Photo credit: Kate Quinn Organics My, they grow up so quickly! Better known for its darling ensembles for the pint-size crew, Kate Quinn Organics is now reaching out to an older clientele, with a new women's collection that shoots and scores with the Washington-based company's signature flair. ... ...

Photo via Madeline's Weddings and Events/ CakellaAll you really need to get married is love--and maybe a ring, and a marriage license. But that doesn't stop celebrities from going overboard when they're ready to tie the knot, hosting parties decorated with thousands of exotic flowers, serving food flown in from all ... ...

Photo credit: Getty Images In today's Department of We Can't Make This Stuff Up (by way of the Beeb): A U.K. textile firm better known for making military uniforms has launched a range of woolen and organic cotton caskets made locally in West Yorkshire. ... ...

Photos: ©Film “Home” - A coproduction Elzevir Films/Europacorp. It's been little more than a month since its worldwide premiere, and Home continues to amaze people around the world. A collection of unique aerial footage from over 50 countries, the movie tells and shows the evolution of the Earth and analyses its current state, to make us unde...

Artist Joyce van den Berg's vision for the former No Man's Land in Berlin includes walking paths, composting areas, and plenty of greenery. An area once called a "death strip" wouldn't seem to harbor much in the way of recreational potential, but when Dutch landscape artist Joyce van den Berg looks at the former No Man's Land that once separated E...

Beginnings, a Toddler Program and Nursery School in New York strives, as they say, “to create a nurturing and stimulating environment grounded in respect for children and the ways that they learn.” As part of this premise they work with the Reggio Emilia philosophy that evolved for children’s education in Italy after the Second World War. O...

Rua XV de Novembro We've already written about Curitiba's great Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, but that's not all the Brazilian city has to teach us. Our friends at StreetFilms write: "In 1972 under the direction of then Mayor Jaime Lerner, it became the first major pedestrian street in Brazil. The first phase of closing the street took place in...

Photo credit: Replay After a protracted stint under wraps, Replay is finally taking the scaffolding down and reopening the doors of its store in Via De’ Pecori, Florence. Fueled by a desire to "go beyond the traditional concept of a shop as a mere container," according to a press release, the Italian denim label's revamped 2,690 square-foot digs...

Photo credit: Getty Images We've seen some pretty funky feedstock for fabric in our time, from chicken feathers to discarded cigarette butts. Now get set to look at your morning mud in a whole new light because a Taiwanese company has pioneered a method to weave waste coffee grounds into interlaced fibers. The result? A textile that dries quickly,...

We all know that earth friendly fashion is just one piece of the puzzle, but we also know that sustainable shopping is an important piece. Enter Planet Threads, an online-only earth-friendly shop that offers a wide range of fashionable, eclectic, high quality eco-friendly clothing and accessories made by socially responsible companies and hard to ...

Photo credit: Greygoods I've personally never been a fan of cut blooms, organic or otherwise. Sure, they look pretty for a day or so, but then the inevitable path to entropy sets in: the drooping, the wilting, the petals and leaves scattered across your table like spent New Year's confetti, and the pungent perfume of decay and rot. You won't confu...

Photo credit: Rogan Attention Big Apple bargain hunters! Watch Rogan and Loomstate go all Crazy Eddie on us as they slash the prices on their organic cotton wares by up to 70 percent this weekend—we're talking about $160 jeans reduced to $40, $60 tees whittled to $20, $350 frocks on sale for $90—with nary an item over $100. Click below the fo...

Photo credit: Le FP Green Body Care With sandal weather upon us, isn't it time to acknowledge (and reward) the labors of our oft-neglected, not-so-happy feet? Whether you're slipping your shleppers into a wedge, thong, gladiator, or peep-toe slingback, those tootsies deserve nothing short of primped and polished perfection. Spring for a summer esc...

We call this column “Green Eyes On” because it’s supposed to be about the stuff that I lay my green eyes on. My last piece was about exciting recommendations coming out of the American Medical Association's annual meeting to eat more local and organic food. Sometimes it’s about places I’ve been and people I’ve met who are doing incredi...

Image via Seppo Leinonen Ecopreneurist is highlighting some art from Seppo Leinonen, a cartoonist out of Finland, who perfectly captures that tongue-in-cheek tone that makes acknowledging the environmental destruction we're imposing on the planet nearly digestible. ... ...

Image credit: Super Furry Animals Rock n roll meets integrated transport hubs Who'd have thought that one of the best songs I've heard all year would be about sustainable urban transportation systems? I've said it before, but I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Rob Hopkins of the Transition Towns Movement - not just for inspiring one of the most im...

Participants in the Istanbul bag-making workshop. Photos courtesy of Buğday. Paper bags aren't too commonly used in Turkey, but shopkeepers just love giving out plastic ones -- for a tiny item that you could easily tuck into your purse or a pocket, for a single soda you'll probably just drink on the way home anyway, for a few nectarines that are ...

Photo credit: Louise Galvin Louise Galvin, hair colorist to the stars and the woman behind the eponymous haircare line, can add another pip to her collar: Louise Galvin is U.K.'s first beauty company to become carbon-neutral. Pumped full of naturally derived ingredients like essential oils, natural extracts, and vegetable-based moisturizing and c...

Photo credit: Colette Renowned Parisian retailer Colette and the cutest car this side of Sanrio have put up a united fashion front, rallying five designer labels from Paris, New York, Berlin, Brazil, and Denmark to produce a tres exclusive, tres limited-edition collection of bags, jewelry, tees, and accessories for the urban car brand. Revolving a...

The other week I was sitting in a medical waiting room reading, as you do, a copy of Reader Digest. There was an intriguing article about Jackie Heinricher, her Booshoot company, and the plan to bring large scale bamboo cultivation to North America. At the time I thought I should follow up on that story. So I was very surprised to come home and f...