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thredUP - Great Option for Affordable Kids Clothes
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Mon, Dec 05
My girlfriends and I are bargain shoppers. We love to shop garage sales, craigslist, ebay, thrift stores and the Just Between Friends sale. Some of us do it because of our budgets, some do it for the fun of the hunt, and some of...
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{Giveaway ENDED} Beau Monde Organics Thai Dreams-Tantra organi...
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Tue, Nov 15
When doing giveaways and reviews I love to work with companies that are really doing things right. That's why I'm very excited about today's giveaway from Beau Monde Organics. Not only do they consider the environmental impact o...
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High Tech Fabrics Aren't Taking End of Life Into Consideration
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Tue, Nov 08
Our world is becoming more and more technological. Even fashion is getting more technologically advanced. But I'm not talking about high tech fabrics that wick moisture. More and more scientists and designers are weaving s...
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Shopping for Eco-Friendly Clothes, Part 3: Choose Hemp
Posted by Diane MacEachern
Tue, Aug 09
Part 1 of this series suggested you read the label and look for specific certifications that indicate clothes were made to reduce their environmental impact. Part 2 noted you could make it easy to buy greener fashions by choosing Tencel and...
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Buying 2nd-Hand for Back-to-School
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Tue, Aug 09
It's back-to-school time and that means it's time to buy new wardrobes of clothes for our kids. Once again we fill a closet with clothes that will most likely not fit before the school year is over. Most kids clothes are made from co...
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The Destruction Caused by Industrial Cotton with Patagonia Fou...
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Fri, Jul 29
I sat down to write my article for today and turned on the TV for background noise. As I flipped through the channels I saw something on UCTV (a station of the University of California system) about green business and decided to turn...
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Forever 21 Steals Design from Feral Childe
Posted by Danika Carter @Your Organic Life
Fri, Jul 22
Years ago when I worked for an American Fine Craft Gallery I remember one of the artists we worked with having the designs for her purses stolen by Target and manufactured in China...at a much lower price than the artist could sell them for...
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Flashy Eco-Fashion Looks Using Recycled CDs
Posted by Linda Lucille
Thu, Feb 11
From music and movies to marketing materials, photos, computer data storage and other novelty uses, compact discs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs have infiltrated our lives to such a great degree that they've gone from being the greatest high-tec...
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Swap Til' You Drop -- No Wallet Necessary!
Posted by Linda Lucille
Mon, Jun 29
One thing that the recession is doing -- aside from putting a cramp in our style both literally and figuratively -- is that it's forcing us to become a lot more creative in the way that we revamp our wardrobes. Now, instead of automatica...
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