Chic Biodegradable Umbrella

This is one of my favorite finds for Spring! The world's first Biodegradable umbrella! It is chic, functional and environmentally friendly! Very Eco Fashionista!!!

As Seen In InStyle Magazine-Eco Green Products

Non-Toxic Products have super power clean and featured in the March issue of InStyle Magazine. All-Purpose Cleaners: Many popular household cleaning solutions, like Fantastik and Formula 409, contain a synthetic solvent and grease cutter called butyl cellosolve. This hazardous petroleum-based chemical can irritate your skin and eyes, and repeated exposure to it can cause permanent liver and kidney damage, and impair the body's ability to replenish its blood supply.

A safer alternative: superconcentrated Basic Household Cleaner can clean your counters, kitchen table, greasy stovetop, and more. Just 1/4 teaspoon of Basic Household in 16 ounces of water cleans most surfaces. As a degreaser, use 1 1/2 teaspoons. To clean windows, just 1 or 2 drops. As an eco-conscious mom, it's important to make sure that all the products you choose are safe for your body and for the environment. Soaps, cosmetics, and lotions are designed to be worn on the body, so you may think that they're carefully tested to make sure that they're safe.

Eco-Conscious Couture-LA Fashion Week Goes Green

The Green Initiative Humanitarian Fall 2008 Fashion Show, Los Angeles

Are you planning to buy a new outfit? Have you considered going green the next time you shop for clothes? Los Angeles Fashion Week was Eco Conscious Fashion!


Canadian company Lilikoi sent Hawaiian hula girls out to dance on the runway, then designer Barbara Boswell followed with her women's collection of pencil skirts paired with form-fitting tees, over-the-knee dresses paired with leggings, and wrap dresses á la Diane von Furstenberg, all created using cloth made of bamboo, soy, organic cotton, and linen. Erte Mini Dress-Perfect for throwing on over a bathing suit or dressing up for a night on the town. Made of our softesbamboo/organic cotton blend, and hand printed in DIATOM print with non-toxic inks. Lilikoi is striving for a sustainable future and we have brought this commitment to the environment into our design work. All Lilikoi clothing and accessories are made from sustainable fabrics such as bamboo, soy and organic cotton.

Eco Fashion Hot Trend

Eco-designer for eco-conscious emerging eco-fashion movement is designer Linda Loudermilk. Her “luxury eco” line of clothing and accessories uses sustainably produced materials made from exotic plants including bamboo, sea cell, soya and sasawashi. The latter is a linen-like fabric made from a Japanese leaf that contains anti-allergen and anti-bacterial properties. Loudermilk also incorporates natural themes in each season’s line—her most recent one being an oceanic motif.

Green Products For Green Living

Green Products For Green House Cleaning- Open a window and let those pollutants out! Yet even in this season, when a vase of nice smelling flowers can fill a room with a lovely natural scent, many consumers stubbornly keep using synthetic room fresheners and fragranced cleaning products that are full of VOCs and other toxic chemicals. These can make our indoor air unhealthy, provoke skin, eye, and respiratory reactions, and harm the natural environment.

People think that if a freshener smells clean that it is okay. But, think again...... According to a study published in New Scientist in 1999, in homes where aerosol sprays and air fresheners were used frequently, mothers experienced 25 percent more headaches and were 19 percent more likely to suffer from depression, and infants under six months of age had 30 percent more ear infections and 22 percent higher incidence of diarrhea.

In choosing alternatives, however, consumers need to be alert to greenwashing. "Just because a product says it's natural doesn't mean it's nontoxic. It is important to make sure your products are non toxic cleaners.

As a consumer you might consider paying to offset the amount of CO2 in your day-to-day living produces as a way to erase—or at least clean up—your environmental slate.

Is Your Home Safe and Healthy?

Is Your Home Safe?
Cleaning products containing toxic chemicals are linked with asthma, allergies, behavior problems in children, and cancer. Pregnant mothers and their babies are especially vulnerable.

"We are conducting a vast toxicologic experiment in our society, in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." pediatrician Herbert L. Needleman.

Cleaning products often contain harmful chemicals that are not listed on the label. Only 1% of toxins are required to be listed on labels. This is mainly because the products don't make any claims about safety. Companies can also classify them as "trade secrets" to avoid listing them. Many of the ingredients labelled "inert" are actually more toxic than the active ingredients.

When considering cleaning products, they should be:
* Biodegradable
* Formulated without dye
* Nonflammable
* Contain no ammonia, acids, alkalis, solvents, phosphates, chlorine, nitrates, borates, or volatile organic compounds

If you have a poison emergency or a question about poisons and you're in the United States, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222"

Why Go Green?

Why Go Green?


According to GreenBabies.com "We were impressed enough to base our business on organic cotton when we came to understand the firm conviction of the organic farmer, which is:

Soil is an entire ecosystem of it's own, filled with diverse living organisms that work in a harmonious cooperative that allows crops to grow. It is not dry, dead dirt that must be sprayed with toxic petroleum derived chemicals in order to be forced to produce commodities for sale and consumption with no thought for the lasting destruction left behind.

In the early 1990's this way of thought was sweeping through the cotton fields of California and the high plains of Texas. Third and forth generation farmers, whose families depended on the crop for their livelihood, were converting back to organic, to the methods their grandfathers and great grandfathers used, because of a deep love of the land and a belief that it was their responsibility to future generations.

This is the noble, natural start for the organic fibers that wind up on our babies backs!

Where does it come from?

Who made it?

Who touched it?

Under what conditions?

What will happen to it when I'm done?

Big ad agencies get paid a lot of money to help us FORGET to ask these questions!

BUT IT IS IMPORTANT! How you feel about things! Your values and beliefs! Where your money goes, what happens to the planet! The quality of things, the intention behind the invention! What your baby uses and smells and touches!

These are some of the things we've learned about organic cotton and why we feel it's an important choice:

More energy is now used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate and harvest all the crops in the U.S.

Conventional cotton occupies only 3% of the world's farmland, but uses 25% of the world's chemical pesticides and fertilizers.

In the U.S. alone, it's estimated that 800 million pounds of pesticides will be used on cotton this year!

Some of the chemical used on conventional cotton include the infamous defoliant Paraquat and insecticides like Parathion which is 60 times more toxic that DDT!

With organic farming, crops are rotated to protect the soil and farmers use compost and naturally derived mineral and plant products for fertilizer.

Eco Design

Bathtubs are places for relaxation, and here’s a new interpretation- turn your tub into a sofa! This clever design by Max McMurdo breathes life into an antique fixture, and turns what was headed for landfill into a smart, provocative, and comfy conversation starter. Founded by UK product designer Max McMurdo, Reestore is a line of green products based on the recycling of old home products. Taking everyday waste objects and turning them into charming yet functional pieces of furniture and accessories, Reestore attempts to “avoid traditional eco materials in favor of contemporary finishes, fabrics, and, above all, style.” http://www.reestore.com/