Valentine’s Day cards are already lining the store shelves; Christmas themed commercials have stopped playing, and everyone is back to their routines. It’s safe to say the holidays are over, and it’s time for some clean up, a process that can cause quite a bit of stress and anxiety. Streamline the process and help the … Continue reading
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Clean Up The World Weekend and Clean Up Your Closet!
Millions of people across the globe recently celebrated Clean Up The World Weekend - Sep 16th - 18th. The theme this year was “Our Place. Our Planet. Our Responsibility” that highlighted how local action taken individually by 35 million volunteers can make a positive impact on a global level. Clean Up the World encourages participants … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning Happiness
Dusting the winter cobwebs away doesn’t have to be a dirty game. In addition to sprucing up your space, spring cleaning can add lightness to your life by clearing your mind and helping you establish fresh habits all year round. After all, once you’ve gone through the effort to whip your rooms and closets into … Continue reading
Season’s Greenings
From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, household waste increases by more than 25 percent, and this extra trash — mostly food, shopping bags, product packaging and wrapping paper — adds up to an additional 1 million tons of waste a week that’s sent to U.S. landfills, according to the EPA.
Spandex brand Lycra might expand interest in bio-derived textiles
Invista, a business with apparel as one of its four major cornerstones, is leading the way for green-based spandex with the launching of their Lycra brand of new bio-derived spandex made of 70 percent renewable bio-based materials. This makes Invista the only company to sell commercially available spandex not made from raw materials provided by … Continue reading
Australia legislation change prompts second look at reducing carbon footprint
The Green community took a hit Thursday when Australian government repealed a carbon tax on the country’s worst greenhouse gas polluters, dubbed an “appalling day for Australia” by one of the tax’s supporters. The Senate voted 39 to 32 to remove the 24.15 Australian dollar tax per metric ton of carbon dioxide, approximately … Continue reading
Apartment dwellers go green with Multi-Family Home Energy Savings Program
Landlords are getting in on going green with the Multi-Family Home Energy Savings Program. In major metropolitan areas, such as Chicago, renters may start seeing changes in their apartments made available through the Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas “Natural Gas Savings Program” and ComEd’s “Smart Ideas for Your Home.” This past weekend, Chicago-based real … Continue reading
Textile recycling companies are ‘Happy’ to prove clothes are ‘Not Trashy’
Consumerism, fast fashion, clothes making, clothing sustainability and the social impact of second-hand clothing were hot topics at the fifth annual Textile Recycling Conference organized by Garson & Shaw. Over 200 guests from textile recycling employees came from the U.S., Guatemala, El Salvador, Spain, Bulgaria, Canada, Slovakia, Belize, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe from Thurs., May 15, … Continue reading
Plastic bag ban headed to Chicago in 2015
As convenient as plastic bags may be for grocery shopping, they’re not nearly as convenient on the environment. According to National Geographic, somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Ocean Conservancy counts these bags in the top five items for most likely to litter coasts and waterways around the world. But … Continue reading
Organic cotton is on the rise
Organic cotton is growing, both literally and in terms of worldwide usage. According to a report from EcoTextile News, organic cotton could represent a quarter of global cotton production by 2020. The report states that 933,000 metric tons of cotton was standard-compliant in 2012, or in other words, grown in accordance with sustainability guidelines. While … Continue reading
