Green Fashion Archive

From Tires to Toiletry Bags – Recycled Inner Tube Must Haves

On a rainy day, it’s fun to think about all the different sorts of vehicles that have tires: motorcycles, tractors, bikes, cars, buses… etc. It’s equally fun to think that the tires on these vehicles are merely the first incarnation for the rubber inner tubing and that in their next life, they might be bags, [...]
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Zara’s Organic Cotton Scarves Spice Up Any Outfit, Anytime

With more than 1,300 stores in 65 stores and, Spanish retailer Zara reaches a huge number of shoppers. What’s more, they are decidedly fashion forward at a price most consumers can afford, which really pisses off luxury labels. Former fashion director at Louis Vuitton, Daniel Piette, once said that Zara is, “possibly the most innovative [...]
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Coclico Shoes, Tres Eco-Chic, Oui? Oui!

The French word for poppy flower is Coquelicot. The brand name for sexy sustainable footwear is Coclico. This Coclico, named after the coquelicot, is not to be mistaken with the 16th century Renaissance composer from the Netherlands, Adrianus Petit Coclico. Using veggie tanned leather, FSC certified wood and cork, non-toxic water-based paints, recycled foam beds, [...]
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Sassy Eco Footwear at Payless: zoe&zac

Fashion forward and affordable has been Payless’ modus operandi for sometime now, collaborating with innovators like Patricia Field (stylist from ‘Sex and the City’) and Christian Siriano (contestant on ‘Project Runway’) on footwear that people can get excited about. So when the company decided they’d offer sustainable footwear at 1,000 of their store’s nationwide, they [...]
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Loomstate for Target. Affordable Eco Fashion. Oh Hell Yes!

Looking back at the overwhelming success of his 2008 Target collection, Rogan Gregory must have felt pretty freaking awesome. Using his rock’n roll aesthetic and sustainable materials like bamboo and organic cotton, the badass fashion designer revealed a whole new world of affordable eco-fashion to Target shoppers. And they liked what they saw. In fact, [...]
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Topo Ranch: Organic Cotton Clothing for Urban Cowboys

A few weeks ago I was in Los Angeles to wrap up the Lazy E tv pilot and spent an afternoon in Venice down on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, one of the few streets in Los Angeles where walking is actually encouraged and pedestrians aren’t likely to get flipped off or run over for being without [...]
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Green Karat: Recycle Old Gold, Receive New Jewelry

If you’ve ever bought bling bling, then you know that the karats cost! Furthermore, buying jewelry goes beyond impacting your wallet. The gold industry extracts 2,5000 tons of gold per year from the earth, using a gnarly process that is harmful to the environment. Fortunately, there is enough old and unused jewelry above ground stored [...]
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Style Naturally, Look Eco-Smokin’ Hot

Vanity Fair has called Summer Rayne Oakes a “Global Citizen.” Cosmopolitan Magazine referred to her as a “Fun, Fearless Female.” Outside Magazine listed her as one of the “Top Environmental Activists,” and CNN has named her a “Young Person Who Rocks.” Here at the Lazy Environmentalist, we call her “Smokin’ Hot.” Summer Rayne (her birth [...]
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Paper, Plastic, or Cool?

Adapted from Josh’s next book The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet. Paper bags come from trees. Plastic bags come from oil. Neither choice is a productive use of the planet’s natural resources. As many Lazy Environmentalists already know, the best approach is to tote your own reusable shopping [...]
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Affordable Denim That’s Good For The Planet (and makes your butt look good too)

Adapted from Josh’s next book The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet. Those of us determined to green our jeans will find that most eco-aware denim is priced at or above $150 a pair. But there are exceptions. Good Society delivers high-style, fair-trade certified organic cotton jeans for about [...]
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