

Image via Ecouterre
From Ecouterre, comes the latest way to add value to clothing and hopefully, combat the disposable buying cycle: "RememberMe"<

Bio Bomber Jacket, grown from a vat of green tea. Image courtesy of Suzanna Lee.
Is it possible to "grow a frock from a vat of liquid" using cellulose-spinning bacteria? This is exactly what fashion designer Suzanna Lee asked before she began BioCouture, a research project based at Central Saint Martin's College in London.

Cabbages & Roses, spring 2010 collection. Image courtesy of Cabbages & Roses.
British fashion and home décor brand Cabbages & Roses, formed by Vogue alumnas Christina Strutt and Brigette Buchanan in 2000, has been developing their sustainable ethos for the past ten years.

Image by Stephen Messenger
Evidently, being responsible for the biggest environmental disaster in US history doesn't come cheap. Over the last 6 weeks, BP has lost a staggering $67 billion in market value -- one third of the entire company's value.

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Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives.
You may think that because I work in PR, I am prone to exaggeration.

Traid Remade customized Think Act Vote t-shirt.

The survival of an entire species of "incredibly endangered" tree snails has just been entrusted to the British Zoo. The population of tiny tree snails--they grow to be only a few millimeters long--has been decimated, eaten into extinction by a larger "cannibal snail." Called the Rosy Wolfsnail, it arrived as an invasive species to the tree snail's natural habitat of French Polynesia in the 1970s.

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If you follow climate issues, then you've probably seen the name Lord Monckton crop more than a few times--in many way's he's the climate change denying

Kate Moss in a recycled mosquito-net dress.