With the aestetics of asian culture and the ability to use earth or rather soil to dye fabric miss Hyun Jin Jeong has created some rather exquisite textiles. She comments on her work on the St Martin textile blog: My vision of textile futures is the re-discovery of everyday materials from nature. There are many different natural materials that were once used but are now forgotten. I think rediscovering these materials and using them wisely is essential for a sustainable future.
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Now I know it’s summer and its hot outside. I know we just want to run around butt naked in the sun, dive into the waves or just chill under a tree BUT I found this super cute collection over at GOOP and I wanted to share ( and save in my files…since this blog is like a file sharing thing for me ) Just adorble and its teaches you one or two things too:
All of Waddlers Alpaca wool is sourced in Bolivia and Peru from small farmers. As well as providing an income for thousands of families, Alpacas are also an environmentally friendly animal. Unlike sheep and goats, they have soft toes that don’t damage delicate eco-systems and their grazing doesn’t cause soil erosion.They e source Alpaca fur from the high number of animals that die naturally in the foaling season. Alpacas are not farmed for their fur and Waddler does not support fur farming. *(Baby Alpaca refers to the fine grade of the wool rather than it coming from young Alpacas)
I got a little bit wiser and I really want to shop now! Like the super cute wolf and bear hooded jumper for fall. Amazing!
Hi! I hope you all will have a lovely weekend – I sure need one! Had lods of work this week, the whole family more or less sick, me and my man almost not seeing each other at all and so on….Anyways im off to a great start since my 3 year old is having a musical apperance today at his school so that will be cool !
I am leaving you with the wind knitting factory – amazingly great! Wish I could, would…maybe should! I applaude her!
I want the toddler bed for SAM with the dinosaur bedding for sure. Those boblets looks really fun to play with too! Heart it all!
From Sparkability:
- Organic beddings with cool dinosaur motifs
- The chairs and table are made of 100% enmissions free and completely of sustaible materials.
- Toddler bed is painter with an eco-friendly non-toxic paint and constructed with no-formaldehyde added 100% recycles / reclaimed MDF.
- Colorfull boblets are free of any toxins and phthalates.
Below images of this pre-fabricated house are from LIVING HOMES who properbly makes the greenest homes on earth til’ this day…at least according to the great web Worldchanging. If you are interested for more please take Living homes tour of the house – great expinations too! Take a look!
If I could get my hands on a piece of land and afford this house…yummi!
Oooooooh what a lovely interior store!!! I need to go here and spend all my money!
Consume till you drop is last centuries plague and it continues into this one but I must admit – it’s sort of fun! So since we do what we do at least we should try doing it well. So here is just a fantastic option for all you shopping freaks out there – especially if your in London and your about to decorate your home. Eco is the idea of 2 brothers and a sister with last name Giuggioli, whom partners up with Colin Firth & Ivo Coulson. This is what they say about the project:
Eco is a new retail concept and the first of its kind – a store, showroom, consultancy and green hub that offers inspiration, ideas and specific domestic solutions for all those who want to lead a greener and more energy efficient life.
If I was in the need of redoing my home or even better build my own home then I could get all the help I needed to do so sustainbly and ecologically from ECO consultancy that has a huge library of materials from insulation, flooring, tiles and paint. They are also ready to help you with the technology of solar energy, roof gardens and low energy lightning.
The store has everything from toys, organic dream cushions, cleaning products, furniture such as 100% recycles beanbags and lamps made from drift wood to bamboo bikes plus fashion! Above is some selection of my own from their on-line shop…which has a really nice design too.
Daryl Hannah back in the days of SPLASH. And maybe thanks to that wonderfull mermaid she can now get more attention for her bigger project and most important of them all: please read below.
DJ love life project is ecological living promoter Daryl Hannahs project and with that her quest for a better world. I just think she is amazing. Such a fierce strong humble women. She is fighting the good fight and I hope she can convince many a likes to join the cause. He web site is full of information: global news, community work, food alerts, good car fuel infos ( she actually licks the lid of her carfuel engine tank thing in a sequence of the video – thats how clean it is! ) videos from native american mother earth marches to wild horses and swap-o-rama clothing project plus a shop where you can buy loads of good goodies. Do go visit and become inspired.
Below:super stylish sustainble bamboo snowboard, deliscious worm poop plant food, bio diesel pump for your ecological running car, flip-flop baskets made with leftovers from the flip flop factories, the original soap nuts for dirty laundry.
NY based women wear fashion brand BODKIN provides your wardrope with beautifull up to date garments in organic fabrics all made domestically. So easy and sophisticated yet flirty and girly. Their collection is currently availble in the States, Sweden at Ekovaruhuset, Korea and Japan but their are also some shops on the net: La Garconne, Bona Drag, Domahoka and Kind Boutique.
Designer Eviana Hartman has a vast and impressive curriculum: she used to be a student under sustainble movement Cradle to Cradles founder William McDonough, is a dancer and drummer, was the fashion feature editor at NYLON, fashion writer at Vogue and Teen Vogue, and the founding columnist of EcoWise in The Washington Post and has written about music, style, architecture, and design for such publications as Dwell, I.D., Purple Fashion, VMan, Domino, and Wired.
If I was a surfer, which i’m not, but if I was I would defenatly try to get my hands on one of these almost 100% ecological surfboards from KUN-TIQI.
They are beautifull and that is why I put in a post about surf boards. Well there is a slight image of mr Slater and his friends that keeps coming back in my head….
hmmm….anyways maybe this was how the boards were made back in the first days of surf. All natural material:
- Balsa is the ligh- test wood of all and was already used as a transport float in South America 1000 years before the Inka Empire. This plant is one of the fastest growing species, reaching a height of up to 10 meter and a diameter of 20-25 cm within 3-4 years. Balsa wood is a fast growing, sustainable and recyclable raw material, producing no toxic substances.
-The lineseed oil resin, which characterizes 98 % of our resin, is a sustainable raw material, which is neither toxic nor carci- nogen and furthermore, comes out of renewable recources.
- The surface is laminated with fibreglass made of silica sand. Since Balsa wood is hard and almost unbreakable, only little quantities of fibreglass are needed. Unfortunately the production still requires some fossil energy, but Kun_tiqi is trying hard to improve this process to reduce any negative effect on the environment.
As the Kun-tiqi fellas say: they are surfriders who care. And I think we all should.
Another scandinavian eco friendly fashion house. And I am so happy – I just keep finding more and more excellent options of super nice clothes produced with some good healthy ethics then buying at one of the huge chain stores that really could take their responsablity for the future of our kids a bit more seriously…
Righteous Fashion was started by Kajsa Cappelen Holst and Paula Kermfors some years back after having studied Human Rights Law in Sweden and realizing there is a lot to be done, especially in the huge industry of fashion! As they say: you dont need to comprise good style for the sake of ecological production – you can have them both!
They have chosen to work with organic textile manufacturers and farmers from UGANDA, NEPAL, INDIA and MAURITSIUS. They follow the fair trade principles: for example they support the equal rights principle at MAURITSIUS where 25 % of the workers are handicapped and they also re-invest money in projects to help women entrepreneurs in AFRICA and support sustainable farming.
All cottons are 100 % ecological and the wool cashmere yarns has been vegetable dyed. They are striving for a production with minimum impact on earth.
Below is some photos of there spring summer collection 2010: beatifull petrol blues, dove greys and natural tones in soft shapes and asemetric cuts. I want the petrol blue long tank top dress!!!
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