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Can Cute Cardboard Animals Teach Us About Responsible Energy Use?
As a designer and environmentalist, I constantly struggle to bridge the gap between my desire to create a truly sustainable world and that to make pretty things. Can design save the world? Or…
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Good Stuff: Wild Child
This summer, the great outdoors serves as fashion muse. Animal prints and motifs are back with a vengenance (and, thankfully, available for vegans as well), hair is beachy and messy and safari-inspired pieces…
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Wash Cycle Laundry – Bike-Powered Laundry Pickup-and-Deliver Service
Philadelphia-based company Wash Cycle Laundry picks up your laundry using a bike-powered fleet of dedicated messengers, washes them with cold water and eco-friendly detergent, and returns them to you quickly using pedal power….
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Rapanui – Setting a Standard for Sustainability & Traceability in Fashion
“Where’d you get that?” is something we commonly answer about the clothes we are wearing. What if the question instead was “where does that come from?”— could you answer? British eco-fashion label Rapanui…
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A Place of Mind
I’ve been out of the city for nine months now. Still, a day does not go by that I don’t miss it so much it almost hurts. I don’t consider myself very sentimental,…
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Cutting the Caffeine – Why You Need to & How to Do it
That morning cup of coffee may be causing more harm than you know. The energy boost you get is an artificial caffeine-induced high that creates a vicious circle of dependency, which can be…
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Born to Run, or Determined to Try
“I hate running.” How many times have you heard someone say that, or perhaps uttered the words yourself? Running is one of those divisive forms of exercise that you either love or loathe….
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Charley’s Organic Toffee – Changemaking Candy
Everybody and his dog is making caramels or toffee these days; they’re as easy to find as ants at a picnic. But I can tell you that turning out both types of these…
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The GreenShows Move into Lincoln Center at NYFW
Over the past three years, The GreenShows has been the premier showcase of sustainable design during New York Fashion Week. This time around, the shows were finally invited to be an official part…
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Sprout – No-frills Organic Skincare, Made in Brooklyn
I am not one of those people who enjoy wandering the aisles of drug stores for hours looking for new beauty products. Honestly, they bore me. I just want great stuff that will…
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Super Bowl Apparel Bound for Developing Countries – is this Good or Bad?
After the Super Bowl last Sunday, the Giants were immediately given Championship T-shirts, hats and towels to celebrate their victory. In order to make this happen, the NFL has to produce these items…
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Trash Becomes Energy at a Small New York Landfill
It’s time to think differently about garbage. The United States produces 390 billion pounds of garbage every year, and finding places to dispose of it is a serious environmental and economic challenge. We…
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On the Cutting Edge of Eco-Fashion: ULTRA
Ever since I added the word “eco-fashion” to my vocabulary, I have wished for a brand like ULTRA to come along. One that is as cutting edge and inspired as it is sexy…
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The Nicest Place on the Internet
Even though most of us are far better connected these days than we’ve ever been before, thanks to social networks, email and video calling, we tend to see less actual people (online shopping…
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Undies with a Cause: PACT + Architecture for Humanity for Japan
This holiday season, PACT and Architecture for Humanity have teamed up in support of the design and construction of a work-house for a cooperative of 15 fishermen in Shizugawa, a town nearly destroyed…
Can Cute Cardboard Animals Teach Us About Responsible Energy Use?
As a designer and environmentalist, I constantly struggle to bridge the gap between my desire to create a truly sustainable world and that to make pretty things. Can design save the world? Or…
Good Stuff: Wild Child
This summer, the great outdoors serves as fashion muse. Animal prints and motifs are back with a vengenance (and, thankfully, available for vegans as well), hair is beachy and messy and safari-inspired pieces…
Wash Cycle Laundry – Bike-Powered Laundry Pickup-and-Deliver Service
Philadelphia-based company Wash Cycle Laundry picks up your laundry using a bike-powered fleet of dedicated messengers, washes them with cold water and eco-friendly detergent, and returns them to you quickly using pedal power….
Rapanui – Setting a Standard for Sustainability & Traceability in Fashion
“Where’d you get that?” is something we commonly answer about the clothes we are wearing. What if the question instead was “where does that come from?”— could you answer? British eco-fashion label Rapanui…
A Place of Mind
I’ve been out of the city for nine months now. Still, a day does not go by that I don’t miss it so much it almost hurts. I don’t consider myself very sentimental,…
Cutting the Caffeine – Why You Need to & How to Do it
That morning cup of coffee may be causing more harm than you know. The energy boost you get is an artificial caffeine-induced high that creates a vicious circle of dependency, which can be…
Born to Run, or Determined to Try
“I hate running.” How many times have you heard someone say that, or perhaps uttered the words yourself? Running is one of those divisive forms of exercise that you either love or loathe….
Charley’s Organic Toffee – Changemaking Candy
Everybody and his dog is making caramels or toffee these days; they’re as easy to find as ants at a picnic. But I can tell you that turning out both types of these…
The GreenShows Move into Lincoln Center at NYFW
Over the past three years, The GreenShows has been the premier showcase of sustainable design during New York Fashion Week. This time around, the shows were finally invited to be an official part…
Sprout – No-frills Organic Skincare, Made in Brooklyn
I am not one of those people who enjoy wandering the aisles of drug stores for hours looking for new beauty products. Honestly, they bore me. I just want great stuff that will…
Super Bowl Apparel Bound for Developing Countries – is this Good or Bad?
After the Super Bowl last Sunday, the Giants were immediately given Championship T-shirts, hats and towels to celebrate their victory. In order to make this happen, the NFL has to produce these items…
A Greener, Cleaner Super Bowl XLVI
Super Bowl Sunday is, for many American sports fans, the most important holiday of the year. We buy new flat screen TVs, paint ourselves in the colors of our team (if they happen…
Trash Becomes Energy at a Small New York Landfill
It’s time to think differently about garbage. The United States produces 390 billion pounds of garbage every year, and finding places to dispose of it is a serious environmental and economic challenge. We…
Good Stuff: Neutrals & Blues
Neutrals and blues go so well together, it would be a shame not to mix them. Good stuff that we are craving right now includes a belted trench, classic in shape but with…
Quinn Popcorn – Microwave Popcorn Without the Chemicals
Popcorn is a comfort food for many of us. My family made countless batches of the stuff on top of the stove, and, later, in our popcorn machine (remember those?). Then, microwave popcorn…
Philanthroper – A Daily Deal Site for Giving
About a year ago, Mark Wilson launched Philanthroper, a site that has been dubbed the “Groupon for Good.” Like other daily deal sites, Philanthroper sends out a daily email featuring a charity and…