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• Got sustainable style?

  Fashion season is upon us, and sustainable style has hit the ground strutting 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  As expected, we see a lot of energy on the eco-fashion front. More shows, more events, and even more awards for eco-designers. The Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation is giving out an award for sustainability and there's also London's RE:Fashion Award. Check out the highlighted events below the fold. I'll be at some of them and in some of them, but I have work to do in Mozambique smack-dab in the middle of the eco-fashion extravaganza, so unfortunately I'll have to miss a few.

  See any events that I may have missed? Include them in the comments section.

• Real green world

  Video tours of the eco-pimped Real World: Hollywood house 0

  Posted 1 year, 6 months ago

  In the midst of preparing for the launch of 250 hours of green programming for Discovery Planet Green, I got a call from my good friend Pete Griffin over at Think MTV.

  "We have this idea to build a green house on the Real World," he told me. "Instead of creating a whole new green show, why not build it into one of the most watched programs on MTV?"

  Can anyone say brilliant?

  Well, we had a blast teaching the Hollywood cast a few things about saltwater pools, dual-flush toilets, low-flow showerheads, eco bedding, hybrid cars, and soy… Read More

• On Africa, fair trade, and today's runways

  High fashion around the globe 0

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  It's been a few months since the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris, but I had a nice chat recently with French fashion designer Annabel Gerenthon, who debuted her fair-trade shoe label Moyi Ekolo there. Annabel was the former fashion designer at Charles Jourdan before it was sold in 2003. Now she's on her own and starting shoes from scratch.

  The vegetable-tanned leather used in the collection's cute ballerina flats and boots is sourced from a social project in Namibia, which she is helping supervise. "There is very little history of footwear production in Namibia, except on the workshop… Read More

• Eavesdropper: Top 10 things seen and heard on the green fashion scene

  Gossip, cool events, and personal vignettes I've come across during my travels 0

  Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

  1. Japanese press at NYC show commenting on how no eco-fashion label has hit their fancy yet. (Oh, but how far we have come since a few years ago!)
  2. People Tree (ironically a very popular brand in Japan) has secured 300,000 Euros to help expand its line.
  3. Sofala Investments, the parent company of the African luxury label a.d. schwarz, will plant a tree this October and November at its forest reserve in Mozambique for every registered race participant in The Race against Global Warming, to neutralize each racer's carbon emissions.
  4. Posh labels like Bahar Shahpar… Read More

• Be a green fashion week groupie

  Eco-events all over the world 6

  Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

  There's a rash of "greener" fashion weeks popping up everywhere for the spring 2008 fashion season. And there must be an alignment of the stars or the higher workings of an omnipotent green god, because there is barely any overlap in dates. If you were so inclined, it would be possible for you to attend every single one of the shows listed below -- though the jet lag and carbon emissions from such an excursion might leave you feeling a bit ... restless.

  I'll be in Seattle, Paris, and New York, and maybe San Francisco, so please drop in and… Read More

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  Friedman not at the pulse

  Friedman is not at the pulse of the youth climate change movement obviously. The lobbying and action has already started. Wake up!On An interview with The 'Stache pre-pie-in-the-face posted 1 year, 6 months ago 15 Responses

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  More Green Fashion Week Groupie News

  I neglected to highlight a couple more shows.

  CHICAGO

  On September 27, the Foresight Design Initiative, a Chicago-based sustainable design and innovation nonprofit group, will host EcoModa: A
  Sustainable Fashion Showcase.

  EcoModa will be held in conjunction with Foresight¹s annual Sustainable Convergence ¹07 party, to be held at The Notebaert Nature Museum. Sustainable Convergence draws several hundred people with a lively combination of great food, drinks, and music; a sustainable enterprise fair; an engaging design
  component and more.

  Designers can submit their design here:
  http://www.sustainableconvergence.org

  LOS ANGELES

  LA will also host another pre-Emmy party where celebs can borrow some eco-baubles for the red carpet.On Eco-events all over the world posted 2 years, 2 months ago 6 Responses

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  Recycled Paper for Fashion Magazine

  Hi Bernardo, It needs to be done. Aveda is the only company I know that has stood up and said that they will only advertise in magazines that use recycled content. I mention that as much as I can when I talk b/c it's just so smart. Imagine if every company that advertises in a magazines said that? Not only should these values be coming from from companies, they should be coming from the various people that read the magazines.

  I'll be heading out to Great Bear National Forest in a few weeks on a conservation mission. It is the largest continguous coastal temperate rainforest and most of the virgin woods get turned into junk mail and magazine paper. A number of companies, non-profits and the Canadian government are putting together a deal to save the forest from logging. Hopefully a story like this will get written about in magazines - and more linkages will be made to paper production and sustainability.

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  John - Incredible Hulk Style. Sounds sexy. ;o)On Eco-events all over the world posted 2 years, 3 months ago 6 Responses

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  Go Big Red

  I would like to see Cornell there. They are one of the schools that have now pledged carbon neutrality, have one of the first sustainability coordinator positions (that works both internally and with other schools), and has some of the top researchers on environmental issues.On 15 Green Colleges and Universities posted 2 years, 3 months ago 62 Responses

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  insinuations

  Hi Royce and Remy,
  The way you interrogate and insinuate is rather foul. You create chasms as opposed to building bridges. You really know nothing of my work and assume what you want to push your own agenda.

  Fyi Remy, the event that I held at PGH was not for Riverkeeper. I'm not sure where you got that info. It was to benefit PowerShift, which is the first national youth climate conference run entirely by young people. There will be a series of recruitment and training conferences to help more young people engage in their schools, universities, and government - and continue to push stringent carbon policies ...something that us young people are doing the best we can - and doing it together.On When journalists go too far posted 2 years, 3 months ago 9 Responses