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Environmental facts about the fashion Industry

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 06 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Posted in Eco Friendly Fashion & Lifestyle Blog http://ecofriendlyfashion.blogspot.com/p/fashion-industry-facts.html - The fashion industry is the second largest user of water in the world.- Over 90 million items of clothing end up in land fill sites globally each year.- 150 grams of p...

GERMANY: Messe Frankfurt and Esmod team up on eco-fashion

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 06 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Author: Leonie Barrie | 4 November 2011 in Just-Style http://www.just-style.com/news/messe-frankfurt-and-esmod-team-up-on-eco-fashion_id112661.aspx?d=1 Trade show organiser Messe Frankfurt is joining forces with the Esmod international fashion school in Paris to help promote sustainability in the ...

Cashmere experts contest "unsustainable" production claims

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 06 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Author: Andrew McEwen | 3 November 2011 in Just-Style http://www.just-style.com/analysis/cashmere-experts-contest-unsustainable-production-claims_id112641.aspx Cashmere experts have attacked claims that their industry is unsustainable and responsible for desertification in Inner Mongolia and indep...

Can We Blame Philly's Extreme Weather on Global Warming?

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Climate Change

photo by http://www.jamescornette.com/misc.html It is unbelievable! The chance of it happening by chance is microscopically small! But there’s a simple, easy explanation it happening. We’re talking about the many all-time records of extreme weather we’ve seen in Philadelphia in less than three...

The Safe Cosmetics Act

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Posted in EarthTalk on May 29, 2011 By:Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss http://www.emagazine.com/earth-talk/the-safe-cosmetics-act Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law?—Megan Wilson, Austin, TXThe Safe Cosmetics Act wa...

How to Find Products “Not Tested on Animals”

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

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Beauty Products and the Environment

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Agriculture

Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 by Sustainability Committee by Jennifer Lefebvre http://apus-sustainability.com/2010/10/11/beauty-products-and-the-environment/ Many of us have attempted to make small changes in our lives to combat the current climate situation, be more eco-friendl...

Deciphering Organic in Cosmetic and Skin Care Products, Part 2

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

By: Leslie Lyon and Marilyn PattersonPosted: February 24, 2010, from the March 2010 issue of Skin Inc. Magazine. http://www.skininc.com/skinscience/ingredients/85206532.html?page=4 The Five Degrees to Organic is an unofficial scale created by Marilyn Patterson, and as it approaches the fifth deg...

Deciphering Organic in Cosmetic and Skin Care Products, Part I

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

By: Leslie Lyon and Marilyn PattersonPosted: January 29, 2010, from the February 2010 issue of Skin Inc. Magazine. http://www.skininc.com/skinscience/ingredients/83030847.htmlPeople desire a healthy environment rather than one that they need to be protected from, and because of this, there is a bel...

Parabens, Carcinogens and Certified Organic Ingredients

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Q. After reading about a British study reporting that parabens in antiperspirants contribute to breast cancer, some of my clients don’t want the substance in their cosmetics. I am looking to you to help clarify this issue for me. Are parabens harmful, or are they safe? Is it true that they have been...

Why You Should Use Organic Beauty Products

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Organic products are becoming more and more popular. It may have started with organic foods, but the all natural life style is also beginning to become a big part of other areas of our lives. The idea that what we expose our bodies to can have either a positive or negative effect on us has led peopl...

Beauty's Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Beauty is beginning to say so long to old-school plastic. Two of the beauty industry's biggest players -- Whole Foods and Procter & Gamble -- are passing new regulations for sustainable and recyclable packaging that are causing a growing rumble in the marketplace, where other brands are beginni...

What's An Environmental Activist To Do?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Climate Change

It's been more than 40 years since the first Earth Day and the founding of the modern environmental movement -- an awakening to the notion that human beings can, and do, have a profound impact on the planet. If Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail have their way, the nation...

'Green' Standard Launched to Certify Cosmetic Product Life Cycle

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

This article breaks down the new certification standard that has been created for cosmetic and personal care products. Hopefully this is a shift in the right direction! Nonprofit organization Green Seal Inc. has created GS-50, reportedly the first U.S. certification standard for cosmetic a...

Demand for Sustainable Packaging for Beauty Products Continues to Grow

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Sustainable packaging is making the transition from niche to mainstream as manufacturers come under pressure to go green. Reflecting the development of the green trend, the organizers set aside an entire hall to bio-based packaging at the recent Interpack trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany.Looking to...

I Am the Population Problem

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 03 November 2011 in Human Health

Population growth tends to get blamed on other people: Africans and Asians who have "more kids than they can feed," immigrants in our own country with their "large families," even single mothers in the "inner city." But actually the population problem is all about me: white, middle-class, American ...

How reliant is the United States on imported fossil fuels? The facts may be surprising.

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Thursday, 03 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

It may be surprising to many people that the United States gets the majority of its crude oil and petroleum from countries other than those in the Middle East. New data released in June 2011 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that only about 18 percent of crude and petroleum came fro...

New Hope For Endangered Seal

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 November 2011 in Animals

: As 2010 closed, it was announced that a new outpost of one of the word’s most endangered marine mammals, the Mediterranean monk seal, had been located. The seals were once widely distributed in the Mediterranean, Black and adjacent seas. Today their distribution is widespread but fragment...

New Wave Energy Converter Also Captures the Power of the Sun

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 in Solar

There is a new invention just released that captures two types of clean energy with the same device. These inovative energy converters are designed to harness both solar and wave energy. Phil Pauley, founder of design and innovation agency PAULEY, developed the renewable power plant in a bid to driv...

List of 15 Toxic Chemicals to Avoid in Personal Care Products

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 in Beauty and Fashion

Toxic chemicals found in peregrine falcon eggs How many personal care products do you use everyday? From toothpaste, shampoo, soap, perfume/cologne, makeup, and deodorant you may be putting more chemicals into your body than you realize. This article gives a brief description of some of the toxic ...