Category — Fashion & Gadgets

At one point I honestly thought I couldn’t afford to dress in an eco-friendly manner. Every “green” purse, dress or pair of jeans featured in the big fashion magazines had bigger fashion pricetags! So, in my mind only those on big budgets could afford to look good saving the planet. The rest of us, well, we’d have to leave our closet out of it.

How wrong I was! With just a little research I found that there are options for us stylish gals (and guys!) who care about our mother earth. [Read more →]

ETHICAL FASHION SHOW® 2007, 4th Edition
OCTOBRE 11th to 14th
At the Tapis Rouge 67, rue du Faubourg St-Martin 75010 Paris

Come October, Paris will be hosting the fourth Ethical Fashion Show. Attracting thousands of eager buyers and a growing number of labels alike,(more than 60 labels and 4,000 attendees last year), major retailers like Marks & Spencer and the fashion cataloger La Redoute are actively expanding their ethically sourced apparel lines. [Read more →]

Zooey eco tee

Being green is simple with Zooey’s new line of tees. Collaborating with Love & Eight, Zooey, known for their wispy-thin, totally flattering shirts in vibrant colors, is going the way of other levitatingMonkey favorites (can you say Bono!?!): donating $2 for every tee sold to Healthy Child Healthy World (an organization that works to ensure that kids grow up in safe, clean environments).

The collection comes in three lovely shades: yellow, green or white. The simple graphics of the eye-pleasing line include: a leaf, the peace sign, the earth, a butterfly and encouraging messages like: “Think Green, Be Cool,” “The Earth Has a Fever, Be the Cure,” and “A World of Cool”. 100% organic (both materials and production), the hip tees are shipped in totally sustainable boxes.

Available online at shopbop.com.

Since the start of 2001, Paris has seen an increase in bicycle use of over 48%. July 15th, 2007 marked the starting point of a major transformation in the way people will travel around the French capital. With the setting up of Vélib, the world’s most ambitious program aimed at facilitating bicycle access — now thousands of bicycles are available from hundreds of stations close to major public transport hubs spread out across the city.

The membership fees of 29 euros/per year increase with each 1/2 hour added, the first one being free, rendering the ride virtually free if you consider a report from”L’observatoire des déplacements dans la capitale” dated from 2005 estimating the average ride to last for 25 minutes .

The system is accessible to ages 14 and up. At the stations, the computer terminals enable you to:
- obtain one-day and seven-day subscriptions
- recharge your account (long duration)
- obtain information ( particularly which other stations are nearby and whether they are available).

Once you have finished your journey, all you have to do is deposit the bicycle back at any Vélib station.

Enjoy the ride!

You’re invited to the Global ECO Trade and Fashion Show. What is it you ask? It’s a trade show connecting green buyers with conventional retailers interested in earth-friendly clothing designs, sustainable textiles, and eco-products. Eco is the acronym for environmentally conscious and organic. ECO’s invitation is for exhibitors from around the world that support sustainable lifestyles. Yeah, I thought that would peak your interest!

Where
Venetian Hotel, Grand Ballroom, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

When
August 26 - 29, held in conjunction with the ASAP Global Sourcing Show Great Location!

Why
To connect green and conventional buyers with eco and health suppliers and to explain to conventional retailers why to go green…in an extraordinarily fashionable way!

Write down all your thoughts, memories and stories in this handmade elephant journal. A patchwork elephant outlined by detailed stitching and made of royal purple, golden yellow, juicy orange and rich red is flanked by pretty flowers on the off-white cover. Open the journal and find colorful pages for sparking your creativity and holding your precious thoughts.This journal is “tree free” and made from recycled cotton rags.

Made by gifted artisans in India.

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Run, don’t walk…go get your FEED bag. The FEED bag is designed to raise awareness and funds for hungry children and to help them get into school and out of hunger. Each FEED bag sold provides a school year of meals for one child in need and gives them the hope of an education and a regular meal.

Whether you tote your FEED bag to school, work, play, or shop, remember that your bag helped to FEED and educate one child for one entire school year.

The XO is a $175 laptop designed for all school-aged children in emerging nations by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement. Each machine features a wireless router and a webcam. A transformer hinge configures the laptop for e-book reading and gaming. An extra-wide touchpad supports pointing, drawing and writing. A screen that is sunlight readable is even available. The XO comes complete with energy efficient batteries and my favorite feature: it can be hand-powered by a pull cord!

The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning. Focusing on designing, manufacturing and distributing XO laptops to children in lesser developed countries, the OLPC is initially concentrating on those governments that have made commitments for the funding and program support required to ensure that all of their children own and can effectively use a laptop.

It’s an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

The news only gets better…the target price is $100 and OLPC expects the current price to decline as demand increases in the coming years.

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Sony’s flexible, full-color OLED
Sony has unveiled what is being billed as the world’s first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, and weighs a mere 1.5 grams.
Check it out

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Send in your old phones and empty ink-jet cartridges so they can be reused.

Why:

• Every year over 400 million cartridges are discarded into our nation’s landfills with a combined weight of 200 million pounds.
• A laser cartridge discarded today will take over 1000 years to decompose.
• Manufacturing a new laser cartridge typically requires three and a half-quarts of oil - a non-renewable fossil fuel. In comparison, a remanufactured laser cartridge only uses a quart and a half of oil.

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