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Fashion for the Future – As Old Becomes New, The New Becomes Old
It’s hard to think of an industry that relies more on the power of new-ness than fashion. Designers are expected to produce as much as six new collections every year. Just the thought…
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Good Gift Cards
This final good gift guide of the season is for all you forgetful procrastinators out there. Gift cards will never disappoint, but there’s no need to be as obvious as getting an Amazon…
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Good Gifts for Men
Men can either be really easy or super difficult to buy presents for. Our handpicked gift selections include good stuff like a badass backpack, sinful beard oil, cookwear for the rugged outdoorsman, a…
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Good Gifts for your BFF
When buying a gift for your best friend, go for things that make their everyday life just a little bit brighter. Our BFF gift guide includes cozy and conscious wardrobe staples, social reading…
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Good Gifts for the Wellness Warrior
Although the holidays are not a time when we tend to stick to our normal healthy routine, the rest of the year offers plenty of opportunity to make up for that. This gift…
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Good Gifts for Your (Lady) Love
This gift guide is for you men out there desperately wondering what to get that special lady in your life for the holidays. Our suggestions include beautifully handmade objects and wearables, lots of…
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Good Gifts for Foodies
Food is no longer just something we need three times a day to stay alive. It’s become a way of life, with an increasing number of people identifying themselves as foodies. In this…
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Richard Branson Tells Employees: Take as Much Vacation as You Want
If you want to get a European living in the US riled up about something, start discussing vacation time. Most American companies give their employees two weeks paid vacation every year. In that…
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A Tour of Moby’s LA Home, Where He Keeps 30,000 Bees
Musician, DJ and activist Moby takes us on a tour of his four-acre property atop the Hollywood Hills, which he shares with approximately 30,000 healthy, happy bees. Many of the foods we eat…
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Homeboy Industries – Jobs, Hope & Transformation for LA’s Former Gang Members
Since 1988, Homeboy Industries has provided job training and counseling to thousands of former gang members, giving them a rare opportunity to change their lives. The organization was started by Father Greg Boyle…
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Vivienne Westwood – Designer, Climate Activist, Fashion Icon
Upon entering the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s wildly popular exhibit Punk: Chaos to Couture, visitors were greeted by spiky-haired mannequins wearing outfits designed by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren alongside couture designer pieces…
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Startup Stories: Factory45, an Accelerator Program for Made in the USA
The most successful entrepreneurs out there create because they simply cannot help themselves, and few stop at just one idea. Shannon Whitehead got her start in 2010 when she co-founded {r}evolution apparel, a…
HOME – Seeing Earth From a New Perspective
In 200,000 years on Earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be…
Yellow Michelle Obama
At the National Design Awards, Michelle Obama came out to greet the honorees in the White House’s East Room, wearing a sunny yellow suit. A Goodlifer-yellow suit.
Ambrosial – Granola to Get Excited About
Does the mention of granola get you excited? Probably not; everybody and his brother seems to be making the stuff these days. But what if there was a granola worth your excitement? What…
CSA: The First Month
I have lettuce anxiety. It started the first week, with one or two huge heads, I can’t even remember at this point. Last week, there were three enormous ones, in addition to three…
Weekend Playlist: Sketch for Summer
An impression or a pentimento, the line flows from your fingers as it fashions a beautiful shape, it curves and travels as you introduce color. Hold it to the light as it prisms…
Making Dumplings at Garden of Eve
To me, the only thing that beats eating really good food is eating really good food that I cooked myself, using farm fresh ingredients grown mere steps from the stove. On a recent…
The Ethical Fashion Forum
If you are currently experiencing ‘green is the new black’ fashion fatigue, it might be because the latest interpretations of sustainable design are a bit up in the air as green goods continue…
Pure Indian Foods – Oh, Ghee!
Have you ever had a recipe call for clarified butter? If you have, and if you’re like me, you’ve tried to make clarified butter yourself. For a recipe that contains only a single…
Herb & Dorothy – A Life of Art
“You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.” Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history…
My Very Own Edible Container Garden
Ever since managing to kill the evergreens in my window boxes, I had planned on replanting them with something perhaps a bit more interesting, if not easier to manage. Although beautiful, flowers just…
Weekend Playlist: Sabor de Verano
In other words, A Taste Of Summer. Yes, taste it, live it. Happy Birthday to the United States of America with a wink to Henry Hudson. Fireworks can be made or found anywhere,…
Happy 4th of July
Independence, a long weekend, friends, family, fireworks, BBQ, beer… Whatever the cause, today is a day for celebration.The sun is out and there is a slight breeze that makes outside feel divine. The…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
