Day 2) Choose sustainable furnishings! Although most students use the beds and chairs already provided by their university, everyone must bring their own sets of bedding and most furnishings. Next time you do your Tuesday shopping at WalMart or Target, consider the sustainability factor of

We can all do our part, even while living in a dormitory! This week we will post a day-by-day quick and easy tips to living a sustainable, eco friendly life during those crazy college years! Day 1 – Stop using bottles of water! After a

This month the fall fashion shows all over the world express their concern for the use of eco-friendly, socially conscious and sustainable designs in the fashion industry.  Hopefully bringing this vast attention to the world renowned stages is just one more drop in the bucket

“Would you like that in a cup or a cone?” Next time you’re ordering your favorite flavor get hands on with your choice and ask for a cone.  Not only are cones just fun and delicious but by choosing one you’ll actually reduce your impact

Dryer Sheets + a Discrete Pocket = Laundry Fresh Smelling Mosquito Repellent We love alternative uses for stuff.  Next time you find yourself swatting at mosquitoes grab a dryer sheet, from an eco company of course, and slip it into a pocket.  Mosquitoes don’t like

Did you know there is now more plastic in the ocean then there is zooplankton?  The very basis the ocean food chain has been replaced by millions of little pieces of plastic.  Fish can’t tell the difference between plastic and plankton so they are filling

CRAZY  FACT 1: A 2006 United Nations report found that the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined.* CRAZY FACT 2: Eating one pound of meat emits the same amount of greenhouse gases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 2, 2010 Media Contact: Adriana Herrera Fashioning Change, Inc. (619) 550-2808 New Product and Sourcing Coordinator for Fashioning Change, Inc. San Diego –  Eco-tech startup, Fashioning Change, Inc., has announced Merry Hill as its new product and sourcing coordinator.  In

Much to our dismay the proposed state-wide California AB 1998, legislation to ban grocery store plastic bags, was blocked 20 to 14.  So what does this mean?  It means we will have to continue to support and educate one another on why it is important

Have you ever really stopped and thought about the shirt you are about to purchase? Just think about how many hands have touched it before you – whether the hands of the cotton growers, the dyers or the garment sewers, more people than you were