Confessions of an eco-diva: Recycling Love
Mikki Rainey was going green long before the term existed.
Shopping for a cause: Tom’s Shoes
What if every two-for-one sale sent the freebie to someone in need?
Confessions of an Eco-Diva: Schleppin’ eco-style
It’s funny how the things we consider essential can change. In high school, it was fruit-flavored lip gloss, hair scrunchies, mix tapes and notes full of tales of teen angst. These items were crucial to my very being and I never left home without them.
Green suits you: Eco-friendly work-wear
Read the tag before you bag. If it says “dry clean only,” shop around for a similar machine-washable option. Perchloroethylene (perc for short) is the solvent used by most dry cleaners, and has been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a “probable human carcinogen.”
Shopping for a Cause
July 7, 2009 by Aimee Heckel
Filed under Eco-Diva, Fashion
stingraycuff_2200Teachers are forever telling students to “make good choices.”
Do a teacher proud by choosing to spend your dollars at eConscious Market, a Boulder-based online store (www.econsciousmarket.com).
Confessions of an Eco-Diva: Find style independence the second time around
You’re a bit of a fashion rebel, aren’t you?
You don’t let the latest trends dictate your style. You’ll choose whatever labels, even whatever decade, you darn well please. And oh yeah, “reduce, reuse, recycle” is your personal mantra. You wild thing!
Juggling your eco-conscience
I was recently hit by the realization that I am an Eco-Diva. Following this realization was a huge wave of relief.
Confessions of an Eco-Diva: Bamboozled
I am a terrible shopper. I obsessively over-analyze every potential clothing purchase. What will I wear it with? Do I already own anything that serves the same purpose? How is the cost-to-occasion ratio? (i.e. more expensive items need to look cute at work and at happy hour.) And of course what is the environmental impact of this item.
Confessions of an Eco-Diva
One of my favorite fall activities is enjoying a few tapas and a glass of chilled chardonnay at one of Boulder’s many hip establishments. Lately, though, I can’t munch down bruschetta without thinking about that saying: “Every woman eats a pound of lipstick in her life.”
Shopping for a cause: Clarks Shoes
Is it possible to have enough shoes? (Rhetorical “Of course not” implied.)
As if we need another reason to go shoe shopping, Clarks Shoes, at the Twenty Ninth Street Mall in Boulder, is giving us two: Helping South African orphans and furthering breast cancer research.
Buy one pair of hand-stitched “Khulani” moccasins and all profits go to [...]
