Pamela Anderson’s new eco/animal-friendly clothing collection hasn’t even hit stores yet — and already the actress is using the buzz to help raise money for one of her favorite charities, PETA.Called A*Muse, the new brand will be an animal-friendly, organic line, consisting of bathingsuits, designer
Eco Chic Runway Shows at NYFW The Bel Esprit showroom and Nolcha, the online fashion portal partnered to create the first Ethical Fashion Preview during New York’s Fashion Week, which took place a couple of weeks ago. This event spotlighted fashion designers whose work uses eco-friendly pro
I absolutely LOVE Ben & Jerry´s Ice Cream. I made my first fateful discovery on a trip to the U.S. when I was still a kid and sadly for my hips it´s been true love ever since! So I was really excited when I stumbled upon the news that Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is testing out new eco-friendly c
Kuyasa Sees The Light As South Africans face huge hikes in their electricity bills, people living in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town have turned to the sun to provide for their heating needs in Africa´s first project registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).The
Looking for a new eco travel destination? Well why not take a trip to one of the below eco nations´ green shores… Based on Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI) for 2008, which measures factors such as a country’s environmental health, air pollution, water resources
It’s been a long time since Alicia Silverstone was “Clueless.” Since then she’s earned accolades on screen and stage, most recently in Donald Marguilies’ “Time Stands Still,” directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, which she’ll take to Broadway in January. At the same time, the longtime envir
… And PACT is here to prove it! PACT is the brainchild of two unlikely business partners who joined forces in the most unlikely of places. Jason Kibbey is a born-and-raised Berkeley leftie who started his own land conservation non-profit, drives a Prius, and loves his bike(s). He also likes bu
Interview with SASSI´s Timony Siebert… Hot on the heels of a recent episode of Carte Blanche which exposed the mislabelling of fish that is going on in the Western Cape, we thought we´d publish our interview with Timony Siebert, Coordinator for Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (S
This Saturday, 24 October 2009, is International Day of Climate Action. 350.org was founded by U.S. author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public, and a team of university friends.Together, they ran a campaign in 2007 called Step It Up that organized
Last week saw Portland, Oregon host it´s annual Fashion Week and it’s gone green for the second year in a row. Featuring eco-couture, urban casual, street- and active-wear from all over North America and the globe, Portland Fashion Week is “the world’s only comprehensively eco-sustainable production
