Blogs & Ecology

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Who could resist a face like that! So cute. Or his tee-shirt that says " I give a hoot". They are both, baby and tee, courtesy of Inhabitot, TreeHugger's favourite new baby design website. The shirt is made out of 100% organic cotton, printed by hand with eco-friendly, water-based inks. It features their mascot, the green owl, and has a nice green message for the world.

Photo credit: Patagonia

Wear your politics on your chest—as it were—with Patagonia's "Vote the Environment" T-shirt. Made with 100 percent organic cotton right here in the United States, the tee turns inside-out to present information about the League of Conservation Voters, an organization that promotes voter awareness and action on environmental issues.

Image source: BuyOrganics

Chocolate. Ice Cream. These are flavors, er, colors that come to mind when one sees the new Bamboo Baby line now offered at BuyOrganics. Strawberry, Vanilla, Chocolate, Pistachio, Khaki (not a flavor) are just a few of the colors you can coat your child in as you keep them from getting frostbite or freezer burn this winter while wearing soft and durable bamboo fleece....

Eco-Ganik model/photo by Eco-Ganik
At L.A. Fashion Week on Wednesday night, Eco-Ganik showed a collection of gorgeous, flirty frocks, relaxed knits and flouncey short skirts that were on point with every spring fashion forecast from New York to Paris, with one significant difference: Every element used in the line is eco-friendly.

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Photo credit: Chapter One Organics

An assortment of fun and funky baby and toddler clothing and accessories abounds at Chapter One Organics, a line that champions 100 percent organic cotton fabrics, low-impact dyes, and socially responsible manufacturing here in the United States.

Maggie Gyllenhaal at Gen Art's Fashionably Natural Show/photo provided by Gen Art

L.A. Fashion Week opened with a sustainable bang on Thursday, October 9th as Gen Art presented Fashionably Natural, an exclusive runway show featuring the city’s largest collection of eco-friendly designers showing their Spring 2009 collections. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted the show, which took place at a transformed Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Photo credit: Mountains of the Moon

Designer Melissa Baswell was working with hemp and organic fabrics, and dyeing with low-impact dyes, long before "eco" became as buzzword and back when eco-fashion was saddled with the unsavory rep of being as fashion-forward as burlap.

Photo credit: Areaware

Designer Ross Menuez reinvents a childhood classic with his Kuma Bears, a series of psychedelically patterned teddies so vibrant that the Grateful Dead Bears pale in comparison. Made from 100 percent organic cotton canvas and stuffed with organic cotton filling, the Kuma Bears are hand-silk-screened using eco-friendly (and worry not, parents, child-safe) soy-based inks.

Image courtesy of Redewin

Redewin, a new online eco-store that sells unique vintage and reconstructed clothing, just launched last week. It offers eco-conscious consumers a new option in shopping for stylish, one of a kind clothes, and it’s great destination for choosing green clothing. ...

Image courtesy of CBS

Oh, Bono—is there anything you can’t do? This time, the world famous rock star/hip philanthropist/sunglasses sporting all-around-do-gooder has entered into a deal between his company, Edun Live, and CBS Products to help stimulate employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (and, of course, to promote the upcoming show Survivor: Gabon). ...

Photo credit: Timbuk2

Timbuk2 and Howie's are longstanding TreeHugger faves, so we nearly wet ourselves when we heard that the iconic bag maker and the U.K.-based clothing company joined forces to create a limited-edition messenger bag.