LovingEco….A greener ‘Gilt’…without the guilt

 

Eco-style shoppers rejoice!  LovingEco, a new members only eco grounded flash-sale website (but not too fast…each sale lasts are few days for good peruse & reflect time) has launched, featuring a hand-picked selection of style centric fashion, accessories and beauty for women and children, from the bests  brands out there, at savings up to 70% off!

“LovingEco makes shopping for the best natural and eco-friendly products fun, easy and affordable, so women feel good about shopping by leveraging social commerce and flash sales; partnering with tastemakers who will promote the offers and brands; and giving back to charity.”

Enter code DISCOUNT10 at checkout for an additional 10% off some serious deals from some of our long term favorite brands, like Stewart+Brown, SIGG, Eberjay, & Sustainable Kids, with new sales twice a week.

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John Hardy and Angela Lindvall Join Forces to Launch Luxury Recycled Jewelry Collection

Jewelry designer John Hardy is teaming up with supermodel and Alter Eco star Angela Lindvall to launch “Hijau Dua,” a handcrafted collection of jewelry made with recycled sterling silver or 18k gold.

As part of the “Wear Bamboo, Plant Bamboo” program, for each piece of jewelry purchased, the brand will plant bamboo seedlings to offset the carbon emissions used for travel and advertising.  Lindvall recently visited Bali, where John Hardy is based, to help plant 600,000 bamboo seedlings for the Bali Province Government’s “Bali Clean and Green” program and model in the John Hardy advertising campaign. Hear from Lindvall in a behind-the-scenes video, and the full article by Emma Grady on Treehugger.com

Photo Credit: Originally posted on Treehugger: John Hardy Creative Director Guy Bedarida and supermodel Angela Lindvall in Bali. Photos: courtesy John Hardy

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Just Like Molly’s ‘Pure Eco Style’ Guide: The latest eco fashion brands & top picks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A solid round-up of modest picks for the  modern woman from Just Like Molly:

Organic clothing has come a long way since it’s inception as a hippie, hemp laden uniform. Sustainability is at the forefront of green living, and a huge part of being environmentally conscious lands on what you put on your body. Organic, natural fabrics have made their way into the fashion landscape, and for good reason. Not only are these pieces minimizing the damage the process of manufacturing and wearing clothes can do to the environment, they are helping to secure the hope of a greener planet in each step of the apparel process. And of course they are fashionable, comfortable, and you can feel great wearing them, inside and out.

Read the rest of article here, and check out their picks for outerwear, dresses and everyday staples, that are “anything but mundane”, where …”on-trend harem pants, gathered sleeves, and eye-catching patterns make infusing these tops and bottoms into your look effortless and rewarding.”

Photo Credit: Raw Earth Wild Sky at BTC Elements.

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College Activists Strip Down to PACT’s “Beyond Coal” Eco-Undies to “Kick Ash”

College students across America are exposing themselves to expose the evils of coal-derived energy. From Miami University of Ohio to the University of North Texas, Sierra Club Student Coalition-organized “flesh mobs” have been stripping down to PACT’s “Beyond Coal” range of eco-friendly underwear and madly dashing across campus.

View entire post by Ecouterre here: College Activists Strip Down to PACT’s “Beyond Coal” Eco-Undies …

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Kris Willey, Woman of the Green Generation

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Women of the Green Generation held their first meeting in June of 2009. Kris Willey felt inspired to start a sustainable networking group for women because she had been attending green events for the past 2 years and suddenly realized that the majority of people she was connecting with were other women. When she mentioned this idea to some of her girl friends in green business, the response she received was an enthusiastic and resounding “YES!”

Women of the Green Generation creates a space where women can share their ideas and passions for solving environmental and social problems with economically viable eco-solutions.  The purpose is to provide a space for professional women to support each other. This can be done by means of sharing resources, business referrals, patronizing each other, sharing knowledge and experience, supporting sustainable community projects & non profits and the by the simple act of volunteering to help each other when help is needed.

Members consists mainly of women who either own or work for green businesses, but the group is not limited to green business women only, in fact they actively encourage other women to get more involved in sustainable business practices or think about creating products or services that reflect the sustainable paradigm of  “good for you good for the planet.”

WOTGG is dedicated to helping women find success in the green business space. Their mission is to inspire, educate, motivate, share resources, and connect with other individuals and organizations that are actively engaged in sustaining our planet and working towards positive transformation.

Their are hosting their Annual Summit at Evo-South in downtown Los Angeles on June 12th, 2010.

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Emergency Meeting: Where Is The Environmental Movement Going?

Why is the green movement downsizing? Green stores are closing, green magazines are folding. What’s happening? At a time when we need more sustainable businesses than ever, they might be sustainable in the sense that their owners and customers are concerned about the fate of the planet, but they are not sustainable in the financial sense… now why is that?

I started asking myself that question a few weeks ago. First thing that came to mind was what Abbie Hoffman said: “America is in a perpetual state of revolution, because the mainstream keeps absorbing its counterculture.” That’s been the criticism of Earth Day, everybody is green now, even ExxonMobil.  Avatar sends out a beautiful environmental message, sponsored by McDonald’s. Doesn’t anyone feel the hypocrisy here, or is it just me?

I’ve noticed that once a green brand gets bought up by a large corporation, their sales might go up, but their message gets toned down. The companies themselves stop their militancy, stop supporting causes, stop bringing up the rear. And while there’s more green products on the shelves than ever, still only a bleep on the GNP radar screen, why does it feel like we’re right back where we started?

That’s because even though most people will tell you they’re environmentalists, and some very well may be, conscious, recycling, tree hugging souls… they really haven’t done their homework on the politics, studied how deeply rooted the problem really is. So if you don’t understand the past, you’re doomed to repeat it. All we’ve done is hand over our best play to the opposite team.

It’s very naive to think that we’re all in this together, and that rich or poor we breathe the same air. I used to think so. It helped bring about the green economy, eco-luxury, pricey electric cars and far away land organic spas. But look around you, has anything really changed? I don’t mean to depress you, but when are we going to stop handing over the shop?

Green stores come and go because the moment Wal-Mart, Kohl’s or Target start selling organic clothes… or their version of what organic means, hundreds of pioneering green start-ups go belly up. It’s the law of averages. When did volume equate survival? So people on limited income can afford the green lifestyle.

Environmentalists have revolutionized all industries. From the lab to the factory floor; to the distribution chain to the stores; and into people’s homes. From the organic booze at the bar to the safe cosmetics in your kit, green chemistry is changing everything we dream about, make, sell and use. But are we stuck with corporate culture? Is that what we want in our lives. To wear GE proudly on our sleeve, refer to ourselves as “we” when we talk about our work? Knowing that while we might be installing solar panels, the company we work for also makes nuclear reactors for submarines?

That’s the compromise people were not willing to make in the 60′s which people are willing to make now. Both worlds, the green world we’re trying to build, and the old post-industrial world we’re trying to escape from, co-existing side by side, creating an eerie sense of stagnation and helplessness, eroding our spirit, defusing our anger, ultimately slowing down the pace of change to a Bilderberg crawl.

Electric cars at the expense of clean electricity, as deals are made to power the charging infrastructure with new nuclear power. Actors and actresses who one day lend their face to environmental causes, while the next are seen on billboards in Asia hording the worse anti-green crap there is. And they live with themselves, within the lie… actors, acting… telling us what we want to hear, thinking we wouldn’t notice.

I’ve been accused of being too pure. And yet I’m not perfect. I live in an old farm house, so old in fact, we don’t have the resources to fix it up so it can be energy efficient. Our solution is to keep the heat so low, we wear three sweaters, and long for Spring. That’s because green work, real green work, doesn’t pay unless you sell out to the machine, then you become one of them, with that white glow, that fake smile, that superficial graciousness… smothered in kindness and lies.

In the 60′s we wanted to change the system… and we did, to a point. The new generation has embraced a global understanding of our responsibilities… thousands of books and websites educating us about how to go green. An alternative economy has grown out of this, where solar, wind, ethanol, LEDs, sustainable clothing, organic coffee and green cosmetics, have transformed corporate culture to be more in tune with nature.

But we still have a billion vehicles spewing toxic brew, old nuclear plants leaking into ground water, coal mining blowing up mountains, burger chains clear cutting rainforest… why? Why as a collective mind can’t we change our destructive behavior? Why is war, exile, desolation, starvation more important to our species than restoration and stewardship? Why is playing video games 3 hours a day, more important than joining a conservation corps to revive neighborhoods? We live in a culture of avoidism, where it’s easier to walk away, than confront your demons. How can that help you grow as a human being?

All the pressures end up falling on the shoulders of a few… all too often badly paid, hard working drones, fueled by a sense of desperation. We need a big win. We need something larger than life to give us hope again. A sign the planet isn’t going to let us down. A place to hang our hearts.

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