Style and Sustainability: Can they Coexist?
You don’t have to sacrifice personal style and creativity to be sustainable.
Fashion
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Natural Dyeing with Food Scraps and Foraged Flowers
Upcycle old items with natural dying! Natural Dyer, Cara Marie Piazza, and climate advocate, Madeleine Wallace, walk through an easy DIY natural dyeing technique using food scraps, foraged flowers, and a tee shirt.
How To: Recycle Old Clothing (Even Ratty Ass Old Underwear)
If you’ve got a giant bag full of Ed Hardy graphic tees and gaucho pants collecting dust in the back of your closet, here’s how to keep them out of the trash and out of your sight.
Guide To: Secondhand Shopping
Heading to a thrift store can feel overwhelming for many people but I’ve got years of successful secondhand shopping experience (and a killer wardrobe to prove it).
Zero Waste Wardrobe: How to Assess & Edit Your Closet
Proof that you can love clothes AND stay zero waste at the same time.
Zero Waste Halloween Costume Ideas
My costume-loving friend Molly is sharing how to keep your Halloween look zero waste, and totally amazing at the same time.
A Zero Waste Alternative To Dry Cleaning
Dry cleaning. Let’s talk about it. First of all, I stopped going to the dry cleaner years ago. Not for environmental reasons, but because they are SO expensive. Paying $8 in NYC to have a shirt cleaned? No thanks. Besides the cost of getting my clothes “professionally cleaned”, I began to learn about what they were actually being cleaned…
Extending the Life of Your Shoes
“When you look good you feel good” That is the motto that is hanging above the desk of Alex, my shoe guy. He has been repairing my shoes for three years now. When I bring him my shoes they typically look like straight trash. I procrastinate so much before taking them to him, they are basically at the point of…