My Little Pakora
Date: November 25, 2008 | Category: Children, Clothing, Fashion, Featured, Kids
As an eco-conscious adult, you’ll want your legacy to live on with your like-minded little ones. My Little Pakora, a line of planet friendly clothing and accessories for baby, takes pride in its low-impact processing (using certified organic cotton from sustainable farms and toxin-free dyeing), helping ensure a green future for the next generation.
The darling designs are inspired by founder Sonia Gupta’s South Asian heritage. What’s more, My Little Pakora features helpful educational material on how to live more healthfully, incorporating local and organic nutrition, yoga, and natural remedies into your routine as part of pregnancy and parenting. In India, these practices have existed long before today’s contemporary trends. So My Little Pakora is not only selling the green goods, they’re living it as well.
Raising a culturally clever kid has never been so easy. Or so adorable.
Wear your Mission
Date: November 11, 2008 | Category: Accessories, Bags, Children, Clothing, Fashion, Men, Shoes, Women, ecoMan
Mission Playground has a cool and comfortable clothing line for men, women and kids, as well as flip flops, belts and bags - made of sustainable materials.
The forest loving Air Freshener tee made of 100 percent organic cotton, available in white or brown, is an ecofab fave. It retails for $24, but is on sale for $8. But if you are feeling extra generous, you might want to buy that special someone a Citizen’s Hoody which retails for $62.
Make it your mission to only invest in clothing that lasts long, looks good, and does good in the world!
Dimples are so Cute!
Date: November 10, 2008 | Category: Children, Clothing, Fashion
This layette set from Dimples is one of the more magnificent newborn gifts we have seen.
Made of 100 percent organic cotton without any kind of chemical treatments, baby’s delicate soft skin is protected along with the environment. Dimples is owned by husband-and-wife team Jane Anne and Sam McAllister, whose baby wear is manufactured in New Zealand under the strictest standards of quality and fair wages.
The set, which is available in chocolate and sage stripes with a bee embroidered on the front, or in pink with a tiny embroidered rose, includes a playsack with a drawstring at the toes, a hat and a receiving blanket to keep baby fashionable and cozy.
Too bad the sets don’t come in our size!
A Total Zero
Date: October 16, 2008 | Category: Bags, Children, Fashion, Featured, Men, Women, ecoMan
Our favorite eco-bag company, Rickshaw Bagworks, has just announced a product that might just revolutionize the satchel industry.
Made in San Francisco from domestically sourced materials, the aptly named ‘ZERO‘ was designed to eliminate waste. Available in three sizes and in an array of colors, the ZERO bag combines minimalist design, monopolymer construction (translation: one material for easy recycling) and wasteless manufacturing to create a bag that is hip yet functional, all while reducing your ecological footprint.
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything had Zero effect on the environment?
Under the Canopy for Under $10!
Date: October 15, 2008 | Category: Children, Clothing, Fashion
While the rate at which our little ones are outgrowing their apparel may not have changed, our awareness about their clothing’s composition certainly has. Five of the top nine pesticides used on conventional cotton in the U.S. are known carcinogens. But organic get ups often get passed over because moms either cannot afford it or cannot justify investing in something that will get less than a year of wear. So what’s an eco-conscious parent to do? My suggestion: Head on over to your nearest Target.
Previous concerns that organic kids’ clothing have to come with higher price tags can be put to rest with Under The Canopy’s new line of kids’ clothing at Target. From the company that coined the term “ecofashion” comes more than 10 organic tees and onesies, all for under $10!
Quality eco-apparel for our little ones with a petite price tag to match makes it possible to save for little Sally’s college fund without sacrificing her sustainable style.
Eat Right, Sleep Tight
Date: August 13, 2008 | Category: Children, Fashion
These adorable PJs from New Jammies offer head-to-toe inspiration for good nutrition. Given that childhood obesity is nearing epidemic proportion in the US, it’s never too early to start teaching our kids the importance of healthy eating. Made from 100% certified organic cotton with non-toxic dyes, these whimsical long johns (and janes) are available in a colorful buffet of fruit and veggies, including apples, bananas, blueberries, carrots and peas. Priced at $35, each set also comes with an inspirational, age-appropriate storybook, like “Fruits and Veggies,” “Counting My Fruits and Veggies,” and “Tales From New Jammies Land.” You’ll even receive a cotton storage pouch, ideal for traveling. Given the ubiquity of junk food in our culture, we think this is a wonderful way to encourage kids to snuggle up to healthy, fruitful living.
Earthy Threads for Mini-Trendsetters
Date: July 16, 2008 | Category: Children, Fashion
We’re constantly amazed by the growing number of passionate eco-designers. But nowhere is the need for innovation more critical than when it comes to our children. After all, isn’t that what sustainability is all about? We’re thrilled to welcome an old friend to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bohmo has been a trusted name in the eco-retail community since 1999. A long-time member of 1% to the Planet and the Sustainable Style Foundation, Bohmo carries a select line of eco-fashion for children, designed to keep little ones warm and cozy without exposing their tender skin and developing systems to harsh toxins and chemicals.
Sprout About it
Date: May 5, 2008 | Category: Children, Fashion, Women
It’s certainly getting easier to find organic threads for kids, but finding fashionable clothing is a recent revelation. Sprout is adding a little bit of cute with a healthy dose of hip to the sustainable children’s fashion world. The super soft clothing is made of rapidly renewable bamboo, organic cotton and other organic and sustainable fabrics such as kira (made from corn) and soy. They use low impact dyes and screen prints to add a little bit of eco-flare to their clothes. Owner and designer Maegan shares her vision, “Anyone who can remember joyful outdoor play and wants to leave the Earth clean for our little sprouts and grandsprouts is an honorary Sprout.” Click here to find out where you can purchase these adorable duds. Or, if you happen to find yourself in Los Angeles on Abbot Kinney, stop into Eden’s Green Closet to feel the collection for yourself.
t-Robot
Date: March 27, 2008 | Category: Children, Fashion, Men, Women
Printing practices for clothing can be a messy, toxic business, but Partybots.org takes extra care in every step of the process - they use Alternative Earth Apparel’s 100% organic cotton or eco blend shirts (personally, I prefer the pure organic
cotton since the blend isn’t biodegradable) and embellish them with graphics made with low-impact color dyes and renewable soy printing solvents. Partybots founder Karl Addison hand-illustrates and screens every design, making sure each item is as clean as possible without losing its inherent punchiness (designs include a nun by a moped, a banjo-playing skeleton, a variety of robots, and llamas dressed in suits). The shirts are available for men, women, and children, so don’t be surprised if my husband and son show up as a pair of “dance n’ bananas”. Party on.
C for Cute
Date: March 25, 2008 | Category: Children, Clothing, Fashion, Kids
In honor of Spring Equinox, Biome 5 has put all their long-sleeved shirts on sale ($28, originally $36). Time to stock up on all your favorite letters, or animals. The Animal Alphabet Project was conceived to visually teach children - with each letter correlating to a critter. They’re made of 100% certified organic cotton and come in baby and toddler sizes. Biome 5 will be the first to tell you that their dyeing process is an eco-work-in-progress. Right now they use low-impact dyes (and no bleach), recognizing, though, that this still makes an impact, and are transitioning towards water-based screenprinting. The tees come packaged in Green Film bags that will biodegrade in a landfill. And did we mention that these shirts are both kid and hipster approved? My son has begged for half of the alphabet!
