Women's Eco Fashion Men's Eco Fashion Sustainable Home & Garden Sustainable Lifestyle & Organic Living Vegan & Organic Bath Products

I can never sleep before a trip. This morning, I’m off to visit the TJ Maxx flagship store in Boston, Massachusetts.  Though I’m wasting tons of energy by flying from Seattle, I’m – at the very least – taking a “greener” cab to and from the airport. I’m being sent to Boston as a representative [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xS9kPs5Txs&feature=player_embedded”

Editor’s Note: Since this letter, Target hasn’t made a single change to its funding policies, even though it explicitly promised to do so.  Read the update here. — To: Matt Zabel, Vice President of Government Affairs, Senior Public Affairs Officer; Timothy R. Baer, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; Gregg W. Steinhafel, Chairman, President and [...]

links a la mode

Oh, Brave New World… Edited by: Ashe Mischief of Dramatis Personae That has such bloggers in it! From a ballsy and confident “I Like Being Fat” at Return to Sender to Awakened Aesthetic’s post on greenwashing & buying American to Cake Not Coke’s expose on Venus Williams’ controversial courtside fashion, fashion bloggers are brave and [...]

Non-Buyer’s Remorse

June 22, 2010

we have only everyone else to blame

via A Softer World. I cringe a little each time I hear a local fashion boutique is closing.  People lose their jobs, local designers lose their outlets, and the city loses a sense of self that Nordstrom can’t match…and I lose a chance to shop somewhere local, if I could ever get off the computer. [...]

Tree Hugging

June 21, 2010

Via Watching The Sky Turn (click for original location)

While waiting for a table at Wild Mountain Cafe, I heard an interesting conversation between two (also waiting) customers. “I was thinking about buying a Prius.” “Noooooo!  Don’t buy a Prius!” “Why?  Have you read something?” “I just can’t stand the idea.  No more tree huggers in Seattle!” “Oh, you’re not a…tree hugger?” “No.  I’m [...]

links a la mode

You, Only Better Edited by: Ann Colville Somma of Holier than Now It’s a strange culture we live in: we’re always told Just be yourself!, yet the bestseller list is chock-full of self-help books and memoirs depicting radical change. Finding the balance between total transformation and chilling in our pajamas is difficult, but that’s why [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of “what I want” lately.  I hope you all don’t mind the quiet too terribly much. One of the things I’ve been doing is making food appear out of nowhere by carefully watering and (naturally) fertilizing my garden.  I now have my first self-made food: a radish. I almost have [...]

links a la mode

Fashion’s Bold Step Forward Edited by Ashe/Mischief Dramatis Personae To be honest, I’ve been really excited about the content on the web lately…. because each week, it seems that fashion & style bloggers are making a bold step forward. In a niche that was once dominated by runway photographs and personal style posts, we’re evolving [...]

Back to the Earth

May 13, 2010

This is a guest post by my close friend and fellow blogger, Kristy.  Kristy’s an adventurous Seattle and aspiring locavore who will a semi-regular contributor here at Awakened Aesthetic.  If you’re a Seattle resident, like the two of us, you should check out her blog, Eats & Interests for tips on where to eat and [...]

There are so many different ways to be awake, and so many different kinds of aesthetic.  Fashion and beauty are such a small part of our lives – eco-fashion is even smaller – and sometimes it’s easy to get so over-focused we forget about the people and places that affect us just as much: those [...]

I am so tired of having rosacea. My morning beauty routine is always the same: Stare into mirror with optimism, because my face is still pale from sleep. Watch with horror as my cheeks and nose redden. Run my fingers over my face, which is covered in pimple-like bumps. Grumble, because if they were pimples [...]

Last year, I completely avoided making a slew of Earth Day posts. “For me, every day is Earth Day,” I thought, “So why get up-in-arms about one annual happening which, by and large, just makes people feel better about not recycling ever other day of the year?” I’ll admit, I was being cynical. More and [...]

links a la mode

Thinking Fashion Edited by Retro Chick It never ceases to amaze me the quality and variety of links that get submitted to IFB each week and how hard it is to pick just 20. Fashion & Style Bloggers are intelligent, thoughtful and insightful people who really understand their subject. Whether it’s Second Hand Shopper questioning [...]

Slowly but surely, the house my boyfriend and I moved into (back in October) is turning into a home. The bathroom has been a special problem, because it’s…pink.  Mauve, even.   While the rest of the house is a blank slate, with white walls, wood floors, and neutral counter tops, I have fewer options with the [...]

During a long bath last night, I got to thinking: Where the hell did this bath bomb come from? Of course, I knew where it had just come from – the top drawer, in a red paper gift wrap that stained my hands something fierce – but I had no idea where had it been [...]

This article was originally posted on September 30, 2009 on Green Grechen.  Since skincare gets harder as the seasons change, I thought I’d repost it here! Jennifer Nicole was diagnosed with rosacea – redness, adult acne and blotchy skin – in 2006, and is no stranger to natural and organic products.  She owns and runs [...]

I feel like a leper. I’m fighting off some sort of virus, and it’s made my skin extra, extra sensitive: an oft-worn necklace made my neck break out in a rash, my eyelids are swollen to Botox proportions, and even my most comfortable t-shirt bras are making me itch. Okay, my eyes look way better, but [...]

I love questions: asking them, pondering them, answering them.  Almost every post I write, both here and at The Demoiselles,  shows my passion for reexamining the obvious.  When I first heard of FormSpring, I realized I could use it to collect a few more questions and, if they fit, post the answers here.  If you’d like to ask a [...]

[[Every so often, I ask a single bleary-eyed question: “What about Wednesday?” It’s my day to post whatever the hell I feel like, with no regard to fashion, eco-consciousness or, occasionally, even coherent thoughts.  It used to be a weekly thing, but since quality rocks and quantity is overrated, I've scaled things back a little.]] [...]

From AlexanderMcQueen.com: On behalf of Lee McQueen’s family, Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founder and designer of the Alexander McQueen brand has been found dead at his home. At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond saying that we are devastated and are sharing [...]