Nokia that could be powered by sugary drinks. Zheng proposes that the phone could run on a battery that uses enzymes to generate electricity from carbohydrates. This is a client project for...

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Jan 13 2010

THE CASIO GSHOCK GREEN LINE IS NOT SO “GREEN”

The new CASIO G-SHOCK “Green” Series as the name suggests features three different watch models all with a theme of green colors. Don’t be fooled though, thats about where the “Green” part ends. The models represented include two staples, the 5600 and the 6900 as well as a 2300 model....

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