Influenced by the talented dressmakers and crafters that I meet at our Nottingham Stitched Up Group and The Textile Workshop I’m about to embark on ‘proper’ clothes making and creating my own accessories. I’ve dabbled here and there, making few things that I do actually use, including a couple of bags, a bit of jewellery [...]

Here’s this week’s ECW roundup. Enjoy!… Victoria E A review of numerous all-natural Yes to Carrots brand products & a giveaway! Eco Chick Eco Chick warns about the greenwashing of so-called “natural” beauty products. Fashion, evolved Fashion, evolved preaches the good word about buying vintage. Fig+Sage Giveaway for an Organic Breastfeeding Support Kit (worth $50) [...]

Nottinghamshire County Council publishes a great magazine called Living for Tomorrow. It’s all about Notts people putting sustainable solutions into practice. The latest edition included a very inspiring article about making workspaces greener in a building where I used to work. The Green Group at the Nottingham Council for Voluntary Service (in the Voluntary Action [...]

Everyone loves a bargain – and there’s nothing better than being able to boast that your fab new dress/skirt/jacket cost a £5 from your local Oxfam -“yes I look great and yes I’m going to heaven”. Some of my favourite clothes come from charity shops (my best buy ever is a pair of vintage pink [...]

Being a parent and trying to live ethically can mean you’re constantly stumbling across new dilemmas. Whether you’re checking ingredients in the shops, making decisions over Christmas presents or deciding how to wash your laundry, the choices seem endless. And the thing with wanting to be as green as we can is that those of [...]

Here’s this week’s ECW roundup. Over to you ladies…… Fashion, Evolved What does fashion have to do with poverty? Check out Fashion, Evolved’s Blog Action Day post! Victoria E Says eco oral care is easy, affordable, effective and artistic DC Goodwill Fashion Blog Looks back at the inspiring colours from New York fashion week Eco [...]

Meet Manson, Dylan and Ozzi aka ‘The Lovely Boys’ and my gourmet guests for this doggie biscotti review. So, let me tell you about this special dog biscuit, cutely named ‘Barkotti’. The canine companion treat by Dr Harvey’s is handmade using only natural and organic ingredients. It boasts an impressive list of qualities which, it [...]

Our footprints are all over this planet…..but do we have to stomp so hard!? My name is Laura Bergman, the creator of Bottled Up Designs. I have lived all my life in the beautiful Pennsylvania Amish Country, where as a child we would dig around old foundations pulling old treasures from the ground from a [...]

So I have had the privilege to review a necklace from Bottled Up Designs. I would actually claim that the necklace already won my heart over by the packaging it came in, please see the enclosed picture. You can see a larger picture here of the packaging I have been wearing it for a couple [...]

So here’s the first Eco Chic Weekly, an exciting new collaboration from some of the greatest green style blogs on the web. Check out our Eco Chic Weekly page to see what we’re all about. Here’s what the Eco Chic Weekly team have been talking about this week. Click on the subjects below to find [...]