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…
One Woman Wears Nothing But Second-Hand Clothing for 365 Days
For all of 2013, Christina Dean, founder of Hong Kong based non-profit Redressed, wore nothing but dumped, discarded or donated second-hand clothes. The 365 Challenge — designed around the concept ‘redress it, don’t…
Landfill Harmonic – Creating Beautiful Music on Instruments Made From Trash
In Cateura, a slum built atop a landfill in Paraguay, young people are discovering the joys of art, music and creativity. They don’t have money to buy expensive instruments — a violin is…
Celebrating the Future of Sustainable Fashion in China
When we talk about sustainable fashion, rarely is China mentioned in a positive context. There is, however, a large movement among younger designers to move toward more conscious ways of creating wearables. The…
H&M Aims to Raise Sustainability Profile with New Men’s Line for Urban Cyclists
Mass-market retailers’ appetite for design collaborations seems to have no end in sight. After releasing much-hyped collections in collaboration with fashion-world darlings like Maison Martin Margiela and Anna Dello Russo, H&M is now…
Method Launches the World’s First Bottle Made from Recycled Ocean Plastic
Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in our oceans, polluting the environment and causing damage to marine life. Some of this washes up on shores, even in the most pristine…
If You Care – Products for the Conscious Cook
I feel a little silly not mentioning If You Care until now. I do a lot of cooking and baking. Some of that is by choice, and some of it’s because I do…
Nurmi – Sustainable Style from Finland
Nurmi is a Finnish sustainable clothing label that wants to “bring back the times when both the quality and the design of clothes were meant to last.” Anniina Nurmi, who hails from Tampere…
The Sway: Turning Excess into Excellence
The fashion industry creates incredible amounts of waste. Every day, tons and tons of fabric and leather scraps (off-cut) are discarded in factories around the world, much due to inefficiencies in pattern-making. We…
Vaute Couture: Vegan Winterwear
Possibly the hardest item of clothing for devoted vegans to find is outerwear. We rarely think about the fact the most winter coats contain some form of animal product, be it leather, fur,…
Recycled Couture at NY Fashion Week
It’s the time of teetering heels again. Uncomfortable, spectacular footwear takes over the streets as the Bryant Park tents fill with fashion’s A-listers for the last time. Meanwhile The GreenShows, this year housed…
The Uniform Project – One Year, One Dress
Sometimes, getting dressed in the morning seems like way too much work. I know I have at times wished I could just wear a lab coat or something to work and not have…
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...
