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Calling all entrepreneurial DIYers in New York! Greenfinds and Samples for (Eco)mpassion are looking for vendors for their Holiday Eco Marketplace. This all-green market will run from Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 and be open Thursday to Sunday at 2 Great Jones St. Tables are $350 per week minus any commitment for the following weeks – they can even staff your table, you know if you’re stuck at your day job. If you wanna sign up or need more info, contact Ike at ike@greenfinds.com or 917-226-9765.

Shoppers – be sure to gather up all that loose change lying in your couch/bottom of your purse and scope out the Holiday Eco Marketplace. They’ve already got a great lineup on board like: Read the full post... 

As most can expect with any holiday season (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), a little weight gain is in the cards. So what’s a candy-goobling, turkey-lovin’, cookie-snatchin’ Biter supposed to do? Indulge and worry about the weight later thanks to the Muffin Top Stopper. Yep, you heard me right. This little device - made in Queens, NYC - has a button on one side and buttonhole on the other so you can extend your waistband. It’ll prevent your luvies (love handles) from hanging out and reduces waste (not waist unfortch) since you can skip buying a new pair of jeans just for the holiday season - which makes the planet happy too.

PS: It’s great for preggo ladies too like my sis and friend Michele Read the full post... 

I'm 5'2" with an Italian schnoz, so my dreams of modeling are pretty much non existent. My one shining modeling moment was for Marie Claire in December 2007 in their "100 Real Women in Party Dresses" spread (I knew the editor). It was a blast to get all made up and feel like Kate Moss for a moment (minus the…ahem, bad habit).

However, perhaps I'll put back on my modeling stilettos to enter to be the next Green Girl for Project Green. They're looking for the 2010 "it girl" to be an advocate for the environment (there's still time to vote for the 2009 candidates). You'll win a modeling and talent contract, a photo shoot with fashion photog Courtney Dailey with organic makeup and sustainable duds, a 20-piece Read the full post... 

I’ve pondered this question, especially after reading yesterday’s Seattle tip on a local girl and 24 other women who plan to turn a blind eye to store windows and shop only in their closets for a year. My friend Natalie Linden did the same thing last year and lived to blog about it. I’m not a big clothes horse but I do get really sick of my clothes and often purge a bunch to Goodwill when I buy something new. But while that might offset my shopping guilt – good ol’ Goodwill has plenty on its plate (it receives more than 1 billion pounds of donated clothing each year.) So I’m thinking this could be a good New Year’s resolution – Read the full post... 

Last Thursday in NYC, my writer Yachtz (lucky him) rocked out at the Wyclef concert to celebrate the Grammy winner’s partnership with Timberland (the boots not the singer). I was at my sister’s baby shower but Yachtz gave me the low down.

The two teamed up to design a 16 boot Earthkeepers collection for the ladies, gents, and kiddies. They’re made from 100% organic cotton canvas, 42% recycled sole, and 100% recycled PET laces and lining. For each pair sold, $2 will go towards Wyclef’s Yéle Haiti Foundation to support reforestation in Haiti. They sell for $65-$155 a pop and you can look for ‘em in store late November.



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NY Fashion Week is finally coming to a close…and I can't say I mind. For one week, Bryant Park becomes a mad house with self-important fashionistas, pushy reporters (trust me, I used to be one for Us Weekly and Life & Style Weekly), stressed out PR reps, and not to mention those shouting PETA activists. Don't get me wrong, Fashion Week in NY is an amazing event with a ton of brilliant designers. But after many years of waiting in line for a 15-minute show that starts an hour late, I'm happy this year I skipped the tent and went downtown for the down-to-earth Green Shows instead. Models strutted their stuff at the King of Greene Street boutique to the likes of:

Bodkin: Designer Eviana Hartman from NY creates girly garb out of organic Read the full post... 

I admit it: I am way more discerning about what I put in my body than what I put on it. Food-wise, I'm all over organic veggie living - pretty easy in Chicago, local food mecca. But somehow, when it comes to buying clothes, all that thinking flies right out the window. So when I heard about next week's Vegan Style Night at Pivot, I decided to go…but not for the reasons you might think. I almost never buy new clothes, penny-saving, thrift-store-haunting, same-outfit-multiple-times-a-week-wearing diva that I am.

Yes, I was in it for the social aspect - the idea of fun, eco-styley people hanging out in a fun, eco-styley spot, with free nibbles and smoothies from local vegan-friendly restos. The idea that I'd be around glam people, fawning over new, animal-friendly, limited edition coats, purses, and Read the full post... 

That's right. Because she cared enough to star in a video about a fake eco-clothing line. And I cared enough to post it for you below.



So what do you think? Anyone in the market for some new shants made by the lovely actress that also got to star in 10 Things I Hate About You (I so should have gotten that part)? Give Julie Stiles Styles a closer look-see here.

-Seattle Editor Jen...off to fashion a sarong out of doggie poop bags...

From Seattle
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Working at Ideal Bite has ruined me forever. I can no longer shop like a normal person. I fret over purchases – dresses made in China (the shipping CO2! the sweatshops!), fabrics that aren't sustainable (just cotton? Not organic, bamboo, hemp, modal, or tencel?), and shoes and bags made of leather (more water-wasting, methane-gas-spewing cows – argh!).

But I can't really blame my job for my neurosis…it all started when I watched Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff. It's so simple – why do we (I) fall for last season's wedges, then this season's chunky Read the full post... 

On my way to work this morning, I spotted a tied-up pair of sneaks hanging over a street sign. Nice…like the time my friend left her old boots on the sidewalk in case another girl with size 10 feet happened to walk by and want them (likely, they were picked up with the trash, like the 12.7 million tons of shoes that end up in landfills each year). So if not on a sign post or sidewalk or in landfill, then how 'bout giving your old clogs to Goodwill (if they're still wearable), or a cobbler to revive them (and if you still don't want 'em, swap them), or if they're running shoes, recycle them? Better, if Read the full post...