Photo credit: Tarte Designed to allow you to get wet and wild by a pool or beneath the blistering summer sky without melting your face off—or, at least, ruining those gussied-up peepers of yours—Tarte's limited-edition eyeQuatic Waterproof Summer Essentials Kit is travel-sized and eminently portable for lash-batting prep work on the run. Comp...

Look Like They Had a Great Time Our friends at StreetFilms produced this great short film about the Tour de Queen 2009 (the second annual edition, mark your calendar for next year!), which t... ...

Photo credit: Reco Jeans Add two more bold-faced names to the celeb-designer gravy train—or three, rather, if you count Punky Brewster's eco-friendly baby clothing collection. Grammy-award winning chanteuse Alanis Morissette and Oscar-nominated actor Woody Harrelson, are the public faces of Reco Jeans, a soon-to-be-launched lline of recycled-de...

Image Source: Francesca Tronchin Dear Pablo: With the energy and water used in washing and drying, isn't it actually more environmentally friendly to use paper napkins instead of cotton?... ...

Justin Timberlake has a lot to say about his t-shirt swag. Photo from A Lot to Say Turn all those Crystal Geyser, Evian, and Fiji plastic water bottles into t-shirts, slap on a sustainability slogan and you get A Lot to Say t-shirts, with mottos like: Turn On. Fuel. Unplug. The message on your chest speaks to the environmental and makes a fashion ...

Justin Timberlake has a lot to say about his t-shirt swag. Photo from A Lot to Say Turn all those Crystal Geyser, Evian, and Fiji plastic water bottles into t-shirts, slap on a sustainability slogan and you get A Lot to Say t-shirts, with mottos like: Turn On. Fuel. Unplug. The message on your chest speaks to the environmental and makes a fashion ...

100 plus trees grow on the Bronx Grand Concourse. All photos by Katie Holten 2009 Living sculptures that defy gravity, that’s how Yann Arthus-Bertrand describes trees in his inspiring environmental documentary Home, released on World Environment Day. Among the many benefits of trees, they slurp up CO2 and dish out O2, crumble into soil, prevent ...

Hey New Yorkers, if you're looking for something to do tomorrow, Saturday July 11th and have a hankering for either supporting the efforts of Solar One and Digiwaxx Media, or just checking out some great music, head over to the East River at 23rd Street anytime between 12 noon and 10pm for the CitySol Concert:... ...

Photo credit: TopShop Because TopShop hearts chic cyclists, the fashion retailer has partnered with Chictopia.com to reward folks who have traded in their gas-guzzling autos for pedal-powered two-wheelers. Fashion-forward cyclists—April, your wish for better-looking world with more chicks on bikes is about to come true—... ...

Photo credit: Revolution Organics Like everyone else in the land of the free market, I'm not just busy anymore; I'm crazy-busy, head-barely-above-water busy, busier-than-a-hive-full-of-buzzing-bees busy. So anything with the barest whiff of multifunctional ability instantly gets my attention—while I'm rocking a baby to sleep with one arm and das...

Inspiring others to go green can be an uphill battle, judging from the blank looks of non-comprehension that one may receive at times. However, Toronto-based artist Franke James shows that this doesn’t have to be the case. With her delightfully quirky style, James has been chronicling her personal journey in going green through a series of illust...

Image from the Guardian It's plinth madness in London, starting this week. That's plinth as in the fourth, empty column in Trafalgar Square that has been statue-less since 1841. Artist Anthony Gormley won the competition to put something on it and his "something" is a person, one per hour, for the next 100 days. So who has been up there and w...

Photo credit: Jak and Jil The economic caldera we're still digging ourselves up from under has put a whole new spin on the definition of "luxury." (This fall's New York Fashion Week will be an eye-opener for sure.) With consumer spending in the hole, and chi-chi brands like Hermes tightening their croc-skin belts, we might be witnessing the end of...

Photo credit: Label Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, Jenny Hwa, and Linda Loudermilk are household names—well, okay, if you live in the kind of home where green togs regularly crop up in dinner conversation—but there's a rising phalanx of upcoming designers ready to vie for your sartorial affections. In this slideshow, we feature 20 environmen...

It’s always nice when you can one-stop shop. Such is the case with Beautorium, a natural and organic beauty emporium that carries some the most ethical and effective beauty brands, all in one place. There are 20 brands and about 650 products available on the Beautorium’s website and each has been carefully hand-picked based on certain criteria...

Here is something that is 100% recycled, but doesn’t look it. ECOALF is the new fabric developed by the Spanish company fun&basics, made from recycled PET bottles. It is a high quality textile: flexible, tension resistant, long lasting, waterproof and lightweight. The first bags made from ECOALF are a toilet bag, a small bag, a cabin trolley...

We’ve long been a fan of the verve and social conscience shown by eco-apparel company, Nau. (see our archive of previous posts below) But they’re not content with just making stylish, well crafted, functional, outdoor clothing from responsible materials and donating 2% of sales to not-for-profits selected by customers. Now they want to give aw...

Spacing Toronto The City of Toronto is home to many flying squads of Guerilla Gardeners, usually attacking neglected planters, traffic medians and forlorn strips of dirt. Some, finding those too few and far between, commandeered empty flower boxes. Now they have hit a new low, at urban intersections where there is not a patch of soil to be seen: n...

A quick, if belated story, from my rather overburdened in-tray. Here we’re catching up on the launch of the Nature Rocks campaign. This national program has as its aim “to inspire and empower families to play and explore in nature.” Why? Well, one reason is because, children who play and learn on a regular basis in the outdoors, are said ta...

Photo courtesy of Save Your World. At some point throughout a woman’s endless struggle (or so it seems) with her hair, we decide to do something drastic. Like color it. Whether that means dying it or highlighting it, almost every woman has done something to alter her true color. And yes, we are included (summer highlights, anyone?). When we foun...