6 Easy-to-Carry Essentials That Will Keep Your Travels Green

Piet Hein Eek’s Fair Trade Baskets are Beautifully Handcrafted from Recycled Palm Wood

Famous Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek recently designed a beautiful set of baskets, bowls, and trays for Fair Trade Originals. Each piece was handcrafted in Vietnam using palm wood slabs according to the

Victoria’s Secret is Allegedly Using Child Cotton Laborers in Africa

Hardly angelic behavior, Victoria’s Secret was recently outed in a report by Bloomberg News that alleged the company has been using malnourished, underaged West African children to pick the cotton

HUGE Cyber Monday Sale – Up to 60% Off – on Green Goods from Ethical Ocean

We held fast to our commitment to Buy Nothing Day on Friday and avoided the craziness, the stampeding and the pepper spray, but we were blown away when we saw the deals that Ethical Ocean was offering up

Pants to Poverty Crams 60 People Into a Pair of Briefs for Guinness World Records Day

How can an underwear company raise awareness about world poverty? Cramming a bunch of half-dressed people into an oversize pair of purple underpants in the streets of London seems like a pretty good way

Worst Forms of Child Labor Occur in India’s Garment Industry

Whether you grew up in the city or were a suburban-raised child, the issue of child labor was most likely outside of the realm of your understanding. Today, the labor exploitation of children is still a

Actress Emma Watson Debuts Her Third—and Final—People Tree Collection

Beyond watching superstar Jane of all trades Emma Watson grace the silver screen in Harry Potter, we’ve also become enamored with her work with fair trade clothier People Tree. Watson who has

Actress Emma Watson Visits Indian Slums to Support Fair Trade

Hermione Granger has sure grown up and she’s using powers to do some great things — well, something like that. Unlike her troubled peers, Emma Watson has avoided the role of tawdry Hollywood

Win a Weekender Cardigan + Purse From Indigenous Designs (Worth $139)!

Spring is officially here! That means it’s time to ditch your heavy winter coat and slip into something a little more comfortable like this luxurious 100 percent organic-cotton cardigan by

GREEN WEDDING GUIDE: Eco-friendly Wedding Dresses!

Welcome back to our Green Wedding Guide! If you’ve missed any of our issues in weeks past, we’ve already covered finding conflict-free eco-wedding rings, greener wedding locations, more

London Fashion Week’s Estethica Spring/Summer 09 Showcase

< New York Fashion Week has come and gone, and devout fashionistas have since migrated onto London for the next wave of Spring/Summer 2009 showings. We still have more details to follow up from events

RIGHTEOUS ECO FASHION: Fall 2008 Collection

The Swedish fashion brand Righteous definitely follows moral law when it comes to sustainable innovation. Founded in 2004 by human rights law students, Paula Kermfors and Kajsa Holst, the Righteous label

Copenhagen Fashion Week: NOIR Fall 2008 Collection

All eyes during the past week were on the much anticipated Fall 2008 fashion shows here in New York City, but we also wanted to draw attention to what has been happening with one of our favorite

Design Beyond the Borders of Development

There is something intrinsically pleasing about experiencing natural fibers in the form of good design. When this happens within a fair trade setting, the mix of aesthetics, function, environmental and

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: KUYICHI Ethical Fashion

Kuyichi is a Netherlands-based brand committed to making organic cotton jeans for the last five years. They buy their cotton from Peruvian farmers and strive to be socially and environmentally sound. They

ESCAMA HANDBAGS: Made from Recycled Aluminum Pulltabs

What’s better than a beautiful chic handbag made entirely from recycled materials? How about one that is not only eco-friendly, recycled, and supercute – but also engages fair-trade and

LONDON FASHION WEEK: Eco-Fashion Label Amana

Amana is a new eco-fashion label that recently launched in London. The name is a Moroccan Arabic word that means “delivered in confidence,” and is fitting for a line that seems to have done

TORD BOONTJE FLOWER RUG for Nanimarquina

The recent collaboration between star Dutch designer Tord Boontje and the uber-hip Spanish rug company Nanimarquina is truly a great combination- like chocolate and mint, or peanut butter and jelly. The