Changing for the sake of the planet may require falling off of it. It may require a break from that grounded feeling. People may wonder what happened to you or if all is ok.  All is fine with me now, even though at some points I thought I had ruined my life. I haven’t written [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how being busy everyday can affect how green you live. If I’m strapped for time then I take short cuts I wouldn’t take if I could be a bit more leisurely and those short cuts are not always eco friendly. I guess they key is to work green [...]

Who would have though there would be a good side to the current economic recession? Things might be pretty bad economically but ecologically, I think there might be an upside.  As people carefully consider every fashion item that they buy and rethink their consumerism in order to save money, the environmentally damaging phenomena of fast [...]

USA based designer and environmental entrepreneur, Beth Doane combined her passion for fashion and rain forest conservation to create the Andira Rain Tee collection. Rain Tees is the first and only apparel line to use the artwork of children in endangered rain forests to make a statement about our planet, to create green jobs in [...]

As an editor for the crafting and DIY website www.FaveCrafts.com, we have been pleased to observe and participate in a resurgence of interest in knitting and crochet. The materials for knitting and crochet are generally inexpensive, and people can create items for personal use or as thrifty gifts. Knitting and crochet can also be therapeutic [...]

Jez and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary last weekend, staying at the beautiful La Rosa Hotel in the east coast seaside town of Whitby. I’d heard about the eco-friendly La Rosa Campsite in Yorkshire from one of our web design clients, ecoescape, but later came to learn that the folks who created the kitsch [...]

When Spanish designer Nieves Ruiz Ramos started up her own label she wanted it to be ethical. After 10 years designing for Zara and other high-street retailers she felt that fashion was becoming increasingly like junk-food. The industry was producing more clothes, at cheaper prices with little consideration for who and what was behind the [...]

On our site, www.ChicaAndJo.com, we like to write lots of posts on being green. We love trying to think of new ways to use things we would otherwise throw or give away. In honor of Earth Day coming up on April 23rd, we challenge you all to submit your best recycling projects to our contest. [...]