Green Label Organic t-shirts more than live up to their name. In addition to being 100% organic cotton, Green Label Organic t-shirts are dyed with eco-conscious low-impact dyes and printed with water-based inks - not the usual PVC or other harsh chemicals. The lack of heavy metals in the printing also contributes to the shirts’ […]

Running shoes don’t last long: 300 miles of pounding, and they’re trashed - sometimes literally. And in the landfill, they last practically forever. Except my Brooks. Why? They’ve got BioMoGo.
No matter how many lives I give my running shoes - from training to casual street wear to yard work to the donation pile - eventually […]

Green Product Category: Messenger Bags; $90
We gave our Keen Cornell II sustainable messenger bag the ultimate test: a middle schooler. He lugged books, lunches and lacrosse sticks, stuffing the bag to well beyond capacity - and lobbing it at his locker. Despite the abuse, the material held up well, with seams and zippers intact. Aside […]

Puma, the sports & lifestyle company that brought you the iconic “Clyde” shoe, has just unveiled sustainable shoe packaging that eliminates a shoe industry mainstay - the shoe box. Puma shoes will now be going home in a “Clever Little Bag” - combining the shoebox with the shopping bag in one fell swoop.

Shopping. We all do it. We all buy stuff we need, stuff we want, and some stuff that, honestly, we could probably do without. But it’s a fact of life, we live in a dispersed and increasingly global economy, and shopping isn’t going away. And all that stuff we buy impacts the planet.
So what can […]

So you want to buy green, but you don’t know what to look for? It’s true; the array of “green” claims is dizzying, and it can be hard to cut through the green marketing hype to make truly informed sustainable shopping choices.
Don’t become a victim of eco-stress! Use these six common-sense guidelines to help make […]