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Pap(i)er Fashion on Display in Zurich Museum

Images from ATOPOS This looks like such a great show–it’s been in Paris and now it’s in Zurich, at the Museum Bellerive, if anyone is travelling there this summer. Called Pap(i)er Fashion and created by ATOPOS , a Greek cultural organization, the exhibition examines the use of paper in modern fashion: in design, art, advertising, sound, video, and catwalk shows. The fashions reflected what was happening in art, politics and culture at the time; Pop Art and Op Art, comp… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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reNEWable Times Square: Cool Water, Hot Island

‘Cool Water, Hot Island’ rendering by Molly Dilworth This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) . Her project ” Cool Water, Hot Island ” will refresh and revive the streetscape designs currently at the Times Square pedestrian a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Fashion in Sex and the City 2 (Photos)

The ladies of Sex and the City 2 dressed in elaborate wardrobes; In an equally decadent setting. Credit: HBO via Vogue Green fashion hits the big screen in Sex and the City 2 amongst the modern, decadent ensembles worn by the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker ,

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What’s Really Wrong with Our Oceans? Money, Politics, Greed, Money…

Photo via jenny downing Written By Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) The epic voyage of Plastiki is bringing into sharp focus the inordinate environmental and economic impact humanity is having on the oceans and seas. While the focus is solid waste, and especially plastic marine litter, the expedition also underlines the myriad of other, sometimes invisible, factors that are accelerating the degradation and decline of fisheries to coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Global Organic Cotton Market Reaches $4.3 Billion, Driven By Consumer Demand

Global Organic Cotton Production Grows, Driven By Consumer Demand Image courtesy of Organic Exchange Global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products reached an estimated $4.3 billion in 2009, according to Organic Exchange ‘s (OE) Organic Cotton Market Report 2008-2009. Despite the recession, sales grew 35% from the $3.2 billion market in 2008 ; Driven in large part by… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Red, White, and Green: 6 Sizzling Hot Looks to Celebrate Memorial Day in Style

Image via Beklina If you’re heading to a Memorial Day parade or brunching at a picnic on the beach today try dressing the part in a red, white, and/or blue ensemble. We’ve culled our favorite online eco-boutiques and very own archives for the hautest, stylish, and mo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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O-Wool, Oh No! Leading Certified-Organic Wool Supplier Folds. What Does this Mean for Green Fashion?

O-Wool in Bodkin’s fall 2009 collection. Image via Ecouterre Green fashion designers will need to look a little further than The Vermont Organic Fiber Co. to fulfill their next wholesale orders for certified organic wool–some even as soon as fall 2010! According to Eco Textile News , the leading organic wool supplier of yarns and fabrics and makers of

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O-Wool, Oh No! Leading Certified-Organic Wool Supplier Folds. What Does this Mean for Green Fashion?

Michael Pollan on the Food Movement, Rising

Farmers Market, Union Square, New York City: Photo by Lloyd Alter On the pretext of reviewing five books on food and food politics, Michael Pollan writes a long and interesting essay in the New York Review of Books. He writes that “Cheap food has become an indispensable pillar of the modern economy. But it is no longer an invisible or uncontested one. One of the most interesting social movements to emerge in the last few years is the “food movement,” or perhaps I should say “movements,” since it is unified as yet by little more … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Deadly Water Faucets (Video)

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NYC Event: Shop Haute Green Fashion Labels at EcoSalon Shops

Lara Miller, Study NY. Credit: Meaghan O’Neill; Doucette Duvall. Credit: Doucette Duvall Fellow eco-fashionaistas over at EcoSalon are hosting their very own pop up shop and green fashion tweet-up for one night only next week at Green Spaces in New York City. EcoSalon’s Editor in Chief Sara Ost and Fashion Editor Amy DuFault have gathered a bevy of green fashion designers– Lara Miller ,

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