Conscious life, hear me roar. I recently got a direct message on Facebook from a high school friend I haven’t talked to in many years. “Do you still have that picture of you and the ghost in Africa?” He wrote. I sat there staring at the screen, thinking it funny that after so many years, […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. It could have been when I listened to Nick Hahn, former CEO and co-founder of Cotton, Inc., a keynote speaker at a recent sustainable fashion event at FIT. It might have been when he told the audience that Monsanto may have made his company better and that the use of […]

Join Teens Turning Green and the Eileen Fisher sustainability team on Twitter today at 12:30 eastern to talk lunch, school lunch that is. Eileen Fisher loves supporting women and girls and is hosting a Twitter Chat today (#EFCSRChat) on sustainable school lunches. The company has been hosting these Twitter chats as a vehicle for their […]

Who are you? “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” –Yves Saint Laurent

Conscious life, hear me roar. I met a friend last week for lunch in New York City who knows a lot about sewing, knitting, using one’s hands to make and yet she brought up a really good point: how to change the image of women who “craft.” “And yet keep its very essence intact,” she […]

Gay rights, gay marriage, and Rick Perry’s war. Rick Perry’s recent campaign ad, which makes an inexplicable connection between gay rights and religion, has tapped into the soul of the internet with over 660,000 “dislikes” on his YouTube video and a scant 21,000 “likes.” With Perry blaming Obama for a “war on religion” and promising […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. The night before Thanksgiving, my family was safely tucked in their beds all under one roof. With my parents visiting for the holiday, we play a little bed scramble: My mom always takes my daughter’s bed upstairs, my daughter and I sleep in my bed, my husband sleeps on the […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. When I was around 12 I helped my father gut a deer. That night, before anything happened, my mother and I were talking softly by a crackling fire. It was November, with darkness falling early and the wood’s silence deafening, even perched on a cliff overlooking the choppy waves of […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. You see me on the streets of the city, a tall, dark-haired woman you guess to be in her thirties. That’s thanks to lots of organic creams and copious amounts of ingested water; I have just turned 41. In fact, I hear it all the time: “I’d never guess you […]

30 quotes about nature. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau

At EcoSalon, we love our events and goodie bags – and surprises, too. It should come as no surprise that we’d want to have a fun shindig during New York Fashion Week. So this Thursday, we hope you’ll join us for (Sustainable) Fashion’s Night Out at the Textile Arts Center with co-sponsors Of Rags and […]

Drying For Freedom is a documentary about the very real repercussions of owning a clothesline. Do you dare to use a clothesline? You represent a dying breed and quite possibly, a hindrance to progress. Steven Lake, the director of Drying For Freedom, a film exploring a “new eco battlefield where communities and individuals are banned […]